Grady Middle School
Community Service Opportunities
Organization
Houston Food
Bank
Warehouse
Contact Info
535 Portwall St.
Houston, TX 77029
713-223-3700
Website
Hours
Description
www.houstonfoodbank.org
Mon-Wed
7am-5:30pm
Tues, Thurs
7am-9pm
Sat 7am-4pm
Daily 9am11:30 am
and
1:30pm5:00pm
The Houston Food Bank welcomes volunteers
to assist in providing food to food pantries
and soup kitchens across the city. To register
as a volunteer, kids must fill out a volunteer
form and a minor liability waiver.
Volunteers work with Alzheimer’s patients at
Autumn Grove Cottage locations around
Houston. Volunteers brighten patients’ spirits
and stimulate them through games and group
activities. Children can participate in arts and
crafts, reading, or just visiting. Volunteers
must fill out a volunteer form and participate
in a training and orientation session before
starting.
Volunteer opportunities include tutoring
underprivileged youth after school and
serving as mentors. Volunteers meet with
MECA staff to best determine how their skills
and prior experience can best be utilized.
Autumn Grove 1405 W. 24th Street
Cottage
Houston, TX 77008
713-489-1309
www.autumngrove.com
Multicultural
Education and
Counseling
Through the
Arts
1900 Kane St.
Houston, TX 77007
713-902-9370
www.meca-houston.org
Buffalo Bayou
Green Team
4510 Inman
Houston, TX 77020
Contact Crystal Ortiz at
cortiz@buffalobayou.org
or call 713-752-0314
4510 Inman
Houston, TX 77020
Japhet Creek
Restoration
Project
Contact Eileen Hatcher at
eileen4510@aol.com or
713-492-9397
Mon-Fri
12pm-7pm
http://www.buffalobayou.org/getinvol
ved.html
Call or email
for hours
Join individual and group members of Buffalo
Bayou Partnership's Green Team as we
beautify the parks and trails of Buffalo Bayou.
Now is your chance to help lend a hand.
http://www.buffalobayou.org/getinvol
ved.html
(Saturdays
from 9am to
11:30 am)
Activities at Japhet Creek Linear Park cleanups include picking up trash, planting native
trees and bushes, clearing paths of vines and
limbs, mulching around trees and in
pathways, removing non-native plant
species, and other similar tasks. Groups of
volunteers may be working along the banks
and in the waterway. Gloves and tools are
provided to all volunteers.
November
22
December 6
Citizens for
Animal
Protection
17555 Katy Freeway
Houston Texas 77094
Houston
Public Library
Central Library, Special
Collections libraries or
any of 40 other
convenient locations
serving Houston
neighborhoods
Youth volunteers will help with animals when
they arrive at the shelter, help customers in
the Happy Tails Pet Supply Shop and/or CAP
Thrift Store and help families select their
pets. CAP even has a volunteer coordinator
who can help students that are trying to get
volunteer hours for school. Please note: Kids
aged 12-15 must have a parent with them at
orientation and during volunteer sessions.
CAP asks that all volunteers commit to
helping at least 4 hours a month for six
months.
Different per
location
If you live in or near the Houston city limits,
there's probably a branch library near you.
The minimum age for volunteers is 13. Some
typical duties include sorting and shelving
books, helping mend damaged books and
magazines, light computer entry, and maybe
helping out with activities involving young
kids.
Work from
home
Make blankets for infants and small children.
An all-volunteer organization called Project
Linus is looking for persons willing to create
blankets for kids in distressed situations,
particularly pediatric cancer patients. The
blankets may be sewn, woven, crocheted,
knitted, or quilted, and size doesn't matter.
You can do the work at home and on your
own schedule. Minimum age = none.
www.searchhomeless.org
Call to
schedule
SEARCH Homeless Services helps thousands
of men, women and children each year move
from the streets, into jobs and safe, stable
housing. Offsite: assembly of toiletry kits
http://www.booksbetweenkids.org/
Regular
sorting
dates are
held most
Books Between Kids is a non-profit
organization founded in 2012 to serve
Houston’s at-risk children by providing them
with books to build their own home libraries.
Phone: (281) 497-0591
Stitches in
Time
Contact: Volunteer
Services at 832-393-1481
Contact: Sally Burns at
(281)492-2679
SEARCH
Organization
2505 Fannin
Houston, TX 77002
Books
Between Kids
Daily from
10am to
3:30pm
(Closed on
Thursdays)
http://www.cap4pets.org/supportus/volunteer
Contact: Joseph Benson
713-739-7752
9947 Harwin Drive, Suite
C
Houston,TX 77036
http://hpl.lib.tx.us/getinvolved/volunteer
http://www.stitchesintimeneedlepoint
.com/
Kid's Meals
201 Crosstimbers
Houston, TX
http://www.kidsmealshouston.org/
Contact: Tracy Jones at
713-695-5437 or email
tjones@kidsmealshousto
n.org
Trees for
Houston
4550 Post Oak Pl. #310
Houston, TX 77025
Contact: Abby Lambert
713-840-8733 or email
katherine@treesforhoust
on.org
www.treesforhouston.org
Saturdays
from SepMar. Please
visit the
website to
view
specific
dates and to
sign up.
Kitchen
9:00am12pm.
Ripley
House
deliver
volunteer
shifts begin
at 9:30am. If
you are
requesting
alternative
volunteer
time, please
contact
Tracy Jones
Call or email
for specific
times
Books Between Kids has no paid staff. The
donated books are counted, sorted, boxed
and inventoried for distribution to the
selected schools purely by volunteers.
The mission of Kids’ Meals, Inc. is to end
hunger among children by delivering
nutritious meals to the doors of preschool
children in need, free of cost, every
weekday, year round. Volunteers will
prepare sandwiches, pack lunches, and/or
sort groceries that are at the facility.
Trees For Houston is a non-profit organization
dedicated to planting, protecting and
promoting trees. In our 26 years, we have
planted over 378,000 trees to benefit the
Houston community. We recognize that trees
clean the air, mitigate run off, cool the
surroundings, and beautify our
neighborhoods. You can help. You can plant,
donate, learn, work, and make friends.
Houston needs trees. We need you.