What is RSVP?

The Retired and Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP) invites adults age 55 and over to use their life experience and skills to answer the call of their neighbors in need.

Giving anywhere from four to 40 hours per week, RSVP volunteers help solve serious problems in their communities.

Today's older adults are busy, productive people. After retirement, many RSVP volunteers use their experience to tutor and mentor children, teach people to succeed, assist at health clinics and teach other seniors to use the Internet. Others distribute food to the area's homeless, deliver Meals on Wheels or volunteer at a variety of one-time community events. They want to keep active in ways that make a difference for those in need.

"Volunteering is a way of life for me. RSVP shows me how much good we can do for the community."

- RSVP volunteer

The Benefits

• Free volunteer placement;
• The opportuntiy to use  their experience and   skills;
• The chance to learn   something new every day;
• Supplemental accident   and liability insurance;
• Mileage reimbursement;
• The satisfaction of knowing they are making a difference.

Our neighbors benefit. Among their many accomplishments, RSVP volunteers:

• Provide food for the homeless and hungry;
• Build housing for low  income neighbors;
• Help local law enforcement make communities safer;
• Protect fragile rivers and forests; and
• Change lives by mentoring and tutoring young people.