Opportunities From: Connect2Community

We are committed to providing crucial resources to our clients, ensuring their basic needs are met during challenging times. Through this volunteer role, you have the opportunity to actively contribute to maintaining a clean, organized, and welcoming environment in our various material aid areas. By assisting with stock management and organization in our food pantry, clothing room, and hygiene area, you play a vital role in supporting individuals facing crises and helping them gain stability.

Activating your care in this way will help serve more people and serve them better. Creating an environment that is looked after well, invested in, and welcoming, is also showing respect, investment, and care for those using it. 

We are seeking volunteers that can come in during a weekday. This role is ideally filled by someone who can come in on a recurring basis. This could be once per week, once biweekly, multiple times per week, etc.

We are seeking compassionate individuals who can bring their love, care, and cleanliness to create a clean and inviting kitchen space for our Soup Kitchen. By dedicating your time to deep and detailed cleaning, you will contribute to the smooth operation of our kitchen, enabling us to serve our community with even greater impact. Your efforts will directly benefit the hundreds of community members who rely on our Soup Kitchen every Sunday.

While this role may not be the most visible, it plays a vital part in ensuring that our Soup Kitchen can fulfill its mission of making meaningful impacts. Your commitment to maintaining a clean, polished, and organized kitchen will help us serve more people and enhance the quality of their experience.

We would ideally like for the same volunteer (or two) to come in once per week. This volunteer(s) could come in anytime Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm.

Join us every Monday afternoon at our East location as we come together to make a positive impact on our community. As volunteers, you'll have the opportunity to be part of a meaningful experience where we distribute food from Forgotten Harvest to community members in need.

Your role will involve setting up and arranging tables and chairs, creating a warm and welcoming environment for our guests, distributing food, and cleanup.

With your help, we ensure that everyone has access to nutritious food while fostering a sense of belonging and care within our community. The volunteer shift typically runs from 12PM to 4PM.

Step into the heart of compassion and lend a helping hand every Wednesday morning with Crossroads. Together, we create a powerful impact in our community by distributing food from Forgotten Harvest to those who need it most. As a volunteer, your genuine care and warmth are the cornerstones of these efforts.

Unpacking and setting up the food are more than just tasks; they're acts of love that ensure individuals and families facing challenges receive the nourishment they deserve. Your presence and support during the distribution process make a real difference, touching the lives of every person we serve.

This role involves helping with set up, distribution, and cleanup. Volunteers need to be able to carry boxes and lift tables and chairs. 

The Office Assistant volunteer is integral to allow operations to run smoothly. With many office and administrative tasks necessary in our organization, staff may find themselves pulled away from other duties. This slows us down to serve our clients in a meaningful and efficient way. 

There is a need for assistance on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, from 10AM-4PM.

Help manage office assistant duties Assist organizing and distributing client mail received at Crossroads Input data into computer systems Other various tasks

Our Parenting Support Program offers resources through material assistance and other services to children and their caregivers. This program distributes thousands of diapers and other resources for families and children every year. We are looking for support mostly on Mondays, but Tuesdays are a big help as well! Volunteer hours are flexible within the hours of 9am-4pm.

Diaper bag distribution preparation, tearing plastic bags from rolls, sorting diapers in sets, bagging diapers Sorting clothes or other donated items to be distributed on Tuesday during the program Greeting and checking in parents and/or helping with diaper bag/donated item distribution on Tuesdays
during the program Other duties as needed Volunteer may find joy in repetitive, but necessary tasks Willingness to serve and flexibility 

Help people overcome barriers to stability and self-sufficiency. This opportunity is not necessarily for professional counselors. Volunteers will receive training. This role is vital to community members move toward stability and out of crisis.

This role requires volunteers to come in on a recurring basis. We ask for one 3.5 hour shift per week, but understand availability may differ. Shifts are from either 9AM-12:30PM, or 12:30 PM-4PM. If your availability differs but you are interested, pleas let us know!

Meet with clients to identify needs and assist clients with empathy and compassion Create a welcoming and non-judgmental environment for clients Work with supervisors to advocate for clients and empower clients Provide assistance to clients experiencing poverty and/or housing insecurity to contribute
toward stability Complete client notes after meeting with clients Volunteers must be welcoming, empathetic, understanding, and able to deal with a wide range of people