About Volunteering with TOPS--Service and Organizing

TOPS volunteers are the backbone of the organization. Volunteers will be identified through outreach, programmatic and advocacy efforts. Specifically, volunteers will be asked to help with assisting TOPS staff and board members in providing programmatic services and advocacy tasks in ways that will allow the volunteer to contribute to the work and mission of TOPS while gaining the skills and experiences to be future leaders. Some volunteer tasks will include: dishing food to guests of the food pantry, running errands to get food and condiments when needed for food pantry, typing names in database, write up brochures and materials, conduct outreach activities to the homeless and during organizing activities, become TOPS leaders in organizing groups across the state. Volunteers will be asked to participate in advocacy meetings, write minutes of those meetings, make phone calls, hand out flyers, and organize meetings.

We are a community--and together we can change our lives, our community, and the world.