help the presbyterian night shelter
my buddy velton forwarded this from the presbyterian night shelter:
Volunteer Opportunities
Volunteers donate thousands of hours of service each year, and are an important part of fulfilling our mission. Without volunteers, our staff simply couldn't provide the services and programs our clients need. Below are the following opportunities that volunteers can participate in:
Serve Dinner
Prepare and serve dinner at the Main Shelter (4-6:30 p.m.), Lowdon-Schutts Building, our women and children's building (5:30-6:30 p.m.) or Safe Haven, our mentally ill homeless shelter (4:30-5:30 p.m.).
Dispensary
Work in our dispensary, where we distribute toiletry items (such as soap and shampoo) to our clients in the Main Shelter. Hours available: Monday through Friday, 4:30 to 6:30 p.m.
Playgroups/Parties
Organize a playgroup or host a holiday-themed party for the children in the Lowdon-Schutts Building. Please note that we do not allow children under 18 years of age to volunteer in the women and children?s building. Monday through Friday 6:30 to 7:30 p.m.
Bible study
Organize a Bible study or support group. Hours available: Monday through Friday, mornings and evenings.
Breakfast baggies
It's the most important meal of the day and we'd like you to help us keep it that way. Drop off or prepare baggies at the Shelter with breakfast snacks such as doughnuts, coffeecake, bagels, muffins, prepackaged cereal, granola/breakfast bars, etc. Between 250 to 500 individually packaged items are requested per group.
Food preparation/clean-up
Looking for a hands-on kitchen experience? Be a chef for a night and help prepare evening meals! Offered three nights a week, volunteers help with food preparation such as peeling and washing vegetables, cutting/chopping foods, refilling ingredients and washing dishes.
Time: Monday through Friday, 5:30 to 7 p.m.
Dessert Days
Bring dessert such as cookies, cupcakes or slices of cake for the Main Shelter. Although we can?t bake the desserts at the Shelter, your group can host a cookie/cupcake decorating party at the Shelter before your desserts are handed out. Decorating at the Shelter is available Monday through Friday from 1:30 to 3 p.m. Please bring a minimum of 600 desserts.
Sandwiches
Make 200 to 500 sandwiches for the Shelter to distribute daily for breakfast and lunch. You may make them at the Shelter or at your own facility. PNS can provide plastic gloves, bowls, utensils and plastic bags; we ask that you provide all the sandwich materials, such as bread, meat, cheese, etc. (Please do not include mayonnaise because it spoils easily.) Donated sandwiches may be dropped off at the back door Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Groups coming to the Shelter to make sandwiches can call volunteer coordinator Heather White at 817-632-7415 to schedule a time.
Town Hall Meetings
Each month the Shelter hosts a Town Hall Meeting where clients are encouraged to express concerns and staff can communicate about upcoming events and important issues. During this meeting, the Shelter is looking for two to five volunteers provide snacks and drinks. Also, volunteers can attend the meeting and pass out goodies.
The meetings are held in the evening once a month and last about two hours.
Tarrant Area Food Bank
At the Tarrant Area Food Bank, your family/organization can work on behalf of the Shelter and earn credits for our kitchen. Each volunteer who works at the food bank earns $5.15, which goes toward the Shelter?s food account. Volunteers work only three hour increments.
This is an amazing opportunity, especially for large groups (up to 10 volunteers). By participating, your group is helping PNS feed the hundreds of homeless that we serve each and every night.
To participate, your group must have three or more people and volunteers must be 16 or older. Volunteers will be sorting and boxing food, so please wear close-toed shoes. Please call PNS volunteer coordinator Heather White at 817-632-7415 or call the Tarrant Area Food Bank at 817-332-9177 ext.109 to schedule your group to volunteer. Don?t forget to tell them you?re with the Presbyterian Night Shelter!
Times: Monday: 7 a.m. to 3 p.m.; Tuesday and Thursday: 1 to 4 p.m. and 6 to 9 p.m.; Friday 9 a.m. to noon
Tarrant Area Food Bank is located at 2600 Cullen Street, Fort Worth, Texas 76107
Adopt-a-client
The Presbyterian Night Shelter is ending homelessness one individual at a time. Our homeless clients are moving out of the Shelter and into supportive housing soon! You can help us by ?adopting? one of our clients and help them move out of the Shelter, making their transition into mainstream society much easier. Through our program, Housing Solutions, our clients are placed into unfurnished apartments. By adopting one of our clients you (and your small group of family or friends) can help set up a client?s apartment with the following:
* Sheets, pillows and pillow cases
* Furniture including chairs, table, couch
* Alarm clock
* Toiletries items such as shampoo, soap and toilet paper
* Towels and washcloths
* Cleaning supplies including brooms, mops and cleaning sprays
* Laundry detergent
* Microwave
* Toaster
* TV
* Kitchen item such as paper towels, rags, hot pads, measuring cups, etc. (PNS provides clients with plates, cups, utensils and a small set of cookware.)
If you are interested in adopting a homeless client, please contact Heather White at 817-632-7415.
Tom Thumb's Good Neighbor Program
Support the Shelter every time you grocery shop. This opportunity allows Tom Thumb shoppers to link their Rewards cards to the Presbyterian Night Shelter's account, and when you make a purchase, that amount is automatically credited to PNS' account. It's free to sign up - all you have to do is shop!
To sign up, go to a Tom Thumb store and fill out a Reward Application form at any courtesy booth and indicate that you would like to link your card to PNS. Presbyterian Night Shelter's account number is 9763.
eBay Giving Works and MissionFish
Helps us fundraise at the click of your mouse! Through eBay's Giving Works program and MissionFish, an online fundraising program, you can help PNS a number of ways: put an item up for auction and donate a portion of the proceeds to the Shelter or donate to the shelter directly. To participate in the program you will need a PayPal account. To find out more about the program please visit www.missionfish.org or call Heather White at 817-632-7415.
Upcoming volunteer opportunities
Coming soon, the Shelter will offer special interest classes for our clients including healthy living, arts & crafts and job etiquette/interview training. Currently, we are looking for volunteers to teach these classes and/or provide materials. The classes will be held Monday through Thursday in the Main Shelter starting April 2008.? ?
We are looking for the following:
* A Bible study group to come on Wednesdays at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. We need a group to accommodate to both men and women. PNS will provide the group with Bibles.
* Volunteers trained in the following areas: job etiquette/ interviewing skills to host classes once a week. Schedule is flexible.
* Volunteers who can teach arts & crafts (knitting, crochet, etc.) to host classes once a week. Schedule is flexible.
* Volunteers trained in the following areas: adult literacy, adult basic education and/or GED to host classes once a week. Schedule is flexible.
* Volunteers trained in the following areas: computer literacy to host classes once a week. Schedule is flexible.
* Arts & Crafts materials such as yarn, knitting needles, crochet needles, scrapbook materials, drawing paper, colored pencils, etc.
Volunteer Opportunities
Volunteers donate thousands of hours of service each year, and are an important part of fulfilling our mission. Without volunteers, our staff simply couldn't provide the services and programs our clients need. Below are the following opportunities that volunteers can participate in:
Serve Dinner
Prepare and serve dinner at the Main Shelter (4-6:30 p.m.), Lowdon-Schutts Building, our women and children's building (5:30-6:30 p.m.) or Safe Haven, our mentally ill homeless shelter (4:30-5:30 p.m.).
Dispensary
Work in our dispensary, where we distribute toiletry items (such as soap and shampoo) to our clients in the Main Shelter. Hours available: Monday through Friday, 4:30 to 6:30 p.m.
Playgroups/Parties
Organize a playgroup or host a holiday-themed party for the children in the Lowdon-Schutts Building. Please note that we do not allow children under 18 years of age to volunteer in the women and children?s building. Monday through Friday 6:30 to 7:30 p.m.
Bible study
Organize a Bible study or support group. Hours available: Monday through Friday, mornings and evenings.
Breakfast baggies
It's the most important meal of the day and we'd like you to help us keep it that way. Drop off or prepare baggies at the Shelter with breakfast snacks such as doughnuts, coffeecake, bagels, muffins, prepackaged cereal, granola/breakfast bars, etc. Between 250 to 500 individually packaged items are requested per group.
Food preparation/clean-up
Looking for a hands-on kitchen experience? Be a chef for a night and help prepare evening meals! Offered three nights a week, volunteers help with food preparation such as peeling and washing vegetables, cutting/chopping foods, refilling ingredients and washing dishes.
Time: Monday through Friday, 5:30 to 7 p.m.
Dessert Days
Bring dessert such as cookies, cupcakes or slices of cake for the Main Shelter. Although we can?t bake the desserts at the Shelter, your group can host a cookie/cupcake decorating party at the Shelter before your desserts are handed out. Decorating at the Shelter is available Monday through Friday from 1:30 to 3 p.m. Please bring a minimum of 600 desserts.
Sandwiches
Make 200 to 500 sandwiches for the Shelter to distribute daily for breakfast and lunch. You may make them at the Shelter or at your own facility. PNS can provide plastic gloves, bowls, utensils and plastic bags; we ask that you provide all the sandwich materials, such as bread, meat, cheese, etc. (Please do not include mayonnaise because it spoils easily.) Donated sandwiches may be dropped off at the back door Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Groups coming to the Shelter to make sandwiches can call volunteer coordinator Heather White at 817-632-7415 to schedule a time.
Town Hall Meetings
Each month the Shelter hosts a Town Hall Meeting where clients are encouraged to express concerns and staff can communicate about upcoming events and important issues. During this meeting, the Shelter is looking for two to five volunteers provide snacks and drinks. Also, volunteers can attend the meeting and pass out goodies.
The meetings are held in the evening once a month and last about two hours.
Tarrant Area Food Bank
At the Tarrant Area Food Bank, your family/organization can work on behalf of the Shelter and earn credits for our kitchen. Each volunteer who works at the food bank earns $5.15, which goes toward the Shelter?s food account. Volunteers work only three hour increments.
This is an amazing opportunity, especially for large groups (up to 10 volunteers). By participating, your group is helping PNS feed the hundreds of homeless that we serve each and every night.
To participate, your group must have three or more people and volunteers must be 16 or older. Volunteers will be sorting and boxing food, so please wear close-toed shoes. Please call PNS volunteer coordinator Heather White at 817-632-7415 or call the Tarrant Area Food Bank at 817-332-9177 ext.109 to schedule your group to volunteer. Don?t forget to tell them you?re with the Presbyterian Night Shelter!
Times: Monday: 7 a.m. to 3 p.m.; Tuesday and Thursday: 1 to 4 p.m. and 6 to 9 p.m.; Friday 9 a.m. to noon
Tarrant Area Food Bank is located at 2600 Cullen Street, Fort Worth, Texas 76107
Adopt-a-client
The Presbyterian Night Shelter is ending homelessness one individual at a time. Our homeless clients are moving out of the Shelter and into supportive housing soon! You can help us by ?adopting? one of our clients and help them move out of the Shelter, making their transition into mainstream society much easier. Through our program, Housing Solutions, our clients are placed into unfurnished apartments. By adopting one of our clients you (and your small group of family or friends) can help set up a client?s apartment with the following:
* Sheets, pillows and pillow cases
* Furniture including chairs, table, couch
* Alarm clock
* Toiletries items such as shampoo, soap and toilet paper
* Towels and washcloths
* Cleaning supplies including brooms, mops and cleaning sprays
* Laundry detergent
* Microwave
* Toaster
* TV
* Kitchen item such as paper towels, rags, hot pads, measuring cups, etc. (PNS provides clients with plates, cups, utensils and a small set of cookware.)
If you are interested in adopting a homeless client, please contact Heather White at 817-632-7415.
Tom Thumb's Good Neighbor Program
Support the Shelter every time you grocery shop. This opportunity allows Tom Thumb shoppers to link their Rewards cards to the Presbyterian Night Shelter's account, and when you make a purchase, that amount is automatically credited to PNS' account. It's free to sign up - all you have to do is shop!
To sign up, go to a Tom Thumb store and fill out a Reward Application form at any courtesy booth and indicate that you would like to link your card to PNS. Presbyterian Night Shelter's account number is 9763.
eBay Giving Works and MissionFish
Helps us fundraise at the click of your mouse! Through eBay's Giving Works program and MissionFish, an online fundraising program, you can help PNS a number of ways: put an item up for auction and donate a portion of the proceeds to the Shelter or donate to the shelter directly. To participate in the program you will need a PayPal account. To find out more about the program please visit www.missionfish.org or call Heather White at 817-632-7415.
Upcoming volunteer opportunities
Coming soon, the Shelter will offer special interest classes for our clients including healthy living, arts & crafts and job etiquette/interview training. Currently, we are looking for volunteers to teach these classes and/or provide materials. The classes will be held Monday through Thursday in the Main Shelter starting April 2008.? ?
We are looking for the following:
* A Bible study group to come on Wednesdays at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. We need a group to accommodate to both men and women. PNS will provide the group with Bibles.
* Volunteers trained in the following areas: job etiquette/ interviewing skills to host classes once a week. Schedule is flexible.
* Volunteers who can teach arts & crafts (knitting, crochet, etc.) to host classes once a week. Schedule is flexible.
* Volunteers trained in the following areas: adult literacy, adult basic education and/or GED to host classes once a week. Schedule is flexible.
* Volunteers trained in the following areas: computer literacy to host classes once a week. Schedule is flexible.
* Arts & Crafts materials such as yarn, knitting needles, crochet needles, scrapbook materials, drawing paper, colored pencils, etc.
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