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Volunteer Connection Members Current Volunteer Opportunities (by Member Organization)
Apex Park & Recreation District/Community Recreation Center
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.
Weight Room Attendant: Assist with checking in participants, monitoring for safety, and keeping equipment and facility clean. Must be CPR certified, or willing to be certified.
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.
Some of the areas of interest are: Heritage, Culture & the Arts; Recreation; Parks; Older Adult Programs; Head Start; Youth and Adults with Disabilities and more!
If you enjoy working at a computer or being outdoors we have an opportunity for you!
Share your skills in dance, gardening, art, coaching, and sports, biking, skiing, or snowboarding with others.
Short-term and long-term opportunities are available.
For more info, contact:
Deb Sanders at 303.987.4833 or debsan@lakewood.org
for a full list of opportunities and contacts.
Colorado Railroad Museum:
Mission: To acquire, preserve and exhibit to the general public, railroad equipment, artifacts, paper records, books, art work and photographs emphasizing Rocky Mountain area railroads, to explain and interpret the role of railroads in the history of this region from the 1860’s to the present by means of exhibits, a reference library, educational programs, publications and information sharing with other historical groups. Furthermore to provide incentives that will enhance interest in railroads and railroading history.
Volunteer Opportunities
Restoration: Volunteers are needed to rebuild, paint maintain museum artifacts and equipment. Weekday and Saturday opportunities exist and volunteers are encouraged to schedule work at their convenience.
Tour Guide: We call our tour guides Hosts and give guided tours of the museum grounds daily during the summer and for groups by request throughout the year. Hosts also assist museum guests during special events and private parties.
Library: Volunteers are needed to inspect, archive and inventory artifacts and documents donated to the museum. They can schedule a specific time each week to come in and work on the extensive collection of railroad related items.
Day Out With Thomas: Our major fundraising activities involves six days, three weekends, in September. Thomas the Tank Engine will give rides to thousands of area children and their parents. Over four hundred volunteer shifts are needed to accommodate the thirty thousand guests who will come to A Day Out With Thomas. The Thomas event is a great experience with thrilled children and provides a wonderful family outing.
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. (near 52nd Ave. and Ward Road in Arvada)
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:
Wednesday, March 25-Saturday, March 28th.
We are a non-profit organization that has a giant fund raising event, our BEAUTIFUL JUNK sale, every six months at the Jefferson County Fairgrounds. This event is inside. It’s great for individuals or team building any group: Work, School, Fraternity, etc.
Help in our Clothing Bank or Sorting Clothes:
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.
Tutors: Tutoring and classes take place both days and evenings at McLain and Arvada Middle School. In addition, class and tutoring sites include public libraries in Jefferson County. Tutors must have a high school diploma or GED and attend a 3 1/2 hour workshop sponsored by the Literacy Coalition of Colorado.
ESL: English-as-Second-Language tutors work with intermediate learners (never beginners) from around the world and experience the pleasure of learning about other cultures. Knowledge of another language is not necessary.
Other Opportunities: Volunteers also assist in classrooms, help with enrollment or book distributions, and aid at special events.
Mission: Project Angel Heart promotes the health, dignity, and self-sufficiency of people living with HIV/AIDS, cancer, and other life-threatening illnesses by providing nutritious, home-delivered meals with care and compassion.
Kitchen Assistant: You don’t have to know what “béchamel” means to help prepare and package food for clients—anyone who cares about quality food for people living with life-threatening illness already has what it takes! Volunteers in Randy’s Kitchen chop, slice, bag, scoop, stir, blend, bake and—of course—scrub! Join a team of six to twelve volunteers and staff chefs to participate in preparing nutritious meals and keeping our kitchen one of the cleanest in Denver.
Delivery Driver: Cruise for a cause when you deliver meals to clients! Delivery drivers pick up bags of meals—either at Project Angel Heart or from one of our seven Metro Denver or two Colorado Springs satellite locations—and deliver them to neighbors who need nutritious meals.
Special Event Volunteer: Volunteers are needed year-round to help support some of the most fun fundraising events in Denver! Help with mailings, join our street team, represent us at events, and more.
For more info, contact:
Volunteer Resources Department
303.830.0202 ext 28 or
volunteer@projectangelheart.org www.projectangelheart.org
Retired & Senior Volunteer Program
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: Seniors’ Resource Center works in partnership with older persons and the community to provide centralized and coordinated service, information, education and leadership helping to assist seniors in maximizing their independence and personal dignity.
Volunteer Opportunities:
Volunteer Driver Services transports clients in their personal vehicles for personal trips, such as beauty or barber shop appointments, exercise classes, lunch dates, church services or shopping for non-food items. Along with good driving record, volunteer drivers must have excellent people skills. Time commitment is flexible, based on volunteer’s availability. Benefits include mileage reimbursement, and excess liability insurance.
In Home Respite Care volunteers provide family caregivers a time of relief from the constant, everyday care of a chronically ill or frail older adult. The volunteer will provide non-medical companionship, simple recreational activities, and some assistance at meal time. The commitment is 1-4 hours weekly.
Friendly Visitor volunteers provide one to one friendship to a socially isolated or handicapped elderly person by making weekly home visits one time per week for 1-2 hours. The volunteer must have a genuine interest in older adults, with good listening skills and patience. Dependability is a must, as well as maintaining client confidentiality.
Home Repair volunteers complete simple household repairs for low-income seniors and disabled individuals which may include minor plumbing and electrical repairs, furnace maintenance, small paint jobs, changing light bulbs, installing, blinds or curtains, installing grab bars, building ramps and other safety devices. The volunteer needs some technical skills in the areas mentioned, although some training is available, especially with the installation of grab bars. The commitment can be based on the volunteer’s schedule, ranging from 1-6 jobs per month, with hours dependent on the task involved.
Mission: To enable frail individuals to live with dignity in their communities
Volunteer Opportunities:
Day Center Assistant -
Provide one-on-one companionship to participants at the TLC Day Center to increase their socialization or quality of live. Volunteers also help Day Center staff provide quality activities for participants. Volunteers range from 14-100. Must be available at least one hour per week between 9 am and 2:30 pm.
Friendly Visitor -
Provide one to one companionship to a Total Longterm Care participant either at home or at the TLC Day Center to increase socialization. This might include letter writing, reading books, going for a walk, completing puzzles or playing games. This opportunity is perfect for someone who wants to volunteer in the evenings or on weekends. Must be 21 if visiting participant in their home.
End of Life Friendly Visitor -
Provide companionship to a participant who is facing the end of life. Provide support to both the participant and caregiver through conversation, reading, etc. in the home or nursing facility. Training provided. Must be 21.
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.
