Volunteer Jobs Listing

• Animal Care
• Grounds
• Administrative
• Fund Raising
• Volunteer Application (Printable)

Caring for Creatures is constantly growing and changing!

The following are some jobs that are available and projects that we hope to undertake. As with most non-profit organizations, we do not have the funds to hire staff to take all these projects on. That's where you, our volunteers, come in. Please look through the list and see if there is any area that you may be willing to help. Remember that we do not expect you to do it all alone. We have staff members that will help you to help us reach our goals. No matter where you live, near or far, with Internet access, we can find a volunteer job for you.

Animal Care

Water Delivery

This job is better than going to any gym,and we won't charge you to lift our weights! Hauling water buckets for 60 dogs is not an easy task, but it builds great muscles and works the heart and lungs. In the summertime, this job is done twice a day if not more, so if you can't come in the morning,you might want to consider coming in the afternoon and helping to refill buckets and swimming pools.

Dish Washing

Feeding over 200 animals generates a whole lot of dishes. Anyone willing to risk dishpan hands?

Pooper Scooping

This job naturally follows the feeding job. What goes in, must come out! This may sound like a dirty job, O.K. it is, but it can be fun too. You are always greeted enthusiastically by all the dogs, and if you throw a ball and play with them, you'll have a friend for life.

Grooming

Some of our cats and dogs are long-haired and require regular grooming, others are short-haired and just seem to get matted easily or just enjoy a good grooming. We always welcome volunteers who are willing to take the time to sit and groom the animals. Be prepared for lots of kisses and loving, though!

Walking and Exercise

Our pens are spacious, but the dogs do still enjoy walks so they may explore the fields and woods that surround them. We welcome volunteers to come walk dogs during the hours of 10-3 Mon-Sat.

Dog Training

Anyone interested in helping train dogs in order to help make them more adoptable? No experience is necessary. We'll train you to train them.

Cat Socializing

We receive a lot of feral cats or at least very shy cats that need to learn what humans are all about. If you are a real cat lover, this may be the job for you. At first it may mean just sitting in the cattery and reading a book so the cats get used to your presence prior to trying to touch them. This is definitely a job for someone with a lot of patience, but many of our cats could learn to adapt to humans if given the chance.

Manicurist Wanted

Anyone good at doing nails? O.K. maybe not pretty nail polish designs, but more in the line of clipping. Some of our dogs and cats need to keep their manicure neat and tidy.

Grounds

Yards

The coming of spring and summer also means the coming of grass. With 160 acres of land, we sure do have plenty of it. Anyone interested in hopping on that riding mower and mowing the general grounds or using the push mower and weed trimmers in the pens, please, please, please give us a call. For those of you who are more the landscaping kind of gardeners, it sure would be nice to have some flowers and things to spruce up the place, but we need someone willing to keep it up on a regular basis.

Maintenance

And we thought FORD stood for "Fix or repair daily," (no offense to you Ford owners). We sure do have an endless list of things to be fixed around here. There are tables for the dogs to jump on in every pen, many of which need fixing or rebuilding. There is everything from pen gates to dog house porches, cat scratches to cattery floors that need repair or building. Some of the jobs don't take talent, just a little brawn, such as using gravel to fill in holes dug by dogs.

Administrative

Grants

We are trying to get more grant money coming into CFC. Each grant proposal takes quite a bit of time to write and then there are all the copies to be made prior to sending them. Fortunately, we have already received a grant this year to help with the new education program. What we really want to do is try to get some operational expense grants. We've gotten a list of foundations that we might qualify for, now all we need is someone willing to take the time to get the grant applications and find out what the guidelines are. The CFC staff can write the actual proposals (unless of course there is someone willing to take that on as well) if someone will make the copies and do the actual mailings.

Coordinator for Non CFC Animals

We keep records of animals looking for homes that do not come into CFC but remain in the owner's home. These records need to be updated and follow-up calls need to be made to find out if the animals are still available. This could be a job for someone who wants to come in but only has a few times a month that they can devote. Some of the phone calls could be made from home.

Fund Raising

Fund Raiser Manager

We would like to increase the amount of fundraisers that we do each year, but we need someone willing to comeup with ideas and then spearhead them. Any takers? This person would have a brigade of volunteers to help them pull it off. Of course, we could always have a manager per fund raiser. That would work well too if you think you would like to just manage one fundraiser a year that would be considered your baby.

Fund Raiser Brigade

If you are interested in helping out at a fund raiser, but don't want to be the brains of the operation, that's great too. The more the merrier. There are always helpers needed to run booths, answer questions, or keep an eye on animals attending the fund raiser. The aftermath of every fund raiser includes letter writing and money counting if that is more up your alley.

Yard Sale Proceeds

For those of you who want to get involved but live too far away, perhaps you could hold a yard sale and advertise that the proceeds are going to CFC. Not only would this help raise money for animal care, but it would help get more recognition for Caring for Creatures.

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