VOLUNTEERS

Best Friends Animal Society: Volunteers needed for various customer-service positions for the Super Adoption event Oct. 20.

Boys Hope Girls Hope of Nevada: Volunteers needed for Divas for Hope program to mentor Hope scholars and to organize and/or host small fundraising events.

Nevada Partnership for Homeless Youth: Street Outreach program volunteers needed for distribution of food, backpacks, toiletries, blankets and other items.

Spring Mountain Ranch State Park: Docents needed for four-hour shifts once a month any day between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. Training is provided.

State Health Insurance Advisory Program: Volunteers needed to assist Medicare beneficiaries with their questions and problems. Training is provided.

St. Jude's Ranch for Children: Volunteers needed to work two to four hours a day on weekdays in the gift shop, chapel, reception desk, landscaping and maintenance.

Volunteer Center of Southern Nevada: Volunteers including individuals, groups and families needed for Make a Difference Day Serve-A-Thon Hands on the Valley Oct. 27 for various projects such as painting, landscaping, planting trees and cleanup at five project sites across Clark County.

For more information about these and other volunteer opportunities, contact the Volunteer Center of Southern Nevada at 892-2321 or on the Web at www.volunteernevada.org.