Direct Service is on-site volunteering. Direct service opportunities include but are not limited to: cooking and/or serving a meal, picking up and/or dropping off donations, working in our food pantry, cleaning, laundry, tutoring, doing craft projects with the children at our Family Shelter, and completing outdoor clean-up projects.
Indirect service includes off-site projects such as running food or supply drives, preparing and delivering meals, or putting together hygiene or other kits for our residents. Because of its scheduling flexibility, indirect service is ideal for youth groups, business teams, or other large groups.
Help us with many of our most important tasks, including direct cat care such as providing food and water, scooping litter, sweeping, disinfecting, laundry, and other duties. Indirect cat care and administrative tasks may also be assigned. We’re looking for hardworking and reliable people between the hours of 8–10am.
We often need help with other areas such as administration, event planning, fundraising, community outreach, yard work and maintenance, writing, and marketing. If you’d like to help in any of those areas, we’d love to have you volunteer with us.
Groups can also help by coordinating donation drives. The families we work with have a wide range of needs beyond housing. You can help families directly by donating clothing, household items, and gift cards.
Offer patients and family members opportunities to engage in arts and crafts experiences. Examples include adult coloring, painting and sketching, fiber craft, decoupage, and more.
As a mentor, you are a role model, adviser, friend, and guide helping your mentee to dream big, set goals, and pursue them. All mentees in the Enroot Program are immigrant high school students in Cambridge and Somerville. You will likely guide your mentee in the following areas: building positive relationships, exploring careers, planning higher…
Patients needing to pick up medications may experience a long line at the pharmacy pick-up window. Some patients mistakenly stand in the pharmacy line even though they are not here to pick up medications but are rather here for other services such as registration, parking, or labs. You’ll help to ensure that we are helping…
Enroot students work in internship sites around Cambridge, in municipal offices, local nonprofits, and schools. We are always interested in exposing our students to new and different careers, office environments, and building their professional skills. If your organization or company has the capacity to host an intern, provide supervision and training, and is interested in…
Our One-to-One program links individuals who have already experienced diagnosis and treatment with those who are facing it for the first time. You’ll talk to patients and families via telephone about the treatment experience, guide them through the hospital system, and discuss available resources. (Volunteers are cancer survivors, caregivers, and family members who have completed…