Volunteer Opportunity Details:
| Last updated on April 7, 2009 |
The Giving Tree needs a few committed volunteers to help with our job program, GEAR (Gain Employment and Respect.) GEAR helps jobless men and women overcome barriers to employment such as not having identification, interview appropriate clothing, buss passes and so forth.
No experience is necessary to become a CHUM. Once matched with a client to mentor, you will meet your new friend one-on-one and assist with job searches. Under the direction of the Jobs Program Director, creative ways to overcome barriers to employment will be explored.
As a CHUM, you will be a support system for the client. The hours are flexible, but a 6 month commitment is desired so that the client has time to build a trusting rapport with their CHUM. As a CHUM, you will have a chance to make a lasting change in a deserving person's life.
Consistency and compassion is important for our clients - to build rapport and so they understand that finally someone in their life cares that they "make it."
The minimum requirement to be a CHUM is the desire to positively change a stranger's life. The qualities most important to this position are compassion and patience. You can BE the biggest difference in the life an individual and their entire family by helping them overcome obstacles, old habits and helping them find a new way of being.  This opportunity is sponsored by: The Giving Tree Outreach Program
This volunteer opportunity is available to the following types of volunteers
 |
| Adults (26-54) |
|
Individual |
| Adults (55+) |
|
Young Adults (18-25) |
|
We need volunteers who are free at these times
|
| Weekly |
|
|
|
|
Address:
Directions:
|
The Giving Tree offices are located at 929 N. Swan, Tucson, AZ 85711. Our phone number is 520-320-5437.
Nearest Bus Stop: On eastside Broadway/Niven, 1 minute walk |
Web Site: http://TheGivingTreeOutreach.org
| Last updated on April 7, 2009 |
Have you volunteered with this opportunity?
Log your hours online
User Reflections
Post Your Own!
4.83333333333333333333333333333333333333
Average Rating
(12
reflections)
5
Overall Experience
Wonderful and Very rewarding - Great Experience for the whole family
|
We decided for our Christmas in 2004 that we wanted to spend it in giving to others. We researched opportunities throughout the western United States, before we settled on the giving tree and Libby Wright. Libby was so enthusiastic and helpful. We has a famuily could not have had a more rewarding experience. We spent 10 days over Christmas serving the great people in Tucson. From wrapping gifts, feeding the less fortunate, contruction projects, ,picking up items of donation, delivering goods - the list goes on and on. We was able to provide a Christmas dinner at the Grace Home and allow the year round volunteers to spent the day with their families. Our family benefited in many ways from this experience and grew closer together as a result. We will be back again in 2005 and will have some friends traveling with us.
posted by bellbr on October 28, 2005 |
5
Overall Experience
Very Informal and Very Rewarding
|
My husband and I try to go every Sunday to the feeding lot on 22nd St. It's a great way to volunteer. You can bring food, clothes or just a smile and lend a hand. If anyone out there is affliated with a restaurant and/or catering business, please consider donating your left-overs to this cause.
posted by ErinF on March 20, 2005 |
5
Overall Experience
Have been searching for a smaller agency that works with abused/ neglected children as they have a special place in my heart.
|
Giving Tree Outreach Program does great work. Enjoy being involved with the feeding program on Sunday nights, both cooking for the people & serving them. My husband & I are also involved with them by collecting items on their wish list during the month as we are able, and then taking them to Libby for the Grace Home. I enjoy a good shopping/bargain hunting challenge & it makes me very happy to be able to give to others this way. I am looking forward to getting to know some of the other volunteers & becoming more involved with this agency in any way that we can help.
posted by dpinnell on September 27, 2004 |
|
