Volunteer

Become a community volunteer.

Explore a variety of meaningful volunteer opportunities at Love Your Neighbor—from helping in the Resale Shop and warehouse to offering transportation, household repairs, meals, and more.

Here are some of the areas you can serve as a community volunteer at Love:

  • Sort clothes or price items in our Resale Shop.
  • Drive individuals to medical appointments.
  • Answer phones in the connection center.
  • Provide yard work.
  • Repair plumbing or electrical issues for households.
  • Restore or repair donated furniture to sell in our Resale Shop.
  • Be a peer support.
  • Donate meals.
  • Sort incoming donations in our warehouse.
  • And more!

Volunteer Opportunities

At Love Your Neighbor, we believe that every person has something to offer! Check out our lists of positions where we can always use your help. Have a skill or passion that’s not listed below? Get in touch with us and see how we can use your gifts and talents!

Life Skills Teacher

  • Facilitate a 4 to 12 week class at a local church on a variety of topics for a class size of 5-10 participants. Training is provided.

Life Skills Program Support

  • Provide childcare for clients children while they attend program.
  • Prep and/or serve meals for clients and volunteers.

Life Skills Peer Support

  • Partner with a community member in Life Skills for 1 hour a week for 6-18 months.

Office Administration

  • Phone coverage, mailing support, and data entry.

Transportation Driver

  • Accept requests for transports from Love Your Neighbor scheduling team.
  • Take community members to or from appointments.

Call Center

  • Data entry and phone coverage.

Medical Equipment

  • Be available in our resale store for community members who come in to borrow free medical equipment.
  • Assist with brief paperwork and medical equipment sizing.

Community Events

  • Participate in setup/breakdown of events.
  • Engage with community in expo booths.

Cashier

  • Manage cash register, bag items.

Customer Service

  • Float the stores and assist customers.

Antiques/eBay

  • Assessing donations for possible antiques.
  • Listing items for sale on eBay and preparing for shipping.

Clocks & Kitchen Appliances

  • Test and/or clean incoming donations.

Shoes

  • Prep incoming shoe donations and display on sales floor.

Clothing

  • Price, hang clothing and recover store dressing rooms.

Jewelry

  • Assist with, price and display jewelry items.

Prep

  • Price and display all other resale items.

Floral Arranging

  • Create floral arrangements.

Test & Repair

  • Test proper operation of incoming donated appliances.
  • Assist with repairing and cleaning of items.

Sorting

  • Greet and assist donors dropping off donations.
  • Sort donations.

Books

  • Sorting and pricing incoming books.
  • Restocking books in the stores.

Blankets & Bedding

  • Sort incoming blankets and bedding.

Electronics Testing

  • Testing electronic sound systems, toys, etc. before being resold.

Bikes

  • Clean & repair donated bikes,
  • Transport bikes to and from offsite warehouse.

Medical Equipment

  • Clean incoming used medical equipment.

Food Pantry

  • Sorting incoming food in food pantry.
  • Packing weekly food pantry orders.

Love Restored

  • Carpenter help for repurposing donated furniture.
  • Painting and calligraphy help to take projects from start to finish.

Computers

  • Clean and/or repair donated technology.

Pickup & Delivery

  • Team of 2-3 volunteers who pick up donations from community members’ homes. (Homes are not entered).
  • Always looking for volunteers who are willing to use their truck with the Love Your Neighbor trailers.
  • Transporting medical equipment.

Outback Warehouse

  • Assist donors dropping off large donations.
  • Price and/or transport donations from the warehouse to the store.

Recycling

  • Knowledgeable of metals, disassembling non-operating items that can be recycled.
  • Transporting trailer of metal to Holland for recycling.

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