Volunteering

Volunteer Opportunities Volunteer Q & A Volunteer Contact Form

Administrative Office Assistance
(Robin Road Office, Turrell Childcare Center, Frisch Court Office)

• Mailings - Stuffing, Labeling, Stamping as determined by mailing calendar
• Data Entry/Typing/Filing/Phone Calls

• Sort donations at our Englewood site on two Thursdays a month
• Organize a community drive to collect formula, diapers, and baby essentials for low-income families with children

• Organize community drives for back to school supplies, camp supplies, and holiday gifts for children in our care
• Coordinate a fundraiser to support agency programs

• Healing Garden at 148 Prospect Street, Ridgewood
  • March planting and clean-up
  • September planting and clean-up
• Turrell Childcare Center - 200 Robin Road, Paramus
  • Children's garden spring clean-up

• Mentoring
  • Training program to mentor a teen or young child in our foster care program
• Job Mentors, any profession, for job shadowing and to teach skills to teens preparing for the job market
• Tutoring
  • Tutor children in Reading, Math, Science, English, after school
• Renovation and Repair Work
• Cooking
  • Prepare in-home bi-weekly meals for children
• Conduct a life skills workshop
• Coordinate field trips
• Organize holiday activities
• Staff assistance

• Assistance with various duties at our annual fundraisers Spring and Fall
• Organize an event on the agency's behalf

• Salesperson for our all-volunteer gift shop in Midland Park - Weekdays or Saturdays

• Job Mentors
  • Job shadowing
  • Workshops on preparing for the job market
• Host Family
  • Become a host family and sponsor post-graduate young adults from our transitional living program

• Classroom assistants in each of the 13 classrooms
• Sanitation of Toys and Play Equipment
• Reading Programs

• Become an ambassador for the agency and recruit foster and adoptive families for the children in our care

• Decorating in our office space
• Facilities assistants