Want to know how you can support Stafford R.I.S.E.? Well we are trying to make it as easy as we can for everyone. You can go click the image below to sign up through our volunteering page provided by 516 Project. Descriptions of what dates, times, and what roles you can volunteer for will be listed there all in one location.
Stafford R.I.S.E. is broken up into four areas so that no one group who joins it is overburdened:
- Faith Community / Individuals: provide volunteers and individuals with a heart for building relationships with our unhoused neighbors and guiding them to the programs and services available for their specific situation. Many of our clothing and food donations that we hand out come from these groups.
- Non-Profits: provide specialty vehicles and services, such as food trucks, health checkup vehicles, mobile harm reduction vehicles, and other deeper level services that can come out to the sites we visit.
- Resource Connectors: these are groups, organizations, and agencies that provide resources and programs. They will bring subject matter experts and often be able to speak to a person on a one on one level about what is available and their options to seeking more stable paths through life.
- Hotels / Motels: provide a guiding light for R.I.S.E. They let us know if they are seeing a difference in our efforts and provide us feedback from the every day situations they see. They also help spread awareness to whomever comes and goes that might need our help.
Here are some examples of what our volunteers do and what you can assist with:
- Volunteer to talk to people when we go out and build relationships.
- Help transporting equipment, tables, tents, food, equipment, clothes to help setup and breakdown between locations.
- Delivering flyers to businesses and hotels/motels before our next outreach day.
- Spreading awareness and supporting our outreach by seeking out new partnerships and organizations that might be interested in supporting or joining the R.I.S.E. Mission.
- Setting up fundraisers or support drives for clothes, food, or donations to the non-profits that provide the on-site resources at their own expense.
- Providing donations of clothing, shoes, school supplies and food, as well as toys for the holiday seasons.
Stafford R.I.S.E. is headed by an advisory counsel of several of the community leaders and heads of various organizations that unite to make the R.I.S.E. mission work. If you would have an interest in being on the advisory board or taking a leadership position to help guide this community program, please email staffordriseva@gmail.com and let us know!
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