Volunteer with NEOCH
In order to build a world where homelessness doesn’t exist, our work requires the help and passion of volunteers.
Because of the nature of our work, we are only able to host volunteers who are able to commit to volunteering on a weekly or bi-weekly basis. We currently have volunteer opportunities available in administration, data entry, donation management, and street outreach.
If you would like to volunteer for the Moore Love Project, please fill out an application below.
Please call 216-432-0540 or email toni@neoch.org with questions.
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Moore Love is
a volunteer street-outreach initiative with the purpose of building community through mutually transformative relationships with people experiencing unsheltered homelessness. Moore Love volunteers will meet the 1st and 3rd Friday of each month. Volunteers will join NEOCH-trained staff members to visit people who are sleeping outside in the community and provide them with compassionate human interaction, humanitarian aid, and a simple meal. However, the true work of outreach is not to feed someone but rather to build relationships with members of the community. Transformation of our hearts and soul happens in community and in loving relationships with one another. The program is done in memory of Denise Moore, a member of NEOCH, who dedicated her life to building transformative and authentic relationships with people sleeping outside.
At NEOCH, we practice a relational approach to homeless outreach that understands that healing does not happen through transactions alone—through blankets, bus passes, and birth certificates. Healing happens through cultivating relationships of trust and mutuality. To form these relationships, we meet people not only where they are but also where we are mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. We value their dignity and agency while listening to their priorities. One of our outreach mantras is this: “People are not problems to be solved or cases to be managed; they are community members to be loved and journeyed with.” In other words, we do not try to “fix” people; we accompany them.
Volunteers will meet at St. Paul’s Community Church the first and third Friday of each month to provide and prepare food, lead reflection and head out into the community. There is space for 6 volunteers to go out into the community. Space is limited, so sign up now!
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We meet the first and third Friday of each month to prepare food, visit with individuals experiencing homelessness in the area, build relationships and community, reflect on our experience, and educate each other.
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The first and third Friday of each month from 4:00pm or 5:30 pm - 9:00 pm at St Paul’s Community Church in Ohio City (located at the corner of W. 45th and Franklin).
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Anyone in the community! At the meeting time, any volunteers will get an explanation of what takes place when we go out from a trained NEOCH staff member. Afterwards they will be asked to sign an associated waiver form if they decide to participate.
To sign up please fill out an online application. Depending on the spots available, new volunteers may be asked to spend their time learning, supporting meal preparation, and cleaning up, rather than going out in a van.
You can also email Toni Mickey directly at Toni@neoch.org for more information about signing up
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Does volunteering not fit into your schedule? Don’t worry! You can support us with a financial donation by clicking the link below!
PLEASE NOTE: After completing this step of the application, you will be redirected to SignUpGenius to select the dates you are available to volunteer and/or provide meals. Selecting dates through SignUpGenuis is required.