We are all volunteers and we do everything…fostering our homeless GSDs, staffing our fundraisers, transporting dogs and supplies, interviewing foster and adoption candidates, recruiting members and volunteers, raising funds…we don’t exist without volunteers! We need you!
Volunteers engage in the following roles: Evaluators, Trainers, Foster Homes, Foster Home Support, Telephone Interviews, Home Visits, Reference Checks, Foster Home Set Up, Transport Foster Supply Maintenance, Dog Walkers, Adopter Support, Medical Tracking, and Micro Chip Tracking.
Coordinate the annual cookie sale at the troop level. Set up cookie booths, manage inventory and money, and then watch the girls light up when they earn the rewards for being the best cookie sellers ever!
Work with a group of girls and mentor them as they make new friends and develop connections that will last a lifetime.
Assist with driving, activity planning, snacks, money management, or other tasks necessary to keep the troop running oh-so-smoothly from week to week.
Help the girls explore nature and find the fun outdoors.
Warm-up your spirit fingers, lace up your sneakers and inspire a group of girls to be strong and healthy. Teams of volunteer coaches facilitate our easy-to-follow curriculum with small groups of girls over the course of 10 weeks. Amidst the conversation, laughter, hugs and energy awards, you will witness transformational change in the girls and…
Volunteers are extremely valuable to our programs and we want your experience with us to be beneficial to you as well as to our agency. As a volunteer, you may want to help in one or more of these ways: general help and support for the teacher, read stories, help with activities, sing songs, role…
From April through October, we depend upon thousands of helping hands working outside with us morning and afternoon. When you arrive, you walk out through the fields to our farm pavilion. You are welcomed and given an introduction to Gaining Ground and our hunger-relief role. Our farmers explain what’s going on at the farm and…
For a span of about six weeks in February and March, we collect buckets of sap from sugar maple trees in Concord and boil it into syrup, donated at Thanksgiving to families seeking hunger relief. Space is limited and the schedule is variable.