As we continue reflecting on 40 years of Love Your Neighbor, we recognized that it’s National Volunteer Month! If we told you there were 40 different ways to volunteer through Love, would you believe us?
Okay, so in case you don’t, here they are:
- Sort donations
- Provide a meal
- Be a Peer Support
- Pick up donations
- Teach a class
- Fix appliances
- Repair bikes
- Wash medical equipment
- Post items to Ebay
- Merchandise items in the store
- Sort & Restock books
- Build furniture
- Watch kids at Life Skills
- Drive people to medical appointments
- Paint furniture
- Deliver donations
- Price and display items
- Groundskeeping
- Fix things when they break
- Assemble food orders in the pantry
- Cut or stack firewood
- Sort DVD’s and Videos
- Test Kitchen appliances
- Clean and repair lamps
- Design floral arrangements
- Sort and price Christmas donations
- Assemble Christmas trees
- Wrap Christmas gifts
- Organize backpacks and school supplies
- Snow removal
- Assemble summer camp bags for kids
- Answer the phones
- Cashier in our resale stores
- Fix computer equipment
- Fix small engines
- Landscaping
- Volunteer at an annual event
- Hand out vouchers at Life Skills
- Gardening
- Recycle metal