Volunteer Opportunities: Spring 2022
Philanthropy: Collect donations, sell stickers, or participate in our fundraising events for philanthropy points! See Fundraiser Info Doc to learn more about how you can support providing healthcare services to those in Pakistan.
Actives need to earn 1 phil point and pledges need to earn 2 phil points!
Internal Volunteering
Group Internal Volunteering
Individual Internal Volunteering (semester-long)
External Volunteering
Actives need to earn 1 phil point and pledges need to earn 2 phil points!
- Cold Cookie Co Profit Share - Tues, 4/26, 5-7pm
- 1 fam point for every member that attends, 0.5 phil points for attending, 0.5 phil points for bringing at least 2 friends
- Send picture proof to Google form in Slack
- Mention APS at checkout!!
- Sell stickers and collect donations for points in the meantime (instructions in Fundraiser Info Doc)
Internal Volunteering
Group Internal Volunteering
- Open Door - Sat 4/23 - sign up closed
- Cranes Project - Thurs, 4/28 at 2-5:30pm, Greg tables (come and go whenever)
- We are working with the Cranes Project to put together a COVID-19 memorial to remember the lives that were lost during the pandemic
- Up to 3.5 internal vol hrs, depending on how long you stay
- Sign up: Link
- Hope Clinic Donation Drive - Donate or volunteer on Wed, 5/4 5-6pm for assembly at Greg tables
- Hope Clinic offers free primary care to resettled refugees, immigrants, and other underserved populations.
- Donations will be collected at GM 5 , GM 6, or day of assembly (5/4). If you cannot make it to any, please feel free to contact Linda and she can meet you.
- For assembly day, sign up to volunteer to assemble packages for us to drop off at the clinic! Wed, 5/4 5-6pm at Greg tables
- Sign up: Link
- APS Point Credit: You can earn up to 2 internal volunteering points for donating and 1 internal volunteering point for helping with assembly
Individual Internal Volunteering (semester-long)
- Sign up and volunteer at shifts in your own time with these organizations for internal volunteer points
- 1 hour = 1 internal volunteering point, rounded to nearest half hour
- APS point credit: Fill out the "Individual Internal Hours Submission" for every time you volunteer with Micah 6/Door Screening/Contact Tracing/Greenleaf in your own time! Picture proof of volunteering is needed.
- Micah 6 Food Pantry - Individual volunteering on your own time
- Micah 6 Food Pantry serves shoppers from all walks of life. Help out by packing bags and boxes for distribution, distributing food to shoppers, and helping with setup/cleanup.
- Due to COVID-19 restrictions, all volunteers must sign up in advance before working at the Food Pantry. Masks are required and will be provided if needed.
- More info: https://www.micah6austin.org/foodpantry
- Reading Aces - Individual volunteering on your own time
- Different times/days across different locations
- Your responsibility is to read aloud with at risk elementary students
- Reading Aces website official signup: https://www.readingaces.org/volunteer-with-us
- Carpool: Reading Aces will send you a signup if you signup >2 days (email them at readingaces09@gmail.com if you don’t get their signup 2 days ahead)
- Door Screening
- Door screen patients and staff entering the Health Transformation Building
- AM Shift: 7 am - 12 pm. This requires a 6:45 am arrival.
- PM Shift: 12 pm - 5 pm. This requires a 11:45 am arrival.
- Sign up here
- Door screen patients and staff entering the Health Transformation Building
- Contact Tracing at UT Health Austin (virtual)
- Sign up here
- Greenleaf NCC - For accepted volunteers
External Volunteering
- External Volunteering Guide - Find the Guide in our emails/GM Slides
- Complete any of the opportunities in the Guide in your own time to earn external volunteering points!
- Any other volunteering opportunities you find and do in your own time also counts for external volunteering points!
- APS point credit: Be sure to submit proof to the "External Hours Submission" Form for point credit
