Serving Our Community
Opportunities for Volunteers -2009
We are a "faith-driven" provider of services to our community through the generous support of our donors. If you would like to support by giving money we have many ways to make it as easy as possible. For checks and online giving please click here to see the instructions under the red kettle. If you would like to speak with someone directly about a gift, legacy, estate, or other planned giving, please call the office or email Major Clay Gardner.
If you’d like to help please call (925) 676-6180 and let our receptionist know the area you are interested in. We will need your name and a phone number (also an email address if you’d like us to contact you in that way) so that we can contact you. We ask that any young people under the age of 15 be accompanied by an Adult. For school community hours please bring your paperwork with you.
All the activities (except for the Toy & Joy Set up and Distribution, Childspree, some basketball games, camp transportation, and the Community Care Ministries Gift Distribution), take place on our local campus:
The Salvation Army Community Church,
3950 Clayton Road,
Concord, CA 94521
Thanks in advance for what you’ll do to help bring comfort and joy in our community.
If you’d like to help please call (925) 676-6180 and let our receptionist know the area you are interested in. We will need your name and a phone number (also an email address if you’d like us to contact you in that way) so that we can contact you. We ask that any young people under the age of 15 be accompanied by an Adult. For school community hours please bring your paperwork with you.
All the activities (except for the Toy & Joy Set up and Distribution, Childspree, some basketball games, camp transportation, and the Community Care Ministries Gift Distribution), take place on our local campus:
The Salvation Army Community Church,
3950 Clayton Road,
Concord, CA 94521
Thanks in advance for what you’ll do to help bring comfort and joy in our community.
Intake & Data Entry Dates
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October 28th Wednesday Morning
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9:00 - 11:30 am
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November 4th Wednesday Evening
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6:30-8:00pm
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November 9th Monday Evening
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6:30-8:00pm
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November 11th Wednesday Evening
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6:30-8:00pm
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November 17th Tuesday Morning
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9:00-11:30am
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December 1st Tuesday Morning
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9:00-11:30am
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Intake => Register families who come in and apply with us for Christmas assistance. You will be sitting at tables, two intake volunteers per table, and completing our brief application by reviewing ID, addresses and children’s information. There will be training given. Sorry no volunteers under the age of 18 accepted for this activity.
Computer Data Entry => Enter information from client applications into our on-line Christmas program. Some computer skills needed. Limited terminals other times during the day are available for data entry, leave your name and number so arrangements can be made.
Computer Data Entry => Enter information from client applications into our on-line Christmas program. Some computer skills needed. Limited terminals other times during the day are available for data entry, leave your name and number so arrangements can be made.
Activity
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November 23rd Monday (prep work in the morning – distribution in afternoon)
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9:00-3:00
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November 24th Tuesday (distribution in morning – clean up in afternoon)
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9:00-2:00
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Thanksgiving Food Box Distribution => Help to put together family food boxes to distribute to those families who have registered with us. The families will come and pick them up, so we will need assistance with check in, food box stocking, and helping to carry food boxes to vehicles. There will be bending, some lifting as part of this activity. Clean up and putting the room back together following distribution is needed.
Toy & Joy Setup
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Tuesday- Dec 15th
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1:00-3:00pm
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Wednesday- Dec 16th
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1:00-3:00pm
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Thursday Evening- Dec 17th
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6:00-8:00pm
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Friday Evening- Dec 18th
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6:00-8:00pm
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Saturday- Dec 19th
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1:00-3:00pm
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Toy & Joy Set Up => Help ready our Christmas Warehouse for our main Distribution Day. What we do is arrange tables for the Toy & Joy Shop, sorting new toys according to age and gender and sorting can food. Some bending and light lifting – warehouse conditions, location is unknown before December 3rd. Your name and phone number will allow us to call you with the warehouse location.
Adopt-a-Family
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Monday – Dec 14th help receive items from companies
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10:00am-4:00pm
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Wednesday – Dec 16th preparation of gifts for distribution
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9:00am-3:00pm
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Thursday – Dec 17th
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9:00am-3:00pm
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Friday – Dec 18th
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9:00am-3:00pm
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Adopt-a-Family => Help sort items brought in by people who have adopted families for Christmas and ready them for distribution. Some bending and lifting will be part of this activity. Families come in with their code numbers and the pre-sorted items will be gathered and volunteers will assist families with their boxes to their vehicles.
Distribution Day
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Tuesday- Dec 22nd
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8:00am-3:00pm
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Distribution Day => At our Christmas Warehouse location we need help for families who have pre-registered with us in the following areas: food and toy pickup; family check-in; escorting parents through the Toy & Joy shop; re-stocking toys; boxing food items appropriate for the family size and helping to take these items to the family's car. Other areas that we can use help on this day are cleaning up at the end of the event; packing up toys and food. Cleaning up the warehouse so we can vacate the property. You can choose to come in and help in the morning or afternoon depending on your schedule. It is always nice to have new volunteers come in and help with clean up from 2:00-4:00pm.
Here are some other examples of immediate (non-Christmas) needs:-
Our After School Tutoring Program is always looking for qualified volunteers to mentor young people with homework, reading math, ... As well as being qualified in a particular subject, as you would expect we require our volunteers working with children to pass a law-enforcement background check. If you'd like to help, please call the office (see above) or email Will Harper.
Our Advisory Board is made up of leaders and opinion influencers in our community who serve on committees which help with identifying opportunities for service and the financing to make service in the community possible. If you know of someone (including yourself!) whom you think would be interested in this effort, call the office (see above) and ask for Major Clay Gardner or email the advisory board chairman Chuck Graham.