How to Become a Volunteer (18+)
To get started as a volunteer, the first step is to create a profile in VolunteerHub. You’ll need to provide some basic personal information, let us know which volunteer opportunities interest you, read and agree to our Volunteer Handbook and liability waiver. Once your profile is submitted, we’ll email you with the next steps for the role(s) you’ve selected. Thank you for your interest in supporting our mission!
Volunteers Under 18
While volunteers under 18 cannot help with hands-on shelter work, there are many impactful ways you can contribute to our mission and support our animals. A few ideas how you can get involved:
Fundraising and Donations: Organize or participate in fundraising events such as school drives, donation campaigns, or other community-based efforts to collect items from our wishlist. Needed items include food, toys, bedding, cleaning supplies, and more. Every donation, no matter how small, helps us continue our work.
Enrichment for Animals: Help improve the well-being of our animals by bringing in enrichment items like toys, puzzle feeders, or DIY creations that provide comfort and stimulation. These thoughtful gifts make a significant difference in the lives of the animals in our care.
Social Media Advocacy: Spread the word about our adoptable animals and shelter programs by sharing posts on your social media channels. You can also create your own posts to help raise awareness and encourage adoption. The more people who see our animals, the greater chance they have of finding their forever homes.
Create and Share Posters: Get creative and design posters to promote our animals, our shelter, and adoption events. Post them on public bulletin boards in your community, at schools, libraries, coffee shops, or local businesses. These simple efforts help bring visibility to our cause and attract potential adopters.
Other Ways to Support Our Mission
There are many other ways to support our work, including fundraisers, sponsoring an event at your school, work, or community center to benefit Orphans, collecting newspapers and blankets, or inviting a representative of Orphans to come to speak to your group or company to help spread the word about our lifesaving work.
You may even have your own exciting ideas that we could work with you to help further our mission!
Orphans of the Storm relies on the generosity of its volunteers to further our mission of finding homes for the stray and abandoned dogs and cats of Lake County and beyond. We could not do our crucial work without you. We look forward to meeting you!
For questions, please contact us at volunteer@orphansofthestorm.org
