People Served/Type of Services: Life Transition, Support for formerly incarcerated individuals Types of Help Needed: Building, repairing, painting Service Opportunity Details: Groups: St. Leonard's would design a service experience for a group that (depending on needs and the season) could entail cleaning, organizing, painting, and/or landscaping. Skilled individuals: we can design a project with your [...]
People Served/Type of Services: Life Transition Support, Support for formerly incarcerated individuals Types of Help Needed: Activities with Agency Clients Service Opportunity Details: Field Trip Coordinator: This volunteer would contact various cultural and educational organizations in Chicago to arrange for complimentary tickets for St. Leonard’s residents. The coordinator would coordinate dates for the field trips with St. [...]
People Served/Type of Services: Life Transition Support, Support for formerly incarcerated individuals Types of Help Needed: Administrative/Office Support Service Opportunity Details: Volunteer needed to assist in St. Leonard's Administrative offices. Having some experience in databases and administrative tasks would be necessary. Tasks would include scheduling, database entry, correspondence, filing (digital and paper), and general organizing. If [...]
People Served/Type of Services: Life Transition Support, Support for formerly incarcerated individuals Types of Help Needed: Other: Social Work Field Supervision Service Opportunity Details: An experienced licensed social worker is needed to supervise first and second year MSW interns at St. Leonard’s House and Grace House. This would consist of attending an orientation at the start [...]
People Served/Type of Services: Life Transition Support, Support for formerly incarcerated individuals Types of Help Needed: Other Service Opportunity Details: St. Leonard's needs an experienced landscape designer or horticulturalist to design landscaping and a maintenance plan for the entire St. Leonard’s campus, with an emphasis on native perennials. There are existing beds and landscaping, but new plants [...]
People Served/Type of Services: Urgent Services, Life Transition Support, Homelessness, Support for formerly incarcerated individuals Types of Help Needed: In-kind donations Service Opportunity Details: An individual could organize a supply drive or reach out to businesses to ask for donations of specific items. A wishlist can be found here. Many of the items are for when [...]
People Served/Type of Services: Urgent Services, Life Transition Support, Food Insecurity, Support for formerly incarcerated individuals Types of Help Needed: Food Preparation and Distribution Service Opportunity Details: A group or family prepares a meal for a dinner for St. Leonard’s House (20-30 people) or Grace House (10-15people), serves it to the residents, visits with them during the [...]
People Served/Type of Services: Life Transition Support, Support for formerly incarcerated individuals Types of Help Needed: Communications Service Opportunity Details: Volunteers neded to help create stories to share about the work of St. Leonard’s. Depending on your skills and interests, this could include: photography, videography, blog writing, Instagram and Facebook updates, and interviewing alumni and current [...]
People Served/Type of Services: Life Transition Support, Support for formerly incarcerated individuals Types of Help Needed: Board and Committee Service Service Opportunity Details: Volunteers needed to participate in Board of Directors and Committees to support the agency's mission. Board members attend 6 Board meetings a year, serve on at least one committee of the Board, serve [...]