Best Volunteer Organization Peoria Near Me

4worldlovers: Whew, what a year it’s been and in particular what a Spring it’s been. The PDC and its 350+ strong volunteer labor force made our first full Spring Training season in 4 years a major success! We are so blessed to have so many dedicated people that make up our Team.

In our 30th Year of Giving, we held a 30 for 30 celebration where we hosted 1 past grant recipient per day at our games. It was educational, exciting, and satisfying to get our good works and that of these wonderful programs out in front of the public each day! In addition, our 3 areas of Spring Training where we can raise funds for our youth charities were particularly successful. The Auction Table, Speech Pitch activity and 50/50 Raffle combined brought in just short of $100,000 for us to give to the kids! Yay!!

Right after Spring Training season, there was no time to rest on our laurels with activities every weekend in April following it up. We once again supported the City’s event of the Easter Eggstravaganza and then helped host the Savannah Bananas baseball craziness. What a good time that was had by those that witnessed that! Our fundraiser that evening brought in over $5000. We hope they will return to our stadium again sometime soon.

Our FoodStock food truck festival proved once again to be an event on to itself. It was a HUGE success for the PDC and we are looking forward to possibly adding FoodStock 2.0 to our calendar in the fall. Stay tuned! The April 15th festival garnered about $27,000 that we were able to distribute to the food insufficient in our communities. Thank you to all that came out to support us!

We added a new fundraiser in conjunction with the Peoria Unified School District and arranged for all 7 high school baseball teams to play one of their regularly scheduled AIA games in our stadium. A treat for those kids and a fundraiser that brought us half of what we needed for our Emerging Leader Scholarships that we annually give in May. Those scholarships benefit 1 student from each of the 41 PUSD schools to support their continued education.

4worldlovers: By preparing children in Latin America, who all attend on a full scholarship, to establish themselves as professionals.

One in five youth ages 15–24 in Latin America don’t go to school or have a job.

Many working youth hold informal jobs without contracts, stability, benefits, or protection.

Countless young people lack the skills to secure gainful employment and engage in our ever-evolving global economy.

We can reach them early and inspire and empower them towards a future of opportunity.

“I've been with the organization since I was nine years old. Since then, I have met so many amazing people that have changed my life completely. Outreach360 didn't just teach me English; they taught me to have dreams much bigger than the ones I could have come up with on my own. Being part of this organization is the most incredible opportunity I've ever had in my life.”

“Dear donors, wherever you are, you are leaving a great legacy. Thank you for such a valuable contribution because you reach many children like me. I am so eager to learn this language and other new topics. Wherever you are, you are real heroes, heroes that don't need a cape. Thank you so much to each sponsor for making this possible. Someday I will meet you, and we will talk in English.”

“It is extremely rare to find a nonprofit that does its job as well as Outreach360 does. I highly recommend it as a volunteer experience.”

4worldlovers: "We must read to them, out loud, a lot, even when they could read it themselves." -Andrew Pudewa

Serves the sight-challenged throughout the West Valley of Maricopa County, Arizona.

Dedicated and talented volunteers gather together to prepare and produce over six hours of audio recording for the West Valley Talking News.

Comprised of newsworthy items of particular interest to many sight-challenged residents of the retirement areas and other communities in the West Valley of

Plus more volunteer readers, spend hours recording and producing audio books, magazines, journals and newsletters for release through the National Library Service (NLS) and its BARD Distribution website.

​That's right...when you qualify for the audio reading service, this digital player along with regularly mailed pre-recorded cartridges are sent to you...free!