Opportunity Details
Featured DIY - Cold Weather Kits for Homeward
DIY Volunteering allows individuals, families and groups of all ages and sizes to participate in community service from the comfort of their own homes. Volunteers purchase supplies and complete the kits in their own space then drop off completed projects at the designated days/times below.
Cold Weather Kits for People Experiencing Homelessness
Beneficiary: Homeward
Purpose: These cold weather kits will provide individuals experiencing homelessness with essential safety care during the coldest months of the year. In January, Homeward will conduct their “Point in Time” count. A point-in-time count is an unduplicated count on a single night of the people in a community who are staying in shelters or sleeping outside. This count gives them an opportunity to hear directly about the crisis of homelessness from those who are most impacted by the crisis. Your compassionate cold weather kits will help keep these individuals warm, healthy, and hopeful during our winter months. Outreach workers in the community report that having a cold weather kit can help to build trust and to make connections with our neighbors experiencing homelessness.
Volunteers are asked to make 3 Cold Weather Kits with an encouraging note.
How To:
1. Sign up for the project by selecting a drop-off date below and clicking sign up below. Every person who plans to volunteer (including youth) must sign up. You can create a volunteer team to sign up your group or youth volunteers. View our step-by-step guide to creating and managing teams here: CFengage | Volunteer With a Group.
2. * Review the project instructions and supply list.*
3. DIY! We ask participants to make 3 cold weather kits, each with an encouraging note. There is no maximum contribution for this project, but we will not be able to document more than 3 service hours. Please only sign up for one drop-off date.
4. Drop-off! Bring your completed kits to the drop-off location on the date and time you select.
5. Learn:
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Learn more about the work of Homeward! www.homewardva.org.
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Check out the Greater Richmond Continuum of Care (GRCoC): www.endhomelessnessrva.org.
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Understand the affordable housing issues facing Richmond: Affordable Housing: Why It Matters & What You Can Do.
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Support efforts to end homelessness in the Greater Richmond Region. This list represents local nonprofit organizations that are funded by the Greater Richmond Continuum of Care or are partners on the Homeless Connection Line: Homeward - Home.
Housing, Hunger or Homelessness
Homeless
Collecting, Sorting & Packaging
Age Minimum (with Adult): 1+, Minimum Age:13+, Court Ordered Volunteer - Allowed
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- Create a new team to sign up.
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