The IRC in Dallas is pleased to provide our corporate and church partners, as well as groups of various sizes, opportunities to engage meaningfully and directly with our work.
Community Garden Cleanup/Harvest Help
Location: White Rock Lake Area
Requirements: Volunteers must all sign confidentiality waivers, they also must bring their own gardening tools such as gloves and shovels
Time/Dates: M-F, Summer before 10 AM and after 3 PM, Fall/Winter/Spring all day with weather permitting
Description: Many of our refugee clients come from agricultural societies and, upon request, a family is given a free garden plot to maintain. They are provided with seeds from the specific region of the world they are from, as they are usually more familiar with their native plants/produce as opposed to what may be native here. Volunteers help during peak harvest season as well as year-round in maintaining these plots. The growing plants are not harmed during the cleanup.
Wrapping Presents and Helping Decorate for Holiday Pary (Seasonal)
Location: IRC Dallas Offices, we are next to Northpark Mall
Requirements: Volunteers must all sign confidentiality waivers
Times/Dates: November/December, wrapping presents is flexible, holiday party tbd
Description: During our Home for the Holidays program, we receive a plethora of gifts for our refugee families. These gifts come to us unwrapped, per our request, so that we can properly categorize them for our donation tracking purposes. Thus, we need volunteers to help wrap gifts as well as help decorate our office for holiday parties held for our refugee clients.
Donation Bundles Drive
Location: Corporate Campus
Times/Dates: At your convenience
Date: Year-Round
Description: As we have limited funds per client, in-kind donations help us provide goods without spending down already restricted funds. Our current needs are large and small kitchen items, such as cookware sets, plates, utensils, etc., as well as hygiene bundles such as soap, shampoo, conditioner, etc. The volunteers are responsible for purchasing the items and assembling the bundles. After such bundles are assembled, our office will coordinate the pickup of the bundles.
For more information, email [email protected] with the subject line "Corporate Engagement."