Do Good Week Digital Guide

It Feels Good To Do Good.

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DOING GOOD makes us FEEL GOOD

Makes us feel better

When you do something good for someone else, your brain’s pleasure centers light up, releasing endorphins.

Decreases stress

A study showed that giving back can have a significant impact on reducing blood pressure.

Makes us happier at work

Researchers found that individuals in their mid-30s who rated helping others in their work as important, reported they were happier with their life.

Motivates to do good again

The research found that reflecting on your past good deeds makes you feel selfless and want to help more.

Promotes mental health

Along with improved well-being and life satisfaction volunteering is also linked to decreased depression.

Welcome Basket Collection and Assembly

Full of new linens, fresh bedding and towels, and other household items. The family then takes these items when they move into their own housing.

Charlotte Family Housing: The mission of Charlotte Family Housing is to empower working families experiencing homelessness to achieve long-term self-sufficiency through shelter, housing, supportive services and advocacy.

DO GOOD Zoom Reading Time

DO GOOD Volunteers have an opportunity to read to about 10 young adults with disabilities. Reading level 2rd grade or under.

Champion House of Care Project One, Inc. CHOC Project One strives to reduce the extreme challenges that homeless families face when providing lifelong care for loved ones with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

Walk to End Alzheimer’s Planning Committee - Charlotte

Join your local Volunteer Walk Planning Committee and help make your 2023 Walk a success from the ground up. Alzheimer’s Association - Western Carolina Chapter leads the way to end Alzheimer’s and all other dementia — by accelerating global research, driving risk reduction and early detection, and maximizing quality care and support.

Organize a Collection Drive for Essential Items

Organize collection drives in their community for essential items including clothing, school uniform items, socks, shoes, blankets, bedding, backpacks, etc.

Crisis Assistance Ministry is to provide assistance and advocacy for people in financial crisis, helping them move toward self-sufficiency. As Mecklenburg County’s Lead Agency offering emergency assistance to low-income families, Crisis Assistance Ministry provides for basic needs with rent and utility assistance, clothing, household goods, furniture, and appliances; fosters financial stability through partnerships, counseling, and support to give families the tools they need to reach for economic mobility; and educates and engages the community to understand the realities of poverty in Mecklenburg County.

Host a Donation Drive or Fundraiser

Hosting a party or fundraising event is a great way to bring people together for some fun all while giving back to your community. Donation drives are also a great way to give the gift of cleanliness and are a great alternative to an event.

Project Outpour provides mobile showers and hygiene services to our neighbors in need. We operate our shower trailer at six locations around Charlotte every week.

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Pack and Sort Food

Volunteer opportunities nclude packing and sorting donated produce as well as at off-site events. Off-site events include Mobile Food Pantries where you can hand out food to families in need and special events.

Second Harvest Food Bank Provides a regional distribution warehouse and branches that supply food and grocery items to charitable agencies that assist people in need. We provide training, technical assistance and hunger education to our partner agencies.

Village Volunteer

Join the mission, the system, and how YOU can play a part for good for children & teens in foster care.

Foster Village Charlotte: Foster families are all around you. They are regular people who are shifting their entire lives to say yes to children, doing all the things we do and adding in court hearings, visits, training, and giving love to young hearts who have known trauma and neglect. These families are doing the work, and they cannot do it alone. Foster Village Charlotte is in their corner, fighting for their voices and meeting their needs.

Weekly Run/Walk Program

Join us at RunningWorks Headquarters on Tuesdays and Fridays to go out for a run (or walk) with our program participants followed by a life skills workshop.

Running Works is a grassroots nonprofit organization that provides wellness initiatives, life skill development, social support and case management to promote healthy lifestyle habits. We know that individuals experiencing homelessness and poverty are more likely to have health disparities and negative health outcomes, so RunningWorks’ has created a unique model of using running/walking, education and social support to assist Team Members with their Health and Mental Wellness, with developing a Community of Support, and building bridges to increase Access and Opportunity.

Snacks for Moms Moving Forward

Help stock the Moms Moving Forward food pantry with snacks for children and families.

Freedom Communities: We work holistically with families in the Freedom Drive Corridor in West Charlotte in the areas of education, affordable housing, employment and health and wellness.

Pajama and Toy Drive

Providing pajamas, socks, dolls, toys and hair care essentials to underserved girls ages 1-17 years old in need during Christmas.

PrettyPonytails provides haircare kits and educational empowerment to at-risk and undeserved girls worldwide to help boost self-esteem and confidence.

Family

Color It Blue for Sexual Assault Awareness Month

Brave Step’s signature campaign to encourage survivors, loved ones, allies and the community to embody advocacy and initiate new conversations about the pervasive issue of sexual violence.

BraveStep empowers individuals who have been impacted by sexual violence.

Relay For Life Charlotte General/Day of Event

Day of Event volunteers may assist with registration, event set up/clean up, and other duties as needed. Opportunity that helps our event run smoothly.

American Cancer Society’s mission is to improve the lives of people with cancer and their families through advocacy, research, and patient support to ensure everyone has an opportunity to prevent, detect, treat, and survive cancer.

Baby Shower Prepping

Mint to Be of the Carolinas needs volunteers to help organize and prep for our baby shower. Sorting baby clothes, Stuffing Baby Bathtubs and Totes.

Mint to be of the Carolinas mission is to significantly improve the support to single and married mothers in need of our community through support, counseling, education, and advocacy.

Car Wash for a Cause

Come out to join us washing cars to support our organization.

RyzABOVE Fitness strives to help individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (such as Autism and Down Syndrome) to live a healthy and more fulfilling lifestyle through exercise classes, day camps, and socialization opportunities.

Sound Panels

Take old tee shirts and weave them into sound panels or dog beds. This keeps textiles out of the landfill while making useful new products!

Envision Charlotte is a public private plus collaborative that leads Charlotte’s progress to a circular economy through innovations that strengthen economic competitiveness, environmental sustainability and positive community impacts.

Teens

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Youth Council

The student advisory council for City of Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, CMS, and GenerationNation. Advise CMS and community leaders about issues impacting K-12 students and the future of the city, meet friends from different schools and parts of the community, and become a civic leader!

Generation Nation students build civic literacy, becoming civic leaders who know first-hand how their governments and communities work, understand and can discuss community issues, are able find and use good sources of news and civic information and build social capital, knowledge, and experience for active civic leadership and problem-solving, now and into college, career, and adulthood.

Positive Posts for Survivors and their Children (Spanish Written)

Everyone needs positivity in their lives to encourage them to keep going on good and bad days. For survivors of human trafficking and their children, combating negative thoughts can sometimes be a daily battle.

A Fresh Start CLT is an anti-human trafficking nonprofit that focuses our reach on impacting survivors and their children by helping the family to grow, heal, and thrive together.

Bookworm Buddies

These adorable bookworms are meant to encourage our young readers to read often and with a friend! Not everyone has someone at home to read with, but kids still need to read out loud, every day, in order to become stronger readers.

Promising Pages is The Charlotte Area Book Bank! Our mission is to collect new and donated books and share them with children living in the Charlotte Area Book Desert: those with few, if any, books at home.

New Stuffed Animal Drives

New stuffed soft cuddly animals, 9-11 inches to be donated to Hugaroo.

Hugaroo: Our mission is to provide new stuffed animals to children who have experienced a life-threatening illness, traumatic event or are at risk.

Build a Bedding Bag

Very first night in their new home, Furnish for Good clients can sleep in their own bed, made up with clean, fresh bedding. Our hope is that they will feel love and respect knowing that someone purposefully curated and coordinated these bedding items for them.

Furnish for Good serves Charlotte area individuals and families transitioning out of homelessness, poverty, and other dire circumstances.

Teens

Build Kits for a Cause

Every kit that you create will enable a child to have the most basic tools they need to be successful in school. Choose from a variety of kits to build: Dental, Pencil Pouch, Hygiene, Wellness, Art, STEM, Homework, and Backpacks.

Classroom Central’s Mission: To foster equity in education by providing teachers and students with the free resources they need to succeed.

Kidz That Care Volunteer

Fun volunteer opportunities for children.

Kidz That Care organizes and leads fun, safe, free, age-appropriate volunteer events and service projects that empower kids/teens to give back to their communities and advocate for causes they care about and become student leaders.

Supply Drive for Care Ring Patients

Many of our patients are on extremely limited incomes and have trouble affording basic necessities. Donate or collect items such as: deodorant, toothbrushes, toothpaste, hand sanitizer, hand soap, body wash/soap, shampoo, over-thecounter first aid and pain relief medications, and other similar items.

Care Ring is dedicated to providing health services for the uninsured, underinsured or those lacking access to affordable, high-quality health care.

Pantry Volunteer

Guide clients through the Pantry and help stock the shelves. This is a fun and rewarding experience as you work directly with clients.

The Christian Mission is a catalyst that empowers the community to become advocates and serve those in need to achieve an improved quality of life.

Stable Hand

Volunteers responsible to assist in feeding, cleaning corrals, feed bins, water troughs. With experience, will be able to groom horses and exercise miniature horses.

Mending Strides Ranch empowers those suffering the effects of trauma, neglect and hardships through the use of rescued horses in Equine Assisted Therapies.

Teens

Lake Norman YMCA - Preschool Volunteers

Volunteers will assist our preschool programs with integrating purposeful and intentionally planned activities that are designed to be fun and engaging while teaching children valuable skills.

YMCA is a leading nonprofit committed to strengthening community by connecting all people to their potential, purpose and each other.

Campus Beautification

Volunteers who have an interest in beautification. We would love assistance with keeping our grass cut, flowers planted and nurtured and ensuring that our campus remains beautiful.

Harvest Center: Our mission is to create a community where individuals affected by homelessness, poverty, and unemployment are empowered through our transitional programs and transformed by the love and ministry of Jesus Christ.

Pizza Friday

Our students look forward to lunchtime every day. Pizza Lunch Volunteers provide lunch for our 50 students. Pizza volunteers can be a monthly, weekly, or one-time sponsorship for The Nest to purchase pizza lunch for our students.

Promising Pages is The Charlotte Area Book Bank! Our mission is to collect new and donated books and share them with children living in the Charlotte Area Book Desert: those with few, if any, books at home.

Linen Room /Laundry Valet

Volunteers will sort, inspect, and/or pack linens (towels, sheets, comforters) for House guests. Duties include refilling amenities and packing hygiene kits.

Hospitality House of Charlotte creates community for patients connecting to vital medical care. Our 20-bedroom facility makes it easier for patients to access the healthcare they need by offering lowcost accommodations in the heart of Charlotte’s medical community.

Summer Camp Volunteers

Summer camp counselors.

Down Syndrome Association of Greater Charlotte: Our mission is to enhance the quality of life for all people with Down syndrome by empowering individuals, families & professionals with information & support through education, social programs & community partnerships.

Shelter sandwiches

Provide sandwiches for our guests.

Roof Above Homeless services provider working to end homelessness.

Sort, Organize & Assemble OTC Medicines

Volunteers to help unpack, sort, inventory, and repack our over-the-counter medicines to be distributed to people in need.

NC Med Assist Nonprofit pharmacy provides access to lifesaving prescription medications, patient support, advocacy, and related services to vulnerable and uninsured.

Transitional Housing & Community Agency Volunteer

Community Garden Manager.

Another Chance House of Refuge, Inc. empowers individuals within marginalized communities to improve their quality of life by providing a safe environment, safe housing, educational support, employment training, and self-sufficiency skills.

Donation Intake

Volunteers will work mostly outside receiving incoming donations for Servant’s Heart Community Boutique and Servant’s Heart Assistance.

Servant’s Heart of Mint Hill is a unique resource serving the Mint Hill community, zip code 28227, and families of students who attend Mint Hill Schools.

Creative Visual Arts Programs for Pediatric Patients & Families

Volunteers who have a high interest in serving children and families in the hospital setting by facilitating visual art projects.

Arts for Life is dedicated to supporting pediatric patients and their families. By providing educational art programs, we enrich patients’ lives, nurture their minds and spirits, and encourage positive healthcare experiences for children and their families.

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Grocery & Meal Delivery

Deliver Friendship Trays meals weekdays beginning at 10am or to deliver groceries to the homes of Loaves & Fishes clients Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays 10am - Noon.

Loaves & Fishes / Friendship Trays: Network of emergency food pantries and the primary Meals On Wheels program in Mecklenburg Co. providing nutritionally balanced groceries for neighbors in need and healthy prepared meals for those unable to prepare or secure meals for themselves.

Afterschool enrichment Program Volunteer

Afterschool program volunteers that contributes to student learning, growth, and advancement.

Kings Growing Kings: Mentoring program teaches non-traditional sports, health, fitness, outdoor recreation and personal development to youth and families to the diverse communities of Charlotte NC.

5th-8th Grade Tutors

5th-8th graders one-on-one in understanding core subjects (Math, ELA, Science, & Social Studies).

Center 360 is a grassroots non-profit organization that provides a holistic approach to career development. Our aim is to empower middle school students who are atrisk of disengaging from school by providing them with life skills training, personal development, and career enrichment activities.

Classroom Support Volunteer

Recruiting Classroom and Reading Support Volunteers.

Our Bridge for Kids supports the immigrant and refugee community in Charlotte, NC by providing an out of school program and through community-based initiatives.

On Site Wrapping Session

Volunteers will count and wrap diapers/pull-ups and prepare them for distribution to families in need.

Diaper Bank of North Carolina works towards the vision that every family in our state have access to basic necessities to support their dignity, health, and quality of life by providing diapers, period supplies, and adult incontinence products to those who need it most.

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Art Auction for Second Chances Event Committee

We are creating a brand new Event Committee to help with set-up the day of the event.

The Center for Community Transitions: For nearly 50 years, CCT has strengthened the community by helping the formerly incarcerated and people with criminal records and their families rebuild pathways to living healthy and productive lives.

Tosco Music Volunteer

Tosco Music has a great community of volunteers who help make Tosco Music Parties happen five times a year, and also help with hospitality and other needs at TMP’s, Tosco Music Open Mic every month, and other outreach activities in the community throughout the year.

Tosco Music has worked to foster a sense of community among listeners, supporters, and musicians throughout the region. Through performances and outreach programs, we connect professional and amateur musicians to share and inspire one another.

Dining Room Greeters

Community Dining Room Greeter volunteers will greet Donoghue’s Open Door guests and offer them a paper menu for their review.

FeedNC stands for Food, Education, Essentials, and Dignity. We create connections to food, education and resources as a catalyst for change by providing hot meals, supplemental groceries, educational opportunities, culinary workforce development, and community resource connections.

Latrobe Warehouse Helper

Help us prepare for summer 2023! Our warehouse team has a list of tasks to complete that may include grouping items for distribution, counting items for inventory, or sorting books and supplies to be stored.

Freedom School Partners: To inspire our scholars to love reading and learning, believe in themselves, and create extraordinary futures.

Woodworking Enrichment Class

Once a month to do woodworking crafts with four year old children.

La Escuelita Bilingual Preschool provides native Spanish-speaking preschool children in the Lake Norman area a solid foundation for kindergarten and elementary school by teaching them basic classroom language and social skills, exposing them to arts, science, and sports, and instilling in them a love for learning in a safe, loving bilingual classroom environment.

Young Professional

Volunteer Dispatcher

After receiving requests for assistance during a fire, flood, or other disaster, Duty Officers assess the situation and deploy the most appropriate resources to support recovery efforts.

American Red Cross exists to provide compassionate care to those in need through five key service areas: 1. Disaster Relief 2. Supporting America’s Military Families 3. Lifesaving Blood 4. Health and Safety Services 5. International Services.

Community Educators

Care & Support Volunteers provide direct assistance with those living with Alzheimer’s and related dementia, caregivers, and the general public.

Alzheimer’s Association Western Carolinas Chapter leads the way to end Alzheimer’s and all other dementia — by accelerating global research, driving risk reduction and early detection, and maximizing quality care and support.

First Robotics Team Volunteer

Volunteers for QCRA will support the work of QCRA and support members of First Robotics teams.

Queen City Robotics Alliance: Nurturing the future workforce by providing practical and hands-on STEM experiences for local youth.

Social Media Support

Volunteers will assist with items such as; creating and publishing social media posts, content calendar management, data entry, social media inbox management, online moderation, and comment management.

Chetta Girls: We exist to strengthen families, support new mothers, and build God’s Kingdom.

Support For Domestic Violence, Child Abuse, and Bullying Victims

Volunteer opportunities (Active Board Members, Counselors, Social Workers, Psychiatrists, Psychologists, Grant Writing, Event Planners, Public Relations, Social Media help, enriching and supporting victims and victimizers of abuse.

Family Man: Rehabilitation, Recovery & Restoration for individuals, families, and communities impacted by domestic violence.

Mentoring MATTERS Mentor

Mentors can be matched one-to-one or can participate in regular group mentoring sessions at one of our community site programs or at our school-based programs.

Firm Foundations provides teens with mentoring support services which include academic support, character development and personal growth.

Marketing & Promotion

Participate in a variety of projects to help promote the CineOdyssey Film Festival. Press relations, grassroots, design projects, social media, copywriting and design work.

CineOdyssey Film Festival: Created to reflect and spotlight filmmakers of the African, Caribbean, Asian, Latino, and Native American diaspora.

Pro Bono Attorney

Need of pro bono attorneys who are dedicated to helping us serve more clients in need of legal help they otherwise could not afford.

Charlotte Center for Legal Advocacy: Our mission is to pursue justice for those in need, with the vision of building a just community, where all people are treated fairly and have access to legal representation to meet their basic human needs of safety, economic security and stability.

Grant Writer

Research grants that align with Lions Services mission and support programs such as work workforce development to help the blind community that promotes a better quality of life.

Lion Services has provided job training and career employment opportunities to people who are blind, low vision, and blind veterans in Charlotte for 88 years.

Volunteer Chaplin

Provide emotional and spiritual support to first responders to strengthen their personal well-being for work and life.

First Responders: Comes alongside our first responders in routine and in crisis response, in a way that enables them to continue giving the best of themselves to their coworkers, the community and their families.

Young Professional

Construction Crew Leader

Assist Habitat Charlotte staff in leading small groups of 4-5 volunteers in particular construction tasks on-site.

Habitat for Humanity strives for a world where everyone has a decent place to live. We build strength, stability and self-reliance by partnering with families and communities.

Front Desk Receptionist

Front desk receptionist volunteers at our Outreach Center Mondays through Fridays between 9 AM-2 PM that can commit to at least two hour shifts or longer.

MiraVia serves pregnant women in need through long-term support groups and material assistance.

Career Speaker / Presenter

Share insights about your specific career or field with high school students looking for knowledge about viable career options.

Commonwealth High School helps students at-risk of not graduating earn a standard high school diploma and prepare for post-secondary success.

Audition Volunteer

Assist with setting up the audition table, checking in actors as they arrive, distributing any audition materials, keeping forms organized, and cleaning up at the end of auditions.

Matthews Playhouse: Community based non-profit theater committed to enriching the lives of children, adults, and families by inviting them to participate in the world of performing arts and education.