Throughout the city, organizations and outreaches are seeking volunteers and donations to help people in need. Here is a list of some that have asked for a helping hand.

• Meals on Wheels Long Beach is always looking for volunteers to help deliver meals to its homebound clients. Volunteers are asked to give a few hours at least one morning a week or month. Call 432-6215 or visit www.mealsonwheelsoflongbeach.org.

• The Bolsa Chica Conservancy, which works to restore the Bolsa Chica Wetlands area, is seeking volunteers to help greet guests, give tours and restore the native habitat through cleanups at its Huntington Beach site, 3842 Warner Ave. Call (714) 846-1114 or e-mail tia@bolsachica.org.

• The Long Beach unit of the American Cancer Society needs volunteer drivers from Aug. 4 – 8 to take cancer patients to their treatment appointments and to transport children with cancer and their siblings to camp. Training is provided. Call 437-0791, ext. 3.

• Disabled Resources Center, which through its services helps people with disabilities live independently, is looking for volunteer peer advisors. Training sessions will take place on Tuesdays, starting July 8, at 1:30 p.m. at 2750 E. Spring St., unit 100. Call 427-1000 ext. 23, e-mail cwilson@drcinc.org or visit www.drcinc.org.

Volunteers are needed to help with Hospice Touch, an outreach that offers visits and also provides handmade clothing and linens to terminally ill patients and their families. Training will take place from 9 a.m. to noon Wednesday, June 25, at Talbert Medical Group, 2929 N. Palo Verde Ave. Call (866) 553-5553 or e-mail gaskew@hospicetouch.com.

• Operation Jump Start, a nonprofit serving disadvantaged youth is seeking adult volunteers to make a long-term commitment to mentor a students through high school. Mentors must be able to spend six hours a month with a student. Call 988-2131 or e-mail SlangOJS@aol.com.

•Volunteers are needed to help the Community Action Team in a number of upcoming Belmont Shore events, including its Haute Dog Poetry Contest, Belmont Shore Sidewalk Chalk Art Contest, National Adult Spelling Bee and Mom Prom. Organizer, Justin Rudd, also leads a 30-Minute Beach Cleanup on the third Saturday of every month at 10 a.m., on the Granada Beach. Call 439-3316 or visit www.justinrudd.com for details.

• The SS Lane Victory, a fully operational WWII cargo ship, needs volunteers to help with advertising, office, on deck, engine room and other work in San Pedro at Berth 94. Gangway greeters and tour guides also are needed. Call (310) 519-9545 or visit www.lanevictory.org.

• For The Child, a Long Beach nonprofit agency, is looking for volunteers to serve as child advocates on their Child Abuse Response Team. Training is provided. The agency also is seeking volunteers to help staff Kid’s Place, a children’s waiting room at the downtown Long Beach courthouse. Call 422-8472 or email ehalloran@forthechild.org.

• Comprehensive Child Development, Inc., a nonprofit agency that provides childcare and education to low-income families, is looking for an adult facilities manager volunteer to help with repairs, maintenance and disaster preparedness operations for a few hours per month. Call 427-8834 or e-mail lcunningham@ccdlb.org.

• St. Mary Medical Center Guild is currently accepting applications for new volunteers. The guild staffs St. Mary’s gift shop and thrift store, and hosts a bridge tournament and the Night at the Races annual fundraisers. Membership dues are $40/year; members must attend four to six meetings annually and be available for two three-and-a-half-hour shifts a month at the stores. For details, call 491-9230.

• POWER 4 Youth, a mentoring nonprofit, seeks volunteers with two hours a week free to meet one-on-one with youth at a supervised site in the Long Beach area. Training is provided at no cost. Call 435-2352 or e-mail info@power4youth.org.

• Pacific Asian Counseling Service is seeking volunteer homework helpers/mentors to help first through 12th graders in an after school program. Volunteers should be able to devote two hours a week. The after-school program in Long Beach is from 3 to 5 and 5 to 7 Monday through Thursday. Call 424-1886 or visit www.pacsla.org.

• Donated yarn is needed for residents of the Retirement Housing Foundation who are part of Project H.A.N.D.S., which provides hand-knitted or crocheted sweaters and blankets for children in homeless shelters. To donate yarn, call 257-5138.

• Pathways is seeking volunteers for its Friendly Visitor program that provides companionship and assistance to elderly people and to those that are on hospice care. The organization also is offering a bereavement program for families coping with the loss of loved ones. For more information, call 531-3031.

• The Jewish Family & Children’s Service needs friendly people to volunteer in its Friendly Visitor Volunteer Program. The program reaches out to homebound elderly people. Call 427-7916, ext. 229.

• El Dorado Nature Center has a number of volunteer opportunities year round, from assisting with one-time wetlands and beach cleanups to habitat maintenance and educational programs. To learn more, call 570-4876.

• Volunteers are needed one day a week to feed and/or assist in the humane trapping effort to spay/neuter the feral cat colony at Bluff Park. To join this grassroots effort, send an e-mail to helpbluffcats@yahoo.com.

• Long Beach Memorial Medical Center Hospice program needs volunteers to provide support to terminally ill patients and their families, clerical help in the office, and bereavement care. Call 933-0910 to find out about their next six to eight-week training class.

• Odyssey Hospice is in need of volunteers to visit and lend a hand to make a difference in the lives of terminally ill patients and their families. There are a number of ways to help, from patient visits to knitting groups to office administration. For more information, call (714) 934-4520 or (800) 797-2686.

• The University Art Museum and California State University, Long Beach is looking for volunteers and docents. For more information, call 985-7601 or e-mail btrimble@csulb.edu.

• The Villages at Cabrillo is asking people to donate to help homeless veterans served at the Villages residential community. Any amount is appreciated. Call 388-8020 for more information, or visit www.usvetsinc.org.

• International City Theatre, the regional professional theater company that performs at the Performing Arts Center downtown, is seeking volunteer ushers. Call 495-4595, ext. 14, for more information.

• The Long Beach Fire Ambassadors is looking for individuals 55 years old or older to instruct third grade students in the Long Beach Unified School District about fire safety. Training is provided. Volunteers should be able to give eight hours a month. Call 591-7887.

• Helpline Youth Counseling is in need of mentors for children ages 8 to 12. Mentors spend at least one hour a week helping children with homework, talking to them or playing games. A year’s commitment is required. Training is provided. Call 864-3722.

• The Todd Cancer Institute at Long Beach Memorial Medical Center needs volunteers to help with a number of its services, including its WINGS support system, its makeover program and its Musician Fridays. For an application, call 933-0961.

• Faith in Action/Volunteer Action For Aging has a number of opportunities to help its homebound, elderly or disabled clients, from its Friendly Visitor Program or Grocery Shopping Program, to making small home repairs. Office help at VAA also is needed. For more information, call 637-7103.

• Catholic Charities, a non-sectarian social service agency, needs volunteers to deliver free groceries to low-income isolated seniors living in Long Beach. Training is provided. Call 591-1351.

•People wanting to help adults improve their reading, math and computer skills are wanted at Literacy Network. Training is provided. For more information, call (213) 237-3010.

• Casa Youth Shelter, a safe haven for runaways and youth in crisis, is looking for people who want to work with teens. Volunteers are needed to help with administrative work and fundraising for the organization, as well. Call 594-6825 or visit www.casayouthshelter.org.

• Retired and Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP) has a number of volunteer opportunities for people 55 and older. Call 506-2801 for details.

• The Willmore Urban Agency needs volunteers to share their hobbies and talents, play games and sports with students after school, and also help them with their homework. Volunteers are needed from 3 to 6 p.m. weekdays at program sites in downtown, north Long Beach and Alamitos Beach. Call 437-1289.

• Senior Meals and Services, Inc., is looking for people to visit at least one hour a week with or deliver a hot lunch to homebound senior citizens. Volunteers are asked to commit six months. Orientation and training are available. Call (714) 891-0804.

• Long Beach BLAST (Better Learning After School Today) needs adults to become mentors and tutors to children in first through eighth grade. Tutoring and mentorship occur at more than 20 after-school sites in Long Beach. Training is provided and volunteers are asked to give 90 minutes one afternoon a week. Call 435-9500, ext. 24.

• Food Finders, a nonprofit that brings food donors and service organizations together, is looking for volunteers with cars who can pick up and deliver food to various organizations. Help also is needed in the organization’s retail store, Finders Keepers. Call 598-3003.

• Living Into the Future Foundation is looking for volunteers to help out with its food pantry program every other Wednesday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at 1100 Freeman Ave. Volunteers will bag and distribute groceries to families in need in Long Beach. Call 305-4595 to volunteer.

• Volunteers are needed the second Saturday of every month to help Second Street’s sidewalk trees blossom. Adopt-A-Tree volunteers meet at 8:30 a.m. in front of Runner’s High/Jones Bicycle, 5338 and 5332 E. Second St. There they will receive buckets, water and plant food to feed the sidewalk trees. Call (714) 890-3925.

•For The Child is looking for volunteers to join the Child Abuse Response Team. To volunteer, call 422-8472 or e-mail ehalloran@forthechild.org.

• The city’s Department of Parks, Recreation and Marine is seeking lifeguards and swim instructors for Silverado Pool, 1540 W. 32nd St., and for Martin Luther King, Jr. Pool, 1910 Lemon Ave. Applicants must pass a swim test and be 17 years of age prior to July 1, 2007. Call 570-1718.

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