My Community Work and Volunteer Projects
Much of my volunteer work centers on Holyoke, Massachusetts, the community in which I live.
This page lists examples of some projects and links to relevant websites.
Sandy Ward
Holyoke organizations for which I have volunteered:
- Holyoke Food and Fitness Policy Council. I have documented HFFPC events and meetings with my camera; see HFFPC albums.
- Holyoke Public Library. I was elected to the HPLC Board of Directors in fall 2010, and had been active with the Friends of Library for years before that. I also served on the Steering Committee for the Library's Capital Campaign and a variety of other committees related to the Library Expansion/Remodel project (building "the Library for the next 100 years!"). See my photo albums at Holyoke Public Library.
Other volunteer roles:
- Trustee and Officer for the Funeral Consumers Alliance of Western Massachusetts (FCAWM), a non-profit, volunteer-run organization providing consumer education about end-of-life planning and choices for deathcare, including green burial. November 2009-
- Percussionist with The Expandable Brass Band, an activist street band that plays for good causes. 2010-
Other organizations and causes I support:
- Art for the Heart
- The Care Center (educating young moms)
- Connecticut River Watershed Council (protecting the environment of our river)
- Enchanted Circle Theater (arts and education)
- Fortune Society (prison reform)
- International Rescue Committee (IRC) (helping refugees)
- League of Women Voters (making democracy work)
- Nature Conservancy (preserving environmentally significant land)
- Nuestras Raíces (community gardening and farming in Holyoke)
- UUA (religious freedom)
- UUSC (human rights and social justice)