Volunteers can help by registering as an event volunteer or offering professional services or other forms of support.
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.
Special events are a vital source of funding and support, as well as a great way to get the word out about our programs. Volunteers staff committees and events, help secure silent auction prizes, solicit sponsors, help decorate, hang banners, distribute flyers, prepare food, sell event and raffle tickets and help with event setup and…
What do you like to do? Play an instrument? Read? Sew? Hike? Cook? Art? Computers? Play sports? Are you a business owner? A mechanic? An Attorney? Whatever it is you do in your life, there is always a young person who would be interested and with whom you can share your knowledge, talent, passion and…
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.
An opportunity to gain leadership skills and experience and familiarity in the following areas: communications (web, media, email and traditional correspondence), philanthropy, fundraising and donor relations.
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.