Opportunities From: New Hampshire's Volunteer Hub

United Way of Greater Nashua is looking for volunteers to share information about United Way projects and events on their local http://www.nextdoor.com and http://www.patch.com pages. 

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Tails to Freedom, Inc. DBA Lucky Dog Thrift Shop is looking for a dynamic and friendly volunteer to assist our organization 15 hours a week as a Sales Associate/Cashier. We are looking for someone with an eye for detail, is stylish and personable. We need an individual with an ability to greet customers, share sales, maintain sanitation of workspace and items frequently handled. We are looking for a volunteer that has an ability to upsell, make customers feel welcomed and informed of our mission as well as provide a professional experience that ensures customers come back for years to come. We strive for excellence in all we do and we are seeking a Sales Associate/Cashier that will maintain our values which uphold our mission. Tails to Freedom, Inc. is a 501(c)3 non-profit charitable organization dedicated to making a positive impact in the lives of individuals and families and their furry family members. Our fundraising headquarters is located in downtown Nashua at 23 Elm Street. We are currently open Thursday, Friday and Saturday 12:00-5:00. Please respond in detail how many hours a week you wish to volunteer, any limitations you may have so we may honor it, and any previous experience that prepares you for this opportunity. Please email us at Info@LuckyDogThriftShop.com and please include your phone number.

MC2 is looking for volunteers!  Do you have a skill you would like to teach a middle school or high school student?  Would you like to speak to our students about something your passionate about?  Do you have supplies you would like to donate?  Do you have experience in grant writing?  We welcome your expertise and skills to join our team!

Making Community Connections Charter School (MC2) is a non-profit public charter school.  Board members are responsible for ensuring that the academic program of MC2 is successful, that the school's program and operation are faithful to the terms of its charter, and that the school is a viable organization.  MC2 focuses on high quality learning for all students, learning teams focused on learner strengths, student and family choice and voice, real life learning experiences and community based learning. 

Mission:

Empowering me with the knowledge, skills, and dispositions to use my unique voice effectively and with integrity in co-creating our global public world.

Vision:

Our vision is to eliminate the predictive value of race, class, language, gender, and special capacities on student achievement in our schools and in our communities by working together with families and communities to ensure each child’s success. We actively seek to uncover, recover, and discover the unique gifts and talents that each child possesses.

MC2 schools work effectively with families, community members, and social service agencies to solve real problems and enable each individual student to become empowered with the knowledge and skills to use his or her voice effectively and with integrity in co-creating our world. Students graduate from MC2 as stewards of the public global world. They have the will, skill, capacity and knowledge to contribute to the greater good, and are ready for college, career, and life.

Want to make a positive difference in the lives of others?  Touchstone Farm, an equine therapeutic and educational center located in Lyndeborough, NH is in need of volunteers to help with our school groups once again. We help at-risk youth, veterans, and children with disabilities throughout the year. Through the magical connection with horses and small animals, mentoring, and encouragement, they are able to improve their lives socially, physically, and cognitively.

Don’t you want to help in this journey?  We will provide all of your training. Depending on your ability and comfort level, volunteers for these positions will assist weekly in one of two ways:

You may join this important program by selecting the hours you are available each week. We need volunteers throughout the day so lesson times will vary once assigned to a lesson, that time slot will be the same week to week.

Monday -  Friday  8:00am – 6:00pm

Saturday & Sunday  8;00am – 3:30pm

Use this link to sign up as a volunteer for this need:

https://www.touchstone-farm.org/sign-up/

Our lessons are outside or in a big indoor arena so social distancing is easy! Face masks will be worn at all times. (provided by Touchstone Farm, if you don’t have one)  When arriving for shift, your temperature will be taken, and wellness questions asked.

Prior to working with Touchstone Farm, volunteers will be asked to authorize a background check and references, and complete a 1-hour in person instructor-led training. It’s all quick and easy. Links to start these credentials will be provided when you click the Volunteer button. When credentials are completed, Touchstone Farm will reach out to you to determine a convenient date for you to start volunteering.   We hope to see you soon at Touchstone Farm!

PostICU, Inc is a new 501(c)3 nonprofit agency, part of our mission is to maintain the only library that is specifically built to house research, articles, videos, PowerPoints, books, etc about post intensive care syndrome ("PICS") website library, see: PostICU's Library

COVID-19 patients, who survive following a stay in an intensive care unit often suffer from PICS. 

PostICU's Library allows us to meet our primary mission, which is to educate medical professionals and the public about PICS.

Sharing knowledge about PICS symptoms that are experienced by former ICU patients, helps medical professionals and people in general recognize whether they or loved ones may have PICS. 

Our library gets thousands of visitors weekly, including medical professionals worldwide. 

In this volunteer position, you will assist us with researching new media to add to our library and also to dig back into older content to research for any media that we are missing.

Since we have the only known PICS library, our work is important. However, we've created forms and training to make the work fun and interesting. 

If you have experience researching grant opportunities, then we need you!

Our new nonprofit has made incredible headway since we opened for business. To take the next giant leap forward, we will need financial support from a funding source. We're looking for grants in the area of patient-centric nonprofits, libraries, and patient advocacy.

Please note, none of our staff are paid - our agency is operated 100% by volunteers. We are looking for funding for a specific aspect of our project, 100% of any money received will go to that project.

If you are a team player and want to be part of the volunteer team that got our agency off the ground, please reply.

The Syringe Service Alliance of the Nashua Area is in need of help! We are looking for volunteers to help during our outreach hours in the community! 

The Syringe Service Alliance of the Nashua Area ( SSANA) is a syringe service program (SSP) that has been serving the Greater Nashua Region since 2018. Our goal is to reduce the negative consequences associated with drug use. We are a community initiative for harm reduction. However, most importantly, we are a friendly face in the community reminding people who use drugs (PWUD) or people who inject drugs (PWID) that they matter, that we care about them, and their health is important. 

To learn more about harm reduction and SSPs please visit the following websites: https://www.nashuanh.gov/1174/Syringe-Services-SSANA, http://nhhrc.org/#, https://harmreduction.org/about-us/principles-of-harm-reduction/

Expectations:

Responsibilities: 

Requirements: 

Desired Qualities: 

How to apply/contact information: To apply, email taylor.koch@reviverecovery.org to request an application. For more information, contact Taylor Koch at (603) 484 - 3882 or at the email address listed. 

Hello!

PostICU, Inc is a new 501(c)3 nonprofit agency.

We're working on an interesting project, to collect and organize a articles, studies, research and other materials about post intensive care syndrome ("PICS") and add them to our website.

COVID-19 patients, who survive following a stay in an intensive care unit often suffer from PICS. PostICU's mission includes educating the public about PICS, so that they will be aware of PICS symptoms experienced by former ICU patients, so that should they or loved ones have PICS symptoms, they will know to seek proper care.

We plan to share this new listing of articles with the public on our website and also at aftertheicu.org, a similar website to ours, which was created by one of the PostICU founders along with a team at Brigham & Women's Hospital.

We need your help with organizing our articles and other media into a template spreadsheet which once completed will be uploaded into an online, searchable database. 

We hope to have 200 items to add to the spreadsheet, including a link to a PDF, or other type of file. 

If you have experience using Excel or Google sheets, this volunteer position should be interesting and not take too much of your time.

If you enjoy working on this project, we have other projects that we need assistance with, including researching the internet for additional, helpful media.

Project LIFT is seeking a volunteer to assist in the Learning Lounge. The Learning Lounge provides walk-in services to individuals seeking help finding and using digital resources for academic skills improvement and workforce preparation activities such as filling out job applications, writing a resume, and learning computer skills. The interested applicants should be proficient with using computers and cell phones to access digital resources. Experience working with diverse populations would be helpful.

 Due to the pandemic, Learning Lounge participants are meeting remotely or in small groups with social distancing.

Project LIFT is seeking a Volunteer Grant Writer with fundraising and nonprofit development experience with an emphasis on corporate and foundation giving. Knowledge of adult literacy and workforce preparation is helpful.

This position will be responsible for doing research to identify potential funders, writing letters of intent and grant proposals, and assisting in budget development. This individual must make sure all materials are on hand for grant submissions, be willing to revise grant proposals, and be a compelling writer. The ideal volunteer will also have:

In response to COVID-19, the Haven is no longer serving a community breakfast or lunch. Instead, we are preparing a boxed meal for distribution in our food shelf. Volunteers who sign up for this shift, prepare sandwiches and other items for the box. The shift is from 9:30-11:30 Mon-Thurs. If interested, create a profile on our volunteer management site: https://uppervalleyhaven.volunteerhub.com/

The Greater Nashua Food Council is currently need volunteers to help distribute fresh produce and pantry items at various community locations in Nashua. The distribution sites are open on Friday afternoons and they need two people per site for a total of 10 volunteers. Nashua Soup Kitchen and Shelter will drop off all food items, a table and two chairs to each location, and volunteers will distribute to community members who come to mobile pantry table. 

June 19th-September 4th

3-5:30pm

Locations in Nashua

Volunteers are needed to help with the following projects: Buildings/Grounds, Membership/Volunteer, Collections, Newsletter, Education, Refreshments, Exhibits, Research, Fundraising, Special Events, Mailing Team, Technology, Marketing, Tour Guide, Writer for Grants & Charitable Donations.

Volunteer opportunities include: Meal preparation and serving, Food and Clothing sorting, Facility Maintenance (Repairs & Cleaning), Landscaping, Providing Rides for appointments to their guests.

The Greater Nashua Food Council has ongoing needs for volunteers to help with distribution of gleaned produce to community partners and for volunteers to distribute gleaned produce at their mobile food pantry sites throughout Nashua. Each opportunity is only a couple of hours a week. Days and Times depend on gleaning coordinators schedule and mobile pantry operation times.

Many of these efforts would not be possible if not for the many caring volunteers who donate their time and serve as the liaison to the Auxiliary. The Medical Center currently has over 300 volunteers who donate more than 35,000 hours a year in 35 different departments. Their volunteers are men and women of all ages and backgrounds-students, retirees, former patients, and caring people who just want to give back. They look for the right assignment and the right department for all volunteers. A few of the volunteer choices are Coffee or Gift Shop, guest services, office work, data entry, or messenger.

The NH Children’s Behavioral Health wing of New Futures is looking for advocates to share their stories and help advocate for changes to the System of Care for children.

Home Health and Hospice Care is actively seeking Spanish, French or Greek speaking candidates, and welcomes volunteers who speak any language, to help us better serve hospice patients and their loved ones.  It is important for them to have a diverse group of volunteers to support the diverse populations they serve. Their Spring 2020 volunteer training course runs February 26 through May 6, every Wednesday morning from 9am to noon. The class is held in their Merrimack, NH office. HHHC volunteers work closely with the nurses, social workers, and chaplains as part of an interdisciplinary team. They offer companion, pet and music services to their patients as well as transportation, respite, vigil, and adult bereavement support.

The senior companion program is looking for caring, healthy and enthusiastic people to look in on some of the isolated elderly in our neighborhoods.  If you are age 55, have a limited income, and can volunteer 10 hours weekly you might want to consider becoming that committed individual who will visit with two to five people in the community each week.  In addition to the wonderful feeling you will get from helping others, the program also provides a non-taxable stipend.  The non-taxable stipend means money that cannot be weighed against subsidized housing, food stamps or other government subsidies.  Other benefits of being a senior companion volunteer include: mileage reimbursement to and from the visitees home, training, paid snow/heat days and personal days, secondary insurance coverage, and recognition.

Just taking the time to visit with someone, who has found themselves alone because their kids have moved away, a spouse has passed on or their friends have chosen to live in a warmer climate can make all the difference in the world.  You can chose to make that difference to a visitee. Became a senior companion; it is easy.  Just call the offices of the Senior Companion program; a part of Community Action Program of Belknap-Merrimack Counties at 603-225-3295.  We cover the entire state of NH. 

The Way Home needs help in a variety of areas. Help is needed in the “Homework Zone” assisting school age children with their schoolwork on one or more weekday between 3:30pm and 4:30pm. They also need help in the “Children’s Workshop” caring for children when their caregivers are attending a class on one weekend evening per month. They are also looking for office support, new fundraising committee members, a Healthy Homes Advocate, help on their maintenance team and are looking for new members of their board of trustees.

Because they cover the whole state, they are always interested in creating connections with industry leaders interested in giving back to the community through providing one-on-one business advising in their area of expertise. And don’t think you have to be woman-identified to lend your time and expertise to our clients – experts of all genders are welcome! Typically, advising clients entails meeting for one hour either in-person or via phone/video conference with one or two clients per month. To recognize the incredible value their community experts bring to their clients, they provide a small stipend for your time.

Symphony NH is in need of volunteers to fill the role of ushers at concerts and to help in the box office before performances.  

The PLUS Company needs volunteers to help with their PLUS Pride Special Olympics program. This could be helping the coaches on the sidelines or playing alongside our athletes on the softball field or basketball court.  They also need volunteers to teach classes in art, music, reading, or stitching/quilting.

Harbor Homes is currently looking for a volunteer for the Veterans Supported Employment Program. This position will be working with staff to help Veterans in find employment.  We encourage Veterans to volunteer for this position.

Visit patients that are on hospice care - read, games, support for patients and families, errands, arts & crafts, social interactions, being a friend, listen to music, puzzles and watch TV.

No experience necessary. Help a neighbor in need keeper warmer this season.
Please click link to see all opportunities. Projects are scheduled Thursday, Fridays and Saturdays, 9-4.   http://www.coverhomerepair.org/volunteer-schedule/

Girls Inc. is always looking for volunteers to help during after school hours throughout the school year. They need volunteers from 3:00PM - 6:00PM, Monday through Friday. Volunteers work one-on-one with girls providing homework support, assist the staff in Girls Inc. curriculum, or teach a skill they are passionate about. For more information, visit www.volunteergreaternashua.org and search for “Girls Inc.”.

 Our Front Desk Helper will answer phones, make appointments, etc. 

Annual Fundraiser Volunteers - We need help stuffing envelopes, organizing fundraiser list, sending email updates, as well as working at the actual fundraiser.

Although we are a “paperless environment” , there is never-ending paper work.  We are always looking for someone to make our new patient  and school event packets along with clinic patients updates. this task includes photocopying, stapling and filing.  Shredding is a never ending project, as patient privacy is of the UT most importance.    

Weekend volunteers are there to accept donations on Family Promise’s behalf and make sure that emergency situations are properly handled, should they arise. Sometimes, weekend volunteers babysit while parents do chores or help by tidying up around the house. Hours: anytime between 10 AM and 6 PM.

Evening volunteers are responsible for making sure the house is safe and calm before the end of the day. They walk through the house closing the blinds, they turn on the hallway lights, and they babysit little ones before bed-time so that parents can do their chores. Hours: 7-9 PM.

Meal-serving volunteers are responsible for making sure that dinner makes it to the table. They serve an evening meal Monday-Thursday and are there to help get the food from the oven to the table.  Dinners are served buffet style and volunteers are encouraged to spend time with families getting to know the people they’re helping. Hours: 5-7 PM.

The Greater Nashua Dental Connection reaches out to Nashua's elementary school age children and offers oral health care at no charge to the parent or guardian.  This comes with its challenges, we have to get all the paperwork copied, packets made and schedules coordinated,  with our limited staff.  It would be a tremendous help if we could have someone make copies and packets for us.    Allowing us the time to provide the oral health services. 

Volunteers can help the Greater Nashua Food Council and Harvard Pilgrim Health Foundation through Gleaning, Growing, and Distributing fresh produce for underserved community members. 

Gleaning: You will work with NHGleans.org to coordinate picking up produce from local farms and distributing to local food pantries, child care centers, churches, non-profit organizations, community food giving boxes, and to any other places you might see a need for the produce. Contact Jessica Gorhan jessica@gorhanconsulting.com or sign up directly at NHGleans.org

Growing: You will work with Grow Nashua to help build, manage, and harvest at community gardens. The gardens are built and designed as learning gardens for low-income families and individuals, refugees, and New Americans. The food helps to feed their families and provide social connectedness within the community. Contact jessica@gorhanconsulting.com or reach out to Justin Munroe from Grow Nashua directly at justin@grownashua.org

Distribution: You will work with Nashua Soup Kitchen and Shelter (NSKS) Mobile Food Pantry to distribute gleaned vegetables in low-income neighborhoods. You will ride along with NSKS truck driver to select locations in Nashua and set up the mobile food pantry (a table and a couple chairs). Community members will come and pick up boxes/bags of food and take them home. Contact jessica@gorhanconsulting.com or reach out to Meghan Bolton directly at meghan@nsks.org

Thank you for your help!

Peer Buddies Needed for our new Citizen's Adult Friendship Program! Experience the life-changing power of friendship through Best Buddies by becoming a friend to someone who needs one! We cultivate an inclusive community by matching adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) with Peer Buddies who do not have a disability, in meaningful, one-to-one friendships. Friendship matches are based on likes/interests, age, and home location. This is a mutually enriching friendship opportunity for adults 18+ who want to make a difference in someone else's life through friendship and leadership. A background check is required and will be sent to you through Sterling Volunteers when Best Buddies Membership Application is completed. Time Commitment: Contact with Buddy once a week through text or email, and get togethers in person twice a month. You will be matched with a Buddy who lives in the same geographical region. There is an opportunity to attend periodic statewide events and activities for integrated community connections. Please contact us for more information!

Seacoast Pathways of Portsmouth, NH is in search of a reliable (steady, accountable, own transportation) volunteer to help engage its members with mental health issues. This is not a care-giving role. Our members are very functional, but they sometimes need support, ideas, creativity to pursue activities. We offer a broad range of activities from cooking to music, art and writing, custodial, office work and media (making videos and podcasts)

This position can satisfy educational or vocational advancement, internships, etc.

Our website is www.seacoastpathways.org We can conform to your desired hours but we do insist on reliability and dependability.

We need volunteers to serve on the following committees: ­ Homeowner Support, Fundraising, Faith Relations, and Construction.

What do these committees do?

Homeowner Support - runs a homeowner education program, administers sweat equity, plans the dedication and ground-breaking, and prepares the family for closing.

Fundraising - handles fundraising, public relations, and marketing.

Faith Relations - handles cultivation and handling of faith groups, organizes congregational builds and events.

Construction - handles land acquisition, permitting, construction, and volunteer management.

Our next build will be breaking ground soon.  We need your help to provide a hand up to the next Habitat Homeowner.  Contact Lisa today at 569-5664 or director@ossipeehabitat.org.

Fixit Corps volunteers will assist homeowners who are over the age of 60 or disabled by providing minor home repairs that will help the individual stay in their home and remain independent. Some of these repairs can include installing safety rails, repairing minor plumbing and electrical problems, building wheelchair ramps, and other safety or basic wear and tear repairs. 

Volunteers with previous experience in plumbing, carpentry, electrical, and other trades are encouraged to pursue this opportunity.

Homework Volunteers are needed at all of our five locations, Monday through Thursday from 3:00 - 4:00 pm.

Students in our program are in grades 1- 5, ages 6-12. 

Our homework volunteers help students in a variety of ways including answer students' questions, listen to them read stories, practice math facts and counting, or simply sitting with them and encouraging them to do their best. 

Homework Volunteers are needed at all of our five locations, Monday through Thursday from 3:00 - 4:00 pm.

Students in our program are in grades 1- 5, ages 6-12. 

Our homework volunteers help students in a variety of ways including answer students' questions, listen to them read stories, practice math facts and counting, or simply sitting with them and encouraging them to do their best. 

Homework Volunteers are needed at all of our five locations, Monday through Thursday from 3:00 - 4:00 pm.

Students in our program are in grades 1- 5, ages 6-12. 

Our homework volunteers help students in a variety of ways including answer students' questions, listen to them read stories, practice math facts and counting, or simply sitting with them and encouraging them to do their best. 

Homework Volunteers are needed at all of our five locations, Monday through Thursday from 3:00 - 4:00 pm.

Students in our program are in grades 1- 5, ages 6-12. 

Our homework volunteers help students in a variety of ways including answer students' questions, listen to them read stories, practice math facts and counting, or simply sitting with them and encouraging them to do their best. 

Homework Volunteers are needed at all of our five locations, Monday through Thursday from 3:00 - 4:00 pm.

Students in our program are in grades 1- 5, ages 6-12. 

Our homework volunteers help students in a variety of ways including answer students' questions, listen to them read stories, practice math facts and counting, or simply sitting with them and encouraging them to do their best. 

Spend time in our light-filled, air-conditioned galleries, interacting with other people who love art for a few hours every week. Assist at gallery openings, work in our gardens, help in our studios and library--we have plenty of interesting tasks to go around. No art experience required!

At our location we serve dinner 4 days a week from Monday-Thursday. Sadly, we are suffering from a lack of volunteers! We need people who are up to the task of cooking for 35 people. Dinner is served from 6-7, but our ovens are notoriously slow so we also accept meals cooked offsite, or frozen. We encourage anyone who is cooking dinner to sit and eat with our families and share stories. If you're interested in helping out please let us know!

Looking for volunteers who love to clean and help out local pets in your community!! All aspects of cleaning or 3400 square foot chic boutique where 100% of the profits helps out with emergency vet bills for local pet's. 

Looking for volunteers to fold, pick up and create mini vignettes throughout our 3400 sq. ft., trendy thrift shop. Where 100% of the profits benefits local pets with emergency vet bills. 

Looking for responsible, reliable and strong volunteers to sell our trendy thrift shop items at the Londonderry & Hollis flea markets. Where 100% of the profits benefits local pets with emergency vet bills.

Volunteer Dog or Cat Fosterer

Come to Monday evening Sinfonietta rehearsals just before 6pm to receive pizza delivery and stay at pizza table through the rehearsals. Assist in serving pizza.

Pick up and deliver donated instruments, new instruments or instruments undergoing repairs. A normal car is adequate and travel is within Nashua NH only.

String players that are in 8th grade or older can share their talents with elementary students.  Once or twice each week the intern practices with the younger students at their schools. (One parent is present.)  Looking for three interns. One for each school; Amherst Street School, Dr. Crisp and Mount Pleasant.  Day of week is flexible.

If you are a string player, share your talents with Sinfonietta Strings by assisting in Monday evening rehearsals and concerts. This involves rehearsal set up, string instrument tuning, assist students in maintaining their sheet music binders and practicing with younger students before or during rehearsal practice.

String players that are in 8th grade or older can share their talents with elementary students.  Once or twice each week the intern practices with the younger students at their schools. (One parent is present.)  Looking for three interns. One for each school; Amherst Street School, Dr. Crisp and Mount Pleasant.  Day of week is flexible.

Residents at Hunt Community would like to start a meditation group. We are looking for someone to lead the group as a volunteer one day per week. Please contact Michelle at 603-589-4152 or mrunyan@huntcommunity.org  

Do you have access to software that can create newsletters?  Sinfonietta Strings would like to send quarterly newletters to parents, students, donors and interested parties. It would contain a calendar of events and one or two articles. You would not have to write the articles, just put the calendar, pictures and articles in newsletter format.

Do you have a violin, viola or cello that is no longer being used?  Please put it to good use. We have many students with little to no resources to afford an instrument to play on!

Join our team of elder advocates. The Office of the Long-Term Care Ombudsman is a program that advocates for Resident Rights, Quality Care, and Quality of Life for those residing in nursing home and residential care facilities. Volunteers are provided with the education and support needed to work with individuals and their families in resolving problems and improving their life experience within these homes.  Contact us today!

The Office of the Long Term Care Ombudsman is currently recruiting individuals to assist with advocating for elders who are living within long term care settings throughout the state of New Hampshire! Do you have a few hours per week to spare? Are you interested in obtaining education and training so that you can advocate for people who need your help? Are you looking for a rewarding volunteer experience?  Contact us now to get involved in the next free training class

Join us as a Certified Ombudsman Volunteer Representative!  Elders in nursing and assisted living facilities need your advocacy to assure the highest level of resident rights, quality of care and quality of life.  Certified Ombudsman Volunteer Representatives make a difference in individual lives by visiting a facility weekly and offering support, empowerment and representation through advocacy.  Free Certification classes are offered on an ongoing basis.  Call to register!

Become an advocate for elders and residents in Nursing Homes and Assisted Living Facities.  Information Session and Class offered on an ongoing basis!

The Office of the Long Term Care Ombudsman advocates of people living in Long Term healthcare facilities by visiting residents and resolving complaints related to resident rights and services provided to them.  Certified Ombudsman Volunteer Representatives (COVR's) are representatives of the New Hampshire Long Term Care Ombudsman's Office who visit their assigned facility(s) approximately 2 hours once per week after the completion of a certification class.  The certification process begins with a 30 hour classroom component followed by 10 hours working hand in hand with an experienced mentor.  The certification classes are held in concord at no charge.  Mileage reimbursement is provided at the current federal rate for all approved class time, facility visits, and statewide meetings.

Friendly visits on your schedule, one on one with seniors who may need help reading the newspaper, opening mail, etc.

Requires background checks

TB Test

Join the Belknap House staff as a volunteer!  Belknap House is looking for shelter assistants to help run the shelter and make the shelter welcoming to families.  Volunteers will  work with the Executive Director and Family Support Coordinator.  No experience needed, training will be provided.

Belknap House needs shelter assistants to help  our residents all hours of the day and every day of the week.  The shelter is open from Oct 15th until May 15th and then becomes a hostel over the warmer months.  Day shifts are 6-9am, 9am-1pm, 1-5pm, and 5-10pm.  The overnight shift is 11pm to 7am and will provide opportunities for sleep.    We have an on-going need for assistants and offer training at least once a month based on the availability of those interested.

A stipend-volunteer program, supported by federal and state funds, that pairs seniors with other seniors to offer friendship and support to patients and their families in the community. Qualifying seniors must commit to 15 hours per week and meet specific income criteria. For more information on the Sr. Companion Program, contact Lynne Doyle, Program Manager, PO Box 1016, Concord, NH 03302, 603-225-3295.  Senior Companions that live in Rochester and surrounding towns receive supervision and support from the Volunteer Coordinator at Cornerstone VNA.

Give a little piece of your time to help brighten someone’s day. Companion Volunteering is a wonderful opportunity to provide support, respite and friendship to patients, families and caregivers. Share a cup of tea, play a game of cards, or just share some conversation. Companion volunteering is very flexible to your scheduling needs and you can volunteer as little as 2 hours each week. This volunteer opportunity completes our "Circle of Caring" allowing patients and community members to remain in the comfort of their home.