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Please contact organizations directly for further information about any of these available volunteer opportunities. Some may be more appropriate than others for families with small children.
Chabad of Pierce County
Contact: Rabbi Zalman Heber at 253-565-8770 or [email protected]
Dates: December 4, 2007
Volunteers needed to help set up and run the Hanukkah celebration.
Jewish Genealogical Society of Washington State
Contact: Lyn Blyden, 206-932-3481 or [email protected]
Dates: When mutually convenient
Transcribe vital records from JTNews/Jewish Transcript at the Seattle Public Library
Washington State Holocaust Education Resource Center
Contact: Marie Berry 206-441-5747 or [email protected]
Dates: Monday–Friday, 9 a.m.–5 p.m. and other times for special events
WSHERC seeks volunteers to help with their educational programs, general office support, driving speakers to their venues, grant writing, and library support.
JTNews and Jew-ish.com
Contact: Joel Magalnick, JTNews editor, at [email protected]
Dates: When mutually convenient
JTNews seeks a volunteer or student intern for several tasks, including some filing, indexing, research and blogging. Interns will be given the opportunity to write for JTNews and/or Jew-ish.com. Please send résumé and writing samples with application.
National Council of Jewish Women — Seattle Section
Contact: Rachel Love, 425-558-1894 ext. 2 or [email protected]
Date: Sun., Dec. 16 from 11:30 a.m.–3 p.m.
Help to organize the warehouse for Shalom Bayit: Furnishing Peaceful Homes, the only furniture bank exclusively for survivors of domestic violence in Washington. Tasks will include: moving larger furniture item for those who are able, folding sheets, organizing housewares and other items. Great volunteer opportunity for kids 10 and older and for families.
Hadassah
Contact: Sheila Abrahams, Executive Director, 425-467-9099
Dates: When mutually convenient
Do you like to work with older adults? Hadassah members at the Summit at First Hill in Seattle would like to have regular meetings and programs. Hadassah has lots of program resources and needs volunteers to make this happen one day or evening per month. Please call the Hadassah office for more information.
Seattle Hebrew Academy
Contact: Sasha Mail, 206-323-7933, ext. 301
Dates: Call for specific dates and times, depending upon opportunity
• Book sorting and labeling in the Behar Library, Early Childhood Education Center library and the kindergarten classrooms
• Auction 2008 (set up on the day of and/or help procure auction items), Sun., Jan. 27 at the Fairmont Olympic Hotel.
• Hebrew language tutoring
• 1:1 Reading Partners — Read with kids one-on-one to help them develop their reading skills
Jewish Family Service
Contact: Jane Deer-Hileman, 206-861-3155 or [email protected]
Dates: Call for availability or see specific dates below
• Deliver Hanukkah baskets: Please register to join JFS on Sun., Dec. 2 from noon–2 p.m. to deliver festive Hanukkah baskets to seniors, low-income families and adults with disabilities.
• Child care: Child care volunteers needed for Sun., Dec. 2 to help at a Hanukkah party from 3-6 pm. Contact JFS about other child care volunteer opportunities as well.
• Food bank shifts and delivery: JFS needs help throughout the work week. See the food bank shift schedule at www.jfsseattle.org/volfb.html or contact them to see if there is a shift that works for you.
• Monthly home delivery: One person needed to make a monthly home delivery to four households in Bellevue. Driving required.
• ESL class tutors: Needed in the Bellevue Multi-Ethnic Service Center office during the week, Mon.–Fri., 9 a.m.–5 p.m. They are also seeking volunteers willing to tutor and help new immigrant families in the Kent area.
• Friendly Visitors: For senior clients in Everett, Edmonds, Seward Park and other Seattle areas.
• Big Pal: Male sought to match with boys living in Redmond.
The Friendship Circle
Contact: Esther Bogomilsky, 206-274-6082 or [email protected]
Dates: Ongoing, weekly or monthly
Teens and adults are sought to volunteer with children of special needs and bring friendship, smiles and peace of mind to their parents.
• Sunday Circle is an interactive program geared for children with special needs one Sunday a month with activities, music, movement and many exciting workshops led by professionals and teen volunteers.
• Friends@Home is a program where teen or college-age volunteers are trained by a team of professionals. The teens pay a weekly visit to the home of a child with special needs where he/she offers friendship, recreational interaction, arts & crafts, homework support, and life skill enhancement.