PATH provides three hot meals a day at our interim sites, and we need your help to keep our kitchen facilities in tiptop shape. Depending on the site you can: prepare food alongside interim cooks, organize food donations with thanks to partners like Trader Joes, or help deliver food donations across a number of PATH…
We don’t just give a client a key to a new home, we strive to furnish it with the essentials they need to succeed. Organize your own “furniture drive” and help a client truly move in. You will forever be a part of this new chapter in their lives by welcoming them home!
Assemble “Care Kits” that include new travel sized hygiene items and non-perishable snacks. PATH street outreach teams will distribute the Care Kits to our neighbors experiencing homelessness and use them as a tool to build relationships.
Host a donation drive for a variety of PATH needs, including but not limited to diapers, Welcome Home Kits, Care Kits, new blankets, and seasonal specific goods like new toys. You can also request a weekday tour or presentation when scheduling your donation drop-off at a PATH facility.
We need help conducting an annual financial review of our books.
This team organizes and coordinates The Giving Spirit’s educational initiative on homeless issues in Los Angeles. Volunteers assist in developing programming and the strategic direction of the new committee, act as event coordinators by organizing and managing programs at TGS events, and work with local schools and youth groups.
Each year we need bonded and licensed drivers and trucks to help us move goods from place to place in the preparation and delivery of our kits.
If you would like to help at one of our learning centers, our computers always need attention and love.
Volunteer tutors may be part of a group, tutoring and interacting with several other tutors and students. This opportunity is typically available at emergency shelters and group homes where student turnover is high.
Creates, coordinates and manages The Giving Spirit’s messaging through all mediums, including social media.