We will need volunteers to help at adoption events where we meet and greet dogs with potential adopters. Adults and kids ages 13-17 are needed. Groups, families, and individuals are all welcome. No training necessary, waiver required. Adoption events are held on weekends.
GMCLA welcomes both singing and non-singing members. Our non-singing section is known as the Fifth Section. If you are not a singer, or cannot make the time commitment, consider volunteering. There is always a need for people to assist at rehearsals, concerts (usher, sell tickets and merchandise), special events, and in the administrative office.
Working with and organizing archival materials, including indexing, arranging, describing, and re-housing materials. Scanning archival materials, creating descriptions, and organizing cataloging records.
In addition to our prison-based programs, Defy offers our CEO of Your New Life programs for individuals residing in community-based transitional facilities (also known as half-way houses or work-release facilities). Defy EITs who enroll in CEO YNL while residing at these homes participate in a 6 – 9 month personal development, career readiness, and entrepreneurship…
Defy offers community-based entrepreneurship programs, including a 14-week Entrepreneurship Bootcamp, a Pre-Accelerator, and Business Accelerator that are open to anyone formerly incarcerated in the states where we serve. Through these programs, EITs can develop a business from concept to launch. Volunteers are integral to the success of the EITs and there are many ways to…
We will need volunteers for community outreach events, fundraising events, general office responsibilities throughout the year. We are looking for adults ages 18+ and have opportunities for year round involvement.
Volunteers undertake a myriad of roles and responsibilities that include maintaining and repairing instruments, archiving music and related materials, and providing translation services at parent workshops. In addition to these skill-intensive volunteer opportunities, community stakeholders can assist with a number of program-related activities such as providing one-on-one guidance at college workshops, helping with logistics at…
Defy Entrepreneurs in Training (EITs) who enroll in Defy’s CEO of Your New Life (CEO YNL) program during their incarceration participate in a 6 – 9 month personal development, career readiness, and entrepreneurship training experience. Volunteers are integral to the success of the program and we have several volunteer events for every program cohort. Prison…
Our Day Center is where our families are during the daytime hours of 7 a.m. and 5 p.m., every day of the week, including weekends. Provide hospitality and support to homeless children and their families What does this mean? Baking cookies for the children, tutoring children with homework, playing with the children (working with the…
The congregations are where our families eat dinner and spend the nights from 5:15p-6:45a in morning. The congregation gives them free dinner, breakfast, lunch, and family-centered housing seven days a week. Volunteers can help every night of the week in the following areas: pantry needs, dinner preparation, dinner and evening hosts, overnight hosts, and breakfast…