Sign up to cook a large meal, side dish, dessert, or beverage with your friends and family and serve it with us at the Community Assistance Center (CAC). RISE and Dine happens every Saturday (except the second Saturday of each month).
Help us beautify the community we live in.
We are always looking for volunteers to help us during these events.
Want to get more involved than the drop in days allow? Volunteers help with the upkeep at the Urban Teaching Farm at Renown on the corner of 2nd and Gould. You will work with Urban Roots staff to maintain hoop houses, landscaping, irrigation, planting, or harvesting. Have a carpentry background? Know a lot of vermicompost?…
Volunteers lend helping hands during special events. You can help with the planning, help us set up or take down, lead an activity, greet guest or more! Besides being great fun, these events are critical for the community contact and fundraising capabilities of Urban Roots.
Volunteers will help with GOTR activities including along face painting, race bib bling, happy hair and photo booth. These volunteer opportunities are great for parents, teens, and groups.
Host a pet food drive at your school, church or business and donate the proceeds to one of Pets of the Homeless Pet Food Providers or begin a crowdfunding campaign.
We can sure use your help in recruiting pet food donation sites in your community. Commit to finding 2 new pet food donation sites in your town (businesses) or to finding 2 new pet food provider sites in your town (Food banks, soup kitchens, church pantries, homeless shelters). Places to recruit are places that you…
Assist with out cook off by taking shifts serving drinks in the lemonade and adult beverage stands.
Assist in various roles including pulling equipment trailers, setting up hydration and snack stations, delivering and serving food, set-up/clean-up for Artown Performance, announcer, and sound support.