Volunteers are needed for computer projects, clerical work, fund raising projects and various other projects.

Volunteers are needed to answer and direct phone calls, data entry, and clerical work.
- 4-hour shifts needed.

Volunteers are also needed to respond to local disasters and to teach valuable life saving skills such as CPR and first aid. Call for additional information and time requirements.

Youth volunteers are needed for office help, youth council and youth chapter projects.

Susan Shreve
615/790-5785

Celeste Schmidt
615/790-5785 or schmidtc@crossnet.org

Boys & Girls Club of Franklin/ Williamson County
129 W. Fowlkes St., Ste. 1000
Franklin, TN 37064

Volunteers needed for tutoring, computer projects, clerical work, fund raising projects, mentors for teens and to provide special programming to girls.

Geoff Norman –
Teen Programs /
615/599-0903

William Tucker –
Children’s Programs/
615/794-4800

Den Leaders for Cub Scouts - 4 hrs/wk

Scoutmasters & Asst. Scoutmasters –
3-6 hrs/wk, plus weekend outings

District Committee Members - 3-6 hrs/mo

Unit Committee Members - 3-6 hrs/mo

Ongoing needs:
Computer projects/clerical work

Provide transportation on a regular/sporadic basis

Work clothing closet to process donations, after 1/1/07

Day/Evening Crisis Line volunteers (must complete 40 hr. training)

Host / Hostess needed on Mondays from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. to answer phone, greet people as they arrive, give tours of the facility and assist staff.

Volunteer Driver needed to return participants to their homes at end of activity day (13 mile radius of Center) – 2:00/3:00 pm.

Volunteers needed for minor home repairs and lawn work

WAREHOUSE HELPERS
Unloading trucks, unpacking boxes, stocking shelves, inventory control and moving furniture. Drivers with pick-up trucks needed occasionally for furniture delivery.

COMPUTER TECHNICIANS
Equipment evaluation and set up.

ADMINISTRATIVE
Data entry, envelope stuffing, filing and facility and grounds.

SPECIAL EVENTS
Parking lot attendant, check-in/registration and check-out.

Volunteers needed for membership counter shifts, wellness center floor shifts, Rocks & Ropes program including belayers and facilitators of team building activities.

Volunteers needed to help with annual We Build People fundraising campaign.

Fundraising and office support positions available.

Volunteer Opportunities include:
Assisting with direct mail publications in the form of stuffing envelopes 4 times a year.

Assist the marketing and development department with updating donor records and filing.

Assist with record keeping, stats and filing one day a week for our neighborhood outreach programs.

Offering your time as a mentor for our relative caregiver program. Help school age children with homework after school.

Caring telephone counselors

Volunteer support work

Girl Scouts of America
202 4th Avenue South
Franklin, TN 37064

Troop Leaders/Volunteers: 5 – 7 hours a month

Service Unit leadership: 3 – 5 hours a month

Front Desk Reception
Wednesday and Thursday, early morning. Job includes answering phone, screening patients, scheduling appointments, record-keeping, and greeting and signing in patients. Some training required.

General Office
Tasks include writing volunteer thank you notes, wrapping and delivering dentist thank you gifts, filing designing better record-keeping systems, copying, collating mailings, etc. Hours flexible.

Dentist, Dental Hygienist or Dental Assistant
Dentists, hygienists and assistants volunteer to see patients at the clinic OR in their office.

Board Member
Open to recruiting Board Member with public relations expertise. (Board meets four times a year, with each member serving on a committee: Client Services, Finance & Human Resources and Marketing and Development.)

Volunteers needed for the afterschool program on Mondays. Program operates August through May (possible throughout the summer). Its focus is on tutoring, social skills development, and recreational activities for children ages 7 through 18.

Volunteers needed to assist with 1x1 tutoring, group activities supervision, and lesson/activity preparation.

Skills with American Sign Language (ASL) or Signed Exact English (SEE) are desirable.

Briggette Ochoa
Director of Youth
Services at LDHH/
615/627-0576 or
BO@LDHH.org
BOLDHH@TMAIL.com

Work one-on-one with adult education students preparing to take GED, learn English as a second language, or striving to improve basic literacy skills

Volunteer instructors and speakers

Volunteer assistance to answer phones, greet members, provide programs information and assistance, and assist staff; gardening and cleaning assistance.

Friends Learning In Pairs (FLIP)
Seniors willing to tutor at risk students K-3rd grade (training provided)

Living At Home
Friendly visitors for homebound seniors
Minor household repair and cleaning for frail seniors
Transportation for seniors to local appointments

Shirley Bledsoe–
FLIP Coordinator, Williamson County
615/376-4332

Rod Lenker -
Case Manager /
615/376-4334

Homemaker Program – Yard-work, building ramps and handrails, light household chores. All available Monday–Friday from 8:00/4:30, or call for a volunteer packet.

MCHRA - Meals on Wheels
Central office address:
1101 Kermit Drive, Ste. 300
Nashville, TN 37217

Areas serviced from:
Community Services Bldg.-Franklin
Community Services Bldg.-Fairview
United Methodist Church-Triune

Deliver lunch meals to homebound elderly participants in Franklin, Triune or Fairview. – routes tailored
1 – 1½ hours in the morning. Help pack food into containers and coolers in the morning for volunteers to deliver.

Triune –
Connie McDonnell
395-7473

Fairview –
Debby Rainey
615/799-0424

Volunteers are assigned to a nursing home near their home location to act as advocates for the residents of that facility. They are asked to visit the facility weekly to see the residents, investigate and mediate complaints made by, or on behalf of the residents.

Volunteers attend a 15-hour certification class and 4 monthly in-service meetings per year. They also turn in a monthly report detailing visits to their assigned facility.

Donna Ray Anthony -
Long-Term Care Ombudsman
Program Director/
615/850-3922

Provide relief 2/4 hrs. per week in assisting a caregiver of someone with Alzheimer’s. Volunteer is matched with one family and provides respite for same family each week. No experience required; training provided through MHAMT.

Clinical or Master’s level professionals needed to screen for anxiety and depression.

Volunteer with understanding/sympathetic disposition and good communication skills to assist with intake and referral calls. Training provided to familiarize volunteer with resources available. – Hours very flexible.

(Residential group home for adolescent boys in state’s custody) Volunteers needed for quarterly yard work, house cleaning

Volunteers needed for fundraising projects

Volunteers needed for clerical work

Volunteers needed to be mentors/tutors for male teens Patty Martinez
Executive Director
615/790-8553
Patty.martinez@comcast.net

Patty Martinez
Executive Director
615/790-8553
Patty.martinez@comcast.net

Food Delivery: Assist with local and/or rural delivery of frozen meals and food bags. Food bag delivery can be scheduled once a month, at your convenience. (Local or rural delivery of frozen meals must be scheduled once a week.) - 1 to 2 hours

Heartline: Provide information and referral services for clients and the community. Volunteer answer phones, provide hospitality and make assist clients. Hours are Monday-Friday 8:30-5:00. Two-four hour shifts.

Practical Support: Volunteers assist clients with the practical issues of living with HIV/AIDS, such as simple house or yard work, trips to Doctors, grocery stores, etc.

Special Events: Work on a committee or help the day of the event.

Donations – Volunteers needed to maintain donations. Duties may include picking up clothes to wash, then returning them to NFN. Sorting, packaging and labeling donations for distribution, cleaning toys, organizing supplies and packaging clothes for distribution. Donation soliciting, contacting companies for donations (formula, diaper, etc.), and going to yard/garage sales getting items donated (On-going! Great for volunteers of all ages and as a group activity!)

Office – Volunteers needed for general office tasks: filing, copying, sorting, bulk mailings, answering the phone, assisting staff with daily operations, and much more. (On-going and as needed)

Host a Baby Shower – Volunteers needed to host “Baby Showers” to collect essential items for babies.

Friends Group – Our “Friends Group” is an auxiliary organization of NFNT. NFNT Friends is dedicated to further the mission of Nurses for Newborns through marketing, fundraising, volunteering and financial support (On-going)

Special Events – Assist in the planning and implementation of various fundraising events and projects throughout the year. (As needed)

Crisis Services Volunteer– Spend time with the teens staying in our emergency shelter: playing games, going to the YMCA, etc.

Community Cares Night – Bring ingredients to cook dinner with the teens staying in our emergency shelter. (Mondays 4:30 – 6:30pm)

SAFE PLACE Volunteer– Transport youth from a site near you to the Oasis shelter on 17th Ave. S.

Group Volunteer – Provide recreation, and/or enrichments activities for the teens in the shelter.

Tutor – Teens in our counseling program that need help with school subjects.

Support Volunteers
Client Interaction: Limited
Community Member Interaction: Limited to moderate
Training: Limited ( 1 – 4 hours)
Time Available: Some weekends and evening work, but mostly weekday work

May include but is not limited to: Assist staff with data entry, filing, shredding, mailings, updating files; calling volunteers or donors; fundraising activities, grant writing, researching grants; researching marketing opportunities; research funding sources; receptionist duties (answering the phone and greeting clients)

Community Education and Outreach Volunteers
Client Interaction: Limited
Community Member Interaction: Extensive
Training: Moderate training (5 – 15 hours)
Time Available: Evening, some weekdays and weekend work

May include but is not limited to: Giving pre-designed presentations; acting as ambassador at special events; staffing a display table; teaching community members about programs offered at RASAC; working with school counselors with safety program for children; pre/post testing of students; entering data; assisting with training of school counselors;

Companion Volunteers
Client Interaction: Extensive
Community Member Interaction: Moderate to extensive
Training: Extensive training (20+ hours)
Time available: Anytime, flexible to meet your schedule

May include but is not limited to:
Crisis Line: Answering calls at home during a shift of your choice; providing support to victims and families by referring them to applicable services
Hospital Accompaniment: Accompany victims and act as an advocate for them in the process at the hospital

Special Projects Volunteer
Client Interaction: Limited
Community Member interaction: Moderate to extensive
Training: Limited to moderate training, depending on activities involved
Schedule: Dependent on activities, could be virtual

May include but is not limited to: providing special services (services tat you can provide that the Center would normally have to pay for, such as ground maintenance, accounting services, photography, website development, grant writing, etc.); assistance coordinating fundraising events (such as Mad Hatter Dinner/Silent Auction, Walk in Their Shoes, Artists benefiting RASAC, volunteer appreciation events, workshops, concerts); other projects as needed

Volunteers needed to sort food in the Food2Families room. (Must be at least 6th grade level.)
Group volunteers – up to 50 volunteers. Adult chaperones required for groups under 18 years of age.

Make Crisis Feeding Boxes:
Small box, 12” X 6/8” tall (w/lid closed) needs to contain the following:
2 cans meat (tuna, etc.)
2 cans soup
2 cans green vegetables
1 can non-green vegetable
1 can fruit or fruit juice
1 bag/box rice
1 can beans
1 jar peanut butter
1 sleeve crackers

Boxes can be delivered to Second Harvest between 8 am and 4:30 pm, Monday thru Friday.

Volunteers also needed to assist with large mailing for Nashville’s Table fundraising events. Times and number of volunteers are flexible

Senior Transport Partnership (STP)
Volunteer drivers needed to provide transportation to and from medical visits for seniors in need.

Volunteers needed to co-facilitate Parent Education Classes during school year - 3 week session 1 night per week. Training class provided and is required.

Adult (parent) chaperones in after-school events; student training (October) GED.

Parent Education volunteers to be facilitators implementing the Parenting for Prevention Training.

Technical volunteers that can train the STARS Staff in various software programs and PowerPoint presentations.

Volunteers to assist with Special Events and Community Presentations.

Present poison prevention programs to schools, parent groups and other organizations. Flexible hours. 1 hour training needed; program time - 20/30 minutes

Teaching groups…whatever your talent or passion may be to positively influence teenage girls (as much as you would like to lead).

Being a Big Sister to one of the girls: a mentoring program involving spending time with child (call for details and training opportunities)

Clerical, secretarial duties (office hours are
8-4:30; times vary as to what you can provide)

Creating and doing our quarterly newsletter
Board Member (meet every 3rd Monday of each month from 5:30-6:30 pm)

Opportunities to spend time with developmentally delayed adults.

Critical need Mon-Fri from 9 am – 2 pm.
at the Day Program. Volunteers needed to assist with or plan craft activities, play games and puzzles with the program participants, help write letters, and be a conversation partner in similar activities.

Weekend and evening opportunities also available; hours would be spent at a residential setting. Activities include conversation, playing cards and games, taking an individual to church or lunch, and / or special projects such as planting a garden, needle point, making scrapbooks, etc.

Opportunities for office / clerical work such as filing, copying and assistance with special mailings or projects are available Mon - Fri.,
8 am – 4 pm

Volunteer opportunities require 1 hr/wk, but commitment is flexible.

Volunteers needed to be trained as: Children’s Advocates

Assistance needed periodically for:
General clerical/office duties
Special events

Crisis Line – Provide resources and support to individuals who call our crisis line.
8 am – 10 pm, M – F (min. 2 hr. shift)

Childcare (in-shelter) – Provide childcare for children 0-11 years old while moms attend support groups.
6 – 8 pm, M - Th

Donations – Assist staff in stocking kitchens, sorting clothes, house cleaning, clerical support, and preparing packages for women moving into their own housing.
9 am – 5 pm, 7 days a week

Community Outreach – Assist community outreach team through putting YW materials in doctor’s offices, teen centers and other public facilities. Assist support group facilitators with paperwork or childcare, or speak to community groups about domestic violence and healthy relationships.
Times and days vary

Group Volunteer Opportunities – Includes decorating for holidays, sponsoring a party for the residents, tending the therapeutic gardens, general house cleaning, or other projects created to fit the needs and talents of your group.