Olive Crest has several internship opportunities available throughout the year in our Foster, Adoption, Counseling, Residential, and Family Support programs, as well as Human Resources, Fund Development, and Marketing positions. Learn valuable skills and gain specialist experience working in the non-profit environment.
Encourage and guide our New Life Program participants as they make their courageous journey back into becoming productive members of society.
Assist customers, sort donations and help tidy the store. We especially need volunteers with an in-depth knowledge of online sales and product/inventory pricing.
Volunteers are needed to help launder linens on an as-needed basis. These linens consist of bedding donations that we receive as well as the linens that we need to clean for families who are joining our Housing Program. Families Forward will drop off and pick up loads of laundry to volunteers’ homes in our service…
There are several opportunities to volunteer in our office including as a front desk volunteer, bilingual office volunteer, data entry volunteer, administrative assistance volunteer, and computer lab assistance volunteer.
Help us prepare food bags and distribute food to local families in need. Volunteers have a great time sorting food, stocking the pantry shelves, and greeting families who come in for food supplies each month. This important work is done in a caring, casual, and fun environment. For safety reasons, on-site volunteers must be at…
At the beginning of each school year, Families Forward distributes backpacks filled with new school supplies to over 1,000 school-age children in our community. Children also receive new and gently-used clothing to start the new school year. Volunteers are needed to sort school supplies and clothing donations, fill backpacks, and distribute backpacks to the families.
Volunteers who are skilled at interior painting would go on an as-needed basis to our interim homes and work independently in the home to paint interior walls and hallways. Families Forward supplies the paint and supplies unless the volunteer is willing to donate both the materials and his/her services, and the volunteer is responsible for…
Each year, over 800 families are adopted through our Adopt-a-Family program, bringing joy to more than 2,200 children with special gifts for the holidays. Help prepare gift bags, distribute gift bags, host a toy drive, or adopt a family
Families need food all year long – but often, our food donations dwindle during the summer months. To prepare for these slower times, Families Forward partners with local grocery stores and community groups for one weekend in the Spring, Summer, and Fall to collect food donations to be able to serve hungry families every month…