Volunteer Opportunities

Individuals

Mon.-Fri 3:30-5:00 or Friday 6:30-8.

Volunteer with regularity 1 day a week at same Bridges location

Volunteer Need and Description

• Adult mentoring. Involves playing with kids, helping with homework, listening, and encouraging.
• Provide a craft, hobby, reading, or other special interest activity. Volunteer leads the activity and Bridges provides a staff member to assist with the kids.
• To lead games, youth center tournaments, and races, with youth center staff assisting.
• As weather permits, cook hamburgers and hot dogs on one or more Friday nights each month. Grill and food are at each center.
• Mow one or more of our Bridges For Youth yards in Springfield, using your own equipment.
• Change the Bridges For Youth signs, once a week, and put up new kids jokes. We have a collection of jokes that are ready to go. You will need to be able to climb an extension ladder.
• Steering committee members. Bridges has committee meetings once a month at our office. If you are excited about what the Bridges For Youth centers are doing with kids and you are willing to help us spread the word about our programs to others, then we need your volunteer help.

Group Opportunities

Groups can make the biggest impact by partnering with us, at one of our Bridges centers, through Friday night and Saturday opportunities. Friday nights 6:00-7:30

Volunteer Need & Description

• Prepare and serve food to kids on a Friday night. Your group can also purchase already prepared food for the kids. Pizza, McDonald’s, tacos, etc. are all real kid pleasers. 2 to 5 people needed, depending on Bridges Center.
• Provide a drama, band, interactive devotion, on a Friday night. Presentation should be between 20-45 minutes. 6:30-7:30
• Organize and schedule Saturday morning or afternoon service projects at one of our Bridges centers. Yard clean-up, general cleaning, and various other projects are always available.
• Host or help organize a camp fundraiser to help Bridges kids go to camp.

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