Ways to Volunteer Freeport Community Services volunteers are a family of helpers. Join our family today by calling: Deb at 869-1006. ddaggett@fcsmaine.org Volunteer Application If you have a few hours a month, here are some way to help

Food Pantry:

• Volunteer as a pantry tender, helping customers choose their food
• Organize a neighborhood, family or workplace food drive
• Conduct a fundraiser (re: No Empty Plate); all monetary donations are matched anonymously
• Help with special projects
• Become a pantry sub to cover vacations, illness, etc.

Thrift Shop:

• Help sort donations
• Assist customers in the gift shop (3 hr. flexible shifts)
• Help organize the boutique
• Manage EBay sales
• Help with paperwork
• Save Shaw's Supermarket receipts for the shop

Your Neighbors:

• Become a buddy, visiting a lonely community elder
• Adopt a person to do snow shoveling for this winter
• Join Read To Succeed and become a volunteer reader to children in child care homes, one hour a week
• Take a home-bound senior shopping
• Help winterize a local home; we will provide the training
• Organize or join a fund raiser for the Carol Kaplan Emergency Fuel Fund
• Volunteer to give rides to medical appointments

During the Holidays:

• Prepare a family food box for Thanksgiving or Holiday Helpline
• Adopt a family to purchase gifts for during Holiday Helpline
• Wrap gifts at LLBean during December
• Volunteer to organize/label gifts, prepare packages and give out gifts during Holiday Helpline (3-hr shifts)
• Bake treats for volunteers during Holiday Helpline

Special Projects:

• Painting, construction, maintenance projects
• Photographing events
• Video recording events
• Distribution of flyers, materials
• Become a coffee shop volunteer (cooking, serving, and/or clean up)
• Become a committee member

Community Center Cafe:

• Painting, construction, maintenance projects
• Photographing events
• Video recording events
• Distribution of flyers, materials
• Become a committee member