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.

Wish List
Interfaith Outreach Association is in need of the following items:

  • twin bed frames and mattresses for our furniture program

  • clear, plastic tubs to store linens for our furniture program

  • chairs for our conference table

Interfaith Outreach Association (IOA) is a 501(c)(3) organization.  We are exempt from Federal income tax and the donor is able to deduct contributions made to IOA to the extent allowed by law.

We are registered with the Commonwealth of Virginia’s Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services as a Charitable Organization eligible to solicit contributions in the state of Virginia.