The Foster Grandparent Program (FGP) is one of the oldest and most successful intergenerational programs in the country for senior volunteers. The program provides a way for senior volunteers age 55 and older to stay active by serving children and youth in our communities. Foster Grandparents are role models, mentors, tutors, and friends to children with exceptional needs in the classroom.
RSVP recruits and places FGP volunteers to serve at organizations throughout Ingham, Eaton, and Clinton counties. When you volunteer, you’re not just helping others—you’re helping yourself. Volunteering leads to new discoveries and new friends. Plus, studies show that volunteering helps you. You are helping children learn to read providing, one-on-one tutoring, mentoring troubled teenagers and young mothers, caring for premature infants or children with disabilities and helping children who have been abused or neglected.
If you meet income qualifications (200% of the federal poverty level or lower) you receive a tax free monetary stipend monthly as well as transportation while serving. You will also receive:
- Pre-service and on-going training
- An annual physical examination
- A tax-exempt stipend including paid leave and holidays
- Invitation to recognition events
- Assistance with meal costs while volunteering
- Foster Grandparents required to serve at least 15 hours per week.
- Stipend, meal and travel reimbursements are not considered income and do not interfere with Social Security, Medicaid. or Medicare benefits.
We currently have volunteers in the following locations:
- Attwood New Tech Magnet
- Averill New Tech Elementary
Beginnings Child Care
- Beekman Center
- Capital Area Community Service Head Start
- Caterpillar Corner
- Cavanaugh Elementary School
- Colt Early Childhood Ed. Center
- Cornell Elementary
- Cradles to Crayons
- Donley Elementary School
- Dwight Rich School of Arts
Gier Park Elementary School
- Grand River Head Start
- Harley Franks Head Start
- Helping Hands Christian Child Care
- Horizon Elementary School
- Lansing Charter/Holly Parks
- Lyons Elementary School
Miller Road Head Start
- Peoples Church Preschool
- Reo Elementary School
- Riddle Elementary School
- South Cedar Head Start
- Wexford Montessori
- Wilcox Elementary School
- Willow Elementary
- Winans Elementary
All you need to join is the ability to give the kind of comfort and love that sets a child on the path toward a successful future. So get involved, and join Foster Grandparents today!
RSVP of Ingham, Eaton, & Clinton Counties
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