At our office, you can empower our staff to be more efficient and make a greater impact on our community by helping with administrative tasks like mailers, filing, and data entry.
At our shelters, you can help homeless families by cleaning, gardening, and decorating to provide a healthy and welcoming environment for families escaping homelessness.
Opportunities to help as an individual include: assembling sack meals for the homeless, distributing meals and supplies, serving on event committees, helping with bulk mail preparation, assembly of hygiene kits, organizing food or clothing drives, organizing the food pantry, helping as an office receptionist, and crocheting sleeping mats for the homeless.
We encourage churches, youth organizations, student organizations and businesses to help with our projects or to organize your own event to help raise awareness for SPIN. SPIN Projects include assembling House Warming Baskets, Hygiene Kits, Birthday Kits, warm clothing drive, canned food drive, Easter baskets, Mother’s Day gifts, and Adopt-A-Family Program for Thanksgiving and Christmas.
Instructors provide specialized adaptive instruction for people with disabilities. They work on a personal level to help students successfully learn to ski or snowboard. Candidates must be intermediate skiers or higher, must be comfortable working with people with diverse backgrounds, and must be physically fit and able to lift a student multiple times during the…
Clean, maintain and repair our large inventory of adaptive equipment. Applications accepted year-round. Contact Michael Hunter, Program Director, at 530-481-4161 x4; michael at achievetahoe.org.
Individual donors are critical to our success. Become a donor and help us acquire new donors via your networks. Achieve Tahoe is always looking for motivated and dedicated members of the community to join our Board of Directors. Applications accepted year-round. Contact Haakon Lang-Ree, Executive Director at 530-581-4161 x1; [email protected].
Special events are a vital source of funding and support, as well as a great way to get the word out about our programs. Volunteers staff committees and events, help secure silent auction prizes, solicit sponsors, help decorate, hang banners, distribute flyers, prepare food, sell event and raffle tickets and help with event setup and…
Our summer programs include water skiing in the Sacramento Valley and flat water kayaking, canoeing and stand up paddleboarding at Donner Lake and Lake Tahoe. A typical day lasts six to eight hours, and you may be in and out of the water all day. Summer program volunteers are required to volunteer at least 3…
As a Jr. Volunteer, you get to be a positive role model to our younger members. You will be involved in the LIT program and receive on-going training to learn fun games to play with the kids, how to help them with their homework. You will get to spend time reading with them, and other…