Agency: The Strategic Learning Center

Address: 1245 N.H.

Contact person: Rose Foster, 331-3236

The Strategic Learning Center needs volunteers for its “Band Together for Learning” benefit. Money raised from the event will help outreach efforts to assist the nonprofit learning center in providing tutoring services to students of all ages. The benefit will be Jan. 24 at Liberty Hall and will include dinner, a performance by the band Sellout, dancing and a silent auction. Volunteers will help gather items for the silent auction, plan and obtain decorations before the event, and set up and work at the event itself. For more information contact Foster at the number above or at rtfoster@smarttogether.org. Tickets may be purchased at the Liberty Hall box office, 642 Mass., or by calling the learning center.

Immediate volunteer needs

• The Warm Hands Shelter provides a safe place for people who are homeless to spend time out of the cold from 3 p.m. to 9 p.m. seven days a week. Volunteers are needed to assist the coordinator with supervising shelter activity. Volunteers must be 18 or older and be open to working with people who are struggling with many challenges. The Warm Hands Shelter is sponsored by the Lawrence Coalition on Homeless Concerns and is in Victory Bible Church, 1942 Mass. For more information, contact Marilyn Hull at 749-0402 or at mhull@sunflower.com.
• The Social Services League Thrift Shop, 905 R.I., is looking for youth volunteers to work Wednesday afternoons after early dismissal from the school district. Volunteers will help with spring cleaning, sorting clothing donations and other chores. The shop sells donated goods to fund new shoes and eye exams for low-income children. For more information, call Jean Ann Pike at 843-5414, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday through Friday and 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday.
• The Lawrence Community Theatre is still recovering from damages sustained in a fire on Dec. 29. Volunteers can help with tasks such as sorting papers and theater supplies and cleaning props and costumes. Volunteers can schedule a time to help during weekday business hours and some Saturday shifts by calling the theater at 843-7469.