RochesterCares

Even after the events that occurred yesterday and throughout the night, there is still an opportunity to show we can come together and help our community.

The City of Rochester is hosting a clean up effort and is asking for the public’s help. This is our time to step up! Please if you are available, volunteers are meeting at Frontier Field in the VIP parking lot at 10 AM today and will be provided with garbage bags, PPE, and other cleaning materials.

Let’s prove our community is still strong!

Morning update: Rochester and community day after hours of unrest The City of Rochester and surrounding communities are beginning the clean-up and recovery after 15 hours of unrest and violent protests. A peaceful protest against racial injustice and the death of George Floyd in police custody in Minneapolis was attended by hundreds of demonstrators. The scene tur...

Hi all!

It’s a new year and we are hoping to kick this one off by upgrading our website! We use it to keep everyone up to date on volunteering opportunities throughout the community, but it needs some updating. We’ve been talking to a local web development company who can help us with it, but now we need YOUR help!!

Every little bit helps RochesterCares get better and better in 2020!

New Website for RochesterCares organized by Steve Goetz Steve Goetz New Website for RochesterCares RochesterCares is an all-volunteer nonprofit organization working in the Rochester, NY area to build communities an

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Today is the big day! Come take photos at our KFAD2018 photo booth donated by Spotlight Studios for the Performing Arts

The last video for our "Why
I volunteer series" A student from Brockport.

Brockport KFAD This is a Brockport student discussing why he volunteers.

Only one more day to KFAD2018 Who is excited! This is a video of our guest speaker Adrian Hale, he is Rochester own Strategic Initiatives Manager. I am beyond humbled an honored he will be our speaker his year. If you have any question leave them down below in the comments and I will ask them if there is time tomorrom.

Remarks by Adrian Hale, ’17: Yale Veterans Day Ceremony Adrian Hale, Veteran and Eli Whitney Student, Yale College ’17; Remarks, Yale Veterans Day Ceremony, November 11, 2016

The kick off event for KFAD2018 had to be moved. The time frame is still the same 8am-9:30am but it will now be held at The port of Rochester, 1000 North River St. 14612

Another video in our "Why we volunteer series" Here are the board members of Rochester cares talking about why we volunteer.

Rochester Cares, why we volunteer This is the 4 board members of Rochester Cares talking about why they volunteer.

Here is the first in a video series about volunteering that some of our KFAD alumni have put together.
https://youtu.be/4mB26nzLwLY

KFAD2018 UR This is a quick video from UR students sharing why they volunteer

Happy MartinLuther King Jr day! Is everyone signed up for and ready for KING FOR A DAY 2018?! It’s this Saturday, this week we will be sharing videos of students who will be volunteering his week in honor of MLK Jr. Look for those videos and links to videos from this years guest speaker Adrian Hale.

It's that time of the year again! King for a Day is almost here, 1/20/18. Come join us in better our community.

King for a Day 2018 This is our largest volunteering event of the year! We will have over 400 people volunteering all over the community at several different location. We will have a meet up and kick off event starting at 8 AM at Edgerton Community center. Rochester native, MCC and Yale graduate Adrian Hale will be our...

This sad story is about a local pastor and a driving force for change and good in our community. He and his family lost everything in a fire recently, but he is keeping his head up and is thankful he only lost material things instead of the important things, his loved ones.

Click here to support Shellie's House Fire organized by Donna Gramlich The Smith family of Rochester , NY suffered a terrible fire at their home in Chili and as a result lost most of their belongings. Shellie Smith is a Pastor in the community and is always willing to give a helping hand to those in need. Now his family is in need and we would like to gather funds f...