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60 Minutes of Giving Service Projects
National Family Volunteer Day
Each project will cost $10 per person. After registering please click here to pay.
Please register ALL family members.
Wee would love for you to join us for our After Party! Please register separately.
City Square – 20 Volunteers FULL
City Square is a nonprofit organization that strives to fight the causes and effects of poverty through service, advocacy and friendship. Wee Volunteers will learn about their mission, and all that they do to serve the homeless community of Dallas; then we will pack laundry kits.
Appropriate for families with children ages 4+
Location:
1610 S. Malcolm X Boulevard, Dallas 75226
ChildCareGroup – 20 Volunteers FULL
ChildCareGroup is a nonprofit organization providing child care, early childhood development and education services outside the home for low income families. We will learn all about ChildCareGroup and then decorate the classrooms for the Holidays.
Appropriate for families with children ages 4+
Location:
Landauer Center, 4539 Munger Avenue, Dallas 75204
Community Partners of Dallas – 20 Volunteers FULL
Community Partners of Dallas serves over 16,000 children in the Dallas area! Volunteers will learn about the programs offered by Community Partners, take a tour of the Rainbow Room and warehouse and then create hygiene kits for the thousands of kids in need.
Appropriate for families with children ages 2 years+
*Please wear close toed shoes.*
Location:
1215 Skiles Street, Dallas 75204
Dallas Children’s Advocacy Center – 20 Volunteers FULL
The mission of Dallas Children’s Advocacy Center is to improve the lives of abused children in Dallas County and to provide national leadership on child abuse issues. Wee Volunteers will be helping DCAC with a fun project!
Appropriate for families with children 4 years+
*Please wear close toed shoes.*
Location:
5351 Samuell Boulevard, Dallas 75228
Dallas Furniture Bank Dusting Off Dreams – 20 Volunteers
Wee will be dusting off and vacuuming various furniture pieces to ensure the clients are receiving refreshed items for their homes. Help the clients of the Dallas Furniture Bank receive a dream come true in the form of clean, attainable furniture for their home.
Appropriate for families with children ages 3 years+
Location:
1417 Upfield Drive #104, Carrollton 75006
Register: Dallas Furniture Bank Dusting Off Dreams
Hope Supply Co. – 20 Volunteers FULL
Hope Supply Co. aims to meet the critical needs of homeless children across North Texas. They make every effort to provide clothing, critical needs and warmth to the homeless youth. Through Hope Supply Co., we too can help children in our community by volunteering to donate and pack “Hope in a Box.” We will learn about Hope Supply Co. and the children they serve and pack “Hope in a Box” boxes with birthday supplies.
Appropriate for families with children ages 5 years+
Location:
10480 Shady Trail #104, Dallas 75220
Family Gateway – 20 Volunteers FULL
Since 1986, Family Gateway has been uniquely focused on family homelessness, offering over 8,300 children and their parents the help they need to recover from crisis and make positive choices for their future. Volunteers will tour the homeless shelter, learn about homelessness and then decorate Family Gateway for the Holidays.
Appropriate for families with children ages 4+
Location:
711 S. St. Paul Street, Dallas 75201
Interfaith Family Services – 20 Volunteers FULL
Interfaith Family Services exists to break the cycle by providing working families with the tools to eliminate barriers, equip them to overcome poverty, educate children with skills to successfully pursue dreams and overall empower families to live self-sufficient lives. Wee Volunteers will put together snack bags for the children’s center.
Appropriate for families with children ages 4+
Location:
5600 Ross Avenue, Dallas 75206
Service Suitcase – 12 Volunteers
The Service Suitcase will be a way for families to serve their communities from home, by creating handmade items for specific charities around the Metroplex. The suitcase includes supplies necessary for each project, talking tips for reflection, and instructions on where to deliver the items together. Volunteers will learn about 7 different charities together and construct the projects from the Service Suitcase that will benefit those charities. Charities include: VNA Meals On Wheels, SPCA of Texas, Ronald McDonald House, Family Gateway, C.C. Young Retirement Home, Operation Gratitude and ChildCareGroup.
Each Service Suitcase is $30.
Appropriate for families with children ages 4 years+
Location:
TBD
Soup Mobile Cookie Party – 20 Volunteers FULL
The Soup Mobile needs cookies! Who doesn’t love cookies? For a homeless person, cookies are something they would normally not get when they receive a meal. The Soup Mobile has changed that! They serve the homeless a hot and delicious meal and now, cookies are always given out at the end of that meal! Come and help us brighten someone’s day by assembling cookie bags for the homeless!
Appropriate for families with children ages 2 years+
Location:
Volunteer Now, 2800 Live Oak Street, Dallas 75204
SPCA Dallas – 15 Volunteers FULL
Volunteers will tour the SPCA and learn about animal care. We will color adoption signs with specific information on animals waiting to be adopted at the SPCA, and we will hang them at local retailers for the public to see!
Appropriate for families with children ages 3 years+
Location:
2400 Lone Star Drive, Dallas 75212
SPCA McKinney – 15 Volunteers FULL
Volunteers will tour the SPCA and learn about animal care. We will color adoption signs with specific information on animals waiting to be adopted at the SPCA, and we will hang them at local retailers for the public to see!
Appropriate for families with children ages 3 years+
Location:
8411 Stacy Road, McKinney 75070
Trash Clean Up with Dusty – 20 Volunteers FULL
Our community partner, Dusty the Dumpster, is teaming up with Wee Volunteer to tidy up our city! Dusty will explain the importance of keeping the community free of litter, teach us about recycling and then volunteers will get into action by picking up trash.
Appropriate for families with children ages 4 years+
Location:
621 Fabrication Street, Dallas 75212
VNA Meals On Big Wheels (no deliveries) – 50 Volunteers FULL
Volunteers will learn about VNA Meals On Wheels and tour the kitchen. Then, we will pack fruit bags for the 4,200 clients and hospice patients served by VNA Meals on Wheels.
Appropriate for families with children ages 3 years+
Location:
1440 W. Mockingbird Lane, Dallas 75247
Wipe OUT Graffiti – 20 Volunteers FULL
Let’s keep our city clean! Volunteers will learn the difference between “street art” and illegal graffiti from a Code Compliance officer. We will then paint over graffiti while listening to everyone’s favorite tunes.
Appropriate for families with children ages 3 years+
Location:
621 Fabrication Street, Dallas, TX 75212
Wee Love Legacy at Bear Creek – 20 Volunteers
Bring your little ones to celebrate Christmas with the residents living at Bear Creek! We will make paint rocks with the elderly residents, and spread LOTS of Holiday cheer and FUN!
Appropriate for families with children ages 1 years+
Location:
200 Keller Smithfield Road South, Keller, 76248
Register: Wee Love Legacy at Bear Creek
Wee Love The Forum on Park Lane – 20 Volunteers FULL
Bring your little ones to celebrate Christmas with the residents living at The Forum on Park Lane! Mommy Manders will lead Wee Volunteers and the residents in singing and dancing, and spread LOTS of Holiday cheer and FUN!
Appropriate for families with children ages 1 years+
Location:
7831 Park Lane, Dallas 75225
October 15, 2014
