People Served/Type of Services: Life Transitions, Homelessness Types of Help Needed: Events and Projects Service Opportunity Details: Volunteer opportunities are broken into two categories – warehouse and deco days. (1) Warehouse volunteers sort, reorganize and pull furniture and goods for our upcoming families. (2) Deco volunteers meet at the family's home in Chicago (typically south [...]
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, Refugee Resettlement Types of Help Needed: Family Support, Activities with Agency Clients, Interpreting Service Opportunity Details: RefugeeOne seeks short-notice volunteers and interpreters. Short-notice volunteers assist RefugeeOne staff and clients by providing transportation to medical appointments, job interviews, or in-office meetings. Volunteers also assist with other miscellaneous needs such [...]
People Served/Type of Services: Life Transitions, Adult Job readiness, Business assistance Types of Help Needed: Teaching, Tutoring, Coaching, and Mentoring Service Opportunity Details: Volunteers needed to serve as mentors to participants in its the agency’s Entrepreneurship Training Program (ETP). Location: Chicago-Austin, 1140 N. Lamon Ave. Volunteer Ages: Adults Frequency: Periodic Frequency Details: Mentors meet with their mentees in the ETP [...]
People Served/Type of Services: Life Transition Support, Adult Job Readiness Types of Help Needed: Activities with Agency Clients Service Opportunity Details: Cara welcomes members of Kenilworth Union Church to participate in a service day with Cara. Activities often include sorting through Cara’s clothing room, or conducting mock interviews with participants. We have also conducted speed networking sessions with [...]
People Served/Type of Services: Community Services Life Transitions, Adult Basic Education and Job Readiness Types of Help Needed: Teaching, Tutoring, Coaching, and Mentoring Service Opportunity Details: Volunteers in the TechnologyCenter at Association house will assist in creating a welcoming and supportive environment for adult participants from all cultures. Volunteers will help with learning the basic computer skills, [...]
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 [...]