Local Volunteer Opportunities

Adult Education

• Working with adults who are learning English as a second language

Contact:  Paula Gimmestad or email pgimmie3@hotmail.com

Boulder Estates

• Helping with activities such as BINGO
• sing-a-long
• Yard Work
• Visiting one on one with the elderly

Contact: Jim 532-3834

Coats For Kids

• Monitor inventory
• Clean/move racks
• Get the space ready
• Distribute posters
• Set up drop off sites
• Take Coats to cleaners
• Sort coats
• (Middle of September through Middle of October)

Contact:  Reesa Mitchell 537-5417

Friends of Marshall Library

• Re-book Shelves
• Dust
• Miscellaneous

Contact: Judy Werpy 537-0705

Girls Scouts of America

• Share the things you love with girls scouts
  
  • Dance
  • photography
  • art
  • music
  • sports
  • science
  • math
• Mentor girls scouts once a month, or just one time
• Also may provide a short term internship
• Public relations
• Communications

For more information please contact: Lisa Lee at 507-637-3569 or email lisal@girlscoutsppc.org

Lyon County 4-H

For more information please contact Laurie Palmer 532-8219 or palme227@umn.edu

Community Plus Program

• Set up after school program for youth on probation
• set up mentoring where they volunteer in the community with college students

For more information please contact Tony Esping at 537-6744 or email tesping@fs.doc.state.mn.us

Lynd Public School Tutoring

For more information please contact donna reeves at 537-6183 or email donna.reaves@smsu.edu

Big Buddies

For more information please contact Allan Bakke at 507-537-1416 or email allen.bakke@wcainc.org

Peer Helpers

For more information please contact Sue Snodgrass at 507-537-6924 or email sue.snodgrass@marshall.k12.mn.us

Success By Six

United way of swmn

Arc of Minnesota Southwest

for more information please contact Pat Mellenthin at 507-532-2220 or email mellenjp@mvtvwireless.com

Avera Marshall Regional Medical Center

For more information please contact 507-537-9145

Prairie Home Hospice

• Patient care
• Office help
• Move equipment
• general house help

For more information please contact 507-537-9247

Adult Area Community Center

• Office work
• One on one with the elderly

for more information please contact Barb Lipinski

Birthright of Marshall

For more information please contact Elaine Hennen at 507-533-7407

Women's Rural Advocacy Program

• Staffing office
• Cleaning

For more information please contact Karen Brady at 507-532-9532 or email wraplyon@iw.net

New Horizons Crisis center

• Answer advocate crisis line
• Put up posters
• fold newsletters
• restock pamphlets around Marshall

For more information please call 507-532-3628 or email nhcc@iw.net

American Cancer Society/Colleges Against Cancer

For more information please contact Jennifer Evans at 507-734-2174 or email jennifer.eveans@cancer.org

United Way of Southwest Minnesota

For more information please contact Ruth Ascher at 507-929-2273 or email unitedway@iw.net

Southwest ABE

For more information please contact Pat Thomas at 507-537-7046 or email marshallabe@starpoint.net

Marshall Area Fine Arts Council

• Greeters at the Art Center
• Serve on various committees
• Serve at art exhibits

For more information please contact Paula Nemes at 507-532-5463 or email mafac@starpoint.net

Lyon County Historical society Museum

For more information please contact Ellayne Conyers at 507-537-6580 or email ellayne@iw.net

Foundation for Foreign study

For more information please contact Olivia Des Chenes

The Refuge - A fresh Start

For more information please contact

Kitchen table food shelf of Western Community Action

• Stock shelves
• Unload truck
• deliver items to seniors who cannot drive

For more information please contact

Redwood River Cleanup

for more information please contact the Department of Science at science@smsu.edu