Your community’s animal shelter
Help Make a Difference
Orphans of the Storm is your community’s animal shelter. By volunteering your time and talents, you are helping to make a difference to thousands of homeless animals arriving at our door each year.
Whether you’re walking dogs, cuddling kittens, or assisting with adoption events, your compassion directly impacts the animals in our care. We also rely on volunteers to serve as greeters and provide enrichment for the animals. We couldn’t do it without you—there are so many ways to get involved and be part of something special!
Ways to get involved
Volunteers play a vital role in showcasing our animals to adopters and assisting visitors at our Hawthorn Mall location and at offsite events.
At fundraising events, you might help staff a table at a corporate volunteer fair, wrap gifts for donations during the holidays, or assist with event setup and visitor engagement. Our volunteers help make these events successful by helping pets find their people and by sharing our mission! Sign up and create a profile to learn about next steps.
Volunteers provide essential exercise, enrichment, and socialization for our dogs by taking them on walks through our wooded trail. Whether it’s a leisurely stroll or a more active outing, your time helps keep our dogs happy and healthy while they wait for their forever homes. Sign up and create a profile to be notified about upcoming dog-walking training sessions.
Join our feline friends to socialize, groom and get to know our fabulous cats in our new cat wing.
Our volunteers also help with enrichment activities and adoptions. Our cat room is a busy place and we always need people who can help us make the lives of the cats and kittens in our care even better!
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