Opportunity Details

The HopeWalk is HopeKids North Texas Arizona's largest peer-to-peer fundraising event of the year. HopeKids North Texas serves over 1,000 families who have a child with a life threatening medical condition, providing them hope and community support through an ongoing calendar of events and activities. HopeKids families will have worked hard to raise funds for HopeKids and we want to celebrate them and provide them this hope filled event to give them something to look forward to!

This year, due to COVID-19, our HopeWalk is going virtual!

For the drive-thru portion we will have fun stations with mascots, princesses, superheroes, volunteers, and more, cheering on the families as they drive-thru. All money raised will directly impact our HopeDay program and ensure that we continue to provide fun, family friendly events throughout the year.

The drive-thru portion of the walk, will take place at Cross Timbers Church in Argyle. We will provide HopeCrew shirts for all new volunteers. If you have volunteered with us in the past, please wear your yellow HopeCrew shirt and list N/A in the shirt size field. If your group has matching shirts and would prefer to wear that, please let me know! We look forward to seeing you on October 17th!

Please review the available slots below and click on the button to sign up. If you have any questions, please contact me at olga@hopekids.org. Thank you!

Available Shifts

Shift Name	Signup Max	Start	End
Decorate your car	20	n/a	n/a
Parade Route Assistant	20	n/a	n/a

Opportunity Details

The Forget Me Not Project is a weekly memory café that offers elders suffering with dementia or Alzheimer’s a place to socialise, take part in activities and receive a hot, nutritious meal. All the members are over 70, retired, and many live alone due to their circumstances e.g. lost families, friends or their families live far away. During the COVID-19 outbreak, many of them are facing a long period of time alone in isolation. The person that runs the group has been keeping in regular contact with the group and has been sending activity packs to keep their spirits up during lockdown.

The Forget Me Not Project would like volunteers to write letters to their members as a way to boost their energy. A simple letter or card is a great way to show that someone is thinking about them, even if you don’t know them.

ELBA will host a workshop over zoom for people to create their cards and letters. ELBA will provide some background to the Forget Me Not Project, guidelines and some inspiration for your letters. The members of the Forget Me Not Project often take part in arts and crafts activities so love to see other people’s creations. They really enjoy pictures of nature and animals so you could draw a scene and include it with your letter. Or, if you prefer to just write a letter, you could use the session as a chance to talk with other volunteers for inspiration of what to write about.

Workshop agenda:
10 mins: ELBA and Forget Me Not Project introduction
15 mins: Guidelines and inspiration for letter writing
25 mins: Time to write your letters
10 mins: Share letters, follow up details and session wrap up

Available Shifts

Shift Name	Signup Max	Start	End
General	20	n/a	n/a

Opportunity Details

Connect with older people facing a long period of time in isolation through a befriending call. Volunteers will hold a one-hour conversation together with another volunteer and two to three older people. This opportunity is a great way to make those in isolation feel more connected and a great way to meet new people. Volunteers can choose to simply have a chat or they can add more structure to the call by creating a quiz, taking part in storytelling or playing a game of would you rather.

Who will you be calling?
You will be calling with members of Bonny Downs Community Association which is a dynamic community-led charity that has been serving the residents of East Ham since 1998. Bonny Downs strives to make a real and lasting difference to the quality of life of local people by promoting community cohesion, tackling isolation, encouraging healthier lifestyles, and addressing the root causes of poverty. The older people that take part in the calls are in good spirits, chatty and very animated! They look forward to the calls each week and the different perspective that the volunteers bring.

How do I prepare?
All volunteers will receive a training pack that should be read before taking part in a call. The pack includes safeguarding information and how to handle difficult situations. An ELBA staff member will facilitate the calls so volunteers do NOT need to be DBS checked. As mentioned above, volunteers can plan an activity for their call or simply have a chat.

Available Shifts

Shift Name	Signup Max	Start	End
Monday	2	n/a	n/a
Tuesday	2	n/a	n/a
Wednesday	2	n/a	n/a
Wednesday (via Zoom)	2	n/a	n/a
Thursday	2	n/a	n/a
Friday	2	n/a	n/a
Friday	2	n/a	n/a

Opportunity Details

Home-y Made Meals is a Covid-19 first-responder project filling the food insecurity gaps for unhoused youth and adults living in Los Angeles. We empower housed volunteers based in Orange, Riverside, and Los Angeles Counties to cook from the safety of their home and/or pickup and deliver meals to community organizations who handle distribution. Home-y Made Meals is designed for citizens who want to combat social isolation and contribute their time & skills to help alleviate the symptoms of poverty and homelessness. Sign up via our website at www.homeymademeals.com, reach out to us at hmm@eayikes.org and on Instagram @homeymademeals.

Opportunity Details

Every kid deserves receive an education without the challenge of finding clothes, school supplies, or other items they need to succeed. Our Kidz Closet provides essential everyday items to children in need. United Way accepts in-kind donations of new or used clothing, school supplies, and hygiene products. These products are then distributed to children in need right here in our community. Volunteers would help sort clothes, take inventory and help pack backpacks or bags for families in need.

Available Shifts

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

Opportunity Details

United Way’s East Grand Forks Backpack Program fights to end childhood hunger by providing food in students’ backpacks to feed them for the weekend. Volunteering for the EGFBPP entails the packing of meals, dropping off bags, or taking inventory. Together, we are ensuring no child goes hungry over the weekend.

Available Shifts

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

Opportunity Details

This person supports the foundation efforts to raise funds through grants to support foundation efforts. Tasks include research, project management, document preparation, strategy development, and more. The incumbent need not be expert in any of these tasks. Many volunteers have no experience or specialized knowledge. We need strategic thinkers who are good at articulating thoughts and creative.

Volunteers can be any age and competency. We believe that together, we can do anything.

Opportunity Details

Ongoing Remote Opportunity
We will send you Assembly Kits that you can use at any clean table at the location of your choice. Each kit makes 20 faceshields and takes about an hour. All you need is a stapler and a pair of scissors. Most folks like to do it while watching TV, but it's up to you!

Go here to tell us how many kits you would like and where to send them:
www.sosforppe.org/make

You can save a life by donating 1 hour of your time from the safety and comfort of your home! We will send you everything you need in an Assembly Kit to make PPE with no special equipment needed! It's easy to do (ages 5 and up) and can make a huge difference!

While many hospitals are now able to get Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), other facilities and organizations are still in great need! From senior centers to students, there is a shortage of PPE to fight Covid-19. How would you feel being asked to go to work in an environment where not only could it compromise your health, but the health of all your family members? You can help the people we count on to help us.

At SOSforPPE.org, we supply PPE Assembly Kits for our network of volunteers to safely make or assemble PPE and then we get it to our frontline caregivers to help keep them safe. We send you the Assembly Kit with all the materials you need to make face shields, masks or eaRests to help firemen, ambulance drivers, nurses, doctors, seniors, students and neighbors.

There is a tremendous need for Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) for our caregivers and others, can they count on you to help?

(Tax Deductible Monetary Donations can be made on our website, SOSforPPE.org, or sent through your corporate portal to our parent non-profit, STEMsForYouth.org)
Tax ID: 46-3815141

Opportunity Details

Open to men and women, this first-class shoot is a fun and relaxing day outdoors with good food, shooting clays and exciting prizes! Participants will come together to raise funds to help make wishes come true for children battling life-threatening medical conditions.

Volunteers are vital to make this event possible. Opportunities include (but are not limited to):
Check-in
Raffle set-up / Check-out
Pavilion area set-up
Serving lunch

Volunteers are needed from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Available Shifts

Shift Name	Signup Max	Start	End
Shooting Stars Volunteer	15	n/a	n/a

Opportunity Details

A year has past since our team won the 2019 Hackathon and today is the last official day for the MirrorHR team 6-month residency with Microsoft Garage. We are grateful to Microsoft for this opportunity to positively impact the lives of children with Epilepsy. The MirrorHR project could not have been without the unconditional support from families. It continues to be touching, moving, and inspiring to learn from mothers, fathers, caregivers, doctors, and adults with Epilepsy. The MirrorHR project was also featured by Forbes this month.

We are absolutely thrilled to now have an MVP (minimum viable product) designed with and for parents, and we look forward to continuing work to innovate and help kids with Epilepsy.
Our current MVP solution includes 1) improved video diary; 2) nighttime monitoring features; and 3) connection with +100 families across 22 countries. Going forward, our Hack for Good partner, Fight the Stroke Foundation, will take the lead and continue the research and development of MirrorHR. We have a long journey ahead and we are encouraged by the support from a growing network of medical advisors and partners.

To continue this important work, Fight the Stroke Foundation needs to raise $1M (1 Million) USD (US dollars) for the next year. This investment will be used for a medical trial, to scale the solution, and make it sustainable within the digital therapeutics market. Please consider supporting this work with a donation to Fight The Stroke Foundation, in theMicrosoft GIVE portal. We also need your help to spread the word and share this with other Microsoft colleagues in your network – your help is much appreciated.

If you would like to get involved with this work or learn more as it continues to evolve, please reach out to the MirrorHR team directly (roberdan@microsoft.com). We hope this project will inspire more people to pursue their passion and make a positive impact in the world.