UW COMBINED FUND DRIVE 2011

VOLUNTEER

Looking for volunteer opportunities? Use our new volunteer tool below to find volunteer opportunities that fit your interests and location. More opportunities are listed below.

Shoe Drop-Off Locations for Redeeming Soles

If you have new or used shoes to donate, Redeeming Soles has drop off locations in the area including Road Runner Sports in Green Lake, The Sock Monster in Wallingford, and John Stanford International School. See a listing of all the locations.

Northwest Harvest

Looking for a great summertime volunteer opportunity? As a Northwest Harvest volunteer, you'll keep nutritious food flowing to neighbors in need statewide. Volunteers sort and pack food at the Kent warehouse; serve clients at Cherry Street Food Bank in Seattle; or assist staff at special events. Help is also needed at the local cannery in Kent where three overlapping shifts work from 9 a.m. to 4:30 pm each Thursday and Friday through July.

Volunteer opportunities are available for large groups, small groups, individuals, and families including children in third grade or older (16 or older at the cannery.)

Visit www.northwestharvest.org/Volunteer.htm for more information and to sign up.

YMCA

People just like you are helping make our community a better place through the YMCA. By giving your time, you join seven generations of visionary citizens who have helped the YMCA to address our community's evolving needs.

With a variety of programs and locations, both one-time and ongoing opportunities, there is something for every volunteer interest at the Y. Read more at the YMCA of Greater Seattle website.

Treehouse

Volunteers power Treehouse, collectively donating an average of 1,100 hours per month – that's the equivalent of almost seven extra full-time staff members. Volunteers strengthen every Treehouse program, working as tutors, event staff, Wearhouse organizers, envelope stuffers, members of the Board of Directors and much more. Visit Treehouse's website for more information.

Ronald McDonald Home

Volunteers play a huge role in supporting our daily operations. As the second largest Ronald McDonald House in the world, we rely on volunteers to help us provide a warm and welcoming home-away-from-home for families. Each month, over 500 volunteers contribute their time to keeping the House open every day of the year. For more information, visit Ronald McDonald Home.

Sanctuary Arts Center

The best way to help is to volunteer! The vision, patience and focus required to complete a work of art are the same skills needed to move from one stage of life to another. We hope to provide an opportunity for homeless youth to experience the healing power of their creative energy. We seek volunteers who would like to be a part of this process. Visit Sanctuary Arts Center.

University District Food Bank

Volunteers make all that we do at the University District Food Bank possible! Every month, our volunteers donate over 1200 hours of their time.

Volunteers assist with customer check-in, bag up groceries after customers go shopping, restock shelves, help unload trucks, repackage bulk items, sort through donations, pick-up food from area stores and serve on our Board of Directors.

Volunteer opportunities are available most weekdays we are open to distribute food, including Tuesday and Thursday evenings, and occasionally on weekends. Visit the Univeristy District Food Bank's website for volunteer information.

Hope for Horses

Volunteering is not for everyone especially when it comes to working with or around horses. It's hard work. It takes patience. It takes consistency. But the rewards are so much greater than the costs. And at Hope For Horses, we need you more every day.

Last year's volunteers contributed nearly 1,500 hours of time to Hope For Horses. That is more than four hours per day, 365 days per year. Our volunteers are involved in every single aspect of what we do. Every day, they muck stalls, groom horses, mend things, pick up and deliver things, respond to reports of neglect, support fosters, make phone calls, fundraise, and do those million and one tasks that keep things running. Visit www.hopeforhorses.net for more information on volunteering.