July Volunteer Newsletter and Sign Ups

Dear Volunteer,

You help us to instill hope, change lives, and brighten futures!

The summer season is well and truly underway here at Horizons! Our garden beds are blooming and we're spotting monarch butterflies in our pollinator beds every day!

July is bringing more need for drivers- weekly, bi-weekly, floaters, subs- you name it! Contact me today for more information on how to become a volunteer driver!

The overwhelming response from our returning volunteers reflects how happy they are to be back after a summer of pandemic life. They are as glad to see our clients as the clients are to have a visit. It's wonderful to see the connections forming again!

As always, if you want to join the fun we have here at Horizons, email or call me any time!

Kami Zbanek Hill

Volunteer Coordinator

Recruit-a-Friend!

We're SO CLOSE to having our weekly meal delivery routes 95% covered by volunteers, and we're also looking for volunteers to deliver our Breakfast Bag routes.

To help motivate this final push, we're starting a Recruit-a-Friend program!

If you recruit a friend to start delivering meals or Breakfast Bags, and your friend successfully submits an application and signs up for a route on at least a bi weekly basis, we'll give you a free Horizons t-shirt! Just have your friend put your name in the "how did you hear about us" box on their application!

Help spread the joy of combatting senior isolation and hunger in our community and let your friends know what they're missing!

If you're interested in driving for Meals on Wheels we have a spot for you! We are particularly looking for Volunteers in the Marion area.

Click here to sign up!

Volunteer in the Elderberry Box Fundraiser!

The Elder Berry Box fundraiser for our Elder Services location in Coralville is coming up in July and we need your help preparing meals, putting orders together, and many other easy jobs! This would be a fun group activity, and there are easy jobs for families to do together! Shifts will be between 9:00am and 4:00pm depending on the day!

Visit our Sign Up Genius to participate!

Iowa City Commuter Volunteers Needed!

We have an immediate need for volunteers who are available between 9:00 and 10:30 am weekdays to help us deliver food to our Iowa City/Coralville location.

Around 9:00am, empty and coolers from the previous day’s deliveries would need to be picked up at our Coralville location and driven up to our location in Cedar Rapids. They would then be swapped out for full bags of hot lunches and coolers of drinks. The volunteer would then deliver the meals and coolers to the Coralville location where our volunteer coordinator would handle the distribution of them. There are 13 insulated food bags and 13 small coolers, so vehicle size might be a factor in this case. We expect this shift to take about 1.5-2 hours. We can also reverse the order of pickup/drop off if you are starting in Cedar Rapids.

If you're interested in volunteering for this volunteer position, or would like more information, email khill@horizonsfamily.org.

Horizons Volunteers Win Governor's Award!

We are pleased to announce that two of our volunteers, Erica Ly, and Clarence Boesenburg are recipients of the Iowa Governor's Volunteer Award. Both Erica and Clarence have shown exceptional dedication to Horizons and our clients.

The 2021 Governor’s Volunteer Award ceremony will be virtual and is planned for July 14, 2021. All 2021 awardees will also have the opportunity to attend our in-person ceremonies when they resume in 2022, where they may have their photo taken with the Governor.

Please join us in congratulating Clarence and Erica!

Volunteer Spotlight

July's Volunteer Spotlight is shining on Roxi McCrane!

Roxi began volunteering with Horizons during the pandemic and quickly became the unofficial "Captain" of the labeling and packing shifts! She has a great take-charge attitude and an infectious laugh that lights up a room!

Roxi has tranisitioned seamlessly into driving a delivery route once per week in addition to volunteering for several other organizations in the area and keeping up with her big family!

Thank you Roxi!!!

The Horizons Apparel Store is OPEN!

Want the world to know just how much you love Horizons? We have Horizons apparel on sale now! Visit our website and check out the awesome selection of t-shirts, sweatshirts, hats, jackets and more! All are in great washable fabrics and fun colors. Represent Horizons wherever you are!

Enter our apparel store here!

*All orders need to be in by the 15th of each month to ensure delivery by the end of the month.