Volunteer Opportunities

Interviewers

Each client is interviewed for current information and what their needs are. Simple computer skills, friendliness, and customer service is required to do this job. Training provided.

Interview

Referral Office

We receive many calls for donations of furniture, general questions about service times and days, how one can donate items, and specific requests for assistance in  many ways we cannot provide. The Referral Office Volunteer offers community resource information, answers the telephone, and assists clients with job, furniture, housing connections, etc.

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Clothing Department

Clients are able to “shop” at our “Inter-Mart” for clothing. Men’s, Women’s, Children’s, Infant’s are available. All clothing is sorted, sized and placed on hangars for clients to choose. Volunteers directly assist each client seeking clothing.

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Food Pantry

Clients may receive groceries on a once per month basis. Clients complete an order sheet/menu and the pantry volunteers fill the grocery orders, and they may assist clients to the cars with their groceries. Volunteers maintain a clean and safe work area, stack shelves, prepare bags, rotate stock and fill freezers and refrigerators.

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Household Department

Donations of small household appliances such as toasters, coffee pots, linens, bedding, toiletries, and much more are received daily. Clients may ask for items, complete an order sheet with the Interviewers and turn it into the Household Department for assistance. A Household volunteer assists the client directly, filling the need as best as possible.

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Wood Program

Beginning each August, Interfaith invites clients who use wood for heating to sign up to receive a half cord of wood each winter. Clients must fit specific eligibility requirements, sign up in person, be assessed for their need, and pick up their wood by appointment in October. Assistance in the paperwork, taking messages, providing a wood splitting and stacking workday, helping with the loading of the wood, etc., are some of the chores a volunteer could assist with.

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