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2024-10-15
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2025-01-13
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Berthoud, CO 80513
Are you eager to give back to your community? Become a Caring Companion and connect with families in Berthoud! Caring Companion volunteers visit with an older neighbor once a week, offering companionship while allowing the family caregivers a chance to rest. Volunteer activities can range from taking walks, reading, listening to music, chatting, creating art, or other activities the older person might enjoy. One caregiver commented recently: " Our volunteer has been wonderful. She almost feels like family. I absolutely love Caring Companions and I tell everyone about them." Another said: "My husband really enjoys the weekly visits with our volunteer and looks forward to the socialization, which he doesn't get normally." VOA provides orientation and ongoing trainings for our volunteers, and only requires a few visiting hours a week. So if you are looking for a flexible and meaningful experience, this is it!
Date Posted: 2024-11-22
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Flexible Schedule
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Fort Collins, CO 80521
We are looking for a substitute driver for our Home Delivered Meals Program. You and your car are a great team! Make a difference in food security for an appreciative older adult. Volunteers often get acquainted with and develop meaningful friendships with the people they deliver to. This is a rewarding and enjoyable position. Our deliveries happen on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and volunteers can get to the VOA Fort Collins office anywhere between 9:30am and 11:00am to pick up the boxes of Frozen Meals. Total time of volunteering is usually never more than 1.5-2 hours per week. Contact us or email Jennifer Briggs at jbriggs@voacolorado.org.
Date Posted: 2024-11-22
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Flexible Schedule
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Cooking Matters is a program that provides cooking classes to our clients with a focus on teaching how to make healthy, tasty, and inexpensive meals. For the class we need both class assistants and culinary instructors. A description of both roles is below: Class Assistant: Help set up the class (including washing produce, sanitizing tables, and helping people sign waivers), assisting during the class (including distributing ingredients to the participants, helping keep the tables clean and interacting with the participants), and finally, helping clean up after the class (including washing dishes, helping pack up and cleaning tables). Chef or Culinary Instructor: Help teach the culinary aspect of each class to participants. This is our hardest role to fill so please don’t let the title scare you away! If you enjoy cooking and would like to share your skills and knowledge with others, we’d love to see you at a class. Our in-house Outreach Coordinator and Nutrition Educator will be at each class to work alongside you and will provide you all the information you’d need prior to class to ensure you feel confident in this role. Poudre High School Mobile No-Cost Market Needs: We offer a Mobile No-Cost Market that is held at Poudre High School (PHS) in Fort Collins every other Thursday. We are currently looking for a PHS Mobile Driver and PHS Mobile Packing volunteer. A description of both roles is below: PHS Mobile Driver: After loading up one of our Food Bank trucks at 3pm, this volunteer will drive from our Main Warehouse in Loveland to the mobile no-cost market at Poudre High School in Fort Collings to drop off the food. Once the mobile is over, any remaining food will be packed up into the truck and driven back to the Main Warehouse in Loveland with the role ending by 8pm. This role requires using an electric pallet jack (training will be provided) and lifting as much as 70lbs at a time. This role also requires a drug screen and MVR Check. PHS Mobile Packing Volunteer: In preparation for each mobile, we need a volunteer every other Thursday from 1-4pm to prepare pallets of food for the no-cost market. This will look like pulling bulk food from the warehouse racks and placing them on pallets. As such, this role requires lifting as much as 70lbs at a time, working in a warehouse environment and having the ability to bend, lift, and stand for up to 2 hours.
Date Posted: 2024-11-22
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2024-10-15
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2025-01-13
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Fort Collins, CO 80525
Are you a compassionate person looking for a way to connect and give back to your neighbors? VOA supports family caregivers who are caring for older loved ones at home, by connecting them with community volunteers we call Caring Companions. Caring Companion volunteers visit with an older neighbor once a week allowing their family caregivers a chance to rest and take care of themselves . Our volunteers get to know the person they are visiting with, and may go for walks, read, listen to music, or other activities that the older person might enjoy. One caregiver commented recently: " Our volunteer has been wonderful. She almost feels like family. I absolutely love Caring Companions and I tell everyone about them." Another said: "We both appreciate our Caring Companion. She has really helped more than she probably knows. They read together and mom really loves that." If you are looking for a truly meaningful volunteer experience, this is it!
Date Posted: 2024-11-22
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2024-10-15
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2025-01-13
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Wellington, CO 80549
Are you a compassionate volunteer looking for a way to connect and give back to your community? VOA supports family caregivers, caring for older loved ones at home, by connecting them with community volunteers we call Caring Companions. Caring Companion volunteers visit with an older neighbor once a week allowing their family caregivers a chance to rest and take care of themselves . Our volunteers get to know the person they are visiting with, and may go for walks, read, listen to music, or other activities that the older person might enjoy. One caregiver commented recently: " Our volunteer has been wonderful. She almost feels like family. I absolutely love Caring Companions and I tell everyone about them." Another said: "We both appreciate our Caring Companion. She has really helped more than she probably knows. They read together and mom really loves that." If you are looking for a truly meaningful volunteer experience, this is it.
Date Posted: 2024-11-22
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