We need a person who will hunt for travel deals, learn the best way to leverage points and help us reduce costs of our vacations while providing a top notch experience for our recipients.
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.
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.
Instructors provide specialized adaptive instruction for people with disabilities. They work on a personal level to help students successfully learn to ski or snowboard. Candidates must be intermediate skiers or higher, must be comfortable working with people with diverse backgrounds, and must be physically fit and able to lift a student multiple times during the…
Clean, maintain and repair our large inventory of adaptive equipment. Applications accepted year-round. Contact Michael Hunter, Program Director, at 530-481-4161 x4; michael at achievetahoe.org.
Is your company, church group, or scouting troupe looking for a service project? Thomas House can always use the support of volunteers who can complete minor building maintenance and repairs, painting, light carpentry, or other projects as needed.
We also need volunteers to pick up furniture and other heavy items from donors. If you have a pick-up truck and some strong friends Thomas House could really use your support. We often have to decline donations of excellent furniture that our graduate families really need because we do not have any means of transporting…
Love to throw parties? Give the Thomas House children a day to remember by throwing a Birthday Party (once a month, Saturdays), or Holiday Party (Thursday evenings). Some holidays we celebrate at Thomas House include: Valentine’s Day, St. Patrick’s Day, Easter, Mother’s Day, Graduation, Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas.
We are currently looking for individuals to bake birthday cakes for our parents and children for their birthdays. Everyone deserves a cake on their birthday, and it is so much more special when it is home baked.