Needs From: RoadrunnerServe

Volunteer: Adopt A Mile or Adopt A Spot Cleaner

Choose a mile or spot special to you and help us keep it clean! Sign up to recieve free supplies from KDWB and then spend some time by yourself or with friends and de-trash the area! All of Whitfield is a watershed meaning that each piece of litter you pick up is a piece of litter that doesn't end up in our oceans. 

Agency: Keep Dalton-Whitfield Beautiful

Choose a mile or spot special to you and help us keep it clean! Sign up to recieve free supplies from KDWB and then spend some time by yourself or with friends and de-trash the area! All of Whitfield is a watershed meaning that each piece of litter you pick up is a piece of litter that doesn't end up in our oceans. 

Agency: Keep Dalton-Whitfield Beautiful

Need Type: Volunteer

Date: Is Ongoing

Zip Code: 30721

Allow Groups: Yes

Volunteer: Intake Volunteer

This assignment requires 10 hours of training and ongoing volunteer hours.  Assist Clients with basic paperwork and make copies.  Answer questions of other visitors.  Adhere to all confidentiality requirements.  

Volunteers should complete training with an established volunteer before working alone.  Our hours are Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 9 a.m. to noon.

We need volunteers who receive training, and then return once each month for a morning to work.  At this time we do not have short-term assignments that last only a few hours total.

Agency: DOCUP Dalton Organization of Churches United for People

This assignment requires 10 hours of training and ongoing volunteer hours.  Assist Clients with basic paperwork and make copies.  Answer questions of other visitors.  Adhere to all confidentiality requirements.  

Volunteers should complete training with an established volunteer before working alone.  Our hours are Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 9 a.m. to noon.

We need volunteers who receive training, and then return once each month for a morning to work.  At this time we do not have short-term assignments that last only a few hours total.

Agency: DOCUP Dalton Organization of Churches United for People

Need Type: Volunteer

Date: Is Ongoing

Zip Code: 30720

Allow Groups: No

Volunteer: Office and Administration Help

Someone reliable to help once a week for a couple of hours for with day to day stuff.

Agency: Northwest Georgia Family Crisis Center

Someone reliable to help once a week for a couple of hours for with day to day stuff.

Agency: Northwest Georgia Family Crisis Center

Need Type: Volunteer

Date: Is Ongoing

Zip Code: 30720

Allow Groups: No

Volunteer: Club Programming

Wright School of Business volunteers choosing to work with the club programs will be assigned to one or more of the following projects:

Needing some individuals who can do a 10-week session (1 hour per day) of Career Launch and Money Matters with Club teens. Diplomas to Degrees – College preparation class and financial aid PowerHour - Assisting children with homework from 4:00pm - 5:00 pm.

All volunteers will have needed to complete the Boys & Girls Club Volunteer Application before visiting the boys and girls club. All volunteers working with Club Programming will need to complete a GAPS background check as well. Paperwork needed for the background check will be provided by the Boys and Girls Club staff. 

Note: Volunteers assigned to this area will be working with Nikki Moss, Whitfield Unit Director 706-847-6072 nmoss@bgcgmw.org

Agency: Boys & Girls Club of Gordon, Murray, & Whitfield Counties, Inc.

Wright School of Business volunteers choosing to work with the club programs will be assigned to one or more of the following projects:

Needing some individuals who can do a 10-week session (1 hour per day) of Career Launch and Money Matters with Club teens. Diplomas to Degrees – College preparation class and financial aid PowerHour - Assisting children with homework from 4:00pm - 5:00 pm.

All volunteers will have needed to complete the Boys & Girls Club Volunteer Application before visiting the boys and girls club. All volunteers working with Club Programming will need to complete a GAPS background check as well. Paperwork needed for the background check will be provided by the Boys and Girls Club staff. 

Note: Volunteers assigned to this area will be working with Nikki Moss, Whitfield Unit Director 706-847-6072 nmoss@bgcgmw.org

Agency: Boys & Girls Club of Gordon, Murray, & Whitfield Counties, Inc.

Need Type: Volunteer

Date: Is Ongoing

Zip Code: 30721

Allow Groups: No

Volunteer: Gordon Location - Special Projects

Other Opportunities: The Gordon location has a few projects students can help with. Any students interested should register in RoadrunnerServe and then contact Kasha Taylor at ktaylor@bgcgmw.org OR 706-218-4504 to schedule a time to volunteer. See below:

Location – Gordon County 1001 S Wall Street Calhoun, Ga

Projects:

Painting (hallway that is red – will require primer, which we have on location) Painting (games room/cafeteria – will require some priming) Possible sheet-rock repair throughout the building in several spots Sanding and wall-prep for painting in 4 bathrooms

MUST CONTACT SITE IN ADVANCE. THEY NEED TO HAVE MATERIALS PREPARED AND READY FOR YOUR ARRIVAL. 

Agency: Boys & Girls Club of Gordon, Murray, & Whitfield Counties, Inc.

Other Opportunities: The Gordon location has a few projects students can help with. Any students interested should register in RoadrunnerServe and then contact Kasha Taylor at ktaylor@bgcgmw.org OR 706-218-4504 to schedule a time to volunteer. See below:

Location – Gordon County 1001 S Wall Street Calhoun, Ga

Projects:

Painting (hallway that is red – will require primer, which we have on location) Painting (games room/cafeteria – will require some priming) Possible sheet-rock repair throughout the building in several spots Sanding and wall-prep for painting in 4 bathrooms

MUST CONTACT SITE IN ADVANCE. THEY NEED TO HAVE MATERIALS PREPARED AND READY FOR YOUR ARRIVAL. 

Agency: Boys & Girls Club of Gordon, Murray, & Whitfield Counties, Inc.

Need Type: Volunteer

Date: Is Ongoing

Zip Code: 30701

Allow Groups: No

Volunteer: Internship

 Looking for an intern who might could help me with a donor base program it would be a lot of entering in data.

Agency: Northwest Georgia Family Crisis Center

 Looking for an intern who might could help me with a donor base program it would be a lot of entering in data.

Agency: Northwest Georgia Family Crisis Center

Need Type: Volunteer

Date: Is Ongoing

Zip Code: 30720

Allow Groups: No

Volunteer: Healthy Choices Healthy Relationship Volunteer Teachers

Healthy Choices Class: In partnership with every Whitfield and Murray Co. high school and two Gordon County High Schools, we teach how to use critical thinking to educate 9th grade students about their choices and cultural surroundings and how that affects their present and future. The program is by the Dibble Institute’s Healthy Choices Healthy Relationships It is a seven-week program that focuses on relationships and influences in teenagers lives. Each lesson is very interactive with discussions, videos, and activities. Our focus is teaching students how to set goals and how the impact that every relationship they form affects these goals. This is done solely through trained volunteers in the community. It is a commitment to teach one hour a week for 7 weeks. We are very flexible and we work with our volunteer’s work schedule. We provide all the teaching information, training, and material.

Agency: Family Frameworks

Healthy Choices Class: In partnership with every Whitfield and Murray Co. high school and two Gordon County High Schools, we teach how to use critical thinking to educate 9th grade students about their choices and cultural surroundings and how that affects their present and future. The program is by the Dibble Institute’s Healthy Choices Healthy Relationships It is a seven-week program that focuses on relationships and influences in teenagers lives. Each lesson is very interactive with discussions, videos, and activities. Our focus is teaching students how to set goals and how the impact that every relationship they form affects these goals. This is done solely through trained volunteers in the community. It is a commitment to teach one hour a week for 7 weeks. We are very flexible and we work with our volunteer’s work schedule. We provide all the teaching information, training, and material.

Agency: Family Frameworks

Need Type: Volunteer

Date: Is Ongoing

Zip Code: 30722

Allow Groups: No

Volunteer: Clear Community Garden plots & paths

Clear weeds and grass from unrented garden plots and mow or weed-eat garden paths.  Will need notification in order to borrow lawn mower &/or weed-eater from Dalton Parks & Rec. Dept.

Agency: Lakeshore Community Garden

Clear weeds and grass from unrented garden plots and mow or weed-eat garden paths.  Will need notification in order to borrow lawn mower &/or weed-eater from Dalton Parks & Rec. Dept.

Agency: Lakeshore Community Garden

Need Type: Volunteer

Date: Is Ongoing

Zip Code: 30720

Allow Groups: No

Volunteer: website master

In need of someone to maintain our ministry website, respond to request pass along to those depts. that could meet the needs

Agency: Dalton's Greater Works

In need of someone to maintain our ministry website, respond to request pass along to those depts. that could meet the needs

Agency: Dalton's Greater Works

Need Type: Volunteer

Date: Is Ongoing

Zip Code: 30720

Allow Groups: Yes

Volunteer: Install new lights in dinning hall

We have been given a grant for new overhead lighting need help installing them. Skill level is minor just take down old and install new.

Agency: Dalton's Greater Works

We have been given a grant for new overhead lighting need help installing them. Skill level is minor just take down old and install new.

Agency: Dalton's Greater Works

Need Type: Volunteer

Date: Is Ongoing

Zip Code: 30720

Allow Groups: Yes

Volunteer: Event Planning

We need community members to help our Events Board in planning and organizing community events throughout the year. Help us plan fun and exciting events for couples and friends in our community to enjoy together. Committee meeting times and days will vary. 

Agency: Family Frameworks

We need community members to help our Events Board in planning and organizing community events throughout the year. Help us plan fun and exciting events for couples and friends in our community to enjoy together. Committee meeting times and days will vary. 

Agency: Family Frameworks

Need Type: Volunteer

Date: Is Ongoing

Zip Code: 30720

Allow Groups: No

Volunteer: Clerical Help

We need help with filing and organizing materials and documents in the office, Creating Filing systems, collecting and organizing grant data. Hours are flexible. 

Agency: Family Frameworks

We need help with filing and organizing materials and documents in the office, Creating Filing systems, collecting and organizing grant data. Hours are flexible. 

Agency: Family Frameworks

Need Type: Volunteer

Date: Is Ongoing

Zip Code: 30720

Allow Groups: No