Upcoming Service Opportunities

Ways to Serve (even in a global pandemic!)

Austin Angels - Create a "love box" to support foster families
 
Ronald McDonald House - Ways to help from home                         
​Put together toiletry kits, create greeting cards, provide a meal for families, design activity packets         
                   
Mobile Loaves and Fishes - Commit to bring 3 dozen (hard boiled) eggs a month, or cookies or brownies can be brought packed individually                                                                                  

Girls Empowerment Network - Reach out to young girls in our area. Asking for handwritten letters as this provides a personalized and meaningful touch. Letter recipients are girls in grades 3-8 and grades 6-12 

Adopt a Nursing Home- Reach out to be a Pen-pal with a senior living in a nursing home
 
Keep Austin Beautiful - Community clean-ups (where you can be outside and distanced)                                                   

Organize a donation drive with friends, neighbors, or your advisory!

Inside book project - Provides 35,000 free books to prisoners in Texas every year. Donate gently used books.
Drop box at 3106 East 14 1/2 Street, Austin TX 78702.

Coats for kids - Organize a coat drive 
 

Welcome Table is a local nonprofit It serves low-income residents of East Austin, by providing help with food, utilities, and diapers.  They need volunteers to deliver diapers. One afternoon of delivering diapers earns 3 documented hours of service work. 
Here is a description of volunteer diaper delivery:
Our contact-free delivery program serves the in need community of East Austin by providing baby diapers, wipes, adult diapers, incontinence pads, period products and bed pads. We are looking for volunteers that can deliver diaper orders on Friday afternoons. This is a low risk opportunity as the deliveries are meant to be contact-free. 
Please use this link to sign up for upcoming volunteer opportunities:  http://tiny.cc/sjec
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Information about the volunteering opportunity:
- Deliveries take place in the East Austin community and surrounding areas, on Friday afternoons. Most of the people we serve live well below the poverty level.
- We have established a delivery window of 3pm to 6pm, however orders need to be picked up at 3:00 pm from St. James Episcopal Church. Drivers should expect to be on the road for at least 2 hours. We do our best to optimize driving routes, however there will be times that we ask drivers to drive more than 15 miles. Also, volunteers must understand that traffic in Austin is unpredictable, therefore there might be some delays. 
- New volunteers need to attend the orientation session before being scheduled for deliveries, we must also have received a photo of their driver's license and valid car insurance card. For liability purposes, we need the last 4 digits of their social security number to verify that their insurance policy is active. 
 - Volunteers will receive an email confirming their serving shift by Thursday (Night before the serving date) from [email protected]. 

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Ongoing Opportunities for Service

Keep Austin Beautiful

Hill Country Conservancy

Austin Parks Foundation

Feed My People

• Prepare and serve a hot breakfast to approximately 400 homeless people in the Austin community. Clean-up is also required of volunteers.
• Every Tuesday and Thursday from 5:00am - 7:30 am
• First United Methodist Church, Family Life Center 1201 Lavaca Street (NW corner of 13th and Lavaca)

Goodwill

• Volunteer in the production area of a retail store. Duties include receiving and sorting donations, collecting and organizing merchandise, performing quality control, and representing Goodwill through customer service.
• Store locations and time vary. Check the website for more information.

Central Texas Food Bank

• Sorting donations gives you a behind-the-scenes look at how donations from the community get to hungry Central Texans. Volunteers inspect, clean, sort, box, and make donations ready for distribution to Partner Agencies and their clients.
• Opportunities are also available in the community kitchen, mobile pantries and  garden.

Texas Parks and Wildlife

• Participate in a variety of activities at the surrounding state parks including environmental restoration, trail maintenance, special event assistance, etc.  

Caritas

• Volunteer to fight hunger, poverty, and homelessness in Austin through a variety of services including feeding the hungry and serving for a day.
• 611 Neches Street

Ronald McDonald House Charities

• Hundreds of volunteers contribute thousands of hours each year to ensure that the Ronald McDonald House in Austin, Texas continues to provide a loving, clean, and safe place to call home while their seriously ill or injured children are in the hospital. Prepare a meal for families of children who are hospitalized long-term
• You must complete an online application and make contact prior to serving.

Mobile Loaves and Fishes

• Mobile Loaves & Fishes offers different opportunities for volunteers to provide food, clothing, and dignity to our brothers and sisters in need.
• Students under the age of 18 must be accompanied by an adult.

Austin Habitat for Humanity

• Participate in a variety of home building activities with Austin Habitat for Humanity.  

YMCA

• The purpose of the YMCA of Austin is to enhance the lives of men, women, boys and girls in the Austin community, regardless of race, creed, age, economic circumstances and physical or mental abilities, by providing quality programs, activities and facilities which develop and maintain opportunities and help individuals.  Community Service is available at all full-service branches. 
• Please contact the Membership Director at the closest branch for further information.

MedAid.org

• MedAid delivers medical aid to the people of Latin America and the Caribbean while promoting opportunities for cross-cultural understanding. Check the website for a full list of volunteer opportunities and to register.

​Barton Springs Nursery

• Help set up gardens and other work in the gardens
• Contact: Javier

St. Michael's Academy Thrift Shoppe

• Volunteers, especially on Saturdays. The Thrift Shoppe is open Mon. - Sat. from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm.
• 5907 Burnet Road

Student-Developed Directory - Do you know of another organization that encourages service among teenagers?  If so, complete this Service Opportunity form and take it to your English teacher, who will make it available to other students in your grade level.  If you have an idea for a service project that would involve all of AGS, pitch the idea to a teacher and they'll take it to the team!