Volunteering

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.”

AARP CO would like to inform you of volunteer opportunities with St. Vrain Habitat for Humanity. Join Habitat for Humanity as they build homes, community and hope. They have served families living and working in the St. Vrain Valley and Estes Park for 30 years; building over 100 new homes and completing more than 35 critical repairs. In the next decade, they want to double thier impact, completing another 100 new homes and 50 repairs. Join St. Vrain Habitat as they help hard-working, low income households build strength, stability and self-reliance through shelter.

Staffers from AARP Colorado will be sharing information about livable communities and volunteer opportunities during this year’s Denver PrideFest weekend, June 15-16.

The annual Andrus Award is the highest honor a volunteer can receive from AARP. This award, as well as awards in a number of significant community categories, honors those who make a powerful difference in their community.