Volunteers can assist staff with various tasks during and after the evening intake period at our individual emergency shelters in Quincy and Brockton. Direct Care is ideal for individual adults age 18 and older who feel comfortable interacting directly with the homeless population. Direct Care volunteers assist between the hours of 4 and 6 pm.
Help fight obesity by working with kids either after-school or during the summer. Have fun while you help implement activities and games that will keep kids active and off the streets.
Attend medical appointments with patients who need assistance. Appointments may be at EBNHC or at other sites.
Share time with an elder in their home. Chatting, playing cards, or just being there brings much-needed companionship to someone who may be alone or feeling isolated.
Be a child’s role model to help with school tutoring or be someone to talk to. Share your time and expertise!
Direct Service is on-site volunteering. Direct service opportunities include but are not limited to: cooking and/or serving a meal, picking up and/or dropping off donations, working in our food pantry, cleaning, laundry, tutoring, doing craft projects with the children at our Family Shelter, and completing outdoor clean-up projects.
Help us with many of our most important tasks, including direct cat care such as providing food and water, scooping litter, sweeping, disinfecting, laundry, and other duties. Indirect cat care and administrative tasks may also be assigned. We’re looking for hardworking and reliable people between the hours of 8–10am.
We often need help with other areas such as administration, event planning, fundraising, community outreach, yard work and maintenance, writing, and marketing. If you’d like to help in any of those areas, we’d love to have you volunteer with us.
Primarily, we seek volunteers to help on a regular basis with the collection and distribution of donated food. Volunteers generally work in groups to collect food from grocery stores and bakeries, sort the food and then deliver it to social services agencies in the area.
Mentors will be assigned to a youth enrolled in a FKO program and will be responsible for meeting with the mentee on a weekly basis, for a minimum of one hour per week. A one year commitment is preferred. The mentor may be asked to work on certain aspects of the youth’s personal development. They…