15th Annual

UlsterCorps Service Summit

when: Friday April 25th, 2025, 8:30am-12:30pm

where: SUNY New Paltz

Volunteerism & Service for Affordable Housing

The 15th Annual UlsterCorps Service Summit will be held Friday April 25th, 2025 from 8:30am – 12:30pm at SUNY New Paltz and is co-sponsored by the Center for Student Engagement and the Benjamin Center for Public Policy at SUNY New Paltz, and Ulster Savings Bank.

Each year since our founding in 2009, UlsterCorps has hosted a Service Summit at SUNY New Paltz bringing together students, volunteers and community leaders from the nonprofit, business, higher education and governmental sectors to address the work and value of volunteerism and collaborative projects in Ulster County. The focus for the 2025 Summit will be volunteer opportunities and service in support of affordable housing. It will feature panel discussions of successful case studies, new models, and best practices. As always it will include roundtable discussions giving all attendees an opportunity to participate and network. Members of the community interested in volunteering with these initiatives are welcome to attend.

Health Care is a Human Right

Since its inception, Health Care is a Human Right has offered free clinics in the Mid-Hudson Valley of New York. We work with dedicated professionals who volunteer their services and expertise in a range of holistic wellness modalities.HCHR coordinates free holistic wellness clinics in Woodstock, Phoenicia, and in Kingston.

Ways you can help:

• You may join us at any clinic and help us in a variety of tasks, such as setting up, usually an hour or so before clinic, or by staying afterward to help us with the take down.
• If you would like to join HCHR as a practitioner or to help us run the clinics, we welcome you! Email us at hchrny@gmail.com or use the form on this page, and we will get back to you promptly.

Upcoming Clinics:

Kingston Clinic

Thursday, April 10, 2025, 4-7pm

The Kirkland, 2 Main Street, Kingston, NY 12401

Woodstock Clinic

Tuesday, April 22, 2025, 4-7pm

St. Gregory’s Episcopal Church, Woodstock

2578 S.R. 212, Woodstock, NY 12498

Kingston Clinic

Thursday, May 8th, 2025, 4-7pm

The Kirkland, 2 Main Street, Kingston, NY 12401

Ulster County Animal Response

Team Meeting

when: Monday April 28th, 6 pm

where: Cooperative Extension, 232 Plaza Rd, Kingston

UCART is actively recruiting new members! Prospective members and those wishing to learn more are very welcome to join the meeting.

To learn more about UCART, and how you can get certified and join the team, please email ucart@ulstercorps.org or visit:

www.ucart.org

Farm to Food Pantry Collaborative

Field Gleaning

when: Wednesday April 30th, 10am-12:30pm

where: Phillies Bridge Farm, 44 Phillies Bridge Rd, New Paltz

We will be harvesting chard, kale, and other various greens, and distributing it to local food pantries, shelters and community meal programs. The greens are under cover in unheated high tunnels, so the gleaning will be held rain or shine. Volunteers of all ages are welcome (youth volunteers must be accompanied by a parent or guardian).

If you can help out for an hour or more, please email glean@ulstercorps.org or call/text 845-481-0331.

Learn more about the Farm to Food Pantry Collaborative and Glean Team

16th Annual Kingston Clean Sweep

when: Saturday May 3rd, 2025, 9am-noon

THINK SPRING!!! It has been a VERY long winter and now it is time to get ready to clean our beautiful city!! The Friends of Historic Kingston and the City of Kingston will be having our Annual Clean Sweep Event. So, it is time to get your brooms and rakes ready and star the date on your calendar. THE 16^TH ANNUAL KINGSTON CLEAN SWEEP WILL BE HELD ON SATURDAY, MAY 3, 2025, 9:00 AM TO NOON.

We sincerely hope you will join us, as many of you have done in the past. Mayor Steve Noble has pledged the support of the City of Kingston to collect filled bags immediately following the event. If you are interested in joining us, please contact Friends of Historic Kingston at (845) 339-0720 or email Anna Brett, Chair at abrett1@verizon.net

I Love My Park Day

when: Saturday May 3rd, 2025

where: Click here for a map to fins an event near you

Join Parks & Trails New York – and thousands of volunteers across the state – on Saturday, May 3 to celebrate and enhance New York’s parks, historic sites, greenway trails and other public lands.

I Love My Park Day--the largest single-day volunteer event in NYS--presents a perfect opportunity to clean up our favorite parks and shorelines, plant trees and gardens, restore trails and wildlife habitat, remove invasive species, and work on various site improvement projects--all which help to prepare our iconic state park system and public lands for the start of the season.

If you have questions about hosting or participating in an I Love My Park Day event or volunteering at this year's event, please contact ilovemypark@ptny.org or visit

https://www.ptny.org/events/i-love-my-park-day

11th Annual Kingston Earth Fair

when: Saturday May 10th, 2025, 11am-5pm

where: T.R. Gallo Park, Kingston

The 2025 Earth Fair is a free family event hosted in partnership with Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, The 8th Step, Hudson River Maritime Museum, Radio Kingston, Catskill Mountainkeeper, Live Well Kingston, Climate Smart Kingston, and New Yorkers for Clean Power.

The 2025 Earth Fair will feature live Clearwater Festival music and performances, including Arm of the Sea Theater, Tom Chapin, Cuboricua, Drumsong Orchestra of The Hudson Valley, KJ Denhert, Gail Ann Dorsey, the Center for Creative Education’s Energy Dance Company, Big Joe Fitz Acoustic Trio, Lisa Gutkin, Joe Jencks, M’Bollo, Mid-Hudson Juggling Club, Matt Munisteri and a Native American Water Ceremony.

The 2025 Earth Fair will also feature kids’ activities and games, face painting, a solar-powered merry-go-round, free Solaris boat rides, Clearwater tours, and local food vendors.

Family of Woodstock Hotline Training

Hotline & Textline VOLUNTEER COUNSELORS NEEDED

As the oldest, continuously operating emergency switchboard in the county, THE FAMILY OF WOODSTOCK HOTLINE is proud to say that we have been able to keep our hotline running 24/7 since 1970. It has been no small task, and one of the biggest ways we can continue to do what we do is by the help we receive from volunteers.

UCRRA Master Composter Master Recycler Volunteer Program

Do you have what it takes to become a certified expert in waste, recycling, and composting? Our Volunteers become an extension of the Ulster County Resource Recovery Agency’s Recycling Outreach Team and support the Agency’s outreach initiatives in a number of ways. Through volunteering, they extend the reach of our programming, increasing our impact, and helping our community to reduce waste by promoting recycling, composting, and other conservation techniques.

Any Ulster County resident (18 years or older) can become a UCRRA Volunteer. Some of the basic qualifications for this role are:

• an interest in environmental science and sustainability;
• passion and enthusiasm for recycling, composting, sustainability;
• ability to maintain leadership of diversity, equity, and inclusion;
• ability to foster team work, be respectful and collaborate with others; and
• to be dependability when assigned a Volunteer task.

There are many perks to volunteering with UCRRA! Volunteers gain an official certificate of completion after the (free) 25-hour training program, which is great for any emerging professional to add to their resume. Our volunteers gain professional leadership skills through an immersive training that helps prepare for experiences in public speaking and educating in diverse community settings. Last but not least, our volunteers have fun at local festivals and events with the new friends they make by joining a community of neighbors united by their desire to build a more sustainable community!

Interested persons should review the Volunteer Description and the current MCR Class Schedule linked here. The 2025 25 hour training and certification course runs Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays in June from 4:00 – 6:30 PM in Kingston. Then, complete a Volunteer Application and indicate if you’d like to be considered for the “fast track” or if you’d like to work towards the full Certification.

For more information visit https://ucrra.org/volunteer/ or contact Angelina Brandt at APEO@UCRRA.ORG

People's Place

We Need Volunteers—Come Make a Difference!

At People’s Place, we rely on the heart and energy of our volunteers to help us serve families in need across Ulster County. We’re calling on all ages—but especially young adults—to lend a hand! Whether you’re looking for a way to give back or gain experience, we have opportunities in our Food Pantry, Community Cafe, and Wellness Empowerment Center.

Why Volunteer?

Make a direct impact in your community

Gain valuable experience and skills

Be part of a team that makes a real difference

It’s fun, rewarding, and flexible!

Interested? Reach out today and be the change you want to see in the world!

Visit https://www.peoplesplace.org/volunteer/ or call 845.338.4030

Resource Center for Accessible Living (RCAL)

Volunteering helps us to improve our impact. As a non-profit, we do not have the resources or the man power to do everything that we would like to do. Many of our staff are trying to juggle tasks outside of their regular responsibilities. If you have time to answer phones, stuff envelopes, and assist with other administrative tasks, we would be forever grateful.

​Maybe you have a special skill that we are not good at (like managing a website or fundraising) or you just have a little time to help. Please let us know.

​Volunteering Opportunities:

• Special Projects:
• Come Weed along the front of the building and trim our hedges!
• Clean out around our air conditioning systems in the back.
• Help us clean out the shed.
• Help us Paint the Loan Closet.
• Answer Phones
• Loan Closet Assistance
• Join a committee
• Help with Fundraising
• Become a part of our Board of Directors

If you have the time to volunteer, we would love the assistance. Learn more: https://www.rcal.org/get-involved or call us at 845-331-0541 ext. 12

HomeShare Ulster County

HomeShare Woodstock is now HomeShare Ulster County! Home sharing matches a Home Provider (person with extra room in their home or a separate living space) with a Home Seeker looking for an affordable rental (that usually includes a task exchange). Our newly opened Kingston program is now accepting applications in our new Match Area- City of Kingston!

Applications for Kingston can be requested from:

Charlotte Smiseth, Assistant Program Director, HSUC

845.331.7080 ext. 162

homesharekingston@familyofwoodstockinc.org