White Elephant Preview Sale: Oakland Museum's huge annual White Elephant Sale is coming up on March 3rd and 4th, but this Sunday from 10 to 4 p.m., you have the chance to get first dibs on some fabulous items, including several vintage silk wedding gowns, gallery quality prints, musical instruments, books, sports memorabilia, and anything else you can imagine. Check out their gallery of stuff that will be on sale tomorrow. more ›

Friend of SFist Olivia Warnecke spent her morning volunteering at Glide Memorial Church as part of their annual Grocery Bag Giveaway. Here's what she had to say: more ›

Been thinking about volunteering? Have valuable skills to offer? Always wondered what it's like to be on a "board of directors?" Then hit up The Board Match 2011 tomorrow evening and find the nonprofit of your dreams. Choose from over 170 Bay Area organizations, large and small, focusing on everything from the environment to arts to youth. They need you. more ›

In an effort to combat shameless litterbugs, loyal Dolores Park-goers have organized a regular Dolores Park Clean-Up effort. The first one is happening this Sunday at 5 p.m., and volunteers are invited to enjoy drink specials at Amnesia afterwards. With the weather forecast in the 70s this weekend, we're sure there will be plenty of discarded cigarette butts and bottle caps for the volunteers to glean. more ›

Tomorrow morning is the annual Pink Triangle Ceremony on Twin Peaks. The Pink Triangle, which can be seen from miles away, commemorates the gay victims of the Holocaust and is a reminder of the on-going inhumanity to repressed minorities going on now around the world. more ›

Attention art-lovers with free time on their hands throughout July: Yerba Buena Center for the Arts is looking for volunteers for their upcoming Wallworks exhibition to be launched at the end of July. Paintings, wall reliefs, and collages by Makoto Aida, Edgar Arceneaux, Chris Finley, Tillman Kaiser, Odili Donald Odita, Amanda Ross-Ho, Yehudit Sasportas, and Leslie Shows will fill the wall surfaces of YBCA's galleries and public spaces. more ›

In celebration of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, the Obamas are encouraging us to help our fellow citizens in need. The Obama website has a handy database and map of volunteer events in the Bay Area, as wells as Inauguration parties (shown in orange on the map). more ›

Starting today, homosexual pride fans, the Pink Triangle folks need help setting up that large, pink, equilateral triangle on one of the hills of Twin Peaks. Won't you help them? This year's promises to be the biggest yet, with girth like you've never seen before. The massive queer symbol "will be so large this year it will be visible from 20 miles away." more ›