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Offers volunteer opportunities for anyone interested in gaining skills, building confidence, and making a difference in the community. Opportunities include: - Learning Buddies: Connect with local elementary students on school topics for 1-2 hours per week. - Outdoor Chores: Help elderly neighbors by assisting with yard work and seasonal tasks. - Pen Pals: Write monthly letters to elementary students to foster friendship and support their writing skills. - Respite Visitor: Provide companionship and ensure the safety and comfort of a care recipient."

Non-professional services provided: - Errand running and shopping assistance - Friendly visiting - Light housekeeping - Meal preparation - Mail management and personal correspondence - Repairs and minor maintenance of home and yard, including snow removal. There is insurance coverage for volunteers during the times they are providing CREST services.?? - Telephone reassurance - Transportation is available for appointments, church, social engagements, and shopping. Request for transportation must be done 2 days in advance and are not wheelchair accessible. Both curb-to-curb and door-to-door service is available depending on need. No fees and donations are accepted. - Volunteers do not give medications, do not assist in transferring sitting to bed, etc.

Ambassador: Greeting visitors at History Center events; representing the History Center at county fair and other events; ticket takers Archives and Library: Inventory; patron assistance; record gathering and computer entry; scanning and digitizing Collections: Artifact rehousing and cleaning; inventorying and cataloging Concessions: Handling money and food at Roosters baseball home games Exhibits: Construction and fabrication; proofreading; research Indoor Work: Assistance with mailings; data entry; front desk assistant; gallery and archive light cleaning; gift shop assistant Outdoor Work: Lawn mowing; seasonal clean up; snow plowing; tilling Storytelling: Mayowood docent and tour assistant; museum gallery docent; Stoppel Farm docent; trolley tour docent

A 320-acre park near downtown Rochester features a hands-on exploration hall, a natural science library, and bird and bee observation rooms, all open to the public year-round at no cost. Volunteer opportunities available: - Classroom Assistant - Gardener - Materials Preparation - Outdoor Projects - Snowshoe and Ski Rental Assistant - Special Programs Assistant - Weed Warriors - specializing in invasive plant removal.

CHUM welcomes volunteers to help with: - Event planning and support (various events year-round) - Food shelves (drivers; unloading, sorting, and stocking shelves) - Gardening (various locations) - Moving (furniture donation pickup) - Office Support (data entry and mailing) - Property and equipment (cleaning, painting, etc.) - Second Saturdays - monthly opportunities (ongoing or one-time) to volunteer with others; projects vary - Serving meals at various sites

Provides the following supportive services: - Adopt-a-Grandparent - Assisted Transportation - age 60 and older - Caregiver support - Chore services - Eldercare - Family Caregiver - Friendly visits and phone calls - Furniture for Families - Grocery shopping - Home accessibility accessories installed - grab bars - Household goods - Lawn mowing, leaf raking, snow shoveling - Light housekeeping - Living with Memory Loss (for those who are living with memory loss) - Medical appointments - Medical equipment - Minor home repairs - Necessary errands - Parkinson's - Seasonal yard work - Support for seniors to remain living at home as long as possible - Volunteer opportunities - Youth mission work

Transforms vacant land into gardens and makes locally-grown produce available to the entire community - Employs seasonal workers who are not employed or underemployed - Income-qualified volunteers will earn a share of the harvest, as well as recipes and ideas for how to preserve and prepare the food they've helped to grow

Provides low-income or food insecure gardeners with a space to grow their own food in underserved neighborhoods. Offers 18 garden sites across the city with over 250 garden plots. Provides plots with tools, gardening education and assistance, seeds, and more. Offers: - Apple press rental - Garden plots - Garlic sale - Seed library or donations - Volunteering opportunities - Workshops

Ambassador: Greeting visitors at History Center events; representing the History Center at county fair and other events; ticket takers Archives and Library: Inventory; patron assistance; record gathering and computer entry; scanning and digitizing Collections: Artifact rehousing and cleaning; inventorying and cataloging Concessions: Handling money and food at Roosters baseball home games Exhibits: Construction and fabrication; proofreading; research Indoor Work: Assistance with mailings; data entry; front desk assistant; gallery and archive light cleaning; gift shop assistant Outdoor Work: Lawn mowing; seasonal clean up; snow plowing; tilling Storytelling: Mayowood docent and tour assistant; museum gallery docent; Stoppel Farm docent; trolley tour docent

Volunteers assist with various services, including Neighbors Helping Neighbors, Meals on Wheels, Senior Café, Home Safety Visits, Family Access Center, fundraising and visibility events, and Board of Directors opportunities. - Assurance/friendly visit calls - Caregiver Respite Volunteer - Child care - Companionship visits - Event planning/fundraising - Food box assembly - Food box/Meals on Wheels delivery driver - Food distribution - Food donation pick up - Grocery shopping - Handy worker - Home safety check - Household helper (housekeeping) - Interpreter - Laundry helper - Lawn mowing/yard work - Packing/moving - Painting - Paratransit driver/transportation - Snow removal - Student tutor - Technology assistance

Minor & Critical Home Repair - A Brush with Kindness(ABWK)is an exterior home preservation program that provides painting, landscaping, weather stripping, and minor repair services for homeowners in need - ABWK helps low-income homeowners, impacted by age, disability, and family circumstances, who struggle to maintain the exterior of their homes - We use volunteers, sweat equity, and no interest loans to make repairs affordable, helping low-income homeowners continue to live independently and securely in their homes - ABWK is a supplement to our core building program. It enables us to serve more families and increase volunteer opportunities - We partner with Aitkin county veteran service office, the D.A.V and Veteran clubs.

In Home Care Service is a licensed service that provides an individualized assistance plan to help maintain and support healthy independent aging in the home and community. Aging individuals receive assistance in their home from a trained staff with a daily personal plan which can include household maintenance (laundry/cleaning), personal cares, and/or home management (phone calls, organizing, reading mail, arranging appointments), and socialization.

Minor & Critical Home Repair - Home Preservation is an exterior home preservation program that provides painting, landscaping, and minor repair services for homeowners in need - Home Preservation helps low-income homeowners, impacted by age, disability, and family circumstances, who struggle to maintain the exterior of their homes - We use volunteers, sweat equity, and no interest loans to make repairs affordable, helping low-income homeowners continue to live independently and securely in their homes - Home Preservation is a supplement to our core building program. It enables us to serve more families and increase volunteer opportunities.

Financial Donations: Family scholarships for people to attend disabilities or autism camps or military family camps. Cost for an average family is from $600-1200 per camp/retreat. In-kind Donations: - Golf carts - Horses - Plow truck - Recreation equipment Volunteering: - Cleaning - Cooking - Equine volunteers - Maintenance - Mowing/landscaping - Program volunteers Volunteer page: https://www.ironwoodsprings.com/volunteer

Matches older adults and adults with disabilities to volunteers to assist with tasks allowing people to remain safely and independently in their own homes. - Gutter cleaning or window washing (first floor only) - Handyman tasks (not requiring a professional, includes painting) - Lawn care (gardening, lawn mowing, spring clean-up, weeding) - Light house cleaning (basic tasks such as bathrooms, dusting, floors, kitchens, and vacuuming) - Moving furniture within the home - Snow removal (shoveling/snow blowing driveway and shoveling sidewalk) provided on a one-time or short-term basis. A limited amount of volunteers provide this, so it may not always be available - Only available to those living in the Stillwater Area School District #834 Services are part of Community Thread's THRIVE program.

- Housing based on need with little or no interest and at no profit - Partners with family to build or renovate simple, decent, affordable housing - Before moving in the family contributes labor and funds for taxes and insurance - Family support during partnering year - Donations accepted for funds and building equipment - Volunteer opportunities including flooring, handywork, masonry, painting, roofing, and lawn care - Not a short-term solution

Chore Services - Chore Day: One-time outside yard work with group - Home Modification: Basic home maintenance tasks - In-home chores/homemaker services - Mowing/shoveling Companionship - Caregiver support - Friendly phone call - Friendly visit/respite in-home visiting Education Juniper Class Instructor: Teach evidence-based classes, requires certified training Transportation - Driver - Duluth: Bring someone to a medical appointment or other meetings - Driver - Two Harbors: Bring someone to a medical appointment or other meetings - Grocery delivery

Volunteer opportunities including: - Administrative/communication: Board of Directors, communications, data entry, event planning, and graphic design - Client work: Advocacy assistant, childcare volunteer, language interpretation, and support group facilitator - Community outreach/Public speaking - Maintenance/cleaning/organizing: Cleaning projects, donation assistant, handi-person, landscaping, and meal preparation, serving and cleaning

- Automotive repair projects - Fundraisers - Junk removal projects - Landscaping projects - Snow removal projects

CHUM welcomes volunteers to help with: - Event planning and support (various events year-round) - Food shelves (drivers; unloading, sorting, and stocking shelves) - Gardening (various locations) - Moving (furniture donation pickup) - Office Support (data entry and mailing) - Property and equipment (cleaning, painting, etc.) - Second Saturdays - monthly opportunities (ongoing or one-time) to volunteer with others; projects vary - Serving meals at various sites

Volunteer commitments are individualized. Volunteering opportunities include: - Chore/Housekeeping - Errands/Shopping - Friendly Visit - Handyman/Yardwork - Respite - Transportation