2019 Darling Dash Memorial 5K/1K Family Run/Walk
Sunday, February 24, 2019
8:00 AM
Stude Park
1031 Stude Street
Houston, TX 77007
Want to volunteer?: Volunteer registration is now closed. If you still want to volunteer, you can go out to the race on Sunday morning at 6:00 am. There will be something for anyone that wants to help! There will be no guarantee of a shirt or your shirt size!
Website: Darling Dash Memorial 5K/1K Family Run/Walk Website
Date And Time
Wed, February 20, 2019
5:00 PM – 9:00 PM CST
Location
The Woods Project at The American Red Cross
2700 Southwest Freeway
Classroom A
Houston, TX 77098
The Woods Project needs volunteers to help restock first aid kits for their upcoming summer programs. This work is extremely important and helps to ensure the safety and health of the students and volunteers while they are out in the wilderness.
-Park in the main lot off of the feeder road. Since it is after hours at the Red Cross, someone will be greeting you at the door directing you to the meeting room.
-Bring a refillable water bottle and comfortable clothes you do not mind getting dirty.
-Dinner and adult beverages will be provided (please be aware if you are planning to bring a minor).
Want to volunteer?: Register here. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact miles@thewoodsproject.org.
This blog is looking for volunteer writers/bloggers! A few writer/blogger volunteers are needed to work on future blog posts. It is preferred if blogger resides in Houston, Texas or surrounding areas and or resides in a city in Texas as of now. The writer/blogger will research and look for new volunteering opportunities in Houston, Texas and surrounding communities or in other Texas cities, update existing volunteering opportunities as required, and eventually updating social media with the blog postings.
This volunteer opportunity is remote and flexible, but volunteers should be able to commit at least two blog posts or at least an hour every week. The volunteer should also have a passion for writing/blogging, volunteering opportunities, and non-profit organizations/charities. Internet research experience, social media experience, good writing skills, and excellent communication skills are preferable.
Volunteers can work on writing/blogging skills and also invite others to see their post when it is published on this blog. Volunteer recommendation letters for student volunteers can be given if needed. It is also a great volunteering opportunity to help other volunteers looking for flexible, weekend, and online volunteering opportunities.
Blogger’s posts will be published in their name. However, all blog posts will be reviewed before publishing.
If interested, please send a few samples of your writing/blog posts to weekendvolunteering@gmail.com
The Buffalo Soldier Museum honors and shares the historical knowledge about African American personnel in the US Armed Forces to the general public. The museum has the vision that the knowledge of history will help build pride and patriotism to all communities.
The museum is looking for reliable volunteers on the below various shifts, with a minimum commitment of 4 hours per week. Volunteer schedule can be flexible.
-Various shifts between Monday through Saturday 10am to 6pm
-Monday 10am to 5pm
-Saturday 10am to 4pm
Want to volunteer?: Fill out the application here.
Facebook: Buffalo Soldier Museum Facebook Page
Website: Buffalo Soldier Museum Volunteer Opportunities Website
Food & Vine Time Production plans a lot of popular food and beverage events in the Houston area such as WineFair Cy-Fair (March 30, 2019), Katy Sip n Stroll (April 27, 2019), Wine & Food Week (June 3 – June 8, 2019), BrewMasters Craft Beer Festival (August 30 – Sept 1, 2019), Houston Chronical Culinary Stars (October 20, 2019), Zest in the West (October 16, 2019), and Tomball Freight Train Food Truck Festival (October 16, 2019). The company works with many charities to help with fundraising and mission awareness through event planning.
Volunteering opportunities include:
1.TABC certified wine & beer pourer (21+ age requirement and TABC certified)
Responsibilities include:
-Pouring wine & beer samples
-Answering questions about wine and beer products
-Keeping samples table clean
-Cleaning samples table after event
2.Non-TABC Certified Volunteer
Responsibilities may include:
-Greeting guests
-Answering general questions about the event
-Helping with check-in
-Serving Food samples
-Guarding VIP door
Want to volunteer?: Please contact Trina volunteer@foodandvinetime.com or call 713-557-5732.
A quick volunteering opportunity! Valentine’s Day is coming up and a few hospitals are making it special for kid patients. The public can send Valentine’s Day cards to patients (in general, not specific patient) via the hospital’s website for free. Below are some opportunities:
St. Jude Children’s – An electronic card with patient art can be created and sent to St. Jude kid patients here. You can type a message or select pre-written message.
Children’s Health (Dallas, Texas) – Choose a card, type a message, sign the ecard, and send here.
Texas Children’s Hospital– Choose a card, sign your name, and send the card here. What is special about this one is for every card send, Direct Energy will donate $1 to the hospital.
For a list of other Valentine Card’s sending opportunities, check out Here’s how you can send free Valentines to sick children in the hospital
The Holiday Project is a non-profit that organizes visits to nursing homes, hospitals, and other residential institutions. Greeting Cards are also made and sent to residents at visits.
1.The Holiday Project’s Valentine’s Saturday Visit
Grace Care Center of Cypress
9602 Huffmeister Rd
Houston, Texas 77095
Date of Visit: Saturday, February 9, 2019
Contact Person: Donna Martin
For more information and other visit opportunities, please check out here.
2.If you would like to make Greeting cards:
If you’d like to donate Holiday Cards, *you may drop them off, or mail them to:
Grace Care Center of Cypress
Attn: Donna Martin/The Holiday Project
9602 Huffmeister Rd
Houston, Texas 77095
*You can also sign up for a scheduled visit if you want to personally pass out the cards you made to nursing home residents…..
Cards Needed for the Following Holidays in 2019:
(any amount of cards donated by an individual volunteer or group is appreciated!)
2019 Visit Dates and preferred deadline for cards:
Valentines Sat Feb 9
(Cards by Feb 1)
Easter Sat April 20
(Cards by April 12)
Mother’s Day Sat May 11
(Cards by May 8)
Fathers Day Sat June 15
(Cards by June 7)
Grandparents Day Sat Sept 7
(Cards by Aug 30)
Thanksgiving Thursday Nov 28
(Cards by Nov 22)
Christmas Day Wednesday Dec 25
(Cards by Dec 14)
2019 Valentine’s Day – need approx. 500 cards
2019 Easter – need approx. 500 cards
2019 Mother’s Day – need approx. 500 cards
2019 Father’s Day – need approx. 500 cards
2019 Grandparent’s Day – need approx. 500 cards
2019Thanksgiving Day – need approx. 2,000 cards
2019 Christmas Day – need approx. 2,000 cards
Card Guidelines:
In order to encourage creativity, very few guidelines are imposed on the making of Holiday Project handmade greeting cards. The cards may be almost any size, and the media used can be as simple as colored markers available at almost any grocery or drug store. Some people use combinations of media such as markers, rubber stamps, images cut from used or surplus store-bought greeting cards, cut-out computer-generated images, pasted bits of ribbon or felt, etc.
Here are a few general suggestions on other matters:
•Ideally the cards should be able to stand up if placed on a table, nightstand, etc.
•Please don’t use glitter-on-glue. The glitter tends to get all over everything. However, pre-mixed “Glitter Glue” (such as is made by Crayola) is fine.
•Sentiments that imply that the recipients’ circumstances are less than ideal (e.g., “Cheer Up!”, “You are not forgotten”, etc.) should be avoided.
•Greetings should be generic so that they can be appropriate to almost anyone. (For example, a Christmas card that says “Merry Christmas” on the front and “Wishing you all the joy of the season” or other similar sayings that are creative and/or festive inside would be fine. Similarly, a Mother’s Day card that says “Happy Mother’s Day” and “The Best to You on this Special Day” would be fine, but sentiments such as “To a Great Mom” should be avoided, since not everyone visited in connection with Mother’s Day has been a mother.)
•Please don’t enclose or attach candy to the cards. (Logistically speaking, it’s usually not practical for the visit-volunteers to separate out such cards and determine which recipients are permitted to have candy.)
•It’s preferable that the cards not be in envelopes. (Some of the recipients suffer from advanced arthritis or other conditions that make the simple act of removing a card from an envelope quite difficult.)
•Please don’t put a date on the cards. (We occasionally have a surplus of cards for a given occasion, in which case we simply pack up the excess cards and use them for the same holiday the next year.)
•Cards should be signed by the persons making them. Any signature should probably include just the signer’s first name or first names of group…
Please Please Please do not put anything about the state of a residents health …such as I hope you get well soon or hope your health improves…the residents aren’t all sick that live in long term care and for the short term rehab patients in skilled nursing facilities it is just too hard for volunteers to know who is in a facility for long term residence or short term rehab stay, so we just avoid anything health related!!
Questions – email Donna Martin at: theholidayprojecthouston@yahoo.co
Want to volunteer?: Please contact Donna Martin at theholidayprojecthouston@yahoo.com or call 832-515-3862.
Facebook: The Holiday Project (General) Facebook Page
Website: The Holiday Project Volunteer Opportunities Website
PAIR – Partnership for the Advancement and Immersion of Refugees work to empower refugee youth to navigate American society, reach their academic potential, and become community leaders. The organization will have some Spring and Summer 2019 flexible opportunities. Below are some current volunteering opportunities:
Global Learner After School Mentor –
Global Learner Individual Mentor
Global Leader After School Mentor
Global Scholar Individual Mentor
Want to volunteer?: Please contact pair@pairhouston.org for more information on 2017 volunteer opportunities or visit here and apply to volunteer.
Facebook: For more information on the organization, you can check out PAIR Facebook Page
Website: Pairhouston.org
I. Sugar Land Animal Shelter
Volunteer opportunities are daily during shelter hours of operation. The volunteering opportunities include Dog Socializer, Dog Walking, Dog Kennel Cleaning, Reception Volunteers, Cat Grooming and Playing, Cat Kennel Cleaning, and PetSmart Volunteers (assisting with adoptions at PetSmart – must be 18 or older).
Address: 101 Gillingham Ln, Sugar Land, Texas 77478
Thursday 8am-7pm
Friday 8am-5pm
Saturday 10am-2pm
Sunday Closed
Monday 8am-5pm
Tuesday 8am-5pm
Wednesday 8am-5pm
II. Right Tree Right Place event
March 14, 2019
9 AM-1PM
Volunteers would be needed to assist Parks and Recreation Staff and CenterPoint Energy Staff with planting trees in Brazos River Park. Parks and Recreation Staff would advise volunteers on the proper way to plant a tree, and then volunteers would be released to begin planting the trees.
Want to volunteer?: All volunteers for the above events must be registered Serve Sugar Land volunteers. All volunteering at the shelter and at PetSmart requires a training session. All volunteers also need to be at least 14 years old.
To register, interested individuals can visit volunteer.sugarlandtx.gov, then hover on Get Involved at the top– at this point you will need to either choose the above 18 or under 18 application depending on your age.
If any questions, you can also contact Kayla at klauhoff@sugarlandtx.gov
Facebook: City of Sugar Land Facebook Page
Website: https://volunteer.sugarlandtx.gov/
Hermann Park Conservancy is a non-profit organization serving to improve and maintain Hermann Park. The organization also contributes to reforestation efforts and maintenance initiatives for Hermann Park.
Interested volunteers can visit the volunteer opportunities page to see the most current and accurate information on volunteer opportunities at any given time.
Upcoming Event Volunteer Opportunities
Hermann Park Conservancy will have a few upcoming events that would need volunteers. Volunteering opportunities include helping with gift bag prep, event check-in, and post-event clean up. Please see below events:
Events are listed on Hermann Park’s Calendar.
Gardening Volunteer Opportunities
Volunteers interested in gardening may want to consider volunteer gardening at McGovern Centennial Gardens and The Japanese Garden.
A weekly group of garden volunteers meet on Wednesdays from 9 a.m.-12 p.m. or Saturdays from 9 a.m.-12 p.m to volunteer at McGovern Centennial Gardens. Individual volunteers garden on Thursday mornings from 9-11 a.m at The Japanese Gardens.To learn about all of the McGovern Centennial Gardens and The Japanese Garden volunteer opportunities, email the volunteer coordinator at volunteer@hermannpark.org or call 713-524-5876, ext. 357.
Want to volunteer?: All volunteers must fill out an application and meet with the volunteer coordinator to review their interests, skills, and availability. If you have any questions or need more information, you can email Gabriel Durham, community engagement coordinator, email the volunteer coordinator at volunteer@hermannpark.org or call 713-524-5876, ext. 357
Facebook: Hermann Park Conservancy
Website: Hermannpark.org
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