Helping Seasonal Events for our Parks and Recreation Department, such as the Fine Arts Fair, Red, White and Kaboom!, Touch-a-Truck, Farm-R-Treat, Light Up Fairfield and more!
RASKALS: Random Acts of Simple Kindness Affecting Local Seniors is a program for individuals and groups to help Fairfield seniors. Twice each year, in April and November, teams of volunteers go out into Fairfield to help our local Seniors with basic yard clean-up.
Adopt-a-Roadway or Adopt-a-Park is a program that utilizes volunteers to help clean up our streets and parks.
Collecting donated items (heartworm medicine and flea medicine, especially, as well as crates, toys food, and other medicine).
Volunteering can be as varied as the parks themselves: support conservation efforts, trails, fishing, history, music, birds and wildlife, gardening, photography and natural landscapes. Help at an event or program, in the field, the office, the lodge or the welcome center!
We always have a need for handcrafted items for our gift shop which is a fundraiser for the clinic. Preference is for items than can be priced at $5 or less. Can be for both pets and people.
Consider cooking a meal or baking a dessert that can be taken in our bus to serve 40-50 people in a weekend.
There are additional ways of helping at our facility such as sorting donations, assembling snack packs, and toiletry bags.
Work with Taking Root staff to help plant trees at Taking Root planting events. Need for help will vary depending on current projects.
One of the most proactive and interactive ways you can become involved with Reach Out Lakota is through Food, Hygiene, Cleaning, Paper products, and/or Clothing Drives. Please check out our Year-round shopping list that includes food, supplements and clothes, and our donation packet to help promote your drive.