Assist with wellness calls to our clients, telephone answering, and other clerical assistance. We welcome students seeking community service hours – volunteer during school vacations!
Employee volunteerism works because it improves performance, increases job satisfaction and morale, encourages teamwork and good communication across departments, builds brand awareness and strengthens consumer trust and loyalty. It’s best to have two or three people when delivering meals. A pool of 15 to 20 employees allows each employee to participate once every four or…
Volunteers generally operate in pairs with one driving his or her own car and one delivering the food to the door. Most volunteers deliver just one day a week, although some do more and a few operate only as substitutes. The entire process takes about 2 hours. Deliveries take place on Monday through Friday from…
Student volunteers are always welcome at Meals on Wheels of West LA. Younger students can help with various tasks in our office or be paired with one of our regular drivers or with a parent to help deliver food to our clients.
With such a large database of patients, allies, and partners – we have a great deal of information to keep track of. An administrative volunteer may simply make copies for the day, or they may spend time preparing the support group email announcements which go out each month. These tasks are vital for us to…
Join us in our efforts to increase the public’s knowledge about sickle cell disease! We are working to undo years of misleading or incomplete education to the public about the struggles of those with sickle cell disease. As a volunteer, you may help schedule day-trips to the mall with other volunteers or attend community events…
Much of our work is grassroots – we reach patients by contacting the organizations and institutions which serve them. Volunteers in this field love digging up information and researching, and they are also comfortable sending emails and making phone calls to organizations! The contacts and information gathered here enables us to identify and support patients…
Landscape beautification and maintenance; hands-on and/or organizing visiting teams.
Healing Touch, Reiki, Music, Pet and other complementary therapies to support our residents and their families, and/or our staff and our volunteers.
Support our Caregivers as they care for our residents. Includes helping with meal preparation, feeding, medications, turning, repositioning, changing, housekeeping, etc. Covering Caregiver 30-minute lunch breaks. Assisting in new resident admissions. Experience as a hands-on caregiver or in the medical field is a plus.