Northeast Ohio Coalition for the Homeless
Volunteer Coordinator: Larry Davis
Address: 3631 Perkins Ave. Cleveland Ohio 44114
Email: larrydavis@neoch.org
Community Volunteers: Yes
Telephone: 216-432-0540 ext 103
What skills are you looking for in a volunteer?
Reliability, good communication skills, and the ability to work with a diverse cross section of individuals.
Do you have daily activities for volunteers? Yes
Description: Clerical, special events and planning for meetings with homeless people with gathering items for giveaways, taking notes and preparing for the meetings
Care Alliance Health Center
Volunteer coordinator: Reanna Karousis
Address: 1530 St. Clair Ave. Cleveland, OH 44114
Email: rkarousis@carealliance.org
Community volunteers: Yes
Telephone: 216-781-6228 ext. 263
What skills are you looking for in a volunteer?
Reliability, Flexibility, respect for diversity
Do you have daily activities for your volunteers? Yes
Description: Supporting medical records and reception work.
Domestic Violence Center
Volunteer coordinator: Laura Ross
Address: P.O Box 5466 Cleveland, OH 44101
Email: lross@dvac.org
Community volunteers: Yes
Telephone: 216-688-7295
What skills are you looking for: For our direct service opportunities, we are looking for volunteers who can participate in our comprehensive 20-hour volunteer training and then a make a year long commitment (at least) to working for us. We ask that they be open to the learning process so that they can be the best advocate for the women and children we serve.
Do you have daily activities for your volunteers? Yes
Description: We have many opportunities: Hotline advocate, shelter work, support group facilitation, court escort, and childcare.
Do you have monthly projects: Yes
Description: We have a Meals that Heal program where we are looking for individuals or groups to donate a personal meal to our shelter. We are always in need of this opportunity. Additionally, we from time to time, have service projects that we need help with.
Mental Health Services
Volunteer coordinator: Bruce Rothacher
Address: 1744 Payne Ave. Cleveland, OH 44114
Email: rothacherb@mhs-inc.org
Does your organization use community volunteers: Yes
Telephone: 216-623-6555
What skills are you looking for in a volunteer? Strong interpersonal skills, computer skills; word processing, creative and flexible problem-solving skills and ability to effectively and professionally interact with professionals of many disciplines and with professionals and clients of diverse values, strengths and backgrounds.
Do you have daily activities for your volunteers? Yes
Description: Answering phones, sorting/organizing donations, childcare, assisting volunteer coordinator with various duties. Clerical work: filing, data entry and processing.
Do you have monthly projects? Yes
Description: Organizing seasonal clothing and maintain donation room. Assisting with “Camp Bridges”- Camp for CWWV. Facilitating activities and childcare for CWWV and child therapy room. Assisting with identifying the needs of MHS supportive permanent housing sites and gathering ongoing programs information.
Do you have larger, long-term projects: Yes
Description: Assisting with the needs of the individual programs and sites of MHS. For instance, a regularly scheduled arts and crafts activities, self-esteem and social skill building. Facilitating a life skills workshop for young and older adults. Organizing agency-wide 12 step programs at various sites. Helping individual sites/programs gather items of direct use client i.e. Resource referrals, and collaborative with other MHS partners. Creating an agency wide newsletter, and developing an on-going communication forum for volunteering groups. Establish and develop website content for volunteer information online.
Y-Haven
Volunteer coordinator: Chip Joseph
Address: 6001 Woodland Ave 4th Floor Suite 703 Cleveland, OH 44104
Email: cjoseph@cleveland.org
Does your organization use community volunteers: Yes
Telephone: 216-431-2018/216-431-2023 (fax)
Community volunteers: Yes
What skills are you looking for in a volunteer?
We only use volunteers for our advisory board. We would love to find a volunteer Psychiatrist, art therapist, or music therapist.
Volunteers of America Veteran’s Resource Center
Volunteer coordinator’s name: Program Director
Address: 775 E. 152 St. Cleveland, OH 44110
Email: info@voago.org
Telephone: 216-541-9000 Ext. 1300
What skills are you looking for in volunteer?
Cooking, answering phones
Do you have daily activities for your volunteers? Yes
Answering phones
Do you have monthly projects available to you volunteers? Yes
Description: Cleaning pantry area in kitchen
Joseph’s Home
Volunteer Coordinator: Georgette Jackson
Address: 2412 Community College Ave. Cleveland, OH 44115
Email: georgettejackson@josephshome.com
Telephone: 216-685-1551
Daily activities: No
Do you have monthly projects available to volunteers? Yes
Description: Weekend cooking
Do you have larger, long term projects for volunteers? Yes
Description: Program yet to be developed
The West Side Catholic Center
Volunteer coordinator: Terrie Garr
Address: 3135 Lorain Ave. Cleveland, OH 44126
Email: tgarr@helpcleveland.org
Community volunteers: Yes
Telephone: 216-631-4741 ext. 122
What skills are you looking for in a volunteer?
Flexibility, empathy, understanding, ability to get along with many people, and a desire to serve.
Do you have daily activities? Yes
Description: Receptionist, intake persons, friendly visitors, resume writing, healthcare services, sorting, childcare, serving and preparing meals, legal services, assisting with the I.D program, registration for clothing and household, assisting in art education program, tutors for the Learning For Life Adult Education classes etc.
Do you have monthly projects available to your volunteers? Yes
Do you have larger, long term projects for volunteers? Yes please check with us.
Hitchcock Center for Women
Volunteer Coordinator: Tracey Root
Address: 1227 Ansel Rd. Cleveland, OH 44108
Email: troot@hcfw.org
Telephone: 216-421-0662
What skills are you looking for in a volunteer?
We have various levels for volunteers from Clinical staff to clerical duties.
Daily activities for volunteers? Yes
Description: Open and run coffee shop from 7:30am – 11:30 M-F. Make copies and highlight forms, shred papers.
Stella Maris
Volunteer coordinator: Ellen Marniella
Address: 1320 Washington Ave. Cleveland OH, 44114
Email: ellenmarniella@yahoo.com
Telephone: 216-781-0550
Community Volunteers: Yes
What skills are you looking for in a volunteer?
General office and clerical skills
Do you have daily activates for your volunteers? Yes
Description: Working at the coffee shop, landscaping, filing, recovery activities
Family Promise
Executive Director: Joan Maser Volunteer coordinator: Christine Vegh and Marilyn Wright
Address: 3470 E. 152nd St. PO Box 201187 Cleveland, Ohio 44120
Email: c.vegh@familypromisecle.org or mwright@familypromisecle.org
Telephone: 216-767-4060 ext. 211/254
Does your organization use community volunteers? Yes
What Skills are you looking for in a volunteer? Wide range of skills needed
Do you have daily activates for you volunteers? No, volunteer opportunities are set up case by case. They do offer a wide range of volunteer opportunities. Example, facility up keep, tutoring, building projects
Do you have monthly projects? Yes
Description: Monthly meal preparation
Do you have larger, long term projects for volunteer activities? Yes
Description: Individuals needed to help set up and clean up apartments. New Life Community has volunteers who address the set up and clean up needs of a single apartment before a guest moves in to begin their independence.
St. Malachi Center
Volunteer coordinator: Lynn Scott
Address: 2416 Superior Viaduct, Cleveland OH, 44113
Email: lynn@stmalachicenter.org
Phone: 216-771-3036
Does your organization use community volunteers? Yes
What skills are you looking for in a volunteer? To be a tutor, the volunteer must pass a background check.
Do you have monthly projects available to your volunteers? Yes
Description: Clothing ministries, summer camp programs, mailing projects, special events
Do you have larger, long term projects for volunteers? Yes
Description: Literacy program; where individuals will consistently volunteer with one person for a few hours a week.
St. Patrick’s Club
Program Coordinator: Jerry Partyka
Address: 3610 Bridge Ave. Cleveland OH, 44113
Email: jpartyka@wsem.org
Phone:216-281-5516
Does your organization use community volunteers? Yes
Description: Volunteers come from all over the greater Cleveland area.
What skills are you looking for in a volunteer? May need to do some light lifting.
Do you have daily activities for your volunteers? No. The meals are operational three days a week. Volunteers have the opportunity to assist with the serving of dinner or to help out with the food pantry
Catholic Charities- Bishop Cosgrove Center
Volunteer Coordinator: Nicole Evans
Address: 1736 Superior Ave. Cleveland OH, 44114
Email: nxevans@clevelandcatholiccharities.org Phone: 216-781-8262 (EX: 12)
Does your organization use community volunteers? Yes
What skills are you looking for in a volunteer? The ability to lift a minimum of 20 pounds (for stocking purposes)
Do you have daily activities for your volunteers? Yes
Description: Volunteer in hot meals and / or pantry program, packing food bags monthly
Do you have monthly projects available to your volunteers? Yes
Description: With the assistance of staff, assist in preparing a monthly meal; volunteer weekly/ monthly to serve a meal.
Cleveland Tenants Organization
Volunteer Coordinator: Executive Director
Address: 3631 Perkins Ave. Suite 3A-4, Cleveland OH, 44114
Phone: 216-432-0617
Does your organization use community volunteers? Yes
What skills are you looking for in a volunteer?
Good interpersonal skills, communication skills, (written and verbal).
Do you have daily activities for your volunteers? Occasionally
Do you have large, long term projects for volunteers? Occasionally. We have limited opportunities available. It is best for interested volunteers to call to see if there are opportunities.
May Dugan Center
Volunteer Coordinator: Bianca Figueroa
Address: 4115 Bridge Ave. Cleveland OH, 44113
Email: bfigueroa@maydugancenter.org
Phone: 216-631-5800 ext. 121
Does your organization use community volunteers? Yes
What skills are you looking for in a volunteer? Professional computer skills, good phone etiquette, bi-lingual, knowledge of community resources
Do you have daily activities for your volunteers? Yes
Description: Reception and clerical (phone, desk work)
Do you have monthly projects available to your volunteers? Yes
Description: Food & clothing distribution day (4th Wed. of the month)
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