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Volunteer Update August 14, 2018

Dear CRC Volunteer, Thank you for your ongoing dedication to Community Resource Center ... your gift of time changes lives! We'd like to give a special shout-out to all of the volunteers who joined our Volunteer Team this summer! Just to name a few, we currently have: High school and college students on break who are volunteering A group of National Charity League moms and daughters who are taking on work in our Food and Nutrition Center Teachers who really don’t take the summers off but instead volunteer!   This month, we'd like to highlight our new GROUP OPPORTUNITIES . If you have been looking for an activity for your organization or group, look no further than CRC ...

Current Opportunities

Special thanks to Susan Ross and her church small group for coming in to deep clean our Food and Nutrition Center on August 6th!

Please email Sara Rosenbaum , Volunteer Manager, if you would like to sign up or be considered for any of our volunteer opportunities: Group Volunteer Opportunities  Warehouse organizing and cleaning: 10-15 volunteers needed to help inventory, clean and organize our warehouse that houses all of our donated goods for our Food & Nutrition Center. Resale Store cleaning and organizing: 10-20 volunteers needed to help wash windows, sweep and dust, straighten shelves and more. On-call Paint Team: One group needed to commit to painting our transitional housing when families move out. Clean out the food pantry: 6-7 volunteers needed to come in once a month to organize our pantry. Resale Store window display: Get your group together to create a fun window display at our Resale Stores! ...and more! View all opportunities ›

Holiday Baskets We are looking for some high-level volunteer involvement for the 2018 Holiday Baskets season! All positions will be volunteer, non-paid positions that will provide on-site training and lots of smiles. Holiday Baskets Registration Team Food Captain Apprentice Registration/Check-In Captain’s Assistant Administrative Assistant to the Program Manager Learn More ›

Guess that Volunteer Location! Do you recognize this place?  Send your guess to Volunteer Manager Sara Rosenbaum and your name will be entered into a drawing for a Starbucks gift card!  Congratulations to Jonathon Gold, who won our drawing last month! Have a fun photo of another CRC volunteer location? Send it our way and it may be featured in a future newsletter.

What's New

Volunteers Donating Talents Sometimes our volunteers find they have a special skill that can support CRC. This month, a new volunteer, Kyle, has been donating his expertise to CRC: Yanira Frias, our Food & Nutrition Manager says, “Kyle has worked in refrigeration and electronics repairs for 12 years. During his Fresh Rescue shift, he was looking around at our refrigerator units and noticed they were in need of some duct/parts cleaning and some maintenance so he asked if he could come in and service them. I said yes of course! He was in today and showed me how dirty the ducts were and that’s why sometimes they would take longer to cool. They work great now and the parts are sooo clean now! Yay for Kyle!!”

Host a Food Drive Can you help us restock our shelves and ensure our neighbors in need have enough food for dinner? All month long, help us collect pasta sauce, canned pasta, cooking oil and condiments. View our wish list and get a flyer at the link below! Learn More ›

Volunteers of the Month

This month’s volunteer(s) of the month are Amie Defrain and her son, Cole Hanna! Amie Defrain has volunteered over 100 hours in the Development department, sharing her skills in graphic design and marketing to make a difference. During one project, Amie designed new signage for the CRC Resale Stores (pictured with one of her signs below). Amie says, "I enjoy giving back to the community and love graphic design ... what better way to make a difference than to do both?" Cole Hanna volunteers many hours at our San Marcos Resale Store. His supervisor, Mary, says: "Cole is always willing to go to the extra mile. He is a very trustworthy, a great organizer and always completes his tasks every day that he volunteers. If I needed to hire a young volunteer for the summer, Cole would be the right person for the job!"  Congratulations to this family of caring volunteers!

Thank you for your ongoing support!

Stories of volunteering? Send them our way! We would love to share encouragement to the CRC volunteer team via this newsletter about ways we are all making a difference. Please e-mail stories to Sara Rosenbaum at srosenbaum@crcncc.org .

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