Volunteers

 Building Maintenance-List for Community Volunteers- February 2009

WAIM is always in need of good volunteers.  Below you will find the different general opportunities that are available at our administrative offices and the donations warehouse.  Some volunteer opportunities require very little training.

If you are interested in any of these volunteer opportunities, please contact WAIM’s Assistant Director,

Adult Volunteers

  • Assist with check-in on Tuesdays, Thursdays, or Fridays.
  • Clothes sorting to allow for better categorization for our clients.
  • Volunteer Coordinator needed to help recruit, train, and help volunteers.
  • Loading dock volunteers needed to help with pick-ups and deliveries of donations (heavy lifting required).
  • Bilingual volunteers needed in all areas.
  • Office volunteers needed with background in office procedures and computer skills to help with data entry.

Youth Volunteers - Supervision will need to be provided for youth groups that will be participating in the opportunities listed.

  • Organizing clothes by gender and size onto the appropriate racks.
  • Transferring clothes to the distribution floor.
  • During the Christmas season, volunteers are needed Gifts for Teens and Gifts for Kids Programs.

Video and Media Volunteers

  • We are offering an internship for a communication major at ECSU, whose main task will be to create a video of WAIM’s many programs, events and activities between September and December.  This video will be about 15 minutes in length when edited and will be designed for use at presentations given by WAIM staff, board, delegates and volunteers. It will accompany our narratives and will lend visual impact to what we say.  This project may not fill an entire 120 hour internship. In that case, we will ask the intern to work with us during our very busy fall season to do the publicity and outreach for one or more of our seasonal programs. This may be the Adopt-a-Family program that matches donor and recipient families for the holidays, the Walk-for-Warmth that launches our fuel assistance season, or other holiday programs that benefit the low income community in and around Willimantic.  WAIM is a program that redistributes clothing, household goods and furniture to the low income community. We also offer fuel assistance and a wide variety of seasonal programs, fundraisers and outreach activities designed to assist people make a good life for themselves. Our factory site, our many special programs and fundraising activities make fascinating raw material for a narrated video.

Maintenance List for WAIM Building

FIRST FLOOR

1). Install a secondary door or curtain for loading dock to hold in heat.
2) LP. Side door needs replacement.
3) New 4 ft fluorescent in storage room

SECOND FLOOR

1) LP One four foot florescent light fixtures need to be replaced
2) PS Patch hole in ceiling in the storage area
3) PS. Support front end of existing shelves in storage area
4) PS. Install stair strips on stairs between 2nd and 3rd floors
5) Add outlet in clothes closet.

THIRD FLOOR

1). Increase door width to three and half feet in clothing closet
2). Install adjustable shelving on 3/4 wall, typical of shelving on other side.
3). Open up and install vinyl replacement windows in the shopping area
4). Paint walls
5). Clean elevator room
7). ON HOLD Baseboard heat on right side of artist showroom is non-functioning
Due to Possible leak and is presently disconnected.
8) LP Illuminate step in front entryway to artist showroom.
9). Add outlet in clothes closet.

FOURTH FLOOR

1). None

FIFTH FLOOR

1) Seal up window leaks

EXTERIOR WORK

1). Repair and/or replace gutters on right side of building
2). Repair roof leak
3) Fix rotted steel steps.
4) Paint side ramp (surface)

Notes:

1. Materials will be provided for the projects however, donations are certainly appreciated.
2. We ask that you bring your own tools to complete the projects. In certain cases we may be able to supply tools.
3. If there are initials next to the project please contact the appropriate person as noted below. If there isn’t an assigned contact person, please feel free to contact anyone on the list below.

Contact people:

Pastor Scott (PS) 423-8549

Ed Austin (EA) 423-6705

Lenny Patera (LP) 455-1340 email hrc@hamptonrc.com