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Volunteer Connection Members Current Volunteer Opportunities (by Member Organization)
Astor House Museum
Tour Guide: Dress in our historic costumes and lead a small group of 3rd or 4th grade students around the Astor House or Clear Creek History Park while sharing interesting stories about frontier life. There are also themed tours, such as gold mining, honey bees and butter churning.
Ticket Booth Greeter: Welcome visitors to the Clear Creek History Park, collect admission fees, and give them a visitor guide. Make accurate change. Smile and be friendly.
Clear Creek History Park “Living History” Pioneer: Dress in our historic costumes and do a historic activity, such as quilting, spinning, cooking, blacksmithing, butter churning. Talk to visitors about your activity.
Tea Time at the Astor House: Dress in our historic costumes prepare and serve tea and tea sandwiches for our Tea Time guests. Serve graciously and with a smile. You will also wash and dry dishes and do general clean up.
Mission: The mission of the Butterfly Pavilion is to foster an appreciation of butterflies and other invertebrates while educating the public about the need for conservation of threatened habitats in the tropics and around the world.
Volunteer Opportunities:
Butterfly Specialist : Serve as a guide to the visiting public interpreting the butterfly conservatory, answering questions and sharing information about our tropical butterflies and plants.
Horticultural Assistant: Plant, prune, weed, and water the beautiful foliage in our conservatory and outdoor butterfly gardens.
Classroom Educator: Share your love of invertebrates with our visiting school children in a classroom setting. Includes handling live invertebrates.
City of Lakewood Dept. of Housing and Family Services
Mission Statement for Friends of Paha: To identify and obtain adequate resources that support Camp Paha’s purpose to provide recreation, education, and therapeutic opportunities in a safe & fun day camp environment for individuals with disabilities ages 6-25 in the Denver Metro area.
Volunteer Opportunity: Board Member. Committee members and officers commit two to six hours a month as part of an active board to meet the mission of the organization. Board Members will attend at least 80% of meetings, be willing to donate time, resources and energy to fundraising and public relations.
Volunteer Opportunity: Homework Helper. Help and supervise students with homework assignments, computer and reading. Homework area set up on site for students with staff on site.
Mission: The mission of DDRC (Developmental Disabilities Resource Center) is to provide leading-edge services that create opportunities for people with developmental disabilities and their families to participate fully in the community.
Volunteer Opportunities:
Share what you like to do with others! Be a friend! Visit. Eat out. Take a walk. Enjoy a movie or a sporting event with someone. Go to recreational activities with someone who might not otherwise have the opportunity.
Spend a weekday morning assisting at DDRC’s warm water therapy pool.
Share your artistic talent and your passion for art by teaching an art class or being a mentor for DDRC clients interested in pursuing creative potentials with DDRC’s Art & Soul program.
Mission: The mission of Family Tree is to help people overcome child abuse, domestic violence and homelessness to become safe, strong and self-reliant.
Volunteer Opportunities:
Thrift Store Attendant: Family Tree Treasure Trunk thrift store is open to the public, but our clients can shop there for free. Attendants accept donations, separate merchandise, price items, assist customers, and all other retail duties. Hours are 9 – 5 Mon – Fri, and 9 – 4 on Saturdays.
Day Care Volunteer: If you’re good with kids and have a couple of hours a week to volunteer to assist with children while their parents are taking classes, we can use you. We use day care volunteers in several of our programs, and times and shifts vary with the programs.
Tutors/Homework Helpers: If you’re a brainiac, this is the volunteer position for you! Assist children in our shelters with their homework and/or provide one-on-one tutoring for kids with special needs. This is usually a one-hour shift once or twice a week, but can be adjusted to your availability.
Clerical/Admin Assistant: Provide clerical and administrative support to staff at one of our shelters, at the counseling center, or at our main administrative offices. Shifts are usually 9AM – 1 PM and 1 – 5 PM, but can be adjusted to fit your availability.
Mission: The Golden Police Department is a value-based organization whose mission is to work in partnership with the community to provide a safe, secure and orderly environment by being responsive to the needs of those we serve.
Mission: Our mission is to provide an immediate response to basic human needs and to promote pathways to self-sufficiency.
Volunteer Opportunities
BEAUTIFUL JUNK SALE HELPER:
We are a non-profit organization that has a giant fund raising event, our BEAUTIFUL JUNK sale, every six months at the Jefferson County FairgroundsThis event is inside. It’s great for individuals or team building any group: Work, School, Fraternity, etc.
Help in our clothing bank:
Jeffco Action Center needs your assistance handing out free clothing items to Jefferson County residents who need help.
Client Desk Volunteers:
Greet families and individuals as they enter Jeffco Action Center. Be a friendly, warm smile as you help sign in clients, hand out paperwork, and enter information into our database. This can be a fast-paced, high energy environment and the shifts are 4 hours long. Monday – Friday either 9am – 1pm or 12:30pm – 4:30pm.
The Mission of the Child Support Enforcement Program is to assure that all children receive financial and medical support from each parent. This is accomplished by locating each parent, establishing paternity and support obligations, and enforcing those obligations.
Assisting with Accounting Work (Arrears Calculations, Tax Return Interpretation)
Acting as a Mentor (to the Self-Employed, with Parenting Skills, in Co-Parenting)
Supervising Children (While Parents Participate in Workshops and/or Conferences)
Mission: We offer adults instruction in Basic Skills (i.e. reading, spelling, math), English as Second Language, preparation for the GED test, and classes leading to a Jeffco School District diploma. The Literacy Program provides one-on-one tutoring days or evenings for students who need extra help to master their subjects.
Volunteer Opportunities:
Most sites use volunteers as one-on-one tutors, class aides, or child care providers. At the present time our greatest need is for tutors for English as Second Language students (only with intermediate level students). We also need a tutor for a low-level English speaker in the evening.
Mission: Provide safe & inviting opportunities for adults of all ages to meet friends, improve their health, pursue interest, learn new skills & explore unique destinations.
Volunteer Opportunities:
CRAFT CAROUSEL: Volunteers work to help cosign and sell handmade gifts of local artisans. Must commit to working a 3-hour shift one day per week. Display sale items, sell and record items, receive and record consignments, handle cash, and clean display cabinets.
APPLE DUMPLING GANG: Help prepare food for lunches, dinners and special events. Serve refreshments/ meals and help clean up. Hours will vary according to daytime, weekend or evening events.
FRONT DESK: As ambassadors for the Center, front desk volunteers are asked to commit to working a 4-hour shift one day per week. Energetic, caring individuals who are comfortable with phone work, handling money, giving tours, and working with the public.
Mission: RSVP is an association for volunteers age 55 or better, and membership is free. We partner with over 80 nonprofit organizations in Jefferson County to help them recruit interested volunteers. RSVP supports volunteers and the partner organizations they serve with volunteer benefits and other resources. We match volunteers’ experience and interests with volunteer positions that are rewarding and make a difference in the community.
Mission: The Volunteers of America Colorado Branch seeks to identify and serve the basic needs of the most vulnerable individuals and families in the community.
Volunteer Opportunities:
Meals on Wheels is looking for volunteers to deliver nutritious meals to homebound seniors in the Lakewood/Wheat Ridge, Golden, and Arvada/Westminster areas. Meals are delivered Monday - Saturday from about 10:30 AM to 12:30 PM. It takes about 1 1/2 hours to deliver about 10 to 12 meals in approximately a 10 block radius.
