35th Annual Lazy Daze Arts & Crafts Festival – Cary, NC. August 27, 2011
Every year on the fourth Saturday in August, an estimated 60,000 people travel to downtown Cary to enjoy the handiwork of the best artists and craftsmen in the country. The festival also features entertainment on two stages, a variety of food, and civic group exhibits.
The event planners have requested our role for 60 people to lead and serve as Public Information Hosts. We will facilitate the Lazy Daze information Center and have individual volunteers roaming the festival area. Volunteers are asked to serve for one two-hour shift or more. This will be a fun event to mingle in the crowd and serve as ambassadors for the Town of Cary.
Contact Jon Heath at jonh@hopenc.org or 919 303-4673 for more information and scheduling.
Jordan Lake Church for Campers Ministry: Sundays at Jordon Lake can be a rewarding experience for campers because we are bringing Sunday Worship service to them.Phil & Jan Carter (HC members) organize weekly teams during the summer months that hosts an hour-long service at Jordan Lake for campers. Arriving at Jordon Lake one hour before the service begins, our team will go to surrounding campsites and invite campers to our outdoor gathering at the Poplar Point Amphitheater for the 9:00 a.m. celebration. The schedule begins, May 29th thru Sept.4th. We provide 4-10 volunteers weekly to greet, teach, pray or provide awesome worship music.
Contact the Carter’s at janhelencarter@juno.com, or call 919-219-3486 for more details and scheduling your Sunday dates.
Christian Life Home of Raleigh:CLH provides a loving family home for women ages 10-23 in-unplanned pregnancy to receive care, counseling and life skills training. Our assistance to the CLH provides a wide variety of needs. Volunteers can help by coordinating groups to collect canned goods, paper goods and food, or do yard work or household projects. Plumbers, electricians, carpet cleaners, painters and laborers are all needed to help maintain our homes. Volunteers can teach the girls how to bake, sew, knit, cook, decorate, or make a craft. Individuals who have experience, spiritual maturity and good interpersonal skills make excellent teachers for the classes we offer at the Christian Life Home. These classes offer essential teaching and encouragement to the young women. Classes are held one night a week and last for one to two hours. Volunteer service opportunities include: yard/house maintenance, teaching how to bake, sew, knit, cook, decorate, or make crafts. Volunteers needed varies per date and house summer schedule. Prior to visiting the home, volunteers need to submit volunteer application, signed confidentiality statement, and background check information.
Ronald McDonald House of Durham: Since 1980, the Ronald McDonald House of Durham has allowed families to focus on the health and well being of their critically ill children by keeping families together who are in need of a community of hope, comfort, and empathy. Ronald McDonald House of Durham offers families the comforts of home – inviting bedrooms, bright community spaces, daily home-cooked meals and a fully stocked kitchen – as well as a network of support through interactions with other families, local support groups and volunteers.
The possibilities for volunteers are endless with needs including: yard work, maintenance, meal preparation, house cleaning, game and craft, and various other tasks. We encourage our teams to consider the daily meal preparation need, providing a meal for 50 house residents. Meal Team daily schedules: Mon-Friday 5:00pm-8:00pm, Sat-Sun 10:00am-12:00 with 10 to12 volunteers needed to prepare and serve the meal.
Raleigh Rescue Mission: Through the Love of Jesus Christ, Raleigh Rescue Mission rebuilds the broken lives of men, women and children by ministering to their physical, emotional, and spiritual needs. The Mission embraces the poor and homeless with the compassion of Christ, giving them hope and healing for a changed life, and provides overnight sleeping accommodations, food, and medical services. Daily, weekly, monthly volunteer service opportunities include:
· Breakfast, lunch, and dinner preparation and serving
· Working food pantry (sorting, packaging, serving)
· Working the donation center (minimum age 21)
Durham Rescue Mission:At the Durham Rescue Mission, there are various volunteer opportunities available; from one-time individual, family, or group tasks to daily, weekly, or monthly that include Breakfast, lunch, and dinner preparation and serving
· Working food pantry (sorting, packaging, serving)
· Working the donation center (minimum age 21)
Every year, hundreds of caring people in the Triangle volunteer at the Durham Rescue Mission. Other needs besides meals include tutoring for children and adults, and providing other skills and services. Volunteers are an important part of DRM ministry, but you will find that volunteering provides personal benefits for the volunteer; as well of those you serve.
To learn more, please view events and options below or contact our Volunteer Coordinator at volunteer@DurhamRescueMission.com or call (919) 688-9641, ext. 5025or online at http://www.durhamrescuemission.org/
Food Bank of Carolina- Raleigh: Knowledge and understanding are powerful tools in the battle to end hunger. The resources of FBC help adults and children better understand the causes of hunger and the challenges to food security. FBC also teach about nutrition, food safety and recipes. Our dream is that there would be no hungry people in North Carolina. The better we understand issues that cause hunger, the sooner this dream can become a reality.FBC provides food to people at risk of hunger by distributing food through 800 partner agencies including soup kitchens, food pantries, shelters, and after school programs for children.
Warehouse volunteers help to sort and repackage 40% of our warehouse inventory. Groups and individuals can help with: sorting fresh produce into smaller boxes; repackaging products from food manufacturers and distributors; and, putting bulk items into family size portions. Volunteers needed to sort and repackage bulk food for individual/family servings: Monday - Saturday 8:30 am -5 pm
For more information on warehouse volunteering, please contact:
Raleigh - Julius Colbert, 919-875-0707
Durham – Peter Sloan, 919-956-2513
Inner-Faith Food Shuttle: is a private, nonprofit, hunger relief organization --- a nontraditional food bank. IFFS is different from traditional food banks in that we focus on the recovery of perishable foods.
Beginning 22 years ago with 2 soccer moms, who remains active with the Shuttle, were eating in a fast food restaurant when they noticed the woman behind the counter discarding perfectly good breakfast sandwiches. When they asked why, the manager told them that he had to make room for the lunch items. Believing that good food does not belong in our landfills as long as people go hungry, they convinced him to give the sandwiches to them, loaded them into Jill’s station wagon and drove them to the Shepherd’s Table Soup Kitchen in downtown Raleigh. As a result the Inter-Faith Food Shuttle was born! The first year IFFS began, over 6 hundred pounds was delivered in the community. In comparison, last year IFFS moved over 6.5 million pounds!
For volunteer groups, we offer: GROCERY BAG PREP: Groups in this program make and deliver grocery bags to low-income seniors or families. We set the group up in a production line giving them everything they need: produce, snacks and bags. IFFS provides volunteers with maps and directions, while using their own vehicles; they can deliver resource bags directly to the people who’ll be using them. The entire group goes to one location, and even delivers door-to-door. This service usually takes about 2 hours from start to finish. We have to limit the size of groups to around 15 people providing this activity Tuesday through Thursday at 10:30am or 1:30pm and on some Saturdays at varying times.
For more information about service opportunities and serving schedules, contact:
Emily ZartmanVolunteer Coordinator at emily@foodshuttle.org or call 919 250-0043