🧼 Help us assemble Shower Kits filled with essential personal care items for women experiencing homelessness at The Gathering Place. Volunteers will pack items that provide comfort, dignity, and care, helping women feel supported and valued.

At The Gathering Place (TGP), we provide essential services and holistic, trauma-informed care to women, gender-diverse people, and their children experiencing homelessness or instability. Our mission is to support these individuals as they build stable lives through home, health, purpose, and community programs.

 📓 Add a personal, creative touch to our School Supply Boxes by creating thoughtful cards to include with each box. Your messages of encouragement and support will help students feel seen, valued, and inspired as they head into the second half of the school year. Your creativity and care will bring both comfort and joy to someone facing the chill of winter.

💌 Each session will make 175 cards.

 📓 Add a personal, creative touch to our School Supply Boxes by creating thoughtful cards to include with each box. Your messages of encouragement and support will help students feel seen, valued, and inspired as they head into the second half of the school year. Your creativity and care will bring both comfort and joy to someone facing the chill of winter.

💌 Each session will make 175 cards.

💜 Join us in supporting families served by MotherWise by assembling 400 Personal Essentials Kits filled with everyday hygiene and self-care items. These kits provide comfort, dignity, and encouragement to women working hard to build stronger futures for themselves and their families. Your time and care will help ensure that every mom feels valued, supported, and seen.

About MotherWise: MotherWise supports women, children and their families during pregnancy and after a baby is born. Our workshops focus on communicating, solving family problems, and proven information on caring for and connecting with a newborn. You'll also receive one-on-one coaching to navigate work, life, family, and your new baby.

Join us for a powerful volunteer experience that makes a real difference! 💪✨ We’ll be packing Feminine Hygiene Kits for women served by the Weinberg Food Pantry, ensuring that every woman has access to the essential products she deserves.

Period poverty affects countless women and girls in our community—many are forced to choose between buying food or period supplies. Together, we can change that. By assembling these kits, you’ll help restore dignity, health, and confidence to women facing tough circumstances.

Show some love to our furry friends! Volunteers will create fun, colorful toys for dogs and cats in local animal rescues and shelters. Using simple materials, you’ll craft tug toys and cat wands that help keep animals active, happy, and comforted while they wait for their forever homes. A little creativity goes a long way in bringing joy, comfort, and companionship to pets in need.

Note: These projects could be difficult for younger children. Not recommended for children under 10. 

Recipient Orgs: CO Pet Pantry, Aurora Animal Shelter & Pound Pitties

🐈  About Colorado Pet Pantry: Our nonprofit helps Colorado pet owners feed their pets during times of financial hardship.

🐾 About Aurora Animal Shelter: Our mission is to balance the needs of people and animals as we: Provide humane shelter, treatment and placement of animals. Enhance and preserve the human-animal bond through education, outreach, adoptions and cruelty prevention.

🐕 About Pound Pitties: At Pound Pitties Dog Rescue, we are dedicated to rescuing, rehabilitating, and rehoming pitbulls in need. Many of the dogs that come into our care require immediate and ongoing veterinary care, which is where your generous support comes in. Every donation we receive goes directly towards vet bills, medical treatments, and ensuring that our new arrivals get the care they need to thrive.

💙 Bring comfort and nourishment to those in need by assembling Cinnamon Sunrise Oatmeal Kits! Volunteers will scoop, seal, and label individual oatmeal mix bags featuring a wholesome blend of oats, cinnamon, and raisins — a healthy, heartwarming way to start the day. Your efforts will help provide a simple, nutritious breakfast that fuels hope and energy for our community.

Recipient Orgs: One or more of our local food pantry partners

🍚 Be part of nourishing our community by helping package our new Lentil & Rice Soup Kits! Volunteers will measure, fill, and label soup mix bags that will be distributed to families and individuals in need. This hearty, healthy soup is simple to make and provides comfort, nutrition, and care in every bowl. Your hands-on help will turn simple ingredients into a meal made with love — one that warms both hearts and homes.

Recipient Orgs: One or more of our local food pantry partners

Spread some joy and creativity! 💌 Join us to make heartfelt cards for patients at Craig Hospital and decorate meal delivery bags for Project Angel Heart, There With Care, and Meals on Wheels. Your personal touch will brighten someone’s day, bring comfort, and remind our neighbors that they are cared for. Let’s turn simple supplies into powerful messages of hope and love! ✨

Recipient Orgs: There With Care, Project Angel Heart, Meals on Wheels

About There With Care: There With Care brings a unique and deeply impactful expertise in providing truly comprehensive, wrap-around support for families facing a medical crisis. With years of experience working alongside hospitals and care teams, we understand the complex and overwhelming challenges families endure when a child is critically ill.

About Project Angel Heart: Project Angel Heart was founded more than 30 years ago to address a major challenge for Coloradans who are severely ill: getting the nutrition they need to get stronger, heal, and remain at home. Many are too sick to get to the grocery store and unable to cook for themselves. Others find they have to choose whether to buy food or medication to make ends meet. That’s why Project Angel Heart prepares and delivers medically tailored meals to people living with severe illnesses.

About Meals on Wheels:  At Nourish Meals on Wheels, we do more than provide meals for older (60+) or homebound adults. Our chef and his team prepare 650-725 nutritious, hot meals from scratch every day, and our dedicated volunteers deliver them directly to our clients' hands. Our volunteers are the familiar faces that help combat loneliness and isolation.

About Craig Hospital: Craig Hospital is a world-renowned rehabilitation hospital that exclusively specializes in neurorehabilitation and research for individuals with spinal cord injury and brain injury.

🍳 Help empower families supported by MotherWise by assembling Kitchen Essentials Care Packages filled with useful items that make cooking and mealtime a little easier. From utensils and dish towels to cooking basics, these care packages will help moms create warm, nourishing meals for their families. Your time and care will help bring a sense of comfort, stability, and love to kitchens across our community.

Recipient Orgs: MotherWise

MotherWise supports women, children and their families during pregnancy and after a baby is born. Our workshops focus on communicating, solving family problems, and proven information on caring for and connecting with a newborn. You'll also receive one-on-one coaching to navigate work, life, family, and your new baby.

🪥 Join us in assembling Hygiene Kits filled with essential personal care items for individuals and families supported by Food for Thought. Volunteers will pack items that provide comfort, dignity, and support, helping community members maintain health and well-being.

In 2012, Bob Bell founded Food for Thought Denver after discovering a heartbreaking reality: many of Denver’s schoolchildren were going hungry, particularly on weekends when they couldn’t rely on school meals. Fueled by compassion and determination, Bell, along with volunteers from the Arvada Rotary Club, raised enough donations to begin supplying weekend food bags, known as PowerSacks, to two Denver public schools. Today, Food for Thought Denver has grown into a vital lifeline for the community, serving 75 schools across the Denver area—all while remaining a 100% volunteer-driven organization. Despite many students qualifying for free and reduced breakfast and lunch during the week, weekends often leave them without enough food. Our mission is clear: to close this weekend hunger gap and ensure that no child in our community goes hungry.

📘 ✏️ Help us assemble 500 School Supply Boxes filled with essential supplies like colored penciles, highlighters, and more to help kids continue thriving in their classrooms.

💜 Together, we’ll assemble 400 Personal Essentials Kits that go beyond basic needs — each with a hand-made note to provide hope, comfort, and dignity to those in our community who need it most.

Recipient Orgs: Warrren Village & The Delores Project ✨

About Warren Village: Warren Village is a Colorado nonprofit serving unhoused and unstably housed low-income single-parent families in the Denver area. We provide families with the space and resources to achieve economic mobility and navigate and disrupt systems of poverty. Warren Village utilizes a 2Gen (two-generation) approach to empower both parents and their children through life-skills classes, a high-quality Early Learning Center, education and career support, and resource navigation.

About The Delores Project: The Delores Project partners with individuals experiencing barriers to housing to identify their path to stability. By providing shelter, housing, and supportive services, The Delores Project works alongside individuals as they overcome barriers and challenges. In addition, The Delores Project community collaborates with other community leaders to ensure those who have experienced barriers to housing are represented on issues of public policy and community development.

Join us for a powerful volunteer experience that makes a real difference! 💪✨ We’ll be packing Feminine Hygiene Kits for women served by the Weinberg Food Pantry, ensuring that every woman has access to the essential products she deserves.

Period poverty affects countless women and girls in our community—many are forced to choose between buying food or period supplies. Together, we can change that. By assembling these kits, you’ll help restore dignity, health, and confidence to women facing tough circumstances.

Weinberg Food Pantry: The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Food Pantry is a community resource in Denver, Colorado, run by Jewish Family Service (JFS) to fight hunger and food insecurity. It provides free, nutritious food like fresh produce, meats, and dairy products to individuals and families in need, along with hygiene items and baby supplies when available.

🐾 Show some love to our furry friends! Volunteers will create fun, colorful toys for dogs and cats in local animal rescues and shelters. Using simple materials, you’ll craft tug toys and cat wands that help keep animals active, happy, and comforted while they wait for their forever homes. A little creativity goes a long way in bringing joy, comfort, and companionship to pets in need.

Note: These projects could be difficult for younger children.  Not recommended for children under 10. 

Recipient Orgs: CO Pet Pantry, Aurora Animal Shelter & Pound Pitties

About Colorado Pet Pantry: Our nonprofit helps Colorado pet owners feed their pets during times of financial hardship.

About Aurora Animal Shelter: Our mission is to balance the needs of people and animals as we: Provide humane shelter, treatment and placement of animals. Enhance and preserve the human-animal bond through education, outreach, adoptions and cruelty prevention.

About Pound Pitties: At Pound Pitties Dog Rescue, we are dedicated to rescuing, rehabilitating, and rehoming pitbulls in need. Many of the dogs that come into our care require immediate and ongoing veterinary care, which is where your generous support comes in. Every donation we receive goes directly towards vet bills, medical treatments, and ensuring that our new arrivals get the care they need to thrive.

Bring comfort and nourishment to those in need by assembling Cinnamon Sunrise Oatmeal Kits! Volunteers will scoop, seal, and label individual oatmeal mix bags featuring a wholesome blend of oats, cinnamon, and raisins — a healthy, heartwarming way to start the day. Your efforts will help provide a simple, nutritious breakfast that fuels hope and energy for our community.

Recipient Orgs: One or more of our local food pantry partners

Be part of nourishing our community by helping package our new Lentil & Rice Soup Kits! Volunteers will measure, fill, and label soup mix bags that will be distributed to families and individuals in need. This hearty, healthy soup is simple to make and provides comfort, nutrition, and care in every bowl. Your hands-on help will turn simple ingredients into a meal made with love — one that warms both hearts and homes.

Recipient Orgs: One or more of our local food pantry partners

Spread some joy and creativity! 💌 Join us to make heartfelt cards for patients at Craig Hospital and decorate meal delivery bags for Project Angel Heart, There With Care, and Meals on Wheels. Your personal touch will brighten someone’s day, bring comfort, and remind our neighbors that they are cared for. Let’s turn simple supplies into powerful messages of hope and love! ✨

Recipient Orgs: There With Care, Project Angel Heart, Meals on Wheels, Craig Hospital

About There With Care: There With Care brings a unique and deeply impactful expertise in providing truly comprehensive, wrap-around support for families facing a medical crisis. With years of experience working alongside hospitals and care teams, we understand the complex and overwhelming challenges families endure when a child is critically ill.

About Project Angel Heart: Project Angel Heart was founded more than 30 years ago to address a major challenge for Coloradans who are severely ill: getting the nutrition they need to get stronger, heal, and remain at home. Many are too sick to get to the grocery store and unable to cook for themselves. Others find they have to choose whether to buy food or medication to make ends meet. That’s why Project Angel Heart prepares and delivers medically tailored meals to people living with severe illnesses.

About Meals on Wheels:  At Nourish Meals on Wheels, we do more than provide meals for older (60+) or homebound adults. Our chef and his team prepare 650-725 nutritious, hot meals from scratch every day, and our dedicated volunteers deliver them directly to our clients' hands. Our volunteers are the familiar faces that help combat loneliness and isolation.

About Craig Hospital: Craig Hospital is a world-renowned rehabilitation hospital that exclusively specializes in neurorehabilitation and research for individuals with spinal cord injury and brain injury.

🍳 Help empower families supported by Adams14 Hope Family Resource Center by assembling Kitchen Essentials Care Packages filled with useful items that make cooking and mealtime a little easier. From dish towels to cooking basics, these care packages will help moms create warm, nourishing meals for their families. Your time and care will help bring a sense of comfort, stability, and love to kitchens across our community.

Recipient Orgs: Adams Cty14 Hope Center

About: Adams County School District 14 (Adams 14) has a mission to motivate and provide ongoing support to our district families by providing self-sufficient services through the district’s HOPE Family Resource Center.  The Hope Family Resource Center is a community program run on donations that helps provide Adams 14 families, both housed and those facing a housing crisis, with resources including but not limited to:

• Food and clothing pantry
• Information, and referrals for rental assistance, medical, dental, and vision services
• Showers (only available at the Educational Support Services building)
• Access to a washer and dryer
• Food and gas cards (limited when available)
• Emergency motel vouchers (limited when available)
• Backpacks and school supplies
• Hygiene products
• Cleaning supplies
• Baby products

The Crossing hosts our New Life Program for men and provides rooms for Bridge participants, including families with children. Bible studies, case management, counseling, and meals allow those in our programs to save money and develop the life skills and relationships needed to maintain self-sufficiency after completing our programs.

🚘 Arrival and Parking: There is free parking near the main entrance and also along the east and west side of the facility
•    Check-in: Please enter through the main entrance on Smith Road under the carport. Upon entry, please be sure to sign in at the kiosk tablet. If you are with a group, only one member needs to sign-in for the whole group. This is essential for us to highlight volunteer contribution and impact. After signing in, you will report to the kitchen and watch our safety video to bring you up to speed on everything you need to know for your volunteer shift.

Age Requirements: This opportunity has a minimum age of 12 years old for safety reasons. Anyone ages 12-17 must be accompanied by someone 18 or older. Please do not bring family members or guests who are under 12.

👕 Dress Code: Please dress in a manner that is modest and appropriate for working. Please refrain from wearing opened toe shoes, tank-tops, midriff tops, short shorts, and any clothing that is: tight, low-cut, or has controversial imprints. If you are dressed inappropriately, you may be asked to reschedule.
A tip for kitchen volunteers: If you wear a hat (long hair must also be in a pony tail), you will not be required to wear a hairnet.

Denver Rescue Mission has been serving the most vulnerable in our community for more than 128 years.  At multiple locations throughout our community, we help restore the lives of people experiencing homelessness and addiction through emergency services, rehabilitation, transitional programs, and community outreach.

Edwards Animals: Tender, Love, & Care with Animals
Animal care, feeding, brushing, walking horses, lamas, goats, and chickens. Stall and Driveway Leveling - move gravel.

Time:  8am-10am, volunteers can stay to 11 and spend time with animals, chat, have snacks. 

👚 Dress Code: Wear close-toe shoes and dress for the weather
 
Ages 14+
 
PLEASE 14+ if volunteers are younger, MUST have a 1-1 parent ratio to ensure safety and engagement with tasks at hand. 

The Crossing hosts our New Life Program for men and provides rooms for Bridge participants, including families with children. Bible studies, case management, counseling, and meals allow those in our programs to save money and develop the life skills and relationships needed to maintain self-sufficiency after completing our programs.
🚘 Arrival and Parking: There is free parking near the main entrance and also along the east and west side of the facility
Check-in: Please enter through the main entrance on Smith Road under the carport. Upon entry, please be sure to sign in at the kiosk tablet. If you are with a group, only one member needs to sign-in for the whole group. This is essential for us to highlight volunteer contribution and impact. After signing in, you will report to the kitchen and watch our safety video to bring you up to speed on everything you need to know for your volunteer shift.

Age Requirements: This opportunity has a minimum age of 12 years old for safety reasons. Anyone ages 12-17 must be accompanied by someone 18 or older. Please do not bring family members or guests who are under 12.

👕 Dress Code: Please dress in a manner that is modest and appropriate for working. Please refrain from wearing opened toe shoes, tank-tops, midriff tops, short shorts, and any clothing that is: tight, low-cut, or has controversial imprints. If you are dressed inappropriately, you may be asked to reschedule.
A tip for kitchen volunteers: If you wear a hat (long hair must also be in a pony tail), you will not be required to wear a hairnet.

Denver Rescue Mission has been serving the most vulnerable in our community for more than 128 years.  At multiple locations throughout our community, we help restore the lives of people experiencing homelessness and addiction through emergency services, rehabilitation, transitional programs, and community outreach.

The Crossing hosts our New Life Program for men and provides rooms for Bridge participants, including families with children. Bible studies, case management, counseling, and meals allow those in our programs to save money and develop the life skills and relationships needed to maintain self-sufficiency after completing our programs.

•    Address: 6090 Smith Road, Denver, CO 80216
•    Arrival and Parking: There is free parking near the main entrance and also along the east and west side of the facility
•    Check-in: Please enter through the main entrance on Smith Road under the carport. Upon entry, please be sure to sign in at the kiosk tablet. If you are with a group, only one member needs to sign-in for the whole group. This is essential for us to highlight volunteer contribution and impact. After signing in, you will report to the kitchen and watch our safety video to bring you up to speed on everything you need to know for your volunteer shift.

Age Requirements: This opportunity has a minimum age of 12 years old for safety reasons. Anyone ages 12-17 must be accompanied by someone 18 or older. Please do not bring family members or guests who are under 12.

👕 Dress Code: Please dress in a manner that is modest and appropriate for working. Please refrain from wearing opened toe shoes, tank-tops, midriff tops, short shorts, and any clothing that is: tight, low-cut, or has controversial imprints. If you are dressed inappropriately, you may be asked to reschedule.
A tip for kitchen volunteers: If you wear a hat (long hair must also be in a pony tail), you will not be required to wear a hairnet.

Denver Rescue Mission has been serving the most vulnerable in our community for more than 128 years.  At multiple locations throughout our community, we help restore the lives of people experiencing homelessness and addiction through emergency services, rehabilitation, transitional programs, and community outreach.

Help us with Lunch Meal Service for Denver Rescue Mission!

🚜 Harvest Farm, a 100-acre farm located in Wellington, Colorado, provides the opportunity for up to 72 men to achieve self-sufficiency through the New Life Program. For many men coming out of homelessness and addiction, the Farm’s fresh air, rural environment, unique work therapy opportunities, and location away from the city’s temptations provide an ideal place to refocus and begin anew.

📍 Address: 4240 E. County Rd. 66, Wellington, CO 80549
🚘 Parking and Check-in: As you pull into the property, proceed North down the main dirt road. It will curve left. Follow it around to the West side of the large red building. Park anywhere and enter the building on the West side near the picnic tables. Upon arrival, please be sure to sign in using the volunteer kiosk. If you are with a group, only one member needs to sign-in for the group. This is essential for us to highlight volunteer contribution and impact.

Age Requirements: This opportunity has a minimum age of 16 years old for safety reasons. Anyone ages 16-17 must be accompanied by someone 18 or older. Please do not bring family members or guests who are under 16.

Dress Code: Please dress in a manner that is modest and appropriate for working. Please refrain from wearing opened toe shoes, tank-tops, midriff tops, short shorts, and any clothing that is: tight, low-cut, or has controversial imprints. If you are dressed inappropriately, you may be asked to reschedule.
 

A tip for kitchen volunteers: If you wear a hat (long hair must also be in a pony tail), you will not be required to wear a hairnet.

Denver Rescue Mission has been serving the most vulnerable in our community for more than 128 years. At multiple locations throughout our community, we help restore the lives of people experiencing homelessness and addiction through emergency services, rehabilitation, transitional programs, and community outreach.

Please agree to the terms listed in the Liability Waiver - Download the Link

🐈 CatFest Denver – Merch Sales Volunteer

National Western Expo Hall & Hall of Education: 655 Humboldt St. Denver, CO 80216

Join us for CatFest Denver and help support the cats at Cat Care Society! Volunteers will work a 3-hour shift assisting with merchandise sales at our booth.

Responsibilities include:

1. Greeting guests and providing a welcoming customer service experience

2. Restocking and tidying merchandise displays

3. Processing purchases by cash or card

4. Encouraging visitors to support the shelter with a donation

5. Assisting with set-up (first shift) or break-down (last shift) of the booth

🐾 Bonus: Volunteers can also get some complimentary kitty cuddles from our adoptable cats!

Volunteers must be 18+ and attend a mandatory virtual training on our point of sale software on Thursday, November 6 at 6:00-6:30 PM.

All volunteers must sign CCS's Day Volunteer Waiver.

Cat Care Society is a private, non-profit cat shelter founded in 1981 to improve the quality of life for cats in need in the Denver metro area. We believe all cats are worthy, regardless of their age or abilities. Our free-roaming shelter uses cages only when medically necessary, giving cats space to play, lounge, and enjoy outdoor catios when weather permits!

CatFest Denver – Merch Sales Volunteer

📍National Western Expo Hall & Hall of Education: 4655 Humboldt St. Denver, CO 80216

Join us for CatFest Denver and help support the cats at Cat Care Society! Volunteers will work a 3-hour shift assisting with merchandise sales at our booth.

Responsibilities include:

1. Greeting guests and providing a welcoming customer service experience

2. Restocking and tidying merchandise displays

3. Processing purchases by cash or card

4. Encouraging visitors to support the shelter with a donation

5. Assisting with set-up (first shift) or break-down (last shift) of the booth

🐾 Bonus: Volunteers can also get some complimentary kitty cuddles from our adoptable cats!

Volunteers must be 18+ and attend a mandatory virtual training on our point of sale software on Thursday, November 6 at 6:00-6:30 PM.

All volunteers must sign CCS's Day Volunteer Waiver.

Cat Care Society is a private, non-profit cat shelter founded in 1981 to improve the quality of life for cats in need in the Denver metro area. We believe all cats are worthy, regardless of their age or abilities. Our free-roaming shelter uses cages only when medically necessary, giving cats space to play, lounge, and enjoy outdoor catios when weather permits.

🐱 CatFest Denver – Merch Sales Volunteer 👚

Join us for CatFest Denver and help support the cats at Cat Care Society! Volunteers will work a 3-hour shift assisting with merchandise sales at our booth.

Responsibilities include:

1. Greeting guests and providing a welcoming customer service experience

2. Restocking and tidying merchandise displays

3. Processing purchases by cash or card

4. Encouraging visitors to support the shelter with a donation

5. Assisting with set-up (first shift) or break-down (last shift) of the booth

🐾 Bonus: Volunteers can also get some complimentary kitty cuddles from our adoptable cats!

📍 National Western Expo Hall & Hall of Education: 4655 Humboldt St. Denver, CO 80216

Volunteers must be 18+ and attend a mandatory virtual training on our point of sale software on Thursday, November 6 at 6:00-6:30 PM.

All volunteers must sign CCS's Day Volunteer Waiver.

Cat Care Society is a private, non-profit cat shelter founded in 1981 to improve the quality of life for cats in need in the Denver metro area. We believe all cats are worthy, regardless of their age or abilities. Our free-roaming shelter uses cages only when medically necessary, giving cats space to play, lounge, and enjoy outdoor catios when weather permits!

The South Pearl Farmers market volunteer opportunity is a seasonal partnership with Miller Farms and Rocky Mountain Fresh. We go to the market and "rescue" as much of the unsold produce that we can. Volunteers will be lifting crates of vegetables in and out of vehicles mostly. The food is transported to the warehouse of one of our community partner's The Growhaus to be distributed on Monday.

🛍️ Denver Food Rescue is somewhat unique in the food access world as we typically do direct distribution. This means we move donated food directly from donors to wherever it's needed. Due to the sheer quantity at this farmers market, and the fact that it happens on Sunday afternoons, this is one of the only donations we accept that requires overnight cold storage. It is also one of our only food pickups where the more hands that are available to help the better. This can be a very physically tiring shift when done by 1 or 2 people but with a larger group the strain is distributed and it's a great opportunity for team building and socializing. 

🚙 Parking: please park in the surrounding neighborhood and walk to the lot to help.

We pick up food from 3 different locations: Miller Farms, Rocky Mountain Fresh, and Rebel Bread
- This Is a collaborative shift between DFR staff and as many volunteers are willing to help. The DFR van will be present and will haul the majority of the food. Volunteers with larger vehicles can haul whatever doesn’t fit in the van if they are able*.

Volunteers 18+ must complete this waiver: 
Volunteers under 18 are welcome with an adult, but must complete the Under 18 Waiver: 

*If you are able to drive produce to The GrowHaus, please park in the parking lot of 1550 S Pearl St. You will have to enter the alley that runs between Pearl and Washington from either the north or south. Florida Ave is to the north and Iowa Ave is to the south.