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CHUM welcomes volunteers to help with:

• Event planning and support (various events year-round)
• Food shelves (drivers; unloading, sorting, and stocking shelves)
• Gardening (various locations)
• Moving (furniture donation pickup)
• Office Support (data entry and mailing)
• Property and equipment (cleaning, painting, etc.)
• Second Saturdays - monthly opportunities (ongoing or one-time) to volunteer with others; projects vary
• Serving meals at various sites

Minor & Critical Home Repair

• Home Preservation is an exterior home preservation program that provides painting, landscaping, and minor repair services for homeowners in need

• Home Preservation helps low-income homeowners, impacted by age, disability, and family circumstances, who struggle to maintain the exterior of their homes

• We use volunteers, sweat equity, and no interest loans to make repairs affordable, helping low-income homeowners continue to live independently and securely in their homes

• Home Preservation is a supplement to our core building program. It enables us to serve more families and increase volunteer opportunities.

Exterior repairs done on homeowner-occupied dwellings including ramps or accessibility modifications, painting, landscaping, siding, railings, porch, deck, stair repair, and gutter maintenance. Applicants are matched with a local volunteer service group to complete projects.

• Housing based on need with little or no interest and at no profit

• Partners with family to build or renovate simple, decent, affordable housing

• Before moving in the family contributes labor and funds for taxes and insurance

• Family support during partnering year

• Donations accepted for funds and building equipment

• Volunteer opportunities including flooring, handywork, masonry, painting, roofing, and lawn care

• Not a short-term solution

Minor & Critical Home Repair

• A Brush with Kindness(ABWK)is an exterior home preservation program that provides painting, landscaping, weather stripping, and minor repair services for homeowners in need

• ABWK helps low-income homeowners, impacted by age, disability, and family circumstances, who struggle to maintain the exterior of their homes

• We use volunteers, sweat equity, and no interest loans to make repairs affordable, helping low-income homeowners continue to live independently and securely in their homes

• ABWK is a supplement to our core building program. It enables us to serve more families and increase volunteer opportunities

• We partner with Aitkin county veteran service office, the D.A.V and Veteran clubs.

CHUM welcomes volunteers to help with:

• Event planning and support (various events year-round)
• Food shelves (drivers; unloading, sorting, and stocking shelves)
• Gardening (various locations)
• Moving (furniture donation pickup)
• Office Support (data entry and mailing)
• Property and equipment (cleaning, painting, etc.)
• Second Saturdays - monthly opportunities (ongoing or one-time) to volunteer with others; projects vary
• Serving meals at various sites

Volunteers assist with various services, including Neighbors Helping Neighbors, Meals on Wheels, Senior Café, Home Safety Visits, Family Access Center, fundraising and visibility events, and Board of Directors opportunities.

• Assurance/friendly visit calls

• Caregiver Respite Volunteer

• Child care

• Companionship visits

• Event planning/fundraising

• Food box assembly

• Food box/Meals on Wheels delivery driver

• Food distribution

• Food donation pick up

• Grocery shopping

• Handy worker

• Home safety check

• Household helper (housekeeping)

• Interpreter

• Laundry helper

• Lawn mowing/yard work

• Packing/moving

• Painting

• Paratransit driver/transportation

• Snow removal

• Student tutor

• Technology assistance

Matches older adults and adults with disabilities to volunteers to assist with tasks allowing people to remain safely and independently in their own homes.

• Gutter cleaning or window washing (first floor only)

• Handyman tasks (not requiring a professional, includes painting)

• Lawn care (gardening, lawn mowing, spring clean-up, weeding)

• Light house cleaning (basic tasks such as bathrooms, dusting, floors, kitchens, and vacuuming)

• Moving furniture within the home

• Snow removal (shoveling/snow blowing driveway and shoveling sidewalk) provided on a one-time or short-term basis. A limited amount of volunteers provide this, so it may not always be available

• Only available to those living in the Stillwater Area School District #834

Services are part of Community Thread's THRIVE program.