Volunteer at the Friends Food Pantry to help deliver food stability to members of our community that need it most. Friends Food Pantry volunteers work together to organize food pantry donations and provisions and disperse items to Bourne residents that use the pantry.
Volunteer at the Friends of Bourne Council on Aging office to help with day-to-day operations and administrative tasks that are essential to help us continue to do the work that we do.
Assist with programs – prepping craft materials, assist with crowd control, help children with projects
One of our core values is to include youth in the design of our work. We hope to amplify their voices, understand what resonates (or doesn’t) with youth and solicit feedback in general. Our Student Advisor volunteers have agreed to provide feedback to make sure our programs work with their peers. We welcome their insights…
Our community-based program is our traditional match in which adult mentors are paired with children ages 7-12, and agree to see each other for three hours, a couple of times a month. Mentor 2.0 is a technology-enriched one-to-one youth mentoring program directly targeting high school students. Mentor-mentee pairs build their relationships through weekly online communication…
Are you a handy person, jack-of-all-trades? Or do you have a special expertise or area of interest that you’d like to share with us? Just because we didn’t specifically list something above, doesn’t mean we don’t need the help. Just submit the Volunteer Interest form and we can explore the possibilities together!
Some tasks around home are difficult to do by oneself or as one ages. Help with changing lightbulbs, installing a storm window or screen, or watering flowers when it is very dry are the kind of services that help.
Older persons can find using computers and smart phones challenging, but a little help by answering questions can make such a difference.
Not being able to drive is such a limitation on a person’s well-being and engagement in the community. By offering rides, we are able to make a difference—rides to the doctor, to the hair salon, to the gym are examples.
Our village also requires individuals who can perform administrative tasks either working on one of our support teams or in daily operations as a service coordinator. Service coordinator roles require access to a computer to log in to our website software. This role can be performed from your home.