The founder of Wikipedia will be back in the Bay area this week to help launch a new online project to fight homelessness in Hillsborough County. ...more

November 19, 2009

Girl Scouts of Gulfcoast Florida Inc. will hold a recruitment event from 2 - 4 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 15 at 442 Eucalyptus St. in Sebring. ...more

August 14, 2009

Hernando-Pasco Hospice is looking for volunteers. ...more

May 1, 2009

Looking for a speaker? Hospice provides ongoing education. ...more

March 9, 2009

Pasco County Animals Services has long accepted the help of volunteers to assist staff in the mission to care for creatures and protect public health. Until recently, however, the agency kept its efforts pretty low key. ...more

February 11, 2009

With donations down due to the poor economy, a Brandon charity is hoping an interest in old cars will lure new supporters. ...more

February 11, 2009

Updates By Cell Phone; A Pitch For Ideas Barack Obama's high-tech bandwagon is rolling on, combining information on inauguration events with a pitch for cash to pay for them. The president-elect's aides told supporters this week that they could learn by e-mail about community service projects across the country tied to his swearing-in Tuesday; that they could receive updates by cell phone on traffic and events in the nation's capital; that the best of their ideas on how to govern, submitted on his Web site, would get his attention; and that they could contribute money. ...more

January 17, 2009

For a quarter of a century, Enid Uhrich has spent time helping those in distress through computer database work. For two decades, Betsy Mehaffey has spent time volunteering to help others keep their cardiovascular health up and monitoring accident or other health issues. ...more

December 3, 2008

The Hillsborough County Department of Aging Services offers seniors leisure activities, field trips, educational classes and lunch at senior centers in Brandon, Plant City, Ruskin, Lutz, Wimauma and two locations in Tampa, Riverside and West Shore. ...more

May 21, 2008

United Way of Hernando County, in partnership with the Internal Revenue Service, spearheaded the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program for Hernando County. Between January and April 15, Volunteer Hernando volunteers prepared free tax returns for more than 700 residents in the county, resulting in refunds totaling a quarter of a million dollars. More than 95 percent of these returns were e-filed. ...more

May 18, 2008