Leadership
Buzz Ritchie
Team Chairs
Education: Ted Kirchharr
Environment: Dr. Enid Sisskin
Health: Dr. Debra Vinci
Poverty: Tim Evans
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Poverty Volunteer Opportunities |
The following volunteer opportunities are related to the goals of Unite Escambia's Poverty Solutions Team. Follow the links provided or call the contact listed to learn more about each volunteer project and how to get started.
Bridges Out of Poverty
Bridges to Circles poverty initiative: Seeking volunteers to engage in an intentional, befriending relationship with an individual or family working on his or her plan to becoming self-sufficient. Click here to learn more.
Crisis Hotlines
First Call For Help: Volunteers needed to help answer calls from community residents in need of information and referral. Click here to learn more.
Families in poverty
Catholic Charities: Volunteer opportunities include disaster relief and long-term recovery, foster families for temporary care of infants, transporting young mothers to/from doctors appointments, clerical support, food distribution, maintanance/landscaping, special events and seasonal assistance. Click here to learn more.
The Salvation Army: Volunteers are needed to provide services to those in need such as food, clothing, emergency shelter, transitional housing, utilities, prescription medicine, and budgeting classes. Click here to learn more.
United Way Financial Stability Coalition: Volunteers are needed year-round to help provide free, basic money management workshops. In the spring, volunteers are needed to help provide free tax preparation for low-income residents. Click here to learn more.
Guardian ad Litem (GAL) Program
Department of Children and Families and Families First Network: Advocate for a child to ensure that they have the ability to grow up with dignity in a safe environment that meets their best interests. Click here for more information.
Homelessness
EscaRosa Coalition on the Homeless: Support the Coalition and educate the community to dispel myths about the homeless. Click here to learn more.
Alfred Washburn Center: Help serve the homeless by providing food, clothing, showers and laundry facilities. Click here to learn more.
Loaves and Fishes: Volunteers are needed on a regular basis to cook and serve food, provide services to families in shelter and transitional housing settings, and work in the parent-child center and thrift store. Click here to learn more.
The Salvation Army: Volunteers needed for meal preparation, mentoring and cleaning at The Salvation Army homeless shelter. Click here to learn more.
Waterfront Rescue Mission: Volunteers are needed throughout the year to serve meals to the homeless, collect donations, improve the Mission's grounds, and other opportunities. Click here to learn more.
Raising Resources
Poverty Solutions Team Resource Action Team: Seeking a volunteer Grant Writer to provide support and resources for all initiatives of the Poverty Solutions Team. Click here for more details.
For more information about volunteer opportunities related to reducing poverty in our community, contact:
- Peggy Groves, Poverty Solutions Team volunteer coordinator, at plgroves@cox.net
- Haley Richards, Bridges to Circles VISTA volunteer, at 429-7296, ext. 17 or richardsh@cc.ptdiocese.org
Tax Help for Seniors
AARP TaxAide: AARP Tax-Aide provides tax help to middle and low-income taxpayers with special attention to those 60 and older. In addition to income tax preparers, volunteers are needed to load software and troubleshoot hardware and software problems and also to implement and maintain publicity and recruitment efforts. Click here for more details.
Increase personal resiliency
Be Ready Alliance (BRACE): Reduce the disaster vulnerability of low-income families and persons living in poverty by increasing their personal resiliency. Click here for more details.