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“WHAT IS RSVP?”

The Retired Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP) promotes the concept of productive aging, providing individuals, age 55 and older, with meaningful work, while utilizing them as community builders. RSVP seniors, through a wide variety of volunteer opportunities, provide major cost saving to agencies and municipalities and make a significant impact on critical community needs.

The purpose of RSVP is to enrich retirement for older adults through significant volunteer work at non-profit agencies and organizations throughout Curry County. RSVP encourages seniors to bring a lifetime of talents and experience, skills and hobbies to the community projects and organizations needing volunteer assistance. With the help of an RSVP Program Director, interests and skills of potential volunteers are assessed and matched with requests for service in community agencies and organizations.

Without the assistance and dedication of RSVP volunteers, these agencies and organizations would be unable to continue many of their services, and the needs of thousands of people in our county would go unmet.