Agency: Success by 6

Contact: Rich Minder at docofamily2family@gmail.com or at 785-842-8719

Success by 6 needs volunteers to assist with its parenting education classes by providing child care for children younger than 5 years of age while their parents are attending class. Two to three volunteers care for nine children from 5:30 to 8 p.m. at Centennial Adult Education Center, 2145 Louisiana St. Age-appropriate activities will be planned, and pizza will be provided to attendees.

Volunteers are needed on Wednesday evenings through June 29 and also on the second Tuesday of each month. For more information, please contact Rich Minder at docofamily2family@gmail.com or 842-8719.

Help March of Dimes

The March of Dimes promotes healthy pregnancies and babies, Volunteers are needed to assist with the annual March for Babies Walk on April 30 at Watson Park, 727 Kentucky St.

Help is needed with setup, covering different stations during the event and cleanup. Any time frame is appreciated. Please contact Stephanie Rasys at stephanier@centralnational.com or 838-1894 for more information.

Describe plays

Audio-Reader is a radio reading service for the blind and print-disabled of Kansas and western Missouri. Audio Reader is looking for volunteers to enhance theater performances and other visual events for people with vision loss by serving as audio description volunteers. Volunteers will describe the visual elements of a performance, display, or event using succinct, colorful language.

Audio-Reader works with the following performance venues: Theatre Lawrence, The Lied Center and Crafton-Preyer Theatre in Lawrence; Starlight Theatre, Kansas City Repertory Theatre and Carlsen Center in the Kansas City area; and Topeka Civic Theatre and Academy in Topeka. For more information, please contact Jen Nigro at jnigro@ku.edu or 864-4604.

Clean up a park

Black Hills Energy’s mission of “Improving Life with Energy” includes opportunities to strengthen the communities it serves. Part of that effort includes an annual event to clean up local parks in observance of Earth Day.

Black Hills Energy will hold a park cleanup event starting at Peterson Park, located at the intersection of Peterson Road and North Iowa Street, on April 22 at 2 p.m. Workers will move to Burcham Park at Second and Indiana streets at approximately 3 p.m. Please look for the Black Hills Energy tent and vehicles at the park locations. For more information, contact Canan Aker at canan.aker@blackhillscorp.com or 832-3937.

Landscaping work

Tenants to Homeowners Inc. administers the Lawrence Community Housing Trust Program, which sells homes for $20,000-$50,000 below market value to families with low and moderate incomes. Tenants to Homeowners is building an aging in place senior community of 13 townhomes. Volunteers are needed to assist with cleaning up the construction site and landscaping the site.

This will be an ongoing part-time need through the fall of 2016. The Cedarwood Senior Cottages are located just behind the United Way Center near the 2500 block of Cedarwood Avenue. For more information, please contact Tenants to Homeowners at 842-5494 or at cbryantth@gmail.com.

Pack a snack

Sunflower Elementary School needs assistance with its BackSnacks program, which provides snacks and a book for qualifying students to take home every Friday.

A volunteer is needed every Friday from 10:15 to 11:45 a.m. for the remainder of the school year to help pack the BackSnacks bags and distribute them to students. For more information, please contact Reana Maliska at RMaliska@usd497.org.

— For more volunteer opportunities, go to volunteerdouglascounty.org or contact Shelly Hornbaker at the United Way Roger Hill Volunteer Center at 865-5030, ext. 301, or at volunteer@unitedwaydgco.org.