Interested in volunteering?
Here’s how to get started
Step 1: Review LEAF’s Volunteer Guidelines
Step 2: Complete the Volunteer Application (New Volunteers only)
Step 3: One of LEAF’s Team Lead’s will contact you to set up an orientation.
Step 4: Sign up for a volunteer shift in the pantry or a food pantry shopper.
Examples of Volunteer Opportunities at LEAF
*Please note: Volunteer needs change frequently! These positions may not be available. We’ll do our best to find a role for you or to hold your application until a new need opens up.
LYONS COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY
□ COMMUNITY FOOD SHARE SHOPPER
- 3-4 hour time commitment on Tuesdays
- Drive the LEAF vehicle to/from Community Food Share in Louisville, must meet requirements to drive LEAF vehicle
- Selects food items, loads and unloads food products, able to lift 50+ pounds
□ SHOPPER ASSISTANT
- 3 Hour time commitment on Tuesdays
- Assists loading and unloading food from Community Food Share, able to lift 50+ pounds
□ WEDNESDAY MORNING VOLUNTEER
- 1 ½ hour time commitment on Wednesday morning
- Sets up Food Pantry as a grocery store at LEAF
- Able to lift 40 pounds
□ WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON VOLUNTEER
- 3 hour time commitment on Wednesdays
- Assists clients with food pantry selections and breaks down Food Pantry
□ RECEPTIONIST
- Wednesdays 11:00 am to 2:30 pm
- Opens and sets up at LEAF to welcome clients and walk-ins, posts signs, and makes the facility ready for Pantry and appointments with Executive Director
- Accepts food donations
- Able to lift 40 pounds
- For more info, email foodpantry@leaflyons.org to inquire about current volunteer opportunities.
LYONS MEALS ON WHEELS
□ WEEKDAY DRIVERS
- 2-3 hour time commitment, approximately 10am to 12:30pm
- Drives to Longmont Meals on Wheels, picks up meals, delivers hot meals and warm “hellos” to all clients
□ SUBSTITUTE DRIVERS
- Fill in as needed
- 2-3 hour time commitment, approximately 10am to 12:30pm
- Drives to Longmont Meals on Wheels, picks up meals, delivers hot meals and warm “hellos” to all clients
- For more info, email mow@leaflyons.org to inquire about current volunteer opportunities.
LYONS VOLUNTEERS
□ VOLUNTEER PROJECT SUPPORT
- Respond to emails from team leaders when available and qualified to participate in a LoV project
- The Weed Posse meets regularly throughout the warm months to pull weeds from Lyons parks and open spaces.
- For more info, email lyonsvolunteers@leaflyons.com to inquire about current volunteer opportunities.
OTHER VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES AT LEAF
□ EVENT SUPPORT
□ ONE-TIME NEED (organize an event, a food drive, help with Holiday Giving Tree, Super Duper Holiday Food Pantry, Thanksgiving Pantry, etc.)
□ SERVE ON A COMMITTEE (events, finance)
□ HELP MAINTAIN LEAF’S SPACE
□ BILINGUAL (SPANISH-ENGLISH) OUTREACH SUPPORT
□ SERVE ON LEAF’S BOARD OF DIRECTORS
□ OTHER (please specify)
- For more info, email info@leaflyons.org to express interest and inquire about current volunteer needs.
Did you know LEAF served 30% of our local population last year? Are you aware that 280 people donated 6027.50 hours of their time last year to make it happen?
Whether it was weekly attendance at our Food Pantry, daily hot meals and warm “hellos” from our Meals on Wheels team, helping a family stay in their home, providing critical community-based mental health care, or providing herbicide-free weed removal to keep Lyons healthy and safe, LEAF was here, Growing Healthy Community in Lyons.
Life can be hard. Most of us will need to reach out for help at some point. Aren’t you glad LEAF is here, caring and local, for the people you care about? We help keep Lyons the vibrant, unique, creative, close-knit community that we all know and love. We solve problems and grow stability.
The fact remains that mental health needs are at an all-time high. Attendance at our Food Pantry has not slowed down since the COVID pandemic. As a community, we have to get ahead of the serious and painful problems that are hurting so many of us. Youth need mental health support. People need a place to gather and to belong. We are happy to be finally moved into our new location at 304 2nd Ave.
LEAF’s comprehensive human and behavioral health services offer wrap-around support to people in their time of need. We are here, growing healthy community all year long.
If you are in a position to make a financial gift in support of our day-to-day work, or to help make Lyons’ new community hub a reality, it is needed and greatly appreciated. We can’t do it without you! You have our promise that your gift will be used to help your friends and neighbors right here in Lyons.
Our Board of Directors, 280 volunteers, our small staff, and hundreds of people with whom LEAF works, offer our most humble and grateful thank you.