Interact with the cats and kittens
Large volunteer groups are perfect for helping us at garden work parties with laying mulch, turning compost, sprucing up abandoned plots, and planting at our Donation Station garden plots.
Our homes are built almost entirely by volunteers. You do not need to be a skilled construction worker to volunteer on our build sites. No matter your skill level, our Site Leaders are there to teach you everything you need to know to help us build homes for local families. All the equipment and safety…
ReStore volunteers assist with sales, inventory, cleaning and stocking the sales floor and warehouse, loading and unloading donated items, and customer service. Please wear closed-toe and closed-heel shoes or boots and clothing you don’t mind getting dirty.
Walk the Dogs
If you don’t have steady spare time, consider helping out with one of our major events throughout the year: Thomas The Tank Engine, Ladies Night Out, Christmas at Crossroads and more.
Other current projects are indexing the family files and keeping the other indexes of shelving, file cabinets, & family genealogies up to date. Recently we accepted the donation of land records and are currently working to sort and organize them for use in research. It’s a BIG job to sort abstracts, deeds and other land…
Volunteers will do the special work of preparing donated material for shelving. This might be making an index, typing material from handwritten documents, slipping data into plastic sleeves so it can be placed in a three-ring notebook, or filing the items the “cut and paste” crew generates.
We have a great card file that houses mainly obituaries but also some births, and other miscellaneous articles on Hillsdale families. These volunteers cut articles, pertinent to genealogy research, out of the current Hillsdale Daily News and prepare them for filing. Other volunteers work at home on a backlog of papers from 1965-2001 doing the…
Upkeep, cleaning and maintenance at the shelter (shoveling, snowplowing, gardening, yard clean up).