Volunteer opportunities available to anyone interested in gaining skills, confidence, and making a difference. Volunteers needed such as: - Learning Buddies: Create a connection with students in local elementary schools with a variety of school topics 1-2 hours per week - Outdoor Chores: Support an elderly neighbor in the community by helping take care of their yard - Pen Pals: Befriend an elementary student through writing monthly letters and help the student with their writing - Respite Visitor: Spend time providing company and ensuring the loved one is safe and comfortable

In Home Care Service is a licensed service that provides an individualized assistance plan to help maintain and support healthy independent aging in the home and community. Aging individuals receive assistance in their home from a trained staff with a daily personal plan which can include household maintenance (laundry/cleaning), personal cares, and/or home management (phone calls, organizing, reading mail, arranging appointments), and socialization.

Financial Donations: Family scholarships for people to attend disabilities or autism camps or military family camps. Cost for an average family is from $600-1200 per camp/retreat. In-kind Donations: - Golf carts - Horses - Plow truck - Recreation equipment Volunteering: - Cleaning - Cooking - Equine volunteers - Maintenance - Mowing/landscaping - Program volunteers Volunteer page: https://www.ironwoodsprings.com/volunteer

- Ambassador: Greeting visitors at History Center events; representing the History Center at county fair and other events; ticket takers - Archives and Library: Inventory; patron assistance; record gathering and computer entry; scanning and digitizing - Collections: Artifact rehousing and cleaning; inventorying and cataloging - Concessions: Handling money and food at Roosters baseball home games - Exhibits: Construction and fabrication; proofreading; research - Indoor Work: Assistance with mailings; data entry; front desk assistant; gallery and archive light cleaning; gift shop assistant - Outdoor Work: Lawn mowing; seasonal clean up; snow plowing; tilling - Storytelling: Mayowood docent and tour assistant; museum gallery docent; Stoppel Farm docent; trolley tour docent

Adopt-a-block volunteer program: Raking, shoveling, and home repairs. Mentor program: Connects mentors in the community to work with residents to coach, counsel, teach, or model successful behaviors. Mentors are asked to commit to 1 year, 8 hours per week. Never Again, ex-offender services: Part of the housing with services program, these services focus on supporting long-term change. Includes career assistance. Spiritual fishing trips/retreats: Takes residents on fishing adventures that double as spiritual retreats. Veteran Outreach: Shelter or transitional housing, support groups for things like alcohol and drug use, medical appointment transportation.

Provides the following supportive services: - Adopt-a-Grandparent - Assisted Transportation - age 60 and older - Chore services - Eldercare - Family Caregiver - Friendly visits and phone calls - Furniture for Families - Grocery shopping - Home accessibility accessories installed - grab bars - Household goods - Lawn mowing, leaf raking, snow shoveling - Light housekeeping - Living with Memory Loss (for those who are living with memory loss) - Medical appointments - Medical equipment - Minor home repairs - Necessary errands - Parkinson's - Seasonal yard work - Support for seniors to remain living at home as long as possible - Volunteer opportunities - Youth mission work

Chore Services - Chore Day: One-time outside yard work with group - Home Modification: Basic home maintenance tasks - In-home chores/homemaker services - Mowing/shoveling Companionship - Caregiver support - Friendly phone call - Friendly visit/respite in-home visiting Education Juniper Class Instructor: Teach evidence-based classes, requires certified training Transportation - Driver - Duluth: Bring someone to a medical appointment or other meetings - Driver - Two Harbors: Bring someone to a medical appointment or other meetings - Grocery delivery - Meals on Wheels delivery

Provides plots, spring tilling, and various forms of gardening education and assistance, with 20 community gardens located throughout the city; educational 'vegetable of the year' program provides recipes and information. Offers: - Apple press rental - Garden tool library - Gardening book library - Plant and seed sales - Seed library (may be able to take seed donations) - Teaching kits - Workshops Volunteering opportunities available.

- Ambassador: Greeting visitors at History Center events; representing the History Center at county fair and other events; ticket takers - Archives and Library: Inventory; patron assistance; record gathering and computer entry; scanning and digitizing - Collections: Artifact rehousing and cleaning; inventorying and cataloging - Concessions: Handling money and food at Roosters baseball home games - Exhibits: Construction and fabrication; proofreading; research - Indoor Work: Assistance with mailings; data entry; front desk assistant; gallery and archive light cleaning; gift shop assistant - Outdoor Work: Lawn mowing; seasonal clean up; snow plowing; tilling - Storytelling: Mayowood docent and tour assistant; museum gallery docent; Stoppel Farm docent; trolley tour docent

- 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.

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

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

Transforms vacant land into gardens and makes locally-grown produce available to the entire community - Employs seasonal workers who are not employed or underemployed - Income-qualified volunteers will earn a share of the harvest, as well as recipes and ideas for how to preserve and prepare the food they've helped to grow

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.

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.