Provide excellent customer service; answer phone calls to main shelter number; greet visitors; accept deliveries; clerical tasks as needed.
Cuddle, pet, brush, and play with cats; Promote adoptable cats to visitors by answering questions and giving information about needs and personalities.
Help develop, facilitate or organize outdoor programs and events for all ages to have fun learning and playing outside! Areas of focus include: environmental science, outdoor recreation, history and fine arts.
Help with routine activities such as mowing trails, equipment maintenance, brush removal, invasive plant control and general clean up. They also manage structural repairs to the barns, farmhouse and construction projects.
Help a committee with a focus on financial planning, capital campaigns, membership, donor retention and fundraising events.
The agriculture team manages the community garden, the plant rescue project and the acres of hops. Work is on site seasonally helping with general garden activities, plant propagation, harvesting fresh produce and tending to the hops.
Accompany neighbors around our choice food pantry, letting them know how many of each item they can take, bagging groceries, and helping them out to their vehicles. On slower days, volunteers might also sort donations and stock the pantry shelves. Our food pantry is open Mondays-Fridays from 8am-4pm & Saturdays from 8am-12pm.
Help sort donations, create displays, straighten and stock shelves at our seven Cincinnati St. Vincent de Paul thrift stores. All our thrift stores have evening and weekend hours, so this is a great opportunity for individuals who work or go to school during the week.
Every day, an average of 200 struggling neighbors call St. Vincent de Paul for assistance. Call Center Volunteers return calls and assist people through application processes. We ask for at least one two-hour time commitment per week, but time/day is flexible. This opportunity has an option for remote work after initial on-site training.
Help maintain our gardens and grounds by watering, weeding, and harvesting.