direct service volunteer opportunities€¦ · p.o. ox 32027, washington d 20007 (703) 973-5397...
TRANSCRIPT
1
DIRECT SERVICE VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES
“It is essential to draw near to new forms of poverty and vulnerability, in which we are called to
recognize the suffering Christ, even if this appears to bring us no tangible and immediate benefits. I
think of the homeless, the addicted, refugees, indigenous peoples, the elderly who are increasingly
isolated and abandoned, and many others.” – Pope Francis, Joy of the Gospel
Direct service allows Holy Trinity parishioners a chance to help, which is how St. Ignatius described
service – nothing lofty, simply helping and working side-by-side with others. This kind of service allows
us to form relationships, show solidarity, and learn and work with others, particularly the poor and
vulnerable. It also allows us to share the life that God has given us.
Below is a list of the service opportunities available to Holy Trinity parishioners at agencies that the
parish supports through its tithe grants. For additional information on specific opportunity, please
contact the agency representative listed. For additional opportunities in Northern Virginia, or
Montgomery County, MD please see the listing of local volunteer agencies at the end of this document.
And, for general information about a listed agency or volunteer opportunity, please contact Kate
Tromble at [email protected].
A WIDER CIRCLE
9159-C Brookville Rd, Silver Spring, MD 20910
(301) 608-3504
www.awidercircle.org
Agency contact: Mark Bergel, [email protected], sign-up via www.awidercircle.org; HT Contact: Joyce Forrest
A Wider Circle helps individuals and families lift themselves out of poverty by, among other things,
providing furniture and household goods to families moving out of shelters, living in neglected
neighborhoods, or simply living without their basic needs met. Volunteer opportunities include
collecting, sorting and delivering furniture and food donations, helping organize the warehouse where
clients “shop” for furniture and household items, and helping with office support.
BRIGHT BEGINNINGS
128 M Street NW, Washington DC 20001
(202) 842-9090
www.brightbeginningsinc.org
Volunteer contact: LeNesha Brown, [email protected]; HT Contact: Ann Friedman
Bright Beginnings is a child development center providing interventions for homeless families and their
children. Bright Beginnings provides education, health and developmental assessments, onsite
therapeutic services, family case management, and intensive family support. Volunteer opportunities
2
include assisting in the classroom, reading regularly to a child, and indoor/outdoor play.
CHRIST HOUSE
1717 Columbia Road, NW, Washington DC 20009
(202) 328-1100
www.christhouse.org
Volunteer contact: David Long, [email protected]; HT Contact: Don Leathem
Christ House provides comprehensive health care to sick, homeless men and women in DC after their
release from local hospitals, clinics, or shelters. Holy Trinity serves lunch on the 2nd and 4th Saturday of
each month, and breakfast on the 3rd Saturday of the month. Contact HT parishioner Don Leathem,
[email protected], for more information.
DOG TAG BAKERY
3210 Grace Street, NW, Washington DC 20007
(202) 527-9388
www.dogtagbakery.org
Agency contact: Simone Borisov, [email protected]; HT Contact: Mike Conway
Dog Tag Bakery assists returning wounded veterans by providing both substantive work experience in
the bakery as well as classwork and guidance on entrepreneurship, re-entering the workforce, and
starting a business. Volunteer opportunities include: mentoring, speaking to the class about
entrepreneurship, resume writing, and general workforce skills.
EMMAUS SERVICES FOR THE AGING
1426 9th Street NW, Washington DC 20001
(202) 745-1200
www.emmausservices.org
Agency contact: Kevin Golden, [email protected]
Emmaus provides comprehensive services such as social centers and nutrition sites, outreach, advocacy,
case management, nutrition education, recreation, and mental health services, for low-income seniors
to enable them to maintain independent living. Volunteer opportunities include preparing delivering
grocery bags to seniors and weekly visits to seniors to check in on them and help with light cleaning.
3
FATHER MCKENNA CENTER
19 Eye Street NW, WDC 20001
(202) 842-1112
www.fathermckennacenter.org
Agency contact: Ned Hogan, [email protected]; HT Contact: Ned Hogan
The McKenna Center is a daytime drop-in center for homeless men in downtown DC. It provides laundry
services, meals, showers, drug and alcohol counseling, HIV/AIDS counseling and support, a hypothermia
shelter in winter and emergency food, rental, and utility assistance. Volunteer opportunities include
picking up food at the food back and delivering it to the center weekly and preparing, serving and
sharing meals with guests.
FRIENDSHIP PLACE
4713 Wisconsin Ave., NW, Washington DC 20016
(202) 364-1419
www.cchfp.org
Volunteer contact: Jean Michel Giraud, [email protected];
Friendship Place helps homeless men and women living in upper Northwest DC rebuild their lives
through street outreach, a drop-in center, free medical and psychiatric consultations, referrals to long-
term treatment and rehabilitation services, and support for the operations of small
congregation-based shelters. Volunteer opportunities include helping with meals, hospitality, leading
craft projects, and mentoring clients.
GEORGETOWN MINISTRY CENTER
1041 Wisconsin Avenue, NW. Washington DC 20007
(202) 338-8301
www.georgetownministrycenter.org
Agency contact: Gunther Stern, gunther@gmcgt; HT Contact: Joe Ryan
Georgetown Ministry Center operates a daily drop-in center for homeless individuals in the
Georgetown/Foggy Bottom area. The Center provides food, shower, and laundry facilities; counseling;
information; and referrals for job search and training programs, transitional and permanent housing,
and mental health and substance abuse treatment. Volunteer opportunities include preparing and
delivering sandwiches and assisting outreach workers.
4
GEORGETOWN SATURDAY AND SUNDAY SUPPERS
Holy Trinity coordinates weekly sit-down meals for the homeless in Georgetown. In addition to
preparing and serving food, there are some light set-up and clean-up duties. For more information,
contact HT parishioner Mike Conway at [email protected]
HANDS ON HOUSING http://www.trinity.org/socialjustice/handsonhousing
Hands on Housing, through its volunteers, provides essential home construction, renovations and
repairs to improve the housing of those in need: low-income families, those living in shelters, abused
and battered families, the elderly, and the disabled. Volunteer opportunities including participating on a
team of renovation/construction volunteers. For more information contact HT parishioners Mary Beth
Murphy ([email protected]), Kate McGroarty ([email protected]), Mary Glackin
([email protected]), Chuck Boehmer ([email protected]), or Susan Gajewski
HOPE AND A HOME
1439 R Street NW, Washington DC 20009
(202) 387-7091
www.hopeandahome.org
Agency contact: Lynne French, [email protected]; HT Contact: Scott Sherwood
Hope and a Home provides 18 below-market rental units to homeless and low-income families. In
addition it provides intensive family support and financial literacy training, and addresses mental health
and employment issues. Volunteer opportunities include tutoring, mentoring, transportation, and office
help.
Iona Senior Services
4125 Albermarle St, NW, Washington, DC 20016
(202) 895-9448
www.iona.org
Volunteer Coordinator: Tania Gembala Sechriest
Iona supports people as they experience the challenges and opportunities of aging. They educate,
advocate, and provide community-based services to help people age well and live well. They also work
with caregivers of those who are aging to help them assist their loved ones in aging well.
5
JUBILEE JOBS
2712 Ontario Rd., NW, Washington DC 20009
(202) 667-8970
www.jubileejobs.org
Volunteer Coordinator: Jennie Murray, [email protected]
Jubilee Jobs provides compassionate, skilled job preparation and placement services to ex-offenders,
welfare recipients, immigrants, the homeless, and the formerly addicted. Volunteer opportunities
include helping applicants with resumes and online applications, leading workshops on interviewing,
goal-setting, helping with calls for reference checks, and mentoring clients on weekdays and some
evenings.
KEYS FOR THE HOMELESS FOUNDATION
P.O. Box 32027, Washington DC 20007
(703) 973-5397
www.keysforthehomeless.org
Agency Contact: Valerie Johnson, [email protected]; HT Contact: Valerie Johnson
KEYS for the Homeless Foundation acts as a distribution network providing everyday basic household
goods to meet real life needs. Volunteer opportunities include helping with regular furniture deliveries
from hotels or Virginia warehouse to nonprofits in DC.
LIVING WAGES
P. O. Box 6967, Washington DC 20032
(202) 574-3962
www.livingwages.org
Volunteer contact: Bob Crittenden, [email protected]; HT Contact: Ed Prendergast
Living Wages provides adult education in Southeast Washington, DC. Volunteer opportunities include
tutoring in math, reading, and science and providing administrative support.
MARY HOUSE
4303 13th St., NE, Washington DC 20017
(202) 526-4775
www.maryhouse.org
Agency contact: William Murphy, [email protected]; HT Contact: Margaret Hensler
6
Mary House provides transitional housing services, shelter, and support programs for homeless and
struggling families at 13 sites in Northeast DC and Takoma Park. Volunteer opportunities include
tutoring/mentoring children in primary and middle school and yard work.
NEW ENDEAVORS BY WOMEN
611 N Street NW, Washington DC 20001 (202) 682-5825
www.newendeavorsbywomen.org
Volunteer contact: Tiffany Lynch, [email protected]; HT Contact: Anne Raffaelli
New Endeavors by Women provides transitional and permanent supportive housing programs for
homeless women and children. Volunteer opportunities include sharing meals, mentoring clients,
leading social activities, providing childcare, running enrichment and education programs, collecting,
sorting and organizing clothing closet, escorting clients to appointments, and tutoring.
THE NORTHWEST CENTER
2702 Ontario Rd, Washington DC 20009
(202) 483-7008
www.northwestcenter.net
Volunteer contact: Susan Gallucci, [email protected];
The Northwest Center seeks to promote the dignity of women and a respect for all human life by
offering the loving support and comprehensive aid necessary for women to continue their pregnancies,
deliver healthy babies, and adequately care for themselves and their children. Volunteer opportunities
include: providing counseling (requires training), painting and house projects, cleaning, babysitting.
OPEN ARMS HOUSING
57 O St, NW, Washington DC 20001
(202) 525-3467
www.openarmshousing.org
Agency contact: Marilyn Kresky-Wolff, [email protected]; HT Contact: Joyce Forrest
7
Open Arms Housing provides permanent, supportive housing to homeless women with serious mental illness. OAH
currently serves 16 women in efficiency apartments. Volunteer Opportunities include: offering moving assistance,
Christmas Day celebrations, and Bible study classes.
RACHAEL'S WOMEN’S CENTER
1222 11th Street NW, Washington DC 20001
(202) 682-1005
www.rachaels.org
Agency contact: Dawn Swan, [email protected]; HT Contact: Kathy Thompson, [email protected]
Rachael’s Women’s Center, a day shelter for homeless women in DC, combines emergency services such
as meals, clothing, and shower and laundry facilities with case management, 12-step meetings, mental
health services, career counseling, job readiness training, and work experience. Volunteer opportunities
include preparing and serving breakfast or lunch, helping with office tasks, and helping lead groups in
gardening, painting, cleaning, or social activities.
SACRED HEART DINNER PROGRAM
Gavan Center
3211 Sacred Heart Way, NW, Washington, DC 20010
(202) 234-8000
http://dinnerprogram.org/
Agency contact: Hever Leonzo, [email protected]; HT Contact: Ron Castaldi
The Shrine of the Sacred Heart Dinner Program is a volunteer operation that serves nutritious meals to
homeless and low-income individuals in Washington DC on a daily basis. Volunteer opportunities include
preparing and serving meals.
ST. ANN’S CENTER FOR CHILDREN, YOUTH AND FAMILIES
4901 Eastern Ave, Hyattsville MD 20782
(301) 559-5500
www.stanns.org
Agency contact: Sr. Mary Bader, [email protected]; HT Contact: Anne Schneiders
St. Ann's operates transitional housing programs for at-risk mothers and their children as well as a
community day care center. The program also offers residential care for pregnant adolescents and
young mothers up to age 22 and their babies. Volunteer opportunities include: mentorship and job
coaching as well as lending skills in accounting, law, marketing, human resources, and
communications.
8
SOME (So Others Might Eat)
71 “O” St. NW, Washington DC 20001
(202) 797-8806
www.some.org
Agency contact: Linda Parisi, [email protected]; HT Contacts: Patrick McCourt, Justine Javier
SOME provides food, medical and dental care, job training, addictions treatment, mental health
programs, and affordable housing with supportive services for families and individuals to poor and
homeless men and women in DC. Holy Trinity School and religious education children, families, and
parishioners prepare and serve meals and provide fellowship once a month at SOME (Provide-a-Meal).
Volunteer opportunities include participating in the provide a meal program, tutoring adults and
children, and sorting and distributing donated items.
TRANSITION ASSISTANCE PROGRAM
One Chevy Chase Circle, NW, Washington DC 20015
(202) 244-3616
http://www.chevychasepc.org/transition-assistance-program/
Agency contact: Susan Price, [email protected]
Chevy Chase Presbyterian’s transition assistance program helps homeless clients obtain critical
identification documents, such as their birth certificates and social security cards. Volunteer
opportunities include: interviewing clients, sandwich makings, staffing clothes closet.
WASHINGTON ENGLISH CENTER
2200 California St. NW, Washington DC 20008
(202) 387-2222
http://www.washingtonenglish.org/
Volunteer contact: Gabriela Mossi [email protected]; HT Contact: Fran Butler
Washington English Center, founded in 1993 as Language ETC, provides English literacy, citizenship
classes, and workforce development to low-income adult immigrants in the Washington, DC area using
volunteer teachers. Volunteer opportunities include teaching a class, job coaching or tutoring a student.
Bilingual adults are appreciated, but not necessary. Training provided.
WELCOME HOME PROGRAM
9
P.O. Box 4597, Washington DC 20017
(202) 772-4300, ext. 040
www.catholiccharitiesdc.org/WelcomeHome
Volunteer contact: Karen McNeal, [email protected]
The Welcome Home Program at Catholic Charities lives the Gospel Mandate to serve men and women
returning to their communities after incarceration by building relationships and matching returning
individuals with compassionate volunteer mentors. Volunteer opportunities include mentoring an ex-
offender who is re-entering the workforce by helping with job search, resume writing, etc.
General Catholic Volunteer Opportunities
In addition to the agencies listed above that offer ongoing volunteer opportunities, you
can get general information about other opportunities at Catholic Charities of the
Archdiocese’s main office. If you are over 50, there are long-term opportunities that
match your areas of expertise available through the Ignatian Volunteer Corps.
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF WASHINGTON
924 G St, NW, Washington, DC 20001
(202) 772-4300
http://www.catholiccharitiesdc.org/volunteer
IGNATIAN VOLUNTEER CORPS
19 Eye St, NW, Washington, DC 20001
(202) 227-4447
http://www.ivcusa.org/ivc-offices/welcome-to-ivc-dcmetro-maryland/
Volunteer Contact: Mike Goggin, Regional Director
Volunteer in your Local Community
If you and your family members only have a limited amount to time to volunteer, you don’t what to spend a lot of that time traveling to and from the place where you serve. Look into the hundreds of volunteer opportunities that exist in your local communities. All the local community governments in the DC Metro area support services that promote volunteerism and have ways to connect your interests with a community’s needs. Opportunities also exist to earn Student Service Learning Hours.
Here’s contact information for these various volunteer offices.
Alexandria City
10
Our Vision: All Alexandrians are engaged to make a difference in our community. Our Mission: The mission of Volunteer Alexandria is to build a better community by inspiring and mobilizing people to volunteer. In order to sign up or express interest in any of our volunteer opportunities and activities, you’ll need to create an account so you can login. Complete the information to get started. For both there is a sign up option where you can list your interests and talents and find a match for what you want to do and what a local organization needs. Marion Brunken, Executive Director, [email protected]. 123 North Alfred Street, 1st Floor, Alexandria, VA, 22314 Phone: 703.836.2176, Fax: 703.683.1793 [email protected], www.alexandria.gov/volunteer
Arlington County
Volunteer Arlington offers the Online Volunteer Connection
(http://volunteer.truist.com/acvo/volunteer/) to help volunteers find opportunities with
local nonprofits, government agencies and community organizations. The Online
Volunteer Connection includes a search tool that allows users to search for
opportunities based on a variety of criteria such as availability, location, and interests as
well as a calendar that lists date-specific opportunities.
Volunteer Arlington 2100 Washington Blvd 3rd Floor Arlington, Virginia 22204 703-228-1760 Email: [email protected] Fairfax County
Volunteer Fairfax
Networking and promotion of local volunteerism. Programs, services, events calendar and opportunities. 10530 Page Ave, Fairfax, VA 22030, (703) 246-3460
Jeanne Sanders Executive Director, 703-246-3897
Emily Swenson, Deputy Director, 703-246-3474
www.volunteerfairfax.org/
11
Lifetime Leadership Program
Are you retiring and entering the next "act" of your life? Are you seeking new challenges
and opportunities to make an impact in your community? Do you believe in the power of
change? Join the Lifetime Leadership Program!
Volunteers for Change
Volunteers for Change members are part of a 20 year legacy of service! This flexibile,
weekend and evening volunteer program will help you squeeze a little service into your
daily life. Join us for a 1-hour orientation and gain access to 55+ projects each month.
Or, if you would like to find a new, fun way to spend time with your family, consider
family volunteering. Give Together: A Family Volunteer Day is an event for families to
make a difference in the community. This event is hosted annually on the MLK Jr. Day
of Service. Donating time with each other is always a unique way for your family to
spend time together while helping your community. Family volunteer opportunities are
available on VolunteerNow! as well as through Volunteer Fairfax's events such
as VolunteerFest®. . . Be sure to also check our Community Events calendar for other
activities around the area
For seniors volunteering in Virginia
RSVP is America's largest volunteer network for people age 55 and older. In Northern
Virginia, RSVP volunteers are responding to community needs in and around Arlington
County, Fairfax County and the City of Alexandria. Individuals choose how, where, and
how often they want to serve, with commitments ranging from a few hours to 40 hours
per week.
Visit RSVP-Northern Virginia to learn more.
Questions? Contact Emily Duda, RSVP Program Manager: 703-246-3466 or Courtney
Kurzweil, RSVP Volunteer Specialist: 703-403-5360
Montgomery County
The Montgomery County Volunteer Center connects individuals and groups to ongoing service opportunities and one-time projects in our community. The Center is part of Montgomery County Government's Office of Community Partnership. Search with our online database which lists hundreds of volunteer opportunities, including all that are pre-approved for Student Service Learning (SSL) hours. Other programs we offer include the Pro Bono Consulting Volunteer Program, RSVP, Days of Service, and more! Or, if you don't want to use the on line data base, call the numbers below.
12
Montgomery County Volunteer Center, 12900 Middlebrook Road, Suite 1600, Germantown, MD 20874, Phone: 240-777-2600 Fax: 240-777-2601 www.Montgomeryserves.org [email protected] Molly Callaway, Operations Manager, 240-777-2607, [email protected]
District of Columbia
Serve DC – The Mayor’s Office on Volunteerism is the District Government agency dedicated to promoting service as an innovative, sustainable solution to address community needs. As the DC Commission for National & Community Service, Serve DC transforms communities by administering AmeriCorps funding to local organizations; creating safe neighborhoods by training and mobilizing residents to respond to emergencies and disasters; and engaging District communities by facilitating public, private and government partnerships and providing meaningful service opportunities.
Jeffrey D. Richardson Executive Director & Chief Service Officer Serve DC Frank D Reeves Municipal Center 2000 14th Street, NW, Suite 101, Washington, DC 20009
Phone: (202) 727-7925TTY: (202) 727-8421
www.serve.dc.gov