Volunteering at Plymouth Housing Group provides an opportunity to learn more about Plymouth Housing Group while offering your time and talents to benefit the tenant community. Volunteers offer a wonderful contribution to the sense of community in each of Plymouth’s twelve buildings. Working with volunteers often imparts to tenants the value of volunteer service and connects them with the greater community. Plymouth tenants learn valuable social skills through interaction with volunteers and build social networks that help keep them stabilized in permanent housing.

Listed below are some volunteer opportunities for individuals or a group of volunteers from a single organization. If you are interested in the opportunities below please contact Georgia at 206-374-9409, ext. 135.

Become a Plymouth Housing Group Advocate
Organize a Supply Drive
Adopt a Plymouth Building
Volunteer for Special Events

3 Ways to Become a Plymouth Advocate
• Learn all you can about the plight of Seattle's homeless.
• Demand that your legislators and other elected officials keep the interests of our most vulnerable citizens in mind.
• Tell your friends and colleagues about the work of PHG and encourage them to get involved.

 

Welcome Basket Supply Drive
Because so many of our tenants move into our buildings directly from the streets, they lack household and personal essentials such as kitchenware and utensils, toiletries and bedding. Organize a drive among friends, family, coworkers or neighbors to gather materials for the Welcome Baskets that tenants receive when they move into their new housing from the streets. The packs include personal items such as a toothbrush, toothpaste, soap and shampoo, as well as household items such as pots, pans, pillows, twin-sized sheets, can openers, and waste baskets.

There is always a need in our Carl’s Tenant Supply Closet for lightly used household items. Supported by community donations, the Supply Closet is a helpful resource to all our tenants.

 

Adopt a Building
Your organization can choose to “adopt” a building and through regular interactions with the tenants, build some wonderful connections. Besides special supply drives that could be specific to a building, regularly scheduled social interaction mixed with food is both fun and popular with the tenants.

Currently one of Plymouth’s buildings is looking for a partnering volunteer organization:
• The Pacific Apartments on 3rd & Marion downtown with 108 units

 

Special Event Volunteer
Help with our annual Tenant Picnic at Gas Works Park, Thanksgiving Dinner or Christmas Dinner. Volunteers can help pick-up food and other donated goods, prepare meals, set-up, clean-up and organize games and other activities for the special event. Plymouth Housing Group also holds various fundraising events and there is always a need for volunteer help with these fun events.

 

For more information on any of these opportunities, please contact our Volunteer Manager at 206-374-9409, ext. 135 or e-mail gnicon@plymouthhousing.org.