RSVP - Retired and Senior Volunteer Program

Call the Volunteer Hotline:  262-522-2415, option 1 for RSVP

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View the Intergenerational Folk Art Fair Video!

View the Seniors & Students Video!

Services Available

RSVP invites adults 55 and over to serve as volunteers to strengthen and stay connected to their communities.

Collaborating with over 100 local nonprofit and government agencies, RSVP provides volunteers with opportunities utilizing their life experiences and skills to fulfill community needs.

RSVP’s Placement Program offers long-term assignments, in which volunteers fill critical community needs on a regular basis at schools, nutrition sites, nature centers, thrift stores, hospitals, libraries, museums, nursing homes, the Waukesha County courthouse and other nonprofit and government agencies.  Click here for a list of community agencies that benefit from RSVP volunteers.

Short-term assignments or special projects, offer volunteers the opportunity to participate in occasional events, such as fairs, festivals, fundraisers or bulk mailings and other clerical or office support.

Seniors & Students

For Volunteers - View the RSVP Seniors and Students Volunteer Orientation Slides

Collaborating with the Menomonee Falls, Hamilton, and Waukesha School Districts, this program supports elementary and middle school students by assisting school staff to enrich student learning and achievement. This program has been used as a model to expand tutoring and mentoring into some schools in the Kettle Moraine and Arrowhead School Districts.

Volunteers may help in many ways including academic enrichment and clerical activities. Requests are made by school staff and are under their direction. Duties range from corresponding with students as pen pals, listening to students read, memory drills with flash cards, greeting guests upon entering the school, assisting in the library or health room and helping with other teacher-directed activities. Volunteers simply need the desire, time and commitment to work with young people and provide service to our schools. For further information, please contact Becky Hubred in the Hamilton School District, or Deb Krebsbach in the School District of Waukesha, or Susan Hjelsand at Riverside Elementary in the School District of Menomonee Falls.

Intergenerational Folk Art Fairs
Since 1994, these all-day events at Waukesha County elementary schools bring young and old together in a fun learning atmosphere. The “fair” is staged in the school gym, where groups of students come in to examine displays, watch demonstrations, ask questions, try activities and make sample projects to take home. Volunteers anticipate eager hands-on involvement with students as they try their hand at sewing on a button, making paper, leather craft or thumbprint art. Twenty five to thirty activities involve 40-50 volunteers per fair.