Help staff and farmers out with ongoing projects (e.g. planting, cleaning, harvesting, organizing, etc). Please bring water, gardening gloves, sun-protection, and dress for the weather. Workdays will be cancelled for inclement weather. Volunteers must be willing to work hard and get their hands dirty!
Help newly arrived refugees learn English, and practice verbal and written communication. Serve as a friendly face and resource for clients to help them more easily integrate into the community.
Volunteer, Coach, Leadership
If you’re interested in using power tools, painting, construction projects, problem solving, and teamwork, we would love to have your help in the Live Arts Scene Shop. Saturday and Tuesday builds are open to volunteers of all skill levels. We build a range of sets each season, sometimes including full scale staircases, rotating platforms, enormous…
Collect, sort, and identify benthic macroinvertebrates (bottom-dwelling bugs). Identify some bugs in the lab. Ongoing in Spring and fall. Monitoring one site usually takes 2-4 hours. Lab work is flexible.
Across the nation, there is an ongoing foster care crisis with more youth entering the local foster care systems than families to serve them. On any given day, there are more than 900 youth in care in our service region alone, with more than 5,000 in Virginia and nearly 445,000 in the United States.These children…
Spend your time with a senior or adult with disability who could use a neighborly call or letter. Callers spend an average of one hour per week talking with their Neighbor, and PenPals send letters/art/cards to a staff member who distributes them to seniors in the area. There may be a waitlist for Friendly Calling…
Volunteering as an EMS provider with the CARS is probably very different from any volunteering you have ever done. Volunteering as a patient care provider takes a significant amount of time, requires uncommon dedication, and can involve significant emotional stress.
The First Tee Coaches are actively enrolled in The First Tee Coach Program and attend network training over a period of 3-4 years. An individual interested in leading classes and dedicating more than 75 hours a year to instruction should consider this avenue.
Help facilitate support groups that offer dementia-related education, emotional support, and connections with resources so that group members may live their best life for as long as possible.