Current Projects
Project Linus
Saturday, August 02, 2008
10:00 AM-2:00 PM
ETB Columbia River Room
Project Linus has experienced an outpouring of donations of fabric and quilting supplies and is looking for a few good quilters. If buying supplies has held you back from helping out this wonderful charity, worry no more. We have boxes of fabric just waiting for creative quilters to make “Blanket Hugs” for the children in our community who have suffered trauma. Join us for our next work party on August 2nd at 10 a.m. Please contact Tracy Holland at 372-6808 or 460-7120.
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Leukemia & Lymphoma Society Blind Wine Tasting
Thursday, August 21, 2008
4:30 PM-6:30 PM
Battelle Auditorium
Test your nose and palette and cast your vote from 24 wines including rieslings, chardonnays, merlots, and cabarnets and try for the big take in an exclusive wine themed raffles. A fun event to attend and all for a good cause, The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.
Project Directors:
Ian Gorton, 375-3850
Mandi Oukrop, 372-4288
Carmen Rodriguez, 376-2312
Lisa Teske, 372-6850
Richard Zheng, 376-2399
Columbia Industries Golf Challenge
Friday, August 22, 2008
This golf tournament is a key fundraiser for Columbia Industries. Through your participation, you will help support CI’s mission of providing training programs and employment in community businesses for people with disabilities. The programs are designed to improve trainees’ job skills while leading them to true independence. The best-ball scrambler is a shotgun start format, and highlights include a closest-to-the-pin prize of a brand new golf cart, wine tasting on all par 3 holes, silent and live auctions, and a steak and seafood dinner, paired with area wine. Voluneteers are needed for shifts thorughout the whole day, some starting as early as 8am for set up on Par 3s and some as late as 6pm to be “spotters” during the live auction. Exact needs and assignments can be determined as we get closer to the event.
Columbia Industries (CI) works with individuals with disabilities or other barriers to employment to help them find meaningful employment in the local community. They regularly assesses skill levels, provide training, and work with community-based employers to match these uniquely skilled individuals with fulfilling work and job opportunities. It is only through this assistance that many individuals are able to live far more meaningful lives. The tailored training, tools and assistance CI provides simply changes lives for the better. See Columbia Industries for more information. If you are interested in volunteering please contact the Project Director.
Project Director:
Paula Linnen, 375-2450
Susan G. Komen 3-Day Breast Cancer Walk
Friday, September 12, 2008 - Sunday, September 14, 2008
Seattle, Washington
Team Battelle, Breast Cancer 3-Day Walk Team "FOR THE 2008 SEATTLE BREAST CANCER 3-DAY"
Nancy Sargent and Vicki Stephens, Co-Directors Encourages You to Join the team to Help Raise Funds to Fight Breast Cancer
Nancy Sargent, Quality Manager for EED and Vicki Stephens, Associate Ops Manager, EED along with other team members invite you to join our team and raise money for the Seattle Breast Cancer 3-Day, a Team Battelle Project. This Tri-Cities team will be joining thousands of other dedicated women and men for the Seattle Breast Cancer 3-Day, a three day, 60-mile walk benefiting Susan G. Komen for the Cure and National Philanthropic Trust in September 2008. In order to participate, each walker must train for the event and commit to raising a minimum of $2,200.
To learn more about the walk log on to 3-Day Walk and search for Faithful Friends team.
Anyone interested in joining the team or helping with fund raisers, please contact Nancy or Vicki.
Project Directors:
Nancy Sargent, 372-4773
Vicki Stephens, 375-3883
Three Rivers Folklife Society Tumbleweed Music Festival
Saturday, August 30, 2008 - Sunday, August 31, 2008
Howard Amon Park
The Three Rivers Folklife Society is sponsoring the twelfth Annual Tumbleweed Music Festival. Team Battelle volunteers are needed to help with the planning and organizing for the event along with other tasks. If you are intersted in voluteering please contact the Project Director.
This is a great family event and a perfect time to take your lawn chair and relax in the park with some wonderful music. For more information on this event see: Tumbleweed Music Festival.
Project Director:
Lynette Jagoda, 376-9951
Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s Team In Training
Sunday, October 05, 2008 - Sunday, October 05, 2008
Portland Marathon
Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s Team In Training
Have you ever dreamed about running or walking 26.2 miles? Or maybe a 13.1 half? As unnatural as it sounds, thousands of Americans turn out each year to put their bodies and minds to the test. And they do cross the finish line with a sense of accomplishment like no other.
LLS’s Team in Training is a program that can put on you the race course toward physical fitness while creating awareness about and raising funds for blood borne cancers. Last year’s Tri-Cities team, which included three of Battelle’s own, raised a record-breaking $80K+ for LLS…and every participant raced in the Portland Marathon or the Nike Women’s Marathon in San Francisco.
For the 2008 season, TNT is looking to recruit runners and walkers once again for the same two races to be held on October 5 and October 19, respectively. The commitment is easier than you can imagine; the rewards are greater than expected! Step outside of your comfort zone and experience the amazing journey of training for a marathon and helping others! For more information check out Team in Training.
Project Director:
Lisa Teske, 372-6850
Ongoing Projects
Columbia Basin Dog Training Club
Tri-Cities
This club is staff entirely by volunteers and teaches Canine Good Citizen, Puppy, Obedience, Rally, Agility Tracking, and even therapy classes to the community. It provides free or nominal fees for practice classes to the community. The club also provides AKC sanctioned events, as well as, fun runs or Show-n-Go's. Our volunteers work to coordinate events with AKC, as well as teach classes. We also provide community support for events such as, Science days for kids at WSU, 4H Clubs, etc with demonstrations, kids reading to dogs at the library program, therapy dog, as well as, general obedience training. For more information see CBDTC.
Project Director:
Brooke Lanigan
Habitat for Humanity Women Build
Saturday, April 12, 2008 - Saturday, June 28, 2008
Habitat Women Build
Ladies put on your tool belts and get ready to build a house! There has been an enthusiastic response to support this first Tri-Cities Women Build. If you would like to sign up as a volunteer go to www.habitat-tcp.org and click on "volunteer at the top" then "Volunteer Up" then log in and follow directions. Be sure to check the Women Build at the bottom. A single mother with three children has been accepted as a Habitat partner to move into this new Richland home.
Project Director:
Pat Ronaldson, 375-2709
Grace Clinic
Grace Clinic provides medical treatment and other services to Tri-Citians who don't have health insurance. Most of the work is done by volunteers. To find out more about this project see: Grace Clinic
Project Director:
Andrea McMakin, 372-6013
Tapteal Greenway - Revitalizing Amon Basin
Team Battelle is assisting the Tapteal Greenway Association in protecting and revitalizing 100 acres of fragile urban wilderness in the Amon Basin. The property contains valuable wetlands and shrub-steppe habitat, is a crucial wildlife corridor, and offers connectivity with other open space. Volunteer activities include helping conduct technical studies, fundraising, cleaning-up the site, constructing and maintaining trails, and developing educational programs and materials. Our goal (which is also a commitment under our National Environmental Performance Track Membership) is to contribute at least 1000 hours by the end of 2009.
For more information on how you can get involved, see the Team Battelle - Amon Basin Project webpage, check out the Tapteal Greenway Association website.
Project Director:
Kami Lowry, 371-7858
Support our Troops
You and your family can show support for our military personnel by helping provide a warm, surprise welcome home for returning troops. Team Battelle volunteers are needed to help welcome troops returning to the Pasco airport (or other pre-determined locations) as part of American Citizens Encouraging Support (ACES), a grass-roots organization dedicated to honoring military service people as they depart and return from duty either on leave or upon discharge. For information on how you can help honor and remember military service people contact the project director.
Project Director:
Jill Walters, 376-7420
The First Tee
The First Tee is in need of caring adult role models to volunteer as golf coaches and assistant coaches. The First Tee of Columbia Basin offers an innovative approach to prevention of problem behaviors such as delinquency, teen pregnancy, substance abuse and academic failure utilizing a series of developmentally appropriate life skills lessons linked to components of the game of golf. The program also introduces a low impact exercise taking advantage of the well established local resources that many of our targeted youth might never be exposed to under existing circumstances. By being a volunteer you will not only have fun, but have a tremendous impact on youth development ages 5-18 years old. To find out more about this project go to http://tftcolumbiabasin.memfirstweb.net/club/Scripts/Home/home.asp
Project Director:
Rebecca Rupp, 375-2536
Pet Over Population
Volunteers are needed for this Team Battelle project to help put out fliers, writing for the newsletter, mass mailings and special projects. Or you can help give an animal a second chance at life by fostering a pet. If you are interested in fostering a pet, please leave a message at (509) 943-4722 and one of our volunteer Adoption Counselors will return your call. We work "regular" jobs during the day so leave a message.
Project Director:
Jan Jacobus, 375-2227
Website Wizards
Community and non-profit organizations receive assistance in designing and maintaining websites. Interested volunteers are need to provide page layout, graphics, navigation maps, page coding and text writing. As part of this project, Team Battelle maintains the http://www.crehst.org/ CREHST Museum web site.
Theatre Support
Behind the scenes requires hundreds of labor hours to create sets and costumes. You can support various local theatrical shows by helping to build sets, create lighting displays and lobby set-ups, sew costumes, apply make-up, train students to sing, sell concessions, and work back stage. All skill levels are needed.
Project Director:
Brenda Kelmel, 376-2121
Preserving Badger Mountain
Team Battelle is assisting the Friends of Badger Mountain's effort to preserve 574 acres of the ridge and slopes of Badger Mountain as open space. Come find out what is being done, and why and how. For more information see vist http://www.friendsofbadger.org/ Friends of Badger Mountain website.
Ice Age Flood Institute
Team Battelle volunteers are needed to provide technical support to the Lake Lewis Chapter of the Ice Age Flood Institute. The Lake Lewis Chapter serves the greater Tri-Cities area. The Team Battelle project will provide geologic interpretation and graphic arts and editorial support for the development of brochures, display boards, etc. For additional information on the Ice Age Floods Institute and the local Lake Lewis chapter visit http://www.iceagefloodsinstitute.org.
Project Director:
George Last, 371-7080
Project Linus
Team Battelle Project Linus is always looking for volunteers or "blanketeers" to help provide new, handmade, washable blankest to be given as gifts to seriously ill and traumatized children, ages 0-18. All styles of blankest are welcome, including quilts, tied comforters, fleece blankets, crocheted or knitted afghans, and receiving blankets in child friendly colors. For more information visit: http://www.orgsites.com/wa/projectlinustri-cities/
Project Director:
Tracy Holland, 376-5081
Italian Greyhound Rescue
The Italian Greyhound Rescue is looking for foster and forever homes for Italian Greyhounds. These dogs are small, usually between 13 and 15 inches and weigh between 10 and 15 lbs. They are odorless, shed little and not yappy. If you are interested in becoming a foster home or adopting one of these little sweeties, please see Italian Greyhound Rescue
Project Director:
Linda Kennedy, 376-0612
Hygiene Kits
If you stay in a hotel for business or pleasure, you can help needy neighbors in a way that won't cost you anything. The toiletry samples hotels provide are used to make hygiene kits for those who come for assistance at local non-profit organizations. Contents of the hygiene kits vary depending on availability, but a typical kit might include tooth paste, toothbrush, mouth wash, floss, soap, lotion, shampoo, cream rinse, comb, brush, razor, shaving cream, sunscreen, etc. Purchased trial or full-sized items are very welcome too. Hygiene items are sorted into kits and donated to the following Tri-Cities organizations: Domestic Violence, Grace Clinic, Tri-Cities Pregnancy Center, Safe Babies/Safe Moms, World Relief Tri-Cities, EPIC Youth Services, Sexual Assault Response Center, and Rowena Chess School. If you would like to support this effort, you can drop off your items in the main floor kitchens at one of the following locations: LSB, ETB, NSB, EMSL, ROB, ISB1, ISB2, RTL, MATH, and 331 Bldg.
Project Director:
Valerie Schultz, 371-7646
Habitat for Humanity
The Habitat for Humanity Tri-Cities affiliate is currently building houses in the Tierra Vida development in Pasco. Construction will start on two houses in Richland in the first quarter of 2008. Battelle staff members John Wald and Dick Kouzes have been serving as Crew Chiefs at the Tierra Vida construction site and answer questions you may have on HFH construction work activities and the anticipated construction schedules. You can reach them via email.
Project Director:
John Wald, 371-7906
Court Appointed Special Advocate
CASAs-(Court Appointed Special Advocates) are volunteers assigned by the court to speak in court on the behalf of children, ages 8 and under, who have been removed from their homes due to neglect or abuse, and are in foster care. Volunteer CASAs are referred to as Guardian Ad Litems (GAL). When children are removed from their homes because of abuse or neglect, they enter the court system through a series of proceedings known as the "dependency process." Through this process, social workers help the family obtain needed services and attorneys represent the parents. Eventually, a judge must determine what is in the child's best interest...to reunite with their family or to seek a new one. One person is there to speak in that child's best interest throughout this process. That person is the CASA volunteer (GAL). The GAL interacts with family members, obtains information from teachers, doctors, and counselors regarding the child and interacts with the child to try to determine what is in their best interest and reports those results to the court. CASA volunteers are trained and supervised by the local. CASA/GAL program. Training is offered for volunteers two times per year.
Project Directors:
Novella Bridges, 372-4806
Shelly Grohs, 375-2044
Columbia Basin Equine Rescue
Columbia Basin Equine Rescue (CBER)needs volunteers to help find homes for slaughter-bound horses. Transporting, marketing and fundraising assistance is also needed. For more information, see the CBER website.
Project Director:
Wendy DeGraff, 376-0249
Boys and Girls Club
The Boys and Girls Club Mentor program allows you to be a positive role model to youth in the community. If you would like to help kids make better choices to realize their full potential as productive, responsible and caring citizens, Club Mentor may be for you. The Club has organized, pre-planned events for one-on-one activities usually lasting one hour. You know the schedule ahead of time and can choose which events you would like to participate in. The Club also does all of the preparation and clean-up. Your only job is to be there to play with the kids!
Project Director:
Laura Curtis, 375-2311
Battelle Music Bureau
Do you have a musical talent you are willing to share with the community? The Battelle Music Bureau is organizing performers—solo, group, vocal, instrumental—to bring the joy of music to Tri-Cities residents at local retirement and nursing homes, and the Juvenile Justice Center. Facilities currently interested in performances include Callaway Gardens, Desert Villa Apartments and Hawthorne all in Kennewick; From the Heart Alzheimer's Care in Pasco; and Richland Gardens. Staff interested in this program should contact scheduler, Zontziry Johnson, 375-6407.
Project Director:
Zontziry Johnson, 375-6407
Adult Day Services
Help insure clients of Adult Day Services continue to have nice prizes for their bingo events by donating items such as blank greeting cards, stuffed toys, jewelry, pens, unused nail polish/lipstick, variety of personal toiletries for men and women, including shampoo, lotion, pocket calendars and small purse/pocket size notebooks to write in, deodorant, shaving cream, small packages of Kleenex. Also needed are small containers of individual juice, sugar-free gum/candy/cocoa. Remember these items will be used as prizes and should be in new (or like new) condition. Note: the agency does NOT need small hotel soaps and lotions. Donations may be placed in the box placed in the ROB lunchroom. Adult Day Services provides adult day care, caregiver respite and related services to guests who have physical disabilities and, on some days, to those who suffer from a form of dementia.
Project Director:
Paula Gonzalez, 375-3912
Educational Projects
Science Fairs Need you
Are you interested in helping budding young scientists have an opportunity to express their creativity? Team Battelle is recruiting people to assist with local science fairs. Volunteer opportunities include judging, mentoring, publicity, and event coordination. The centerpiece of this project is the annual Mid-Columbia Science Fair, a regional competition with about 400 projects
Project Director:
Rik Littlefield, 375-3927
GED Tutors
The Day Reporting School is in need of additional tutors to assist students working toward their high school equivalency diploma. These "at risk" youth are, for one reason or another, not permitted back in the regular school system but want to get at least a GED diploma. Limited state funding is provided for one instructor plus some materials. Due to the wide diversity of formal schooling achieved, much of the instruction is best accomplished in a one-on-one situation. Tutors are needed in the areas of English, math, science social studies and writing during class time, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., Monday through Friday. Time provided by each volunteer tutor is flexible and any support is appreciated. Classes are held at the Juvenile Justice Center, Kennewick.
Project Director:
Leo Munson
