Volunteer Opportunities
How can I help?
Get involved at Branches of Hope as a volunteer. We are appreciate any help we get from our community, whether it is bringing or helping serve the residents a hot meal, sorting donations and organizing the clothing closets, helping with a maintenance task, completing your community service hours, or picking up donations! We have something for you.
We need volunteers on every level:
churches or organizations to sign up for dinner one or two times a month. Sign up.
clothing sorting and organizing. Sign up.
people to assist staff between 2:30 PM as late as 9:00 PM especially over the weekends.
taking residents to the appointments, Social Security office, and to run various errands picking up donations of food from restaurants and the food bank.
Financial Needs.
Our annual budget is just under $500,000 to cover all the costs of staffing our facility from 5 PM to 8 AM, 365 nights/year, and provide programming to help get the homeless back on their feet again. Currently we run on a skeleton staff to keep it open and funded. It is our hope to open 24/7, which would allow those who have to work night shifts to sleep during the day and get more assistance with those who need it most and allow us to do more case management to develop the guests we currently have.
Our greatest need is funding, so we are asking people to just give what they can on a monthly basis to help us keep our doors open. The cost to a city or county for one homelessness person runs between $40,000 - $120,000 per year. Often the homeless end up in jail, the hospital, or the ER. Our
Please email us at: lisa@branchesofhopega.org if you have any questions.