JABA Volunteer Opportunities

• We are looking for some administrative help with the FISH (Friends in Schools Helping) program on Wednesdays.  If you have an interest in or background in publicity, volunteer management or training please join our FISH Leadership Team and have a lot of fun while making a real difference in a child’s life.

• Friendly Visitor needed for elderly client in Charlottesville with occasional grocery shopping

•  Volunteer needed for public education-outreach campaign to raise awareness about fair housing in our community.

• Twice Is Nice, JABA’s upscale resale shop in Preston Plaza, is in need of volunteers to run the register, prepare clothes and other activities.  And for some real deals, come to the half-off sale starting Thursday, January 26th.

Lorraine Bujold, Volunteer Services Office Coordinator, JABA
Phone: 434-817-5272
lbujold@jabacares.org

TODAY will be YESTERDAY TOMORROW | Share your stories now in cvillepedia!

Celebrate 250 is partnering with cvillepedia to have residents share their stories about life in Charlottesville. 

cvillepedia is a wiki hosted by Charlottesville Tomorrow dedicated to sharing and building community knowledge. It is built with the same software as Wikipedia and has a hyperlocal focus on the people, places, and events in Charlottesville and Albemarle County. It is a free, public, collaborative encyclopedia that anyone can edit and improve.

To contribute to cvillepedia, the first thing to do is … continue reading

Lots of help is available for anyone interested in sharing photos and stories. You do not need any special web experience, just a willingness to learn the wiki way of saving and presenting information.

What We Can Learn About the Law from the Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

The University of Virginia’s Engaging the Mind Public Lecture Series provides learning opportunities for alumni, parents and community members throughout Virginia. This program presents notable faculty members in an effort to share the University’s vast knowledge with communities where our alumni and parents live, work and interact.

What We Can Learn About the Law from the Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Thursday, January 26, 2012
6:00 pm to 7:30 pm
University Chapel
1619 University Ave | Charlottesville, VA
Free Admission and Open to All -  Register Online

Continue reading … Office of Engagement, University of Virginia.

Think twice before you click | Spam Finds a New Target – WSJ.com

This article appeared in the Wall Street Journal this morning. Many people (especially those being lured  into social networking sites for the first time in the hopes of winning an iPad or getting free coupons think that spam is merely an annoyance.  It used to be, but now it is increasingly loaded with malware that can cause some serious problems including identity theft.  Think twice before you click!

Facebook Inc. and Twitter Inc. are building up their forces to fight an emerging enemy: “social” spam.One of their foot soldiers is Tao Stein, a Facebook engineer. At 4 a.m. one May morning, Mr. Stein was jolted out of bed by a spam alert on his cellphone. Facebook was being inundated with messages that read, “hey check out this link FREE IPAD.” But there was no free iPad—just malware that caused Facebook users who clicked on the link to unintentionally rebroadcast the annoying message to friends.

Continue reading … Spam Finds a New Target – WSJ.com.