{"id":472,"date":"2010-02-25T21:11:48","date_gmt":"2010-02-26T02:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/framingham.com\/wordpress\/?p=472"},"modified":"2010-04-05T22:50:03","modified_gmt":"2010-04-06T03:50:03","slug":"introducing-soar-55","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/2010\/02\/25\/seniors\/introducing-soar-55\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing SOAR 55"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>FRAMINGHAM, MA<\/strong> -- SOAR 55, your local volunteer resource in MetroWest, offers opportunities to give back, expand your skills, and gain experience.<\/p>\n<p>Connect and Serve Today!<\/p>\n<p>SOAR 55, Service Opportunities after Reaching 55, a program of Newton Community Service Center and with a satellite office location at the Framingham Public Library, connects adults 55 and over with <!--more-->meaningful and challenging community service opportunities in Framingham and the MetroWest area.<\/p>\n<p>SOAR 55 is seeking volunteers interested in using their skills and experiences to assist local nonprofits. There are many opportunities to make a difference, keep your skills current, learn new ones, and meet interesting people, Including: Graphic Design Assistant design and produce PR materials, newsletters, flyers, posters and displays for a library; Job Skills Training Manager develop and provide monthly job skills workshops and provide individual job coaching for a service council; Fundraising Event Coordinator, assist a board of trustees with fundraising including planning events, writing newsletter articles and managing a donor database; and Website Developer re-design and maintain a medical facility\u2019s website.<\/p>\n<p>Orientation, training and support provided. Opportunities are coordinated to work with your schedule and hours are flexible<\/p>\n<p>For more information on these and other opportunities in MetroWest, contact Lois Levick, SOAR 55 Volunteer Outreach Coordinator at Framingham Public Library at 508-532-5570, ext.4353 or at llevick@minlib.net. Please visit our website at www.ncscweb.org to learn more about SOAR 55\u2019s program<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FRAMINGHAM, MA &#8212; SOAR 55, your local volunteer resource in MetroWest, offers opportunities to give back, expand your skills, and gain experience. Connect and Serve Today! SOAR 55, Service Opportunities after Reaching 55, a program of Newton Community Service Center and with a satellite office location at the Framingham Public Library, connects adults 55 and over with&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/2010\/02\/25\/seniors\/introducing-soar-55\/\">[read more]<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[109,103,108,107,28],"class_list":["post-472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-seniors","tag-community","tag-metrowest","tag-nonprofit","tag-soar-55","tag-volunteer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=472"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":755,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472\/revisions\/755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}