Volunteers

Thanksgiving Meal (credit: Mid Island Collision website)

Long Island Business Hosting Annual Food Drive Calls For Volunteers To Help Fill Bags

Jesberger said his annual “Fill The Bag” holiday tradition gives him and his employees a chance to give back to the community.

2012/11/18

Volunteers with the North Carolina Baptist Men Disaster Relief group unload one of many semi trucks full of food and supplies that they and the American Red Cross will distribute to Hurricane Sandy victims November 5, 2012, in Ocean County, New Jersey. The two groups have a large staging area in a church parking lot and smaller Red Cross vans shuttle in food on "search and feed" missions. AFP PHOTO/Paul J. Richards (Photo credit: PAUL J. RICHARDS/AFP/Getty Images)

Thousands Of Red Cross Volunteers Mobilize To Help Victims Of Hurricane Sandy

Those volunteers have taken to the streets in communities that were ravaged by Sandy and the Nor’Easter that followed to assist affected families in their time of need.

2012/11/10

What Remains Of The Boardwalk In The Rockaways (file/credit: Peter Haskell/WCBS 880)

Sikh Temple Members Turn Out To Volunteer For Sandy Relief

The aftermath of Superstorm Sandy has mobilized New Yorkers like never before. WCBS 880 reporter Marla Diamond visited a shelter in Belle Harbor, Queens, where hot meals were delivered through the kindness of strangers.

2012/11/10

Donations On Long Island (credit: CBS 2)

Grassroots Volunteer Efforts Take Hold On Long Island

Volunteers are organizing on social media or just showing up with offers of help.

2012/11/05

Volunteers Come All The Way From Texas To Help Storm-Battered Long Island

A Long Island man who relocated to Texas has returned, with a truckload of donated help for victims of Superstorm Sandy.

2012/11/05

Piles Of Donated Clothes And Other Goods In The Rockaways (credit: Peter Haskell/WCBS 880)

Some Of The Relief Effort In The Rockaways Remains Disorganized

A front-end loader from the Department of Sanitation spent the morning plowing planks of wood that used to be the boardwalk.

2012/11/04

Makeshift Shelter On Staten Island (credit: Monica Miller/WCBS 880)

Staten Islanders Offer Assistance To One Another As Recovery From Sandy Continues

Cleaning supplies are at the top of the list of necessities needed by many residents.

2012/11/04

Volunteers Turn Out To Beautify Schools For New York Cares Day

Six thousand volunteers turned out Saturday morning to paint, plant and sort books at schools in all five boroughs as part of New York Cares Day.

CBS New York–2012/10/13

Ernest, an injured pheasant, gets treatment at the Wild Bird Fund (credit: CBS 2)

Volunteers Care For Birds At NYC Wildlife Rehab Center

“They are flying through. This is their ancient flyway and they go smashing into the skyscrapers we built right on their path,” said Rita McMahon.

2012/03/23

A homeless man asks for change. (credit: Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

NJ To Survey Homeless Population In Winter Drive

The census being conducted Wednesday will not be as robust as last year’s count, which was a biannual survey required by the federal government.

2012/01/22

God's Love We Deliver volunteers on Saturday, Dec. 24, 2011 (credit: Monica Miller/WCBS 880)

Hundreds Of Volunteers Delivering Meals To Seriously Ill Patients Across All Five Boroughs

Roughly 800 God’s Love We Deliver volunteers are making sure seriously ill patients are getting a holiday meal for themselves and a friend.

2011/12/24

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White Plains Salvation Army Appeals For Help After Funding Cuts

The organization’s appeal comes in the wake of a $100,000 funding cut from the federal government.

2011/05/20

Teen Volunteers With United Community Centers Clean Up Yard Of Elderly Brooklyn Woman

It was an extreme makeover of a backyard variety as volunteers helped to turn a neglected Brooklyn backyard into an oasis of green.

2011/05/14

Fire Departments Seeking Volunteers Across The State

Fire departments are opening their doors this weekend across the state to recruit more volunteers.

2011/04/09

Tornado damage in Queens (credit: CBS 2)

Volunteers To Replace Trees Damaged By Tornadoes In Queens

City Parks Commissioner Adrian Benepe said Macdonald Park in Forest Hills took a great deal of damage. “It looked like a war had been fought there. All of these beautiful trees had been blown apart in their crowns and were lying all over the place.”

2011/04/08

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