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Volunteer opportunities are available for individuals looking to support the mission and vision of Winona Volunteer Services. Opportunities are available in the food shelf, loading dock, clothes shop, reception desk, and home delivered meals.

Provides help and support with:

• Creating memories and keepsakes for the child

• Educational speakers

• Funeral options and guidance (Common Burial at Maple Lawn Cemetery): For infants who pass away before 20 weeks' gestation at District One Hospital in Faribault and whose parent(s) choose this option. Graveside services are held twice per year.

• Labor and delivery support

• Lending library

• One-on-one support (in person or by phone)

• Support group meetings

• Volunteer opportunities for those who wish to support grieving families

• Funding for critical needs, hospice services, equipment, and facility updates

• Health Care Education Scholarships for Hutchinson Hospital and Clinic employees and community members enrolled in health care related education

?- Special Projects funding

• Volunteer opportunities for fund raising projects including fundraising events and pledge drives and serving on Board of Directors

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• Activity hosts

• Art instructors

• Fitness instructors

• Greeters

• Team members

• Technology learning center instructors

Provides scholarship monies to support community scholarship programs by:

• Coordinates and awards community scholarships through a single application process

• Engages volunteers for fundraising and events

• Participates in Scholarship America's collegiate partner program to support students' postsecondary success

• Raises scholarship funds

Accepts donated adult and children's clothing and household items including kitchenware, linens, books, and CDs, which are available for sale to the community. Provides merchandise at thrift store prices. Assistance with the cost of purchases is available through case management staff. Volunteer opportunities are also available.

Connects individuals who want to volunteer with non-profit organizations that need volunteers.

• Background checks (if necessary)

• Recognition of volunteers

• Recordkeeping of organizations' needs and volunteer talents

• Recruitment of mentors

• Recruitment of volunteers

Offers affordable goods, including clothing and other essentials, to neighbors in the community. Accepts donations and has volunteer opportunities.

Volunteer opportunities including:

• Administrative/communication: Board of Directors, communications, data entry, event planning, and graphic design

• Client work: Advocacy assistant, childcare volunteer, language interpretation, and support group facilitator

• Community outreach/Public speaking

• Maintenance/cleaning/organizing: Cleaning projects, donation assistant, handi-person, landscaping, and meal preparation, serving and cleaning

Provides support through education, empowerment, protection, and advocacy services. Services include:

• 24-hour crisis support line

• Advocates that includes a Spanish speaking advocate

• Educational presentations

• Legal options and advocacy

• Limited emergency safe housing

• Restraining Order assistance

• Safety planning

• Support Group: Offers a Spanish speaking support group

• Systems coordination and referrals to resources

• Transportation

• Volunteer opportunities for those interested in providing transportation, community outreach, staffing information booths, fundraising, quarterly newsletter, and serving on the Board of Directors

• Education department with classes for children, families, and adults such as outreach programs, evening classes, computer classes, and field trips throughout the world

• Guided tour program for parties of 15 or more

• Hands-on exhibits and galleries

• Museum exhibits in paleontology, biology, technology, geography, physics, anthropology, and the environment; traveling exhibits every 4 months

• Performances augmenting science exhibits

• Self touring with special help for persons with disabilities

• Special group arrangements for visits, meetings, and conventions with use of space provided where possible

• Volunteer opportunities as exhibit interpreters and demonstrators (full training program), clerical, etc.

• William L. McKnight 3M Convertible IMAX Dome Omnitheater with films shown on a 90-foot screen from floor to overhead and on all sides of the audience

Provides two thrift store locations open to anyone in need. The thrift stores have items for sale including:

• Antiques

• Baby items

• Books

• Clothing of all sizes

• Furniture

• Household items

Other services:

• Accepts donated items during business hours. Accepts new and gently used clothing, books, household or baby items, and furniture year-round.

• Volunteer opportunities for short-term and long-term positions

Volunteer opportunities that support A Place For You include:

• MealTrain meal preparation volunteer

• Recreational/social activities participation

• Shelter advisory board

• Staff support volunteer

• Volunteer driver

• Assist in health care departments
• Chaplaincy
• Gift shop
• Office support
• Pet therapy
• Piano playing
• Wayfinding (navigating assistance)

Volunteers are needed in many areas. Shelter volunteer positions:

• Cleaning
• Child tutoring
• On-call advocacy
• Food delivery
• Food service
• Childcare

Resource center volunteer positions:

• Childcare
• Cleaning
• Educational empowerment tutor

General opportunities:

• Administration
• Fundraising

Professional volunteers:

• Hair stylists
• Massage therapists
• Helping professions

Thrift store with a full range of inventory including:

• Low-cost, donated seasonally appropriate clothing for women, men, and children

• Household goods, appliances, kitchenware, and furniture

• Items such as cribs and changing tables are sometimes available

• Books, toys, games, and jewelry

• Sports equipment, bikes, and other usable items

• Computers and computer monitors

• Volunteer opportunities

Does not accept tires, TVs, or any item that has been exposed to mold, mildew or cigarette smoke. For a complete list of donations accepted, visit website.

Volunteers to provide hands-on animal care such as grooming, exercising, and socializing the animals while they wait for their new homes, in addition volunteers assist with kennel cleaning, general housekeeping, and customer service. Other volunteer opportunities include off-site adoption events, photography and data entry for the organization's website, yard work, building maintenance, fundraising events, grooming, humane education and pet visits at schools and daycares, senior care pet therapy visits, veterinary medicine, and dog walking. For Pets' Sake Thrift volunteers help run the gently used pet supply store that is open three days a week. Animal Transporters must be 16 years of age or older. Volunteers are generally put on a call list and are contacted when transportation needs arise. Common transport needs include bringing shelter pets to and from local veterinary clinics. Foster care homes ?- Volunteer homes are needed to foster dogs and cats. Most situations involve pregnant and nursing animals, but sometimes it is for an animal recovering from an upper respiratory infection (similar to a cold) or an injury.

• If you are interested call the shelter and ask for the foster care coordinator or applications are on the website.

• Looking for people to be put on a list for situations where someone is being called to active military duty and can't find anyone to take care of their pet while they are gone.

• Looking for homes to foster animals in disaster situations when people are without a place to stay such as if their house burns or they are evacuated for other reasons.

Disaster services: Prepare and serve cold and hot meals and beverages to victims and workers at area disasters. Counsel and console victims; help with some disaster clean-up projects. Soup kitchen: Set tables, do simple food preparation, clean as needed, serve food, accompany driver on food donation pickups, and sort food donations. Thrift store: Help hang and shelf merchandise. Clean, bag merchandise, and assist desk clerk as needed. Thanksgiving dinner: Help prepare and serve dinner on Thanksgiving Day at the Corps building Christmas program: Help with the Toy Shop at Christmas

• Bring donations to donation door D, located on the southeast side of the building, closest to Tenvoorde Ford. Do not leave donations outside the doors. Donations must be collected and weighed by Catholic Charities staff to ensure food safety standards and inventory tracking.

• Receipts are available.

• Accepts the following new or gently used items for donations for Basic Everyday Essentials:

• Accessories: scarves, hats, mittens, backpacks, small luggage
• Baby items: clothing, blankets, crib sheets, bottles, bibs, baby food, and formula
• Kitchen items: pots, pans, utensils, dishes, glassware, silverware, and cookware
• Men, women, and children's clothing; greatest need for adults who are tall and larger sizes
• Shoes
• Small kitchen appliances: toasters, blenders, mixers, coffee makers
• Towels, washcloths, sheets, blankets, bed pillows

• Accepts the following items for donations for the Food Shelf:

• Feminine hygiene products
• Fresh produce (including home-grown)
• Laundry detergent
• Non-perishable food items
• Personal care items: deodorant, shaving lotion and razors, shampoo/conditioner, soap, and toothpaste

Volunteer positions:

• Emergency Services Food Shelf

• Emergency Services Basic Everyday Essentials

• Individual, group, and student opportunities and court-ordered community service

• Senior dining/Meals on Wheels: deliver meals, prepare food, set up dining sites for meals, serve meals, clean up after meals and clerical tasks

• Student interns

Links professionals, families, and adults with disabilities to Community Education, and provides individualized services to enable adults with disabilities to participate in regular or mainstream community education programs. Class offerings include arts and crafts, board game nights, cooking lessons, exercise classes, fraud and scam prevention courses, music lessons, sports and recreation, volunteer opportunities at The Arc Village store in Bloomington, and more.

Trained advocates providing information and resources to people over the age of 60. The goal is to assist residents in finding resources to stay in the home and find possible options for alternative living situations. Helps with services such as:

• Assist with plans for recreational activities

• Caregiver education and support

• Caregiver relief

• Community education

• Consumer protection

• Deliver home meals and work with nutrition sites

• Forms assistance

• Health care directives

• Home visits

• Medicare Part D enrollment

• Nutrition Assistance Program for seniors (NAP)

• Partners with Senior Linkage Line and Area Agency on Aging

• Scams/fraud

• Senior legal rights

• Transportation resources

• Volunteer recruitment and training

Cars for Homes: Habitat for Humanity accepts vehicle donations (including recreational vehicles) to help fund housing projects Volunteers: Anyone with desire to help, committed, dependable, willing to learn new things -all skill levels welcome

• Assist Hospice patients and families

• Assist in the health care departments

• Greet and escort patients and visitors

• Help coordinate fundraising events and projects

• Help with administrative work

• Provide pet therapy

• Stock supplies

• Volunteer in a gift shop

Provides two thrift store locations open to anyone in need. The thrift stores have items for sale including:

• Antiques

• Baby items

• Books

• Clothing of all sizes

• Furniture

• Household items

Other services:

• Accepts donated items during business hours. Accepts new and gently used clothing, books, household or baby items, and furniture year-round.

• Volunteer opportunities for short-term and long-term positions

Provides baby clothing, limited supplies of maternity clothing, children and adult clothing, baby equipment, furniture, household goods, and crafts supplies. The store is run by volunteers and proceeds fund Grace Place programs. The store accepts gently used clothing, household items and furniture (please note that furniture is accepted by appointment only).