Your help is vital to our continued success in helping the women and children in the community. We offer some wonderful opportunities for you to share your skills and gifts.

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What can you or your group do?The following list represents some wonderful ways that you can help Emma Norton Services serve our residents. • Serve as a substitute cook, dishwasher, or maintenance person
• Serve as a receptionist at the front desk for a period of two or three hours
• Help with large mailings by stuffing envelopes, putting on labels, etc.
• Host a picnic, a birthday party, or bingo night for the residents
• Teach a skill or craft to the women residents
• Help your organization put together a work team to paint, do yard work, plant a garden, or move furniture
• Mentor a woman who needs to learn life skills from you
• Mentor a family living at Emma's Place
• Tutor a child in reading, writing, or arithmetic in our after-school program at Emma's Place
• Sponsor a family for the holidays by providing presents and dinner
• Plan, plant, weed, and tend a garden at Emma Norton Residence or Emma's Place
• And more

Holiday Volunteer OpportunitiesThe holidays can be especially difficult for our residents and their families. We currently have the following special Holiday Opportunities for December:

• Wrapping Christmas gifts for Emma Norton Services residents and families
• Decorating the Emma Norton Residence for the holidays including decorating Christmas trees
• Baking and/or decorating Christmas cookies with the residents
• Caroling or leading a carol sing-along
• Decorating Christmas stockings with the residents
• Stamping or making homemade Christmas cards
• Helping string Christmas lights on the roof of the building
• Helping with Christmas Eve activities early in the evening
• Serving the annual Christmas Eve dinner
• Answering the phone and/or door for two-hour periods