You can join in the effort to build a promise neighborhood where all children have the opportunity to reach their full potential. There are many ways your volunteer involvment can make an impact. 

Individual Volunteer Opportunities

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Do you have a skill or hobby that you are interested in sharing with the community? Volunteers are needed to lead activities or lend their skills at our Family Success Centers and residential programs.

The Family Success Centers, located in Clementon, Blackwood, Egg Harbor Township, Galloway, and Camden, are community-based, family-centered neighborhood gathering places where any community resident can go for family support, information, and services. Through the Family Success Center, we provide families with convenient access to a wide array of services and family friendly activities offered on a daily basis.  Here are a few ideas  of activities that can be led by volunteers in our Family Success Centers:

  • Tutoring children
  • Coordinating arts and crafts activities
  • Leading workshops
  • Offering computer skills training

 

Our residential programs provide safe and supportive housing to young people as well as mothers and their children in need of a safe place to live. These programs in Camden and Gloucester Counties provide residents with a stable foundation and strengthen their ability for self-sufficiency. Here are some ideas for activities that can be led by volunteers in our residential programs:

  • Assist with playtime while mothers participate in educational workshops
  • Baking cookies every Sunday
  • Leading a sewing or tailoring workshop
  • Leading a workshop for poetry, creative writing, singing, or another form of artistic expression
  • Creating and leading a fitness, wellness, or nutrition  class
Group Volunteer Opportunities

One time group projects are an excellent team building opportunity for corporate engagement or to fulfill volunteer hours. Come with your family, friends, company or team, roll up your sleeves and help your community!

 

Corporate Volunteer Partners

A corporate partnership with Center For Family Services is a unique opportunity for your company to demonstrate corporate social responsibility and positively engage with your employees. Corporate volunteerism provides team-building opportunities, and increases team morale, while addressing needs in the community. As a corporate partner, your company and teams can create lasting change in your community.

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Volunteer Needs

Holiday Gift Project

Volunteer support is needed to raise funds which will be used to purchase holiday gifts for children in the care of Safe & Supportive Housing programs, and families in critical need. You can use your talents to fundraise and spread the word. Some examples include

  • Leading a yoga class for a fee that will be donated
  • Hosting a bake sale in your workplace or school
  • Creating arts or crafts to sell
  • If you’re a business owner, giving a discount to folks who make a donation

Companies can lead a matching gifts campaign to encourage employees to get involved and double the impact of their individual donations.

You can also host a collection of gift cards that will be provided directly to families so they can purchase a holiday meal and gifts for their children.

If you would like to help share the need for holiday gifts or host a fundraiser among your friends, school, or workplace, we can help you. Contact holidaygiftproject@centerffs.org.

To learn more about the Holiday Gift Project, click here.

Hope Mobile

Volunteers are needed to assist with the monthly Hope Mobile food distribution. Center For Family Services, along with the Food Bank of South Jersey and community residents, host the monthly Hope Mobile food distribution, providing fresh and healthy foods for Camden City families. Volunteers are needed to unload, sort, and distribute food to families. Hope Mobile takes place in Camden City on the morning on the third Wednesday of every month. 

Project Backpack

Volunteer hep is needed to fundraise for Project Backpack to equip local students with the supplies they need to return to school prepared, confident, and ready to learn! Volunteers are needed to help fundraise to provide high-quality, sturdy backpacks to children living in Safe and Supportive Housing programs and children in families that are in critical need.

Companies can lead a matching gifts campaign to encourage employees to get involved and double the impact of their individual donations.

You can also host a collection of gift cards that will be provided directly to families so they can purchase backpacks and the specific school supplies their children need to return to their classrooms.

Volunteers can also organize donation drives for high-quality backpacks in your workplace or community to support Project Backpack. To learn more about Project Backpack, click here.

Stand.Speak.Empower.

Center For Family Services’ SERV program hosts outreach and awareness events as an ongoing initiative to stop the spread of violence in our community. Volunteers can participate in Denim Days to take a stand against sexual violence by wearing denim on Fridays and making a $5 donation to the Denim Dollars Campaign. Volunteers can be outreach ambassadors by starting a denim dollars campaign in their office, school, or organization. To learn more about how you can participate in Stand. Speak. Empower, click here. 

Start a Collection 

There is an ongoing need for essential items to support children and families in your community. Energetic and dedicated groups like you are needed to lead collections of the high-need items listed below. Collections are great way for corporate groups, students, or community groups to make an immediate and positive impact on the lives of children and families in need of help.

Take action to help meet a need in your community by coordinating a collection of brand new, high-need items. Read about each collection you can assist with here. 

Building & Landscaping

Volunteers are needed to support gardening and landscaping projects at our safe homes and offices. These opportunities change throughout the year. For many of these projects, volunteers help is needed to cover the cost of the tools and supplies for the project.

Participation

If you would like to participate in one or more of these events or if you have a new idea for a volunteer project, please fill out the information below.

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