Global Volunteer Month Offers Numerous VTO Opportunities

Marketing@CCB
Mar 7, 2024
4 min read

April is Global Volunteer Month, a time to celebrate volunteers—people working to support communities and drive positive change.

Every act of service builds a stronger community. When you lend your time, skills and passion to making a real difference in your own backyard, you cause a ripple effect throughout the metro area.

We've organized several group VTO opportunities for March and April. All you have to do to get started making a difference is register for the event(s) of your choosing below.

Please be sure to receive approval from your manager and submit your VTO request through Ultipro if you plan to volunteer.

United Way of Leavenworth Auction | Thursday, March 7, CLOSES TODAY at 8 p.m.

There are still lots of great items up for bid, including lunch with our very own CCBer Heather Padilla and Jen Anders of the Leavenworth Chamber of Commerce.

Hurry! The auction closes at 8 p.m. tonight! Place your bids using the button below.

Bid on Auction Items!

Kansas City G.I.F.T. | Friday, March 15, 1-5 p.m. | Delta Athenaeum and DEED Foundation, 900 E. Linwood Blvd., Kansas City, MO 64109

Kansas City G.I.F.T. is gearing up for its 2024 Black Business Pitch Competition, scheduled for Friday, March 15, 2024. They need volunteers to assist with food tables, managing the holding area for pitch competitors and overseeing the check-in process for participants.

If you have a passion for community events and are eager to help create a memorable experience for every attendee, please click the button to email Darrell Johnson with your name and preferred role(s).

Wayside Waifs | Friday, April 5, 2-4 p.m. | 3901 Martha Truman Road, Kansas City, MO 64137

Group Volunteer projects are two hours long and include a shelter tour and service project (e.g., folding laundry, making enrichment for the animals, passing out enrichment for the animals, reading to the animals and other day-to-day tasks). If the weather permits, tasks may include outdoor projects.

Volunteer Waiver: Once you sign up, please fill out the waiver as well.

Attire: Close-toed shoes required. Wear clothes that you don’t mind getting dirty—or furry!

Rose Brooks Center | Thursday, April 11, 10 a.m.–1 p.m. | Near 71 Highway and 75th, Kansas City, MO

Rose Brooks Center is about saving lives by breaking the cycle of domestic violence so that individuals and families can live free of abuse. Each year, Rose Brooks Center counts on more than 1,000 volunteers.

We will be assisting with projects that could include painting, organizing and sorting donations, cleaning and assisting in the kitchen and pantry, and working in the outdoor space to weed and clean.

Due to the nature of the center and security of those they serve, we will provide more detailed information for those who sign up, including the address, as we get closer to the VTO date.

Hillcrest Transitional Housing Lee's Summit Thrift Store | Wednesday, April 17, Noon - 3 p.m. | 936 SE 3rd Street, Lee's Summit, MO

Hillcrest Transitional Housing has a proven method to move individuals and families from homelessness and to self-sufficiency. Hillcrest serves more than 1,020 children, individuals, and families each year through its five residential sites in Johnson and Wyandotte Counties in Kansas and Jackson County in Missouri.

Hillcrest also provides rapid re-housing services in Kansas City’s Northland and in Northwest Missouri. Their greatest need is always in their thrift stores. Our VTO will be sorting, tagging, hanging and taking clothing to the sales floor as well as cleaning and organizing.

The Whole Person - Planting Independence | Friday, April 19 |8:45-10:15 a.m. | 927 South 7th St, Kansas City, KS 66105

The Whole Person offers a broad range of services to people with disabilities to increase their ability to perform day-to-day activities and reduce the need of support from family members, professional attendants or other care-giving services.

Yard maintenance can be difficult for those with disabilities and elders. Spend an afternoon outdoors with The Whole Person doing yard clean up!

Closer to the volunteer date, CCB will be provided with the address for our yard to perform clean-up activities such as mowing, raking, weeding and planting.

Pawsperity | Thursday, April 25 |1- 3 p.m. | 5805 Troost Avenue, Kansas City, MO 64110

Pawsperity is devoted to helping impoverished families become self-reliant through job training in the high-demand, high-paying trade of pet grooming. Pawsperity’s education-based approach not only financially empowers single parents in poverty through equipping them with credentials in a competitive market but also ensures they focus on improving their family’s future as a whole through parenting and budgeting classes, mental health support, life skills courses and other needed medical services coordinated with many local organizations.

During this VTO, we will tour Pawsperity and learn about their program and then work on tasks based on their need that day, such as organizing the pantry, making dog treats or bandanas, etc.

CCVI Trolley Run | Friday, April 26 and Saturday, April 27 | 8600 Ward Parkway, Kansas City, MO 64114

VTO ELIGIBLE: Check participants in and provide them with their packet of materials and swag at Fleet Feet (formerly Garry Gribble's Running Sports) at Ward Parkway Center:

· Friday, April 26, 3:30-6:30 p.m.

· Saturday, April 27, 8:30 a.m. - Noon or 11:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m.

NON-VTO ELIGIBLE: There are opportunities on Race Day (4/28), but these are not VTO eligible. If you would like to volunteer your own time, please feel free to sign up for these needed spots as well.

Since this is an external sign up, please note that you will be responsible for your attendance. Don't forget to put this on your calendar.