Volunteer Opportunities to Help Your Neighbors in Need...

Emergency Assistance

• Provide perishable food (butter, bread) and toiletries for pantry

• Provide & deliver food or fuel baskets at Thanksgiving and/or Christmas.  Names, phone #s, addresses provided to you.

• Teach money management skills in a classroom setting.

• Be available to provide advocacy in the form of budgeting help, etc. while the above classes are being held.

• Be an advocate for a family - this involves working with the family on an ongoing basis, providing transportation, babysitting, filling out forms, etc.

Emergency Fuel Assistance Program for the Elderly (EFAPE)

• Help elderly with heating fuel

Furniture and Furnishings

• Need men and/or women to pick up donated furniture and deliver to warehouse on Jefferson St.

• Donate good, usable furniture - especially beds and help advertise this need

• Accompany Furniture Program Coordinator on home visits

• Accompany Coordinator to warehouse while clients pick up furniture

Visually Impaired Program

• Drive participants back and forth to class.  We currently have requests from 3 who would like to join our class but have no transportation. 

• Help sell VIP baskets/candle holders at your church or place of employment, if allowed

• Provide lunch for the VIP group. 

Progressive Release

• Buy cassette tapes and an age appropriate paperback book and donate for incarcerated parents to read and mail to their children.

• Type letters inmates have written to the youth at Juvenile Detention Center (JuV) saying why they do not want to go to jail.  These will be published in a book.  We will supply you with the format to be used.

• Provide mentors to adults leaving jail who have graduated from the 12-week class we teach.  Mentors will be trained.

Life Skills for the Street Smart

• Host a community service project where youth at the Juvenile Detention Center can work away from the center

Miscellaneous Opportunities

• Promote IOA to your congregation and community

• Prepare a fundraiser within your congregation or with other congregations in your area to benefit IOA's programs.

• Participate in IOA's annual fundraiser

• Research grant possibilities for IOA

• Prepare mass mailings in our office - 3 or 4 times per year

• Serve on a committee of IOA:  Finance, Members and Friends, Programs and Partnerships, Fund Development, Governance

• Mow grass, weed eat, trim shrubbery at IOA office on Clay St .

• Use your creativity to write articles for the newsletters - we will provide the information for the articles 

• Pray for our work and for the people we serve

Make a difference! 
If you can help with any of these, contact us at (434) 846-6098.