Give Your Time to Help Create Community
We invite you to find a place at Kathy’s House. Our volunteers are teens, adults, retirees, former guests, and community members. Whether you volunteer regularly or just once, your support is greatly appreciated.
Volunteering at Kathy’s House can be both memorable and rewarding. Because many of our volunteers serve guests directly, they have a unique opportunity to connect with guests. Often, a volunteer is the first voice guests hear on the phone and the first face greeting them at the door.
We have an opportunity for every skill set and schedule.
New and Current Volunteers
Create an account, view available opportunities, sign up for shifts, and make schedule changes.
If you have any questions, email our Director of Volunteer Services Marie at: marieg@kathys-house.org.
Examples of Individual Opportunities
- Welcome Desk: Answering phones, assisting guests, work with staff on projects.
- Baking: Bread, cookies, bars. Can be done at Kathy’s House or dropped off.*
- Cleaning: Guest rooms, common areas, tidy up library.
- Gardening: Watering, weeding, planting pots, tending vegetable garden.
- Arts & Crafts: Create and provide materials for the art table.
- Events: Gala, Golf.
- Decorations: Create decorations for guest doors, dining room tables, etc.
- Inspirational Quotes: Research inspiring quotes, write them up and place on the dining room tables.
- Note writing: Write inspirational notes to guests. Staff will deliver the notes to guests.
*This opportunity does not require attendance at a Volunteer Training Session.
Examples of Group Opportunities
- Preparing Meals for Guests at Kathy’s House*
- Preparing “Meals to Go”*
- Option to either prepare a meal at Kathy’s House or bring in food
- Learn more about this opportunity
- Preparing “Snacks to Go”*
- Providing Bag Lunches*
- Baking: Breads, cookies, bars, and/or healthy snacks for our guests.*
- Grab ‘n Go Breakfast Greeters: 4-6 people needed. Welcome our guests in the morning with a light breakfast before they head off to the hospital to be with their family member or loved one.
- Suggested menu: bagels/muffins/pastries, fruit, orange juice and coffee.
- Donation Drive*: Make it a company-wide or office activity.
- Cleaning & Organizing*: 4-6 people to help give the “home” a little extra TLC.
- Volunteers must be able to perform manual cleaning and possess the ability lift 15-20 pounds.
- Crafts for Guests*: Notes of encouragement, door decorations, placemats and other crafts brighten our home. This is a great project for classrooms or scouts.*
- Port Pillows for Guests*: These pillows make car transportation comfortable for patients who are going through treatment and have a portacath implanted beneath their skin.
*This opportunity does not require attendance at a Volunteer Training Session.
