Volunteering

Your community group can request a guest speaker on a wide range of topics.

AARP Colorado is excited to announce that the state office is now accepting applications to join its Executive Council, a volunteer leadership role and experience.

Annual Award Recognizes Those Who Make a Powerful Difference in their Community

Get to know AARP Colorado volunteer Edgar Carreño.

When she was an oncology nurse, Amelia Schachter spent many frustrating hours on the phone with insurance companies, trying to get authorization for her patients to receive lifesaving drugs.

Your Colorado AARP team is growing, and we need your help seeding our network of outreach and advocacy volunteers across the state.

AARP Colorado celebrated the volunteerism of Fruita resident JaNeva Marshall, as well as the Food Bank of the Rockies; Western Slope’s efforts to relieve hunger and provide community support with Volunteer of the Year and Community Partner awards, respectively.

Be A Force of Good in Our Community Volunteer as a Trishaw Pilot

The last few years have been waves of change that many of us may have been overwhelmed by. Many of us are still currently facing this change in our homes, schools, and communities. In our schools especially, we see issues around funding, lack of access to resources, teacher shortages, and more. Students also face factors outside of school that can impact their learning and achievement, like food scarcity, transportation to school, and other basic needs that can influence their performance in school. Because of these different factors, the opportunity gap is something that students face in our school systems.

“We weren’t supposed to be able to fly aircraft, we weren’t supposed to be able to win this competition, but we did and we were the best… Mission accomplished.”