Volunteers provide energy, talent and enthusiasm, and let our clients know they live in a caring community.

A corporate volunteer (left) paints the Family Support Center; I'm Home Alone volunteer (standing, right) with one of many clients who are telephoned each day.

Children and young adults pictured here made and sold Easter cards to benefit Lake Rural Food Program (left) and gathered baby clothes in Napa for victims of Hurricane Katrina (rt)

A prior client now answers front desk phones at the Family Support Center (left); the Reading Fairy from Napa reads to a child at the Rainbow House programs.

Rural Food Project volunteers sort fresh vegetables donated by area companies to the Redwood Empire Food Bank.

Napa volunteers sort gifts for the annual Holiday Assistance Program, largely coordinated by Catholic Charities.

Senior High student Lindsey Hazelwood was named Youth Volunteer of the Year by the Volunteer Center of Sonoma County for 2010 for her work with the Rural Food Project.