Volunteers and Docents are essential to the North Lake Tahoe Historical Society. Volunteers can help with a variety of tasks, such as, leading school tours, operating Watson Cabin, cataloging materials, building exhibits and planning and executing program and events.
Volunteers help with office management duties in our Truckee office. These duties might include assisting with donor mailers (stuffing and addressing envelopes), making phone calls to donors and potential donors, assisting with filing, and other tasks as they become relevant.
Assist the Sacramento BloodSource with the South Lake Tahoe blood drives.
Visit with or read to residents, help in the activities room, take residents for a walk, play cards and games, and more.
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 in skills training include: helping as a financial advisor for families, providing legal services.
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…