Help produce our special events that generate both friends and funds for Mary’s Path.
If you have a special talent, skill or interest that you would like to share with Mary’s Path for the benefit of our girls and babies, please let us know. This can be anything from cooking or baking instruction to fixing things to specializing in special needs children.
Husbandry volunteers work with staff to maintain the animal facilities, gardens and aquariums. Volunteers must be age 16 and older.*waitlist only; must be an active volunteer at the Ocean Institute to be added to the waitlist.
Speaker’s Bureau Volunteers are volunteers who are trained to publicly speak on behalf of Make-A-Wish at various events to promote awareness of our mission, raise funds and/or recruit volunteers.
Volunteer Internships are available for students or recent graduates interested in fulfilling college requirements and/or garnering hands-on job experience within a nonprofit agency. Interns are placed departmentally to focus their learning experience
There are various ways that volunteers can help including: assisting various departments with clerical duties and other tasks, delivering mail and flowers to patients and staff, assisting with patient discharge, assisting with providing a warm welcome at one of our information desks, or visiting with patients and circulating books, magazines, videos, playing cards and puzzles…
An excellent way to help animals while enjoying the company of a pet on a short-term basis. Volunteer families provide a loving environment for HSTT pets who need a little extra TLC while awaiting adoption. You can choose to foster cats, dogs, puppies and kittens…whatever best fits into your lifestyle. We provide all the support…
Bring a smile to patients, kids and seniors with your certified therapy pet. Through the Humane Society of Truckee-Tahoe, you can have your pet certified as a pet therapy animal. Through this program, volunteers and their animals visit patients in local hospitals, senior living facilities, schools and many more people who need brightness in their…
A very important way for volunteers to help our animals get adopted and stay in their new homes. Homeless pets sometimes come to us with less than perfect manners and have never lived in a “normal” home environment. Our socialization programs teach dogs manners, how to behave on a walk and around other pets, and…
Help homeless pets by having fun. The Humane Society of Truckee-Tahoe is fortunate to be located in a community that supports a series of fun and successful fundraising events. Volunteer opportunities for HSTT events range from helping sell rubber ducks at our annual Truckee Duckee Derbee to showing off an adoptable dog at our Black…