Volunteer Roles

The Warming Shelter requires at least 30+ Volunteers per night who fill several different roles throughout the shelter’s operating hours to help this initiative run smoothly and help to accomplish our mission!

WINTER Volunteer Roles – Different ways to Serve

1. Set up Team starts at 3:30pm the day the shelter is set to open. We ready the space for our guests by setting up cots, making beds, preparing our food and personal care item stations.
2. *Evening Shelter Hosts provide hospitality,, eat dinner with our community, converse and spend time with shelter guests by engaging in friendly and warm conversation.
3. Pizza Team – treats guest to pizza by ordering 12 pizzas for delivery at around 8:30pm as a special treat (1x per shelter). Pizzeria Don Luca’s is our pizza sponsor and provides pizza for $6 each.
4. *Overnight Hosts arrive at 10pm in preparation to stay overnight at the shelter to accommodate guest needs and help to keep the space safe and sound. Bring personal items to take a nap once the shelter is quiet for the night! Overnight shelter hosts are relieved at 5:30am.
5. AM Coffee Makers arrive at 5:30am to relieve overnight hosts and prepare the coffee as guests wake up.
6. Breakfast is served at 7am. Early risers serve a hot breakfast to guests and then help them transition to the time for exiting the shelter.
7. Clean Up – Each morning we clean and sanitize the shelter space at 8:30am. The shelter kitchen and bathrooms need to be cleaned daily.
8. Break down Team. LOTS of people needed! When the shelter ends, we clean and sanitize the facility, break down cots and take inventory of needed supplies. Breakdown is from 8:00am to 1:00pm on the day the shelter ends.
9. Laundry Team – This team launders blankets at off-site at commercial laundry mat in preparation for the next shelter. All supplies, including cost of wash is supplied.
10. Organizing Team – organizes shelter supplies between “pop-ups” and inventories supplies.
11. Donation Receiver – staffs the shelter space during the daytime hours to receive and organize donations.