Some ideas for making a difference as a volunteer in Greater Cincinnati. Find dozens of other opportunities at Cincinnati.com:
Center for Peace Education
Teaches students how to create a peaceful community as well as how to constructively manage conflict.
Contact: Jill Yungbluth, 221-4863
Feast of Love
Provides goods and food to the needy. You must have your own truck or van without seats.
Contact: Karen Lane, 541-5676, ext. 167
Lighthouse Youth Services
Provides services and programs for homeless, abused and neglected youth. Offers support to families in crisis. Evenings and weekends available.
Contact: Cathy Fogelson, 961-4080
American Red Cross, disaster relief volunteer
Assists victims of floods, fires and other calamities. The Cincinnati Area Chapter is offering its Disaster Family Services training course on Sept. 27 in Blue Ash. A prerequisite home course is required.
Contact: American Red Cross, 579-3010
Abuse and Rape Crisis Shelter of Warren County
The crisis center serves victims and children who have witnessed domestic violence and sexual assault.
Contact: Sandra McGuire or Connie Wayne, 695-1751
Center for Independent Living
Options
Provides support services for people with mental and physical disabilities in Greater Cincinnati.
Contact: Henry Riddle, 241-2600
FACE Inc.
Helps HIV-positive families with food, clothing, transportation, holiday celebrations and other needs.
Contact: Kelly Chambers or Dixie Sucher, 584-3571
United Way of Greater Cincinnati
Connects volunteers with hundreds of opportunities. Staffers will refer you to an agency that can use your particular expertise.
Contact: United Way 211
2-1-1 on your phone
721-7900 from cell phones
REMEMBERING 9-11
Cincinnati remembers in solemn prayers, reflective moments
Schedule of local events
Updates on today's memorials across the country
Emotional impact of 9-11 blunts as world changes
PULFER: Still grieving? Blame the media
9-11 aftermath stays with Loveland man
How Greater Cincinnati marked the first anniversary
Profiles of area victims in the 2001 attacks
3-D graphic of plans for the World Trade Center site
Photos of the attacks on the World Trade Center
Photos of the attacks on the Pentagon
Photos of Flight 73
Special multimedia coverage from Gannett News Service
SPECIAL REPORT: VOLUNTEERISM SINCE 9-11
Strong at first, volunteer spirit has waned
Here's how to get involved
Profiles of local volunteers:
• 16-year-old helps kids get the chance to dance
• Dad impresses by going fishing
• Arthritis can't keep her from job
• Helping others helps heal
• Math tutor gets lesson
• When disaster hits, he responds
• Mentors ease the teen years
• Variety is the spice of giving
EDITORIALS ON 9-11
Two years later, we must not forget
Other voices on the lessons of 9/11
IN THE TRISTATE
Drug suspect a wholesaler, police say
Morgue photographer's appeal refused
Kroger gets its garage, but not before debate
Developer tells plan for mixed complex
ODOT asks $155M for I-75
City rejects $20M condo project in E. Price Hill
1-dose tumor center opens
Regional Report
West End to get new YMCA
ENQUIRER COLUMNISTS
Amos: 2-year steppingstone to college lost in UC shuffle
Howard: Good Things Happening
BUTLER, WARREN, CLERMONT
Kings waits to broach tax hike
Monthly Chamber lunch like honey for candidates
Wastewater requests have some crying foul
Monroe Police Chief Howard sidelined by heart problems
Oxford half-marathon already draws hundreds
Suspect arrested in day-care purse snatching
'New' Harrison celebrates arts
Other riverfest has a lot to offer
Sewer overflows spout in Warren Co.
Officials at odds over cost of renovating court center
OBITUARIES
Coach helped soccer get a start
Billie Garnett, St. Henry mainstay
Kentucky obituaries
OHIO
Woman charged in death of alleged abductor
Ohio moments
KENTUCKY
Independence ex-councilman on probation
Kentucky Briefs
Florence official who stole sued
Boone school board member running for state House seat
Illness strikes N.Ky. schools
Park's reputation undergoing change
