Welcome to Day 3 of National Volunteer Appreciation Week!
If you missed out on Monday’s introduction to National Volunteer Appreciation Week, make sure you pop over and check it out HERE. Yesterday, we discussed community volunteers; if you missed that post make sure you check it out HERE.
Each month Eastside Baby Corner welcomes a number of groups through the hub doors. These groups range from corporate groups, girl, boy and cub scout troops, school groups and many different churches. We love getting groups in to volunteer because they bring great camaraderie and fun to the volunteer shift!
Unlike our community volunteers who mainly sort and organize the clothing donations, our groups that come in often get a special project! Recent favorites include: reorganizing our clothing inventory, cleaning out storage units, checking and labeling expiration dates on baby food, moving inventory and much, much more!
Volunteers from Sagemont Church, sorting and labeling expiration dates on baby food jars.
Students from Eastside Prep came to volunteer during their Service Learning Day!
This Cub Scout Troop helped us pick-up donations from the Issaquah Highlands Self-Storage Unit and deliver them to the EBC hub!
We were so thankful to have a group from Expeditors and a group from the University of Washington help us tear up carpet!
Microsoft employees came to volunteer during the Microsoft Day of Caring! These guys are helping us sort, organize and edit our excess clothing inventory!
As was mentioned yesterday for safety and task accuracy reasons, we cannot have children under the age of 7 working in the warehouse. (Remember 7-13 with direct adult supervision and 14+ can come alone!). However, that doesn’t mean we don’t have special projects for them to do at home and then bring us their final product!
For instance, we get a lot of Daisy and Brownie Girl Scout Troops who want to volunteer at EBC, but because they’re too young they often either host a community drive or put together hair accessories or toothbrush & toothpaste kits. We will welcome the younger kids into the warehouse to deliver their goods and for a tour! So if you have a younger one who is interested in helping at EBC, you might think about one of these ideas!
The Kindergarten classes from St. Louise School collected items for EBC and then brought them to the Hub for a tour!
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This young girl scout troop helped EBC by sorting socks!
If you are interested in bringing a group in to volunteer, please contact our Program/Volunteer Manager Madeline Fish (madelinef@babycorner.org).
If you are interested in hosting a community drive or participating in another activity with younger children, please contact Cori Benson (corib@babycorner.org).
Core Volunteer Shout-Outs!
- 14 YEARS of volunteering
- Tracy Bury
- Joy McMains
- 13 YEARS of volunteering
- Teresa Lindo
- Nancy Tochko
- 12 YEARS of volunteering
- Tom Koeneman
- 11 YEARS of volunteering
- Karen Rubin
- Steve Tochko
- 10 YEARS of volunteering
- Dave Herb
- Edie Herb
- Lanni Litsjo
- Dick Scott
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