Current Volunteer Opportunities

Help us screen and interview incoming volunteer applications, create and manage sign ups for event volunteers, and whenever possible attend events to help supervise and assist event volunteers.

Requirements:
– 2 to 3 hour a week time commitment
– Good written and oral communication skills
– Basic computer skills (excel, basic internet and email use)
– Access to telephone and computer
– Self motivated

Conduct virtual (Zoom) interviews with potential adoptive families, facilitate initial meetings (in person at our office) with dogs and their potential families.

Requirements:

• Good written and oral communication skills
• Availability to do weekend and/or evening appointments with adopters
• Basic computer skills
• Experience transitioning dogs into new homes a plus but not required

This individual would volunteer their time to come down to our center and help sweep and mop, clean bathrooms, take out trash, wipe down windows as well as unpacking, sorting, organizing and putting away donations. Time commitment: 1 to 3 hours per week on Friday afternoons.

Requirements:

• Friday afternoon (1pm to 4pm) schedule availability
• Detail oriented
• Good organizational skills
• Reliable transportation
• Able to lift a minimum of 55 lbs (size of the largest dog food bags donated)

Work from home by phone calling and/or texting the families in our rehoming program for updates on their dogs including updated photographs, any new information on the status of their dog’s participation in the program, etc.

Requirements:

• Phone and text access
• Self-motivated, since this position would mostly be independent work from home
• Organized
• Good written and oral communication skills

Find guest speakers and/or create educational content to be presented one Sunday a month as a free educational program for pet owners in our community. Responsibilities include research and networking to find pet professionals interested in giving a free presentation at our resource center one Sunday per month and/or coordinating with team members on developing some internal educational material to present on pet related topics.

Requirements:

• Good written and oral communication skills
• Availability to attend/facilitate the event one Sunday per month at our resource center
• Basic computer skills to research pet related topics and create power point presentations

We are looking for an individual with a box truck or enclosed trailer with availability to help with large pet food donation pick ups. Responsibilities would include traveling to a location that has pallets of pet food for us to pick up, helping load those pallets into your truck or trailer, bringing them to our resource center and assisting with unloading, sorting and organizing the food. Tuesday availability would be ideal to train with and coordinate with the team currently already doing this.

Requirements:

• Tuesday schedule availability
• Access to a box truck or enclosed trailer
• Ability to help lift, load and sort food.
• Good organizational skills.
• Able to lift a minimum of 55 lbs (size of the largest dog food bags donated)

Help answer the phones at our community resource center and assist visitors to the center. Responsibilities include answering the phone, booking appointments, checking application statuses, returning voice mails. Assist visitors coming to the center for help, including assisting with handing out pet food via our pet pantry.

Requirements:

• Good written and oral communication skills
• In person availability one or more days a week Tuesday through Saturday
• Basic computer skills
• Ability to lift bags of cat and dog food

Help provide support to foster families including scheduling vet appointments, scheduling training appointments, arranging volunteer transport to appointments when needed, direct shipping food and supplies.

Requirements:

• Good written and oral communication skills
• Supportive, understanding personality to reassure fosters during difficult moments
• Good organizational skills
• Basic computer skills
• Phone and computer access
• Self motivated

We are in need of professional dog groomers to donate their time once every other month to help us groom dogs in need in our community.

We are looking for additional dog training professionals able to donate their time both helping to train dogs and run group classes at our center as well as to volunteer their time (or give discounts) to do in-home training sessions for dogs in need in our community through our training programs.

Helping research potential grants that we might qualify for and then helping fill out and submit grant applications on our behalf. Work from home by computer.

Requirements:

• Must be self-motivated
• Must have excellent written communication skills
• Prior grant writing experience a plus but can be trained

This individual would help take professional photographs of our team members, programs, events and more. Your business information would be credited and displayed where your photos are used.

Requirements:

• Must have photography equipment capable of taking professional quality photographs
• Photo editing skills to polish the photos for professional use

This individual would help film and edit video content for our website and social media pages. Would be looking for someone available to coordinate on scheduling days and times to film educational content and testimonials as well as someone available to come get footage at our events and during our program activities. Your business/information would be credited and displayed where videos are used.

Requirements:

• Needs to have own camera equipment capable of producing professional quality footage
• Experienced with video editing and production to create a professional, finished video product