Volunteer: Homework Club HelperDo you love a hands-on approach with helping children? Are you looking for a rewarding way to give back? Consider volunteering with the children in our temporary shelter assisting with homework, projects, games, arts & crafts. We aim to offer support, while having fun! This is a great opportunity for retired teachers or older youth going into the early childhood education field. Homework Club is offered Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday from 4pm-5:30pm. For children in our shelter. For K-12 students only. This is an all-year program. Agency: Family Shelter Services Inc Do you love a hands-on approach with helping children? Are you looking for a rewarding way to give back? Consider volunteering with the children in our temporary shelter assisting with homework, projects, games, arts & crafts. We aim to offer support, while having fun! This is a great opportunity for retired teachers or older youth going into the early childhood education field. Homework Club is offered Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday from 4pm-5:30pm. For children in our shelter. For K-12 students only. This is an all-year program. Agency: Family Shelter Services Inc opportunity Type: Volunteer Date: Is Ongoing Zip Code: 20186 Allow Groups: No |
Volunteer: Volunteer HandypersonDo you have a helpful and handy pair of hands aching to be put to good use? Family Shelter Services is looking for support in facility maintenance and upkeep from hanging blinds, cleaning and organizing to minor repairs, carpentry and painting walls. Opportunities based on your time limitations and ability. Support is needed at both our Temporary Shelter in Warrenton and Transitional Housing Community in Vint Hill. Agency: Family Shelter Services Inc Do you have a helpful and handy pair of hands aching to be put to good use? Family Shelter Services is looking for support in facility maintenance and upkeep from hanging blinds, cleaning and organizing to minor repairs, carpentry and painting walls. Opportunities based on your time limitations and ability. Support is needed at both our Temporary Shelter in Warrenton and Transitional Housing Community in Vint Hill. Agency: Family Shelter Services Inc opportunity Type: Volunteer Date: Is Ongoing Zip Code: 20186 Allow Groups: Yes |
Volunteer: Meals of HOPESharing food is a powerful act of community. Family Shelter Services depends on volunteers and community support to donate and prepare meals for our families. Several ways to help with food: - Community can prepare a potluck style meal for breakfast, lunch or dinner and drop off/serve. (Youth groups, Adult Ministries, Clubs, Families, Sororities, School groups, Local businesses) - Providing a "sack" meal like breakfast or lunch and drop off. - Cook a meal onsite. - Sponsor a shelter dinner with a local restaurant, like pizza! Respond according to the date that you wish to donate a meal, and our Program & Volunteer Coordinator, Tracy Forloines will reach out with additional details. Agency: Family Shelter Services Inc Sharing food is a powerful act of community. Family Shelter Services depends on volunteers and community support to donate and prepare meals for our families. Several ways to help with food: - Community can prepare a potluck style meal for breakfast, lunch or dinner and drop off/serve. (Youth groups, Adult Ministries, Clubs, Families, Sororities, School groups, Local businesses) - Providing a "sack" meal like breakfast or lunch and drop off. - Cook a meal onsite. - Sponsor a shelter dinner with a local restaurant, like pizza! Respond according to the date that you wish to donate a meal, and our Program & Volunteer Coordinator, Tracy Forloines will reach out with additional details. Agency: Family Shelter Services Inc opportunity Type: Volunteer Date: Multiple Shifts Available Zip Code: 20186 Allow Groups: Yes |
Volunteer: Children's Activities Leader for Life-Skill ClassesWe are in need of volunteers for "Teaching Moments" with our children while their parents attend our weekly life skills class. This is an opportunity to engage with children in ways such as planned group activities. It's only for an hour every week. The need for our shelter location is on Wednesdays from 6pm-7pm and at our Vint Hill Transitional location on Thursdays from 6:30pm-7:30pm. This is a wonderful way to give back or earn community service hours all year round. Agency: Family Shelter Services Inc We are in need of volunteers for "Teaching Moments" with our children while their parents attend our weekly life skills class. This is an opportunity to engage with children in ways such as planned group activities. It's only for an hour every week. The need for our shelter location is on Wednesdays from 6pm-7pm and at our Vint Hill Transitional location on Thursdays from 6:30pm-7:30pm. This is a wonderful way to give back or earn community service hours all year round. Agency: Family Shelter Services Inc opportunity Type: Volunteer Date: Is Ongoing Zip Code: 20186 Allow Groups: No |
Volunteer: Volunteer Life-Skills InstructorsVolunteer to teach life-skill classes to our Emergency Shelter and Vint Hill Transitional participants. Schedule in advance with our Program & Volunteer Coordinator, Tracy Forloines at 540-351-0130 Monday-Friday 8:30am to 4:30pm or by email tforloines@fauquierfamilyshelter.org. The subjects can range from nutrition, finance, parenting, health, job coach, budgeting, credit, cooking, counseling, and more based on your skill set. If you are looking to give back to your community doing a life skills class is a great way to get involved. Agency: Family Shelter Services Inc Volunteer to teach life-skill classes to our Emergency Shelter and Vint Hill Transitional participants. Schedule in advance with our Program & Volunteer Coordinator, Tracy Forloines at 540-351-0130 Monday-Friday 8:30am to 4:30pm or by email tforloines@fauquierfamilyshelter.org. The subjects can range from nutrition, finance, parenting, health, job coach, budgeting, credit, cooking, counseling, and more based on your skill set. If you are looking to give back to your community doing a life skills class is a great way to get involved. Agency: Family Shelter Services Inc opportunity Type: Volunteer Date: Is Ongoing Agency Requirement: >21 years old Zip Code: 20186 Allow Groups: No |
Volunteer: Driver for cat shelterSupport cat shelter and its community outreach by offering driving services. Examples include taking cats to veterinary appointments (drop off and pick up); delivering cat food to families in need; picking up donations from the community. Agency: RappCats Support cat shelter and its community outreach by offering driving services. Examples include taking cats to veterinary appointments (drop off and pick up); delivering cat food to families in need; picking up donations from the community. Agency: RappCats opportunity Type: Volunteer Date: Is Ongoing Zip Code: 22627 Allow Groups: No |
Volunteer: Host a Shoe Drive
By hosting a shoe drive you can create community engagement, provide new opportunities for those in need AND give back to the environment. All you have to do is rally everyone you know to clean out their closets and donate their used shoes. You will pick them up from them or have places for them to drop-off. We have branded S4S boxes you are welcome to use and place (with the place’s permission) at your office, church, library, school, local business, grocery store, etc. When you finish collecting, you will bring them to the Soles4Souls Regional Donation Center in Richmond, VA. At this point you have completed your drive.
If you would like to volunteer additionally and help process the shoes in the warehouse, you can do this with or without doing a drive. You can invest as much time or as little time into your drive. We will write you a service letter if needed. Soles4Souls creates sustainable jobs and provides relief through the distribution of shoes and clothing around the world. It’s estimated that 21 billion pounds of textile waste is dumped in landfills every year. That makes up more than 5% of all municipal waste generated every year. Since 2006, Soles4Souls has diverted 23.8 million pounds of shoes and clothes from landfills and instead created meaningful economic opportunities and helped provide new shoes for those in need around the globe. Gently-worn shoes collected help individuals start and sustain small businesses to lift themselves and their families out of poverty.
Here are the steps for conducting a shoe drive: Register to host a shoe drive for a specific period of time and with a goal in mind. I would bring/send you a collection box or you can come pick it up. You line this with a hefty duty garbage bag and replace as it gets full. Try to find people-facing locations to host boxes for you if you prefer. I can help you with this! Communicate your drive! This a link to different logos, images, etc that you can use. If you haven’t already, check out our YouTube channel for inspiration! There are also flyers attached. Optional: we can issue a press release and/or geo-targeted social media posts about your shoe drive. Take lots of pictures and share with me so I can feature your group’s efforts! Also, follow our local Facebook page here. Once the drive concludes, make sure all the pairs are rubber-banded together or laces are tied and the total amount is counted. You can drop them off one of our warehouses or bins in garbage bags! You will coordinate your drop-off time with me. One additional thing to note– every 20 pairs donated, counts as one hour of service plus all the time spent marketing your drive, collecting and preparing shoes and anything else relevant to your shoe drive! Here is the impact an entrepreneur can make with the sale of 1, 20 or 30 pairs of shoes:1 pair of shoes can provide 5 meals for Marie-Ange and her family in Haiti, 20 pairs of shoes can provide a year’s worth of shelter for Ginette and her family in Haiti and 30 pairs of shoes can provide a year’s worth of schooling for Tracy’s daughter in Honduras. Agency: Soles4Souls
By hosting a shoe drive you can create community engagement, provide new opportunities for those in need AND give back to the environment. All you have to do is rally everyone you know to clean out their closets and donate their used shoes. You will pick them up from them or have places for them to drop-off. We have branded S4S boxes you are welcome to use and place (with the place’s permission) at your office, church, library, school, local business, grocery store, etc. When you finish collecting, you will bring them to the Soles4Souls Regional Donation Center in Richmond, VA. At this point you have completed your drive.
If you would like to volunteer additionally and help process the shoes in the warehouse, you can do this with or without doing a drive. You can invest as much time or as little time into your drive. We will write you a service letter if needed. Soles4Souls creates sustainable jobs and provides relief through the distribution of shoes and clothing around the world. It’s estimated that 21 billion pounds of textile waste is dumped in landfills every year. That makes up more than 5% of all municipal waste generated every year. Since 2006, Soles4Souls has diverted 23.8 million pounds of shoes and clothes from landfills and instead created meaningful economic opportunities and helped provide new shoes for those in need around the globe. Gently-worn shoes collected help individuals start and sustain small businesses to lift themselves and their families out of poverty.
Here are the steps for conducting a shoe drive: Register to host a shoe drive for a specific period of time and with a goal in mind. I would bring/send you a collection box or you can come pick it up. You line this with a hefty duty garbage bag and replace as it gets full. Try to find people-facing locations to host boxes for you if you prefer. I can help you with this! Communicate your drive! This a link to different logos, images, etc that you can use. If you haven’t already, check out our YouTube channel for inspiration! There are also flyers attached. Optional: we can issue a press release and/or geo-targeted social media posts about your shoe drive. Take lots of pictures and share with me so I can feature your group’s efforts! Also, follow our local Facebook page here. Once the drive concludes, make sure all the pairs are rubber-banded together or laces are tied and the total amount is counted. You can drop them off one of our warehouses or bins in garbage bags! You will coordinate your drop-off time with me. One additional thing to note– every 20 pairs donated, counts as one hour of service plus all the time spent marketing your drive, collecting and preparing shoes and anything else relevant to your shoe drive! Here is the impact an entrepreneur can make with the sale of 1, 20 or 30 pairs of shoes:1 pair of shoes can provide 5 meals for Marie-Ange and her family in Haiti, 20 pairs of shoes can provide a year’s worth of shelter for Ginette and her family in Haiti and 30 pairs of shoes can provide a year’s worth of schooling for Tracy’s daughter in Honduras. Agency: Soles4Souls opportunity Type: Volunteer Date: Is Ongoing Zip Code: 23224 Allow Groups: Yes |