June 2011
Volunteer Opportunities
for Families
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LOVE IN[DEED]
Wooddale Church
Date: Saturday, June 18
Time: 8:30am-Noon
Location: Wooddale Church Gym, Door 5, 6630 Shady Oak Road, Eden Prairie Join Love In[Deed] in making a difference in the Twin Cities. Just show up, choose from a variety of pre-planned volunteer opportunities, and then go serve the community. Buses will be provided to transport volunteers to sites they select.
Ages: All ages are welcome
Time Commitment: 3.5 hours
Contact: For more information visit www.wooddale.org/loveindeed. To contact the church regarding Love In[Deed] please email them at loveindeedwc@gmail.com
www.wooddale.org/loveindeed
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New Hope Food Packaging Event
Kids Against Hunger
Date/Time: Tuesday, June 7, 10-11:30am, Thursday, June 9, 6-7:30pm or Tuesday, June 14, 6-7:30pm
Location: 5401 Boone Avenue North, New Hope
Help package food at Kids Against Hunger's (KAH) International Headquarters in New Hope. At a food packaging event volunteers assemble the meal ingredients in a specified order and quantity, weigh and seal the bags, box them up, and load them onto pallets. Packaging food is a wonderful, fulfilling way to feel that you are making a real difference! When volunteering at Kids Against Hunger children learn about world hunger, to look beyond themselves, and that it is possible to accomplish seemingly overwhelming tasks if they are willing to work together.
Ages: All ages are welcome but may be more appropriate for children ages 5 and older. Children should have one to one adult supervision
Time Commitment: 1.5 hour shift
Contact: For more information visit www.kidsagainsthunger.org
Click "Package Meals at our Headquarter in New Hope, MN" on the top right corner of the home page, visit their volunteer page, or call 763-257-0202
www.kidsagainsthunger.org
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Deliver a Meal
Metro Meals on Wheels
Date/Time: Volunteer one hour during lunch time; Monday through Friday. Your family can volunteer weekly, monthly, or on a schedule that works for you
Delivering Meals on Wheels with your children/grandchildren is a wonderful opportunity to spend quality time as a family and pass on the values of kindness, compassion, and civic responsibility by helping seniors and individuals with disabilities in your community. Whether you have infants or teenagers, you can make a contribution together to improve your community. Delivering meals involves driving to the program site, then picking up and delivering 8-10 meals. It takes about an hour, and you can choose a program site near your home. The amount you socialize with the clients is dependent on the volunteer and the client. DGT has created a parent handbook to make this volunteer experience richer and more educational for families. You can find the link for the handbook and other family-friendly information at http://www.meals-on-wheels.com/family. Ages: Families with children of any age are welcomed and encouraged to volunteer Time Commitment: About an hour at lunch time Contact: Kelsey Ohme,Volunteer & Office Manager, 612-623-3363, Kelsey@meals-on-wheels.com, or you can complete the volunteer form and MMOW will connect you with the local Meals on Wheels program that serves your area www.meals-on-wheels.com
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Create Paper Heads, Hands and Hearts Cutouts
The Family Partnership
Date/Time: This is an ongoing opportunity
Location: Mail or drop off completed cutouts off at any of The Family Partnership six locations
Since 1878, The Family Partnership has helped more than one million of our community's most vulnerable children and families. We are an accredited, human service nonprofit organization operating from our own six sites and hundreds of community locations throughout the metro, such as schools, churches, neighborhood centers, prisons, and food shelves. We are getting low on our paper cutouts of heads, hands and hearts. These cutouts are a fun, family-strengthening and community-building activity we use in many of our programs. Cut as many or few as your family wants to do and group them for us. We would like groups of 60 (20 heads, 20 hands, 20 hearts) in a variety of colors. You can put the groups in an envelope or baggie. You print them out on colored paper -we don't care which color(s).
Materials Needed: Colored paper and large envelopes or baggies
Ages: All ages, this is a family appropriate craft project
Time Commitment: Varies
Contact: Ella Strother, estrother@thefamilypartnership.org or 612-341-1671 for additional information and for the cutout template
everyfamilymatters.org
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Fantastic Bags for Family Bash
Simpson Housing Services
Date/Time: Now until July 14
Location: Create at home and deliver to our offices, Mon-Fri between 9 am and 4:30 pm., 2100 Pillsbury Ave S., Minneapolis
Formerly homeless families will be getting together for an annual summer Family Gathering to celebrate a year of accomplishments. We would like to have 30 Fantastic Bags for prizes at the event. To volunteer:
Select a theme bag or bags from this link
Purchase the items (must be new)
Place them in a decorative paper bag with tissue paper
Label the bag
Deliver to Simpson Housing Services main office, 2100 Pillsbury Avenue South, Minneapolis, by Thursday, July 14
Without our faithful force of volunteers, we quite simply would not be able to do what we do. We need your partnership to help ease the impact of homelessness on members of our community. Every year Simpson volunteers contribute over 32,000 hours of their time to help people experiencing homelessness. This is the equivalent of 14 full-time employees.
Ages: All ages are welcome
Time Commitment: Varies
Contact: http://www.simpsonhousing.org/volunteer.html, 612-874-8683
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2011 Twin Cities Start! Heart Walk!
American Heart Association
Date/Time: Saturday, June 4. Shifts are either 7-10am or 10am-1pm
Location: Target Field, downtown Minneapolis
The American Heart Association is a national voluntary health agency whose mission is: "Building healthier lives, free of cardiovascular diseases and stroke." You can help. When you join Heart Walk, you join more than a million people in 300+ cities across America in taking a stand against heart disease and helping save lives! Families can participate by walking at the event. You can create a team and raise funds for the AHA or just walk to show your support! There are no fees to participate and Walkers are eligible for a Start! Heart Walk t-shirt once they have raised a minimum of $100.
Ages: All ages are welcome
Time Commitment: 3-4 hours
Contact: Click here to register for the walk. For more information about the walk visit the website or contact Anna Rouse at 612-501-8497
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This list was compiled by Doing Good Together (www.doinggoodtogether.org). When calling to volunteer for any of the opportunities listed above, please let the coordinator know you found it through this listing. You are encouraged to ask any questions you may have of the sponsoring organization before committing to a project.
© 2011 Doing Good Together
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