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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

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

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

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.

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 volunteersVolunteer page: https://www.ironwoodsprings.com/volunteer

Volunteer commitments are individualized. Volunteering opportunities include:- Chore/Housekeeping- Errands/Shopping- Friendly Visit- Handyman/Yardwork- Respite- Transportation

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

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 #834Services are part of Community Thread's THRIVE program.

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.

Provides the following supportive services:- Adopt-a-Grandparent- Assisted Transportation - age 60 and older- Caregiver support- 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/shovelingCompanionship- Caregiver support- Friendly phone call- Friendly visit/respite in-home visitingEducationJuniper Class Instructor: Teach evidence-based classes, requires certified trainingTransportation- 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