A Precious Child

A Precious Child provides essential resources to children and families in need, empowering them to reach their full potential. Volunteers are needed to lend a hand in the Donation Center, where they’ll help process in-kind goods, such as clothing, baby gear and hygiene products. Or, volunteers can contribute to the Empowerment Resource Center Store as a store merchandiser or check-out clerk, ensuring a dignified shopping experience for all clients. Attend a volunteer orientation to learn more or email volunteer@apreciouschild.org.

Boulder County Community Corrections

Board members needed. Make a difference for offenders and the Boulder County community: three-year term, 20 hours per month with 7:30-9:30 a.m. meetings on second and fourth Tuesdays of each month. Must be at least 18 years old, a Boulder County resident and be able to read case materials and make recommendations for the bench on offender placement in halfway houses as alternatives to incarceration. For more information and application contact Monika Neal mneal@bouldercounty.org.

Boulder County Community Justice Services

This nonprofit is seeking volunteers or interns to connect clients required to perform community service with organizations in the community needing helping hands. Case management includes meeting with clients to match their skills with nonprofit community-based programs, monitoring the caseload and hours of clients, updating computer records, completing paperwork upon completion, working closely with CS staff, the courts, probation and getting to know community organizations. Background check and fingerprinting required. Volunteers must be 21 and commit to nine months of volunteering eight-24 hours per week, Monday-friday in person at Boulder or Longmont court buildings. For more information, contact Mary Eldred, 303-441-3718 or jsvp@bouldercounty.org.

Boulder County Jail — Creative writing/ communication instructor

Help inmates transition successfully back to society by teaching writing and communication skills in the Boulder County Jail Education & Transition (JET) program. Teach willing participants one class per week in an ongoing capacity. Instructors must be 21 or older. Background check and fingerprinting are required. 1 year commitment. Contact jsvp@ bouldercounty.gov for more information and application instructions.

Boulder County Jail — Life skills instructor

Help clients transition back into the community by offering basic skills courses. If you have experience teaching life skills, please consider this vital role for men and women clients in our Jail Education & Transition program (JET). The minimum age is 21. Background check and fingerprinting required. One year commitment. Contact jsvp@bouldercounty.gov for more information and application instructions.

Boulder County Jail — Parenting class for jail clients

Many jail clients have children and seek help and skills in communicating with them and figuring out how to move forward when they are released. An interest in helping jailed parents learn and navigate parenting skills, and experience teaching, makes applicants a good candidate for instructing willing participants in the Jail Education & Transition (JET) program. Minimum age is 21. Background check and fingerprinting required. One year commitment.

Contact jsvp@bouldercounty.gov for more information and application instructions.

Boulder Shelter

Most needed items at this time are sugar, coffee, hand sanitizer, masks, Tylenol/advil/aspirin, cough and cold medicine (alcohol free), laundry detergent, soap, travel-size shampoo, body wash and lotion and vitamins. Things can be ordered online and delivered to Boulder Shelter for the Homeless, 4869 N. Broadway, Boulder. Monetary donations are also accepted at bouldershelter. org or by mailing a check to the address above.

Boulder Treasures

Help transform the lives of adults living with developmental disabilities. You might know us through our job training apprentice program hosted at Ramble on Pearl. Our parent nonprofit, Boulder Treasures, creates pathways to purpose and community, and we’re growing with new programs and services that came online in 2021. Do you enjoy writing, telling stories, making media, setting up email marketing systems, or do you simply want to be part of a fantastic team having fun and making the world a better place by walking alongside this amazing group of people? Check

These Boulder County-based nonprofits, charities and other aid organizations are continuing their mission and are accepting donations: • Rise Against Suicide, which helps local youth at risk of suicide by removing the financial and social barriers to treatment, can be reached at 720-212-7527. The organization is accepting monetary donations online at www. riseagainstsuicide.org/donate or via checks mailed to P.O. Box 846, Lafayette, CO 80026. Donations directly fund therapy for children at risk for suicide. This help is especially critical in these times of added stress and isolation. • Boulder Shelter for the Homeless is able to take donations online at bit. LY/33RAKMA and also through the mail. Interested donors can mail checks to 4869N. Broadway, Boulder, CO 80304. The shelter can also be reached at 303-4424646. • Bridge House, a nonprofit that provides a number of different programs and services for the homeless, will take donations through the mail at 5345Arapahoe Ave. #5, Boulder, CO 80303 or at boulderbridgehouse.org/ donate. • Meals on Wheels Boulder takes donations online at mowboulder.salsalabs.org/ givetoday2023or through the mail to Meals on Wheels of Boulder at 3701Canfield St., Boulder, CO 80301. • Connected by Music, a Boulder-based 501c3organization, is seeking donated ukuleles in any condition for a community project using music to facilitate and aid recovery from addiction and related issues. Connected by Music is a Boulder nonprofit that uses music to impact the lives of women, children and vulnerable youth through fundraising activities for other nonprofits aiding these populations and raising awareness of these issues and organizations. Contact connectedbymusic99@gmail. com to arrange for ukelele pickup. • Mindful Works is a social enterprise nonprofit that provides job readiness skills and employment to those recovering from serious mental health challenges. Financial donations can be made online at mindful-works.org and by check to Mindful Works, 1501 Yarmouth Ave., Boulder, CO 80304. • The Grief Support Network is a community-based nonprofit that offers a new and positive perspective of healing from grief and loss. Our mission is to transform the way individuals and our culture experience loss. We accomplish this by offering a mindful approach to grieving through meditation, yoga/ movement, personal growth work and the art of listening as a pathway to healing