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.
Our Board of Directors is a vital part of our organization – helping guide us, our work, and our fiscal responsibility to deliver the most impact we can. We are always interested in having others join our dynamic board.
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.
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…
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…
VPFF provide friendly support, guidance, and access to helpful information to patients and their families to help ease anxiety and frustration during treatment. The VPFF assists in self-advocacy and identifying and accessing relevant resources while providing empathy and support and compassion. (2 years of volunteer experience at DF required)
The Blum Family Resource Center Van is a 39-ft. mobile health clinic that brings free Sun Safety and Skin Cancer Prevention education, as well as free skin cancer screenings to the general public, with a focus on at-risk and under-served communities. Health Educators educate the public on how to stay safe in the sun while…
Teach our curriculum, with resources provided by Debate Mate USA, to local students. We assign our mentors to Boston area middle schools, and you travel there to teach for one hour a week, for the duration of the program.
Travel throughout the adult clinics offering reading material for patients and their families. Provide comfort to patients through conversation and general support, explaining the different services and programs that help the patients through their cancer journey.
Help with setup and preparation of the space for the donor drive (signs, information table, swabbing station etc.); assisting with donor registration (reviewing consents, preparing swab kits, assisting with the swabbing process); greeting attendees and answering questions; help with event closing including packaging, materials inventory and clean up.