Volunteer Opportunities
“Volunteers are the only human beings on the face of the earth who reflect this nation’s compassion, unselfish caring, patience, and just plain love for one another” – Erma Bombeck
Chicks in Crisis operates almost entirely on the good will of volunteers. Whether you have a spare hour or a few days, please contact us about how you’d like to volunteer with us and ultimately make a difference in someone’s life.
We currently need the following:
Marketing Specialists
We need volunteers in these areas of expertise:
- Development of marketing materials, including brouchures, handouts, etc.
- Quarterly donor communications
- Creation of short term and long term marketing strategies
- Email marketing
Support Staff (Volunteers) for Fundraising Events
Support fundraising events in the community:
Helping in any way to support the success of these events
- Walk a Thon’s
- Bake Sales
- Car Washes
- Sponsored Events
- Annual Fundraiser “Angels Among Us”
- Volunteers for various festivals and events
Grant Writing
Chicks in Crisis need several individuals with strong writing skills and the ability to do research to uncover local and national grant opportunities in the area of, adoptions, Teen Mom Program, workshops, Clothes Closet, etc. As a grant writer you will work with board members to develop proposals and strategic opportunities.
Workshop Instructors
We need instructors to commit to delivering one to two workshops per week, Monday through Saturday. The workshops are focused on career achievement, creating resumes, follow-up strategies and mock interviews.
Clothes Closet
We need individuals to help create and support a strategy to increase donations to our clothes closet facility open on Tuesdays and Thursdays. We need people to go into the community to receive diapers, wipes, formula, baby clothes and business casual and business clothes for women.
Instructors
Enthusiastic people needed with solid business acumen to deliver career achievement classes in the south Sacramento and Elk Grove area. Chicks in Crisis provides career achievement courses and finance classes to young mothers and mothers-to-be ages 15 - 21 at various local charter schools. Each class is three to four hours long. We are looking for articulate people who can deliver these classes once or twice per week. No teaching experience is required -just good business understanding, presentation skills, and a desire to assist girls with getting ahead in life. For more information about these classes, please contact Lori Martin at 916-804-8131 or lmartin@ixforce.com
Gift Wrapping
Come wrap holiday gifts and help Chicks in Crisis to receive some much needed donations. Chicks in Crisis will be at Sunrise Mall on December 18 – 20 offering a holiday gift wrapping service in exchange for donations. We need lots of volunteers to assist us with this fun and busy event. We’re looking for friendly people in the holiday spirit who can spend a couple hours with us wrapping gifts for shoppers.
Donation Sorters
We need sorters to assist with organizing the 'Clothes Closet' at our office in the Elk Grove Non-Profit Center above the Grocery Outlet on Bond Road in Elk Grove.
Fundraiser Coordinators
We need someone to develop, coordinate and run a 'Baby Bottle Coin Drive' to raise funds.
Writers
We need someone with excellent writing skills to help capture the stories of our birthmothers and adopted parents.
If you work for a company that supports the United Way of the Capitol Region, we need ambassadors that can help us to receive payroll donations.