Local Organizations Needing Volunteers

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AARP Tax Aide

Making appointments, greeting taxpayers, checking documents, and preparing tax returns. 


📍Verde Valley, Clarkdale, Cottonwood

Alzheimer's Association

Walk - Likes to help to market, prepare and plan for this event.

Education - Likes to educate our community with presentations.

Support- Likes to help lead support group discussions.

Advocacy- Likes to bring forward initiatives at our state capital.

📍Verde Valley, Sedona

American Red Cross

Disaster Action Team: Provide 24-hour immediate support to those who have been impacted by a home fire or other local disaster. Disaster Shelter Volunteer: Support the day-to-day activities within a shelter.

AmeriCorps Seniors

Help preschoolers get ready for Kindergarten​ -Assist children with arts and crafts​ -Tutor students in a particular subject​ -Provide homework assistance in different subjects​ -Read to children/listen to children read​ -Mentor youth in school or in the community​ -Work with teen parents and their children

Arizona Crisis Team

On scene assistance when requested by ACT dispatchers. Respond on-scene to fully focus on the emotional trauma, practical and resource needs of the family and/or individual in crisis while the police and fire personnel attend to law enforcement, medical emergency, and fire suppression needs.

Arts Academy of Sedona

On scene assistance when requested by ACT dispatchers. Respond on-scene to fully focus on the emotional trauma, practical and resource needs of the family and/or individual in crisis while the police and fire personnel attend to law enforcement, medical emergency, and fire suppression needs.

AYSO

Coaching, refereeing, team parenting, and helping with administrative tasks like registration and fundraising.

AZ Senior Cares Foundation

Providing knowledge, access, and means.

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Camp Verde Parks and Rec

Gatekeepers for special events. Set up and break down for events. Judges for various contests.

CASA of Yavapai County

Meet with the child, advocate for the child's safety as the first priority, gather and provide independent, factual information as well as advocacy to ensure that appropriate case planning and services are provided for the child.

Chain Reaction

Course marshals providing safety for racers, course setup/takedown, and assisting vendors at events

City of Sedona

Wide range of special event tasks, cleanups, program support, and community assistance

Clarkdale Historical Society Museum

Volunteers are always needed to serve as hosts in the museum or at special events or to help with specific projects, such as our annual home tours.

Clear Creek Cleanup

Pick up trash, mainly in the Riparian area of west Clear Creek near Camp Verde

Clemenceau Heritage Museum

Front desk greeter/docent, Gift Shop help and help with the Train Diorama

Community Library Sedona

Events and Facilitating Programs

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Desert Stone Sanctuary

  • Moving rocks
  • Weeding
  • Creating spaces for meditation benches
  • Putting sand into the labyrinth
  • Spreading gravel

📍Cottonwood, Verde Valley

Dress a Girl

  • Sewing, cutting fabric,
  • assembling dress making kits,
  • quality control checking,
  • delivery of dresses.

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ECO Farm

Food production, gardening, animal care, landscaping

Emerson Theater Collaborative

Ushers for performances, Front of House Costume Designers, Backstage Help Set Design and Construction Development and Fundraising

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Fine Art Museum of Sedona

Open or close the museum, Welcome visitors, Log where visitors are coming from

Friends of the Forest

Working indoors at Visitor Information Center, building trails, technology support.

Friends of the Verde River

Fieldwork, restoration efforts, and working on promotional signup tables.

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Granite Mountain Interagency Hotshot Crew

 Docent shifts are 3 hours on Fridays, Saturdays, or Sundays, during which you will greet visitors and direct them to items of interest in the center.


Green Table Initiative

Volunteer tasks include helping in the garden making raised beds, planting seeds, pulling weeds, adding/spreading compost/mulch, harvesting veggies and providing lessons for classes and workshops.

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Home for New Beginnings

Farmer’s Markets, baking, gardening, storefront, farm to table program, teaching, and more depending on events.


Hope House of Sedona

Maintenance, tutoring, and IT

House of Ruth Pregnancy Care Center

Parenting & Pregnancy Consultant, Boutique Cashier, Donation Sorting, Shopping & Errands, Prayer Chain, Newsletter Mailing, Mending & Laundry, Office Assistance, Yard Maintenance, Handyman, Spanish Interpreter, Fundraising, and Church Representative/Liaison.

Humane Society of Sedona

Dog walking to thrift store volunteer

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International Hummingbird Society

Office projects, feeder maintenance, fundraising events and

helping with the Sedona Hummingbird Festival

K

Keep Sedona Beautiful

Litter Lifting, landscaping, event support such as speaker series and dark skies

L

Love Cottonwood

Volunteer opportunities vary.

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Northern Arizona Healthcare

Welcoming/escorting patients, comfort rounding, playing music amongst other roles.

Northern Arizona Hospice

Visiting, Companionship, Supportive Presence, Ministry of Touch/Presence, Respite for Family Member. 


Northern Arizona Restorative Justice

Fundraising & Program Evaluation Committees, Board of Directors, Community Facilitator Training Workshops, Art & Restorative Justice Workshops, Facilitating restorative practices for youth and family

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Oak Creek School PTO

Wristband sales, food sales, helping kids with a game or craft, supervising a bounce house, etc..

Oak Creek Watershed Council

Litter cleanup

Out of Africa Wildlife Park

Landscaping,  Spring Break - Greeters, Help with directions, and Tour assistance


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Project Fill the Need

Weighing, sorting, delivering, and stacking food in the pantry.

Project Rising Hope

Building relationship with our neighbors and distributing food in a warehouse, shopping style setting.

Pets Return Home

Dog Walking, feeding, cleaning, socializing and property maintenance

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Red Rock State Park

 Interpretation, landscaping/gardening, maintenance, and helping school groups.

Rotary Club of Sedona Village

Oak Creek Clean-up, fundraising for Veterans, and support for seniors at local retirement centers.

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Science Vortex of Verde Valley

Gardening, sorting, board members, public outreach and event  assistance

SCORE

Mentoring new businesses getting started.



Sedona Area Veteran & Community Outreach (SAVCO)

Litter pickup, Helping with the Toys for Tots by picking up donated toys, sorting, and distributing toys, Plan & participate in the Sedona Memorial Day Ceremony.

Sedona Arts Center

Event set up and break down, gallery sitting, event support

Sedona Ballet

Loading In and Loading out Dance Floors, Props and Sets, Working with Tech in Theatre, Back Stage Hands, Laying Marley, Setting Up the Lobby for Food Sales or Ticket Sales


Sedona Chamber of Commerce

Offer visitors and locals recommendations on hiking, dining, local history & attractions, weather, road conditions, arts & culture and events.

Sedona Community Center

Meals on Wheels Drivers (permanent and sub drivers), Lunch Room servers and help

Sedona Community Food Bank (SCFB)

Sorting, date checking, weighing and stocking the shelves with food.

Sedona Heritage Museum

Front desk docents/greeters, gift shop assistance, site stewards, garden tenders, special event help, tour guides, research, collections and exhibit assistance

Sedona Toys for Tots

Sorting, bagging, and transporting toys

Sedona's Tools Empowering People (STEP)

Tool evaluators, runners, fixers, digital techs, builders, communications to write content, and innovators to develop ideas

Steps to Recovery Homes

Social media, Fundraising, Office work, Outreach, Grants, Drivers, Transition Mentors, Life Coaches, Board Members, Exhibit Booths, Grants

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The Garden of Life

The Garden Of Life focuses on rebuilding ancestral connection through roots, building relationships with the land the animals and plants. Learning the ways of the Yavapai-Apache Nation ancestors through food, but also learning new ways agriculturally to grow food and support food sovereignty and sustainable ways of living.

The Town of Clarkdale

Events and help with administration

The Verde Villages

Volunteers may help greet community members, assist with shopping, sort and fold clothing, organize donations, restock shelves, and keep the space clean and welcoming.

Trash Dogs

ATV trail clean-up and trail maintenance.

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Unify Sedona . . . a rainbow alliance

Events, Committees, Board Members, Ambassadors, Administrative Assistance

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Verde Valley Caregivers Coalition

Transport neighbors to appointments, Install and maintain Medical Alert Units​, Handy person help, Shop with/for neighbors, Assistance with cell phone/computer, Friendly phone calls/visits

Verde Valley Fair Association

Organization, art in-take, typing, hanging signs, directing traffic, hanging art and quilts.

Verde Valley Habitat for Humanity

New home construction, critical home repairs, ReStore, Events, Admin

Verde Valley Homeless Coalition

Center maintenance, meal preparation, and fundraising

Verde Valley Humane Society

Dog Walking, Cat Socialization, Dishes, Laundry, Window Washing, Sanitizing.

Verde Valley Neighborhood Food Project

Center maintenance, meal preparation, and fundraising

Verde Valley Sanctuary

Steam cleaning, cash register, preparing donated items, pricing and tagging, crafting attractive displays, cleaning the store, and helping visitors

Verde Valley Wine Consortium

Entrance management (ID checking, access/egress flow, minor security tasks, etc), vendor/winery support, merchandise management, grounds maintenance, setup/breakdown

Volunteer Sedona and the Verde Valley

Special Event Help - greeters and event intake, photography, social media "live," offering post-event surveys.  Assorted other tasks.

📍Verde Valley, Sedona

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Wheel Fun

Dedicated mountain bike coaches to volunteer one day a week at participating schools

📍Verde Valley, Sedona

Words & Warmth

Creating blankets (no sewing required) and tags

📍Verde Valley, Sedona

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Yana Cancer Comfort

Hand-tie two pieces of pre-cut fleece material to

make a no-sew blanket to help keep cancer patients warm during treatment or at home

Yavapai Medical Reserve Corps

 Help with hospital surge, patient screening, evacuation shelters, vaccinations, emergency phone banks for wildfires and floods, and community health education events.

📍Verde Valley, Sedona