Opportunity Details

Join Meals from the Heartland this December for our Gift of Hope meal packaging event! Help us package meals to feed hungry children and families locally and worldwide. Volunteer shifts are available throughout the month, including our special Ugly Sweater Week from December 16-20. Your participation makes a lasting difference—every $75 donation provides meals for a child for an entire year. When you donate, you can take home a Meals from the Heartland ornament to remember the lives you impacted with your donation!

Visit https://mealsfromtheheartland.org/2024-christmas-packaging-event/ to sign up or donate. Together, we can spread hope this holiday season!

Event Details:
When: December 2-20, 2024
Where: Meals from the Heartland Packaging Center, Des Moines, IA
Contact: 515-473-9530 or contact@mealsfromtheheartland.org

Available Shifts

Shift Name	Signup Max	Start	End
Tuesday, December 3rd Morning	29	n/a	n/a
Tuesday, December 3rd Evening	43	n/a	n/a

Opportunity Details

1) pick groceries to fill the clients grocery list
2) pack and weigh the groceries, record the weight
3) pull the cold and veggies when client arrives, weigh, and record the weight
4) take the groceries out to the clients car,
5) help prepare daily meals
6) package meals and bag for distribution
7) drive groceries and/or meals to shut-in clients

Opportunity Details

Description:

Join OLH’s effort to support families facing hardship by organizing your own collection and drop-off center for food and clothing donations. Whether you’re gathering items from your own home or organizing a small collection drive in your community, your efforts can provide essential support to individuals and families in need. You can make a difference by sorting, collecting, and delivering donations to local shelters and distribution centers. Record your volunteer hours here and help us measure the community’s collective impact.

Details:

- Who Can Participate: Volunteers motivated to give back to their communities and would have the capacity to organize a collection and drop-off center for clothing and food.
- Suggested Activities: Collecting non-perishable food items or gently used clothing from homes, organizing a neighborhood or workplace donation drive, sorting items, and dropping off donations at food banks or shelters.
- How to Log: Log each hour dedicated to sourcing, organizing, collecting, sorting, or delivering donations. This includes time rooting through your family’s closets for clothes to donate!
- Impact: Every hour you contribute ensures that families have access to essential resources like food and clothing, especially during times of need. By tracking your hours with OLH, you’re helping us promote the power of community-led support.

Available Shifts

Shift Name	Signup Max	Start	End
General	no limit	n/a	n/a

Opportunity Details

Hey all you Hope Heroes!! It’s time to get together again to pack meals for the hungry, specifically to feed the those recently impacted by the hurricanes in the Southeastern US. Are you in?!? Let’s do this!!

We’ll be packing meals on Saturday, December 7th, 2024, from 9:00 until 11:00 AM in Suburban Bethlehem School gym located at 6318 W California Rd, Fort Wayne, IN (Door #13). This school is just southwest of Sweetwater Sound on US-30.

Please arrive 10-15 minutes early to allow for the check-in process.

While there is no cost to attend, donations are welcome. Just one carton of meals that you will pack feeds 216 children and costs just $65. That’s a mere $.30 per meal! What can we do without once or twice that will equal 216 meals? Feel free to donate as many boxes as you’d like to feed those who have so little.

We are looking forward to seeing you and partnering with you to feed the hungry!

Available Shifts

Shift Name	Signup Max	Start	End
General	no limit	n/a	n/a

Opportunity Details

The Alliance for Children’s Rights provides legal aid and services for foster youth in Los Angeles County – the largest foster care system in the country. Clearing barriers to stability and opportunity, we advocate for children and young adults impacted by foster care, so that they can access the support and services they need to thrive.

Each year, on the weekend before Thanksgiving, the Alliance hosts a Thanksgiving celebration for our young adult clients and their families. Together, we enjoy a delicious holiday meal, and every family leaves with a gift basket of helpful items—like toiletries, cleaning supplies, and other essentials—generously provided by our community.
We’re seeking up to 5 volunteers to help fill gift baskets and set-up for the event.

Available Shifts

Shift Name	Signup Max	Start	End
General - N/A	5	n/a	n/a

Opportunity Details

Growing Heart provides homemade food assistance on a weekly basis to clients in need. We offer bread bake days Tuesdays 5:30pm-8:30pm & Sundays 2-8pm. On these bake days we will be baking bread, crackers, treats, making homemade laundry detergent, hand soap, face wash, and organizing/putting together client orders! We feed over 100 families every month!

Available Shifts

Shift Name	Signup Max	Start	End
Volunteer Bake Shift	10	n/a	n/a
Volunteer Bake Shift	6	n/a	n/a
Volunteer Bake Shift	10	n/a	n/a
Volunteer Bake Shift	6	n/a	n/a
Volunteer Bake Shift	10	n/a	n/a
Volunteer Bake Shift	6	n/a	n/a
Volunteer Bake Shift	10	n/a	n/a
Volunteer Bake Shift	6	n/a	n/a
Volunteer Bake Shift	10	n/a	n/a
Volunteer Bake Shift	10	n/a	n/a
Volunteer Bake Shift	6	n/a	n/a
Volunteer Bake Shift	10	n/a	n/a
General	6	n/a	n/a
Volunteer Bake Shift	10	n/a	n/a
Volunteer Bake Shift	6	n/a	n/a

Opportunity Details

Fight hunger from your desk! You can help connect your hungry neighbors to the free food that’s in their backyard. Virtually volunteer alongside your teammates, using Lemontree’s website to march clients to the best food pantries & soup kitchens nearby. You can be the difference between an empty plate & a full stomach.

Learn more about our impact: https://volunteer.lemontreefoods.org/feed

Sign up here to receive your personal link and calendar invite to access the event: https://benevity.registration.goldcast.io/series/2d4f51d5-bcd6-4cc1-ac92-5c9aa3502c88

Platform to volunteer with Lemontree: https://volunteer.foodhelpline.org/c/benevity3182

Available Shifts

Shift Name	Signup Max	Start	End
11am-12pm EST	no limit	n/a	n/a
2pm-3pm EST	no limit	n/a	n/a

Opportunity Details

Volunteers Needs: All Ages Welcome!!

Set Up: Tuesday Dec 3rd and Wednesday Dec 4th: Anytime between 10am-10pm
Thursday Dec 5th : Anytime between 8am-4pm
Details: These are the most important days where we need as much help as possible! When you arrive go to the Clock on South side of Plaza. On the attached map shows it as Santa. There will be a table there with different tasks you can choose from. Some will have photos to help . All skill sets can help and will receive a volunteer sweatshirt or t-shirt. Some areas require tools such as cordless drills, bits, ladder and gloves. They are marked with *
Tasks to choose from: Hang Garland or lights on fences and rails
Put batteries in lights
Put up banners and signs
Set up different small or large displays with decorations, inflatables , trees, snow blankets , etc
Screw in 4'x8' flats as shown in the Santa photos. These types are used as back drops for about 10 different displays*
Put up giant TeePee and decorate *
Build and set up live Nativity scenes barn *



During Event : Thursday Dec 5th and Friday Dec 6th: 4pm-6pm or 7:30-9pm
Saturday Dec 7th: 11am-12:30 or 3pm-5pm or 7pm-9pm
Details: In addition to the below we can always use help monitoring lights and inflatables, giving breaks to vendors. checking garbage isn't getting too full and picking up any trash laying around.
Tasks to Choose from: Train Conductor - Must be safe over 16 and personable with guests. We do have a microphone we would like the train conductor
to use for announcing some displays or vendors as they drive past. A basic script and hat will be provided.
Train Attendees- We need 2-3 people to help open and close doors from all passengers on the train.


Tear Down: Sunday December 8th Anytime between 9am-5pm. We need about 50 people.
Details: Well, what goes up must come down! Pizza party to follow!
Needs: We can always use storage totes or tree bags! Any size!



About 39 North Downtown :39 North Downtown is a 501C3 community organization dedicated to revitalizing downtown Sparks by supporting special events, development projects, community engagement, the arts, volunteerism, and growth. The non-profit, all volunteer group supports existing businesses and new businesses to promote vitality and prosperity in the City of Sparks. For more information, please visit www.39NorthDowntown.com.


Cheers,

Available Shifts

Shift Name	Signup Max	Start	End
Set Up	100	n/a	n/a

Opportunity Details

Harvest and Holiday markets are outside the norm, and take place indoors at the American Legion. Additional volunteer help is used for the vendors in assisting. Also musician volunteers bring more customers to the market and make for a jolly experience.
Volunteers needed for set up / take down, shoveling, garbage. Assist vendors.
Musicians needed.

Available Shifts

Shift Name	Signup Max	Start	End
General-available hours	10	n/a	n/a
General	no limit	n/a	n/a

Opportunity Details

Join us in serving underserved communities by distributing Thanksgiving food baskets. We need volunteers to pack and distribute food.

Available Shifts

Shift Name	Signup Max	Start	End
General	6	n/a	n/a