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Volunteer

Serve for a Day

  • .Build teamwork with your group.
  • Prepare and serve meals in the Community Kitchen.
  • Choose a menu and theme, purchase and prepare a meal, and serve to disabled clients in supportive housing.
  • Host your own food drive with your group and donate canned goods to the Caritas pantry.
  • Clean, paint, and repair transitional housing apartments

Time Commitment:  4 hours

Contact Molly Sipe @ 512 479-4610, ext. 121 or msipe@caritasofaustin.org.

 

Support Caritas Staff

  • Enter data and perform other computer-related assignments for program staff.
  • Complete a variety of clerical tasks, such as filing, photocopying, and shredding.
  • Create and organize files
  • Communicate via phone.

Time Commitment:  2 hours/ week

Contact Molly Sipe for an interview and orientation at 479-4610, ext. 121 or msipe@caritasofaustin.org., complete

application (click here) and/or attend Volunteer Open House (click here).

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Engage in fun events!

 

 

  • Help plan and participate in fundraising events, such as the Caritas Golf Classic, Poverty Roundtable, or ThunderCloud Subs’ Turkey Trot.           
  • Participate as a group or individuals in fun(d)raising events.
  • Assist staff in pre- and post-event planning activities.

    
Time Commitment:  Flexible, depending upon the event schedule

Contact Molly Sipe @ 512 479-4610, ext. 121 or msipe@caritasofaustin.org.

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Provide Professional Services

 

  • Provide professional services, such as reviewing legal documents, analyzing databases, photo-documentation or performing music.
  • Photograph clients, volunteers, staff, and events.
  • Provide IT support on special projects.
  • Provide pro bono legal services, such as Review Employment Authorization Documents.
  • Play music or sing for our clients and at Caritas events.

Time Commitment:   Flexible with the event

Contact Molly Sipe for an interview and orientation at 479-4610, ext. 121 or msipe@caritasofaustin.org., complete application (click here) and/or attend Volunteer Open House (click here).

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Drive Your Vehicle

 

  • Drive your vehicle to deliver food, furniture, and other donations to Caritas
  • Drive your vehicle to pick up food from Austin grocers and other donors and deliver to Caritas pantry and Community Kitchen.
  • Transport donated furniture from donors to Caritas.

Time Commitment:  Four hours a week
Contact Molly Sipe for an interview and orientation at 479-4610, ext. 121 or msipe@caritasofaustin.org., complete application (click here) and/or attend Volunteer Open House (click here).

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Feed the Hungry

  


  • Prepare and serve meals in the Caritas Community Kitchen, collect and donate food for Pantry clients, or donate and serve meals for people in supportive housing.
  • Prepare and serve lunch in the Caritas Community Kitchen with a team of volunteers dedicated to serving smiles with food!
  • Food Drives: conduct your own food drive in your neighborhood or business, school, or church.  Collect canned goods and other non-perishable items for use by our pantry clients.
  • Participate in community-wide food drives.
  • Serve on a Food Drive Committee.
  • Cook and serve a meal for people living in supportive housing.

         
Time Commitment:   Flexible

To volunteer, contact Molly Sipe for an interview and orientation at 479-4610, ext. 121 or msipe@caritasofaustin.org., complete application (click here) and/or attend Volunteer Open House (click here).

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Assist refugees

  

  • Coach and mentor refugees moving towards self-sufficiency, assist with interpretation and acculturation activities, or prepare an apartment for refugee arrival.                        
  • Coach and mentor newly-arrived refugees fleeing persecution in their home countries as they transition towards self-sufficiency in their new home.
  • Provide interpretation or acculturation activities in areas relating to finance, employment, transportation, and grocery shopping for refugees.
  • Transform apartments into a welcoming home for arriving refugees.

Time Commitment:  Two-five hours a week
Training is offered on a flexible schedule. 

To volunteer, contact Nancy Ellis for an interview @ 646-1286 or nellis@caritasofaustin.org., complete a Community Advocate application (click here) or attend Volunteer Open House (click here).

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Work with low-income families

  
  • Work with low-income working parents making the transition to financial stability.
  • Encourage effective money-management skills with a single parent working toward independence.
  • Be a supportive influence to a client in a difficult time.
  • Provide support during the job search by practicing interview skills.

Time Commitment:  Five hours a week; Training is available on a flexible schedule.

Contact Nancy Ellis for an interview @ 646-1286 or nellis@caritasofaustin.org, complete a Community Advocate application (click here) or attend Volunteer Open House (click here).

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Help the Homeless

 
  • Prepare ingredients and serve meals in the Community Kitchen.
  • Donate and serve a prepared meal for disabled residents in supportive housing apartments
  • Paint, clean, and repair transitional housing apartments before client move-in

Time Commitment: 3-4 hours

To volunteer, contact Molly Sipe for an interview and orientation at 479-4610, ext. 121 or msipe@caritasofaustin.org. complete application (click here) and/or attend Volunteer Open House (click here).

  • As a community volunteer, coach and mentor persons experiencing homelessness as they transition into permanent housing and financial stability.  


Time Commitment:  5 hours/week; Training is available on a flexible schedule.

Contact Nancy Ellis for an interview @ 646-1286 or nellis@caritasofaustin.org., complete a Community Advocate application (click here) or attend Volunteer Open House (click here).

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Careers

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