VOLUNTEER
Make a Difference
Your involvement with WayPoint Resources will enrich your life with rewarding moments of service as well as foster relationships with people in need. Scroll down to find descriptions of volunteer opportunities and to sign up as a volunteer.
New Volunteers
If you have not volunteered with us before, please click the button below and complete our New Volunteer Registration Form. Once we’ve received your completed form, we will contact you to schedule a tour and sign you up for your first volunteer shift.
Existing Volunteers
Volunteered with us before and want to serve more? Click the button below and select an upcoming shift. You will receive a confirmation email with the elected date, time, and volunteer role. You will receive an email reminder two days prior to your shift.
YOUTH & SILVER CORD VOLUNTEERS
The Grocery Transporter role in the Food Pantry and the Garden Helper role in the Garden are the current youth volunteer roles. Please complete the New Volunteer Registration Form (above) if you have not volunteered with us before. Responsible youth ages 14+ can serve on their own.
LOVE TO SERVE!
Volunteer 15 hours in any of the various opportunities, and you will receive this comfy “LOVE TO SERVE” t-shirt!
Food Pantry Volunteer Opportunities
Food Pantry Shopper
The Food Pantry team interacts directly with clients. After staff members check in a client, volunteers assist with grocery selection, escort the client to the Clothing Closet and/or Anytime Food Room, and help transport groceries to the client’s vehicle when needed. Additional tasks include weighing donations, sorting and stocking inventory, and performing general cleanup and organization of the Food Pantry.
Greeter
The Greeter role is responsible for welcoming all guests who enter our doors. Greeters offer assistance, provide guests with Food Pantry or Anytime Food Room tickets, and alert other team members that a guest has arrived. This is mainly a sitting position. Feel free to bring a book.
Anytime food room shopper/stocker
The Anytime Food Room is where our daily rescued food is made available to guests. Responsibilities include stocking shelves and refrigerators, checking in guests by zip code, guiding them through the process (including setting limits), and keeping the room and back storage area clean and organized. This position involves direct client interaction.
Grocery Transporter
The Grocery Transporter role involves taking a client’s groceries from downstairs out to the parking lot and into the client’s vehicle to complete a dignified shopping experience. This position will also help with inventory, recycling, general clean-up, and shelf stocking.
REGULAR VOLUNTEERS
VOLUNTEER HOURS
(Source: 2024 Impact Report)
Clothing Closet Volunteer Opportunities
Clothing Closet Assistant
Onsite at WayPoint Resources, the Clothing Closet Assistant guides monthly clients through the shopping process, removing selected clothing from hangers, counting items, bagging and taking the bagged clothing back to the client’s shopping cart. In between client visits, you’ll keep the Clothing Closet organized, clean, and supplied with inventory.
Clothing Transporter
Use our van or your own to transport clothing between WayPoint Resources, the Waukee YMCA, and the clothing donation processing center at Burn Boot Camp in Waukee. Must have a valid driver’s license and be able to lift totes and garbage bags filled with clothing.
Clothing Donation Sorter
Clothing Sorters work offsite at the donation center in the lower level of Burn Boot Camp to accept, sort, and organize donations of clothing received.
Burn Boot Camp
650 Ashworth Drive, Waukee, IA
(Please use the side door)
The Fruitful Vine Garden Volunteer Opportunities
Garden Team
The Fruitful Vine Garden team is most active during the growing season, typically May–October. Projects include soil preparation, planting, weeding, watering, and harvesting. This is a great opportunity for families, groups, or organizations to serve together as a team. No experience is necessary. All ages are welcome.
FREE Health Clinic Volunteer Opportunities
Receptionist
Receptionists are responsible for gathering basic information from patients and preparing the patient files.
Nurse (LPN, RN)
Nurses gather patient intake information and assist in the provision of basic primary care services.
NOTE: An active, unrestricted license in Iowa is required.
Physician
Physicians are the heart of the WayPoint Resources Free Medical Clinic and they are integral to its success. They provide basic primary care services to patients.
NOTE: An active, unrestricted license in Iowa is required.
School Snack Pack Volunteer Opportunities
Packing Team
The Packing team meets weekly and assembles snack packs for students in preschool through high school throughout Dallas County. The program runs during the school year. All ages welcome!
Additonal Ways to Serve
Donations of all kinds are needed to operate WayPoint Resources. We’re always looking for special skills to help further our mission in the community.
Professional Services
- Vehicle cleaning and maintenance
- General handyman services
- Public Relations
- IT Support for Office 365
