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The volunteer role helps assist new home buyers as they prepare to purchase their own home. This program helps ensure the success of first-time homebuyers, equipping them with the knowledge and tools to succeed.

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Thank you for your interest in volunteering for an Odd Job Work Party at the Sacramento Ronald McDonald House! It is extremely important to us at RMHCNC that our guests feel comfortable here while enduring such a stressful time in their lives. We have community areas that we insist on keeping clean and tidy for them to give it a "home-away-from-home" feel. Volunteering your time here ensures that they will get just that, a safe, up kept and comfortable place they can call home for their time with us. Here are some important things you should keep in mind when volunteering for an Odd Job Work Party...

Maintenance Duties Include (But not limited to):

Dining Rooms
Kitchens
Playrooms
Laundry Rooms
Patios
Outdoor Work
Setting up for any upcoming event
Attire: Volunteers will be doing physical work so please wear comfortable clothing that you don’t mind getting a little dirty and please wear closed toed shoes.

Minors: We ask that any minor volunteering is at least 14 years old, please have a parent or legal guardian sign the waiver. You will be unable to volunteer without this completed form, please ask Coordinator of Volunteer Services for form prior to event.

Covid-19 Precautions: ALL VOLUNTEERS MUST BE VACCINATED AND WEAR A MASK TO PARTICIPATE ON-SITE. Please bring a copy (paper or photo) of your vaccination card with you the day of the event.

We require a minimum of 4 and maximum of 20 people for this event.

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Volunteer groups will assist with tending, planting, watering, etc., our one-acre community raised-bed garden, and help us clean up the neighborhood surrounding Guest House. This is a great opportunity to learn more about Guest House and make a positive impact on our community.

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Pennsylvania Equality Project serves the most marginalized people within the LGBTQ+ community, particularly youth and elders who are at risk for homelessness. Whether through domestic violence, parental abuse, sex or human trafficking, or any other reason, when an LGBTQ+ youth is forced out of home, they frequently have nowhere to turn. According to statistics from the Human Rights Campaign, LGBTQ+ youth account for 40% of all homeless people under the age of 18. Frequently these same youth become addicted to drugs and turn to a life of prostitution for survival.

Northwest Pennsylvania lacks any resources that provide shelter, food, hygiene items, and other essentials for homeless youth. Our organization wants to open a combination community resource center and drop-in safe space shelter at which people of all ages from the LGBTQ+ community can gather and speak openly without judgment or retribution. This space would provide counselors who will listen to what our clients are telling us. We would provide them food, clothing, temporary shelter, a point of contact for educational and public assistance benefits. Most importantly, we help them begin the healing process that accompanies the trauma of sudden homelessness.

To make this center a reality, Pennsylvania Equality Project needs people to complete grant applications for funding from federal and state government resources and from corporate and private foundations. These volunteers will also be responsible for researching various microgrant opportunities to provide day to day funding and to offer stipends for our summer internship programs.

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Homelessness prevention simulation, volunteer from home, CrowdDoing

CrowdDoing is recruiting volunteers to help us simulate homelessness prevention.

Homelessness Prevention Simulation:

Thesis: Home buyers today buy 100% of a home, and borrow money through a mortgage to be able to afford to do so. But this purchase masks the fact that they are buying two things at the same time- 100% of the future sale price of a home (so-called appreciation value), and 100% of the usage rights of that home while they are living there (so-called use value). If people could buy only the percentage of appreciation value that they can afford, and still secure stable access to a home, half of homelessness in dense, coastal urban regions such as the Bay Area, New York, Seattle could be prevented. Stanford University has piloted such a model for decades by allowing professors to buy 100% of the use value of their off-campus home and 50% of the appreciation value of their home. This program has allowed individual professors to have asset diversification, access to housing, and an affordable share of the growth in the appreciating market value of their home. Through this program, Stanford University has created access to housing for professors without grant dollars or housing tax credits in a difficult housing market. Stanford’s endowment has earned returns on this investment comparable to the rest of Stanford endowment investments. The extension of this kind of alternative financing-- investing in a portion of appreciation value per home-- could make possible zero-subsidy affordable housing for preventing homelessness and reducing super-commuting.

In the Bay Area, jobs and housing creation are unbalanced. For the housing demand to be met, an added minimum of 275,000 homes are needed, available at price levels that neither impoverish nor displace working families. Until those homes are built, what solution might bring families with moderate incomes access to existing housing stock? The solution is to provide one part of our housing need solution by using a financial investment model based on the future appreciation of homes.

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If you have any questions about processes for joining CrowdDoing.world as a volunteer to support our efforts in systemic change please write to volunteerorientation@crowddoing.world

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Help organize and stock the pantry, prepare client orders, and distribute products to clients on-site! We utilize volunteers Mondays from 1 to 4 PM, Tuesdays from 9 AM to 6:30 PM, and Wednesdays from 9 AM to 1 PM. Other volunteer opportunities can be coordinated in advance for outside of our normal hours.

Individuals can use our online volunteer portal to complete an application on our website (https://soscs.org/volunteer/) to get started.

For group opportunities, please contact our volunteer coordinator at volunteer@soscs.org or (734) 484-9900.

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Pathfinders provides assistance to help find, secure, and sustain safe housing for our young people experiencing homelessness or are at-risk homelessness, low income, special needs, and LGBTQ+ youth. We do our work with a housing first approach, believing that housing is an essential tool for success and not a reward for program compliance.

And although moving in to an apartment is an exciting step for our young people, without everyday cleaning supplies, the barrier of living in a healthy environment will still be a barrier. We are asking community members to donate the following cleaning supplies so that our youth can have safe, clean, and healthy homes.

Please email our Volunteer & Community Engagement Manager at dlee@pathfindersmke.org to coordinate a drop-off date and time.

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The purpose of this event is to raise awareness of the ongoing need to support the hungry and homeless during the summer months. This special “Christmas-themed” event focuses on bringing support and celebration to the 100+ children who live at the Orange County Rescue Mission’s Village of Hope in Tustin. We invite you to join us!

Available Shifts

Shift Name	Signup Max	Start	End
Host a Booth/ Activities	5	n/a	n/a

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Mentorship is the influence, guidance, or direction given by a mentor. Mentor is someone who teaches or gives help and advice to a less experienced and often younger person. In an organizational setting, a mentor influences the personal and professional growth of a mentee.

Available Shifts

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

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Interviewing individuals to bring onto the Northern Virginia Veterans Association's Board of Directors or Advisory Council. Please review our mission at NOVAVETS.Org and provide resume and letter of intent if interested in being part of our team. Our intent with the BoD is to continue building this nonprofit through strategic planning and philanthropic fundraising. Our mission needs increase as the aging veteran population increases and we will rise to meet these needs. Our veterans have earned and deserve our support.

Available Shifts

Shift Name	Signup Max	Start	End
Key Board or Advisory Council Member	2	n/a	n/a