Please join us Tuesday, October 4 at 8:30am at the Outreach Center of West Houston (Family Point Resources) for our October General Meeting. The wonderful and extremely talented interior designer, Casey Brand of Cassandra Brand Interiors will be our guest speaker. There will be a brief meeting for new members immediately following the general meeting and an optional FPR training. We look forward to seeing you! ~ Darcy
AYAM NEEDS OUR HELP! Please consider volunteering for AYAM HERE. These are the last volunteer opportunities for AYAM. It’s a very rewarding experience, don’t miss out!
Family Point Resources: If you have any questions about whether you or your child have already completed training, please email Michelle Mwaura and she can check for you. You can log 1 hour for FPR training.
michelle.mwaura@
An easy opportunities for in-person training for Family Point Resources is Tuesday, Oct. 4th at 9am, after FJWC monthly meeting!
BCE Fall Festival Volunteer Opportunities: Buffalo Creek Elementary has their Fall Festival coming up and they are in need of volunteers to help prepare and staff. Please look at the sign up below and consider volunteering to support this fun event. Sign Up HERE.
If you want an extremely flexible volunteer opportunity please consider helping the Buffalo Creek Elementary Librarian Susie! She would love help any school day between 8-3. Needs are re-shelving books and a few other projects within the library. Sign Up using her Google Doc:
https://docs.google.com/…/1dGlxGdTy1T…/edit…
MAM: There are some great weekday AM opportunities at MAM next week! Perfect time to knock your hours out before the craziness of fall begins. (You can also do some shopping at their fabulous shop while there….win win!) Sign up HERE!
NEW MAM opportunity! They are having a workday on Nov. 13th from 11am to 3pm. They need help cleaning and restocking the store after the half off sale. You can come for as little as or as long as you want! About 15 volunteers are needed, and all must be at least 13, and if they are under 16, will need to come with a parent. Fun way to earn some hours together with your kiddo! Please email me at sara-long@att.net if interested.
SHERWOOD ELEMENTARY – Blessings in a Backpack: Have any plastic grocery bags at home? They are NEEDED for Blessings deliveries. Contact Kelly Davis to coordinate drop off. Thanks!
Sign-up HERE for SHERWOOD ELEMENTARY Blessings in a Backpack, Friday deliveries in November and December. Thank you in advance for your help!
Blessings in a Backpack – Bayou City: We have lots of volunteer opportunities for Blessings in a Backpack – Bayou City in October! Use sign up geniuses below to volunteer. Also for those who signed up to make Halloween treat bags don’t forget they are due the week of October 10-14. Blessings Fall 2022 sign up HERE!
Blessings in a Backpack Bayou City has asked us to provide an additional driver on Friday mornings (for a total of 4 each Friday) to drive food bags to 4 local commentaries. The bags are loaded in your car at Holy Spirit Episcopal Church and you drop them off at Meadow Wood, Hollibrook, Hunter’s Creek or Treasure Forest. I have attached the revised October Friday morning sign up genius with the 4th driver for Hunter’s Creek added. If you sign up HERE please show up, otherwise the children will not get their food bags that weekend. Thank you for all that you do for Blessings in a Backpack!
CanCare: Here is the SignUp Genius for the upcoming CanCare golf tournament so you can get a head start on planning your volunteer hours! Sign up HERE for the below shifts:
Sunday, October 2 from 4:30 – 6 at The Briar Club
Monday, October 3 from 11 am-2 pm and 2-5:30 pm at Memorial Park Golf Course
Houston Symphony: Sign up HERE to volunteer for student concerts hosted by the Houston Symphony. As of now, the concerts available for sign up are the only ones planned for this school year. See you at the show!
MDPC Food Pantry: The Fuente Pantry is still distributing food to 400+ families every Saturday and we will need more volunteers every week. Sign up HERE and join us for a couple of hours any Saturday.
Student Volunteer Opportunities/Sign-Ups:
- Make sure your boys have signed up on Remind: text @fjwc2 to 81010
- Saturday, October 15th: pumpkin unloading #2 at MDUMC, 10 am – 12/12:30 pm. No sign-up, just come.
- Friday, October 21st: Meadow Wood Fall Carnival at MWE, 4 pm – 7 pm. Sign up to help run a booth at the carnival: Sign Up HERE
- Saturday, October 22nd: pumpkin unloading #3 (final) at MDUMC, 10 am – 12/12:30 pm. No sign-up, just come.
- Wednesday, October 26th: Buffalo Creek Fall Festival at BCE, 7 pm – 8 pm. SignUp Genius to come and will be updated here when available.
- Tuesday, November 8th (Election Day, SBISD holiday): Usher for the symphony at Jones Hall, 2 shows (currently full, but some may cancel as the date gets closer: Sign Up HERE
Ongoing Student Opportunities:
- Family Point after-school help: Sign Up HERE
- Mandatory volunteer application
- Saturday shifts at MAM: Sign Up HERE
- MDPC Fuente Food Pantry: Sign Up HERE
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