Volunteer Application & Forms
Ongoing Campus Volunteer Opportunities
The Jacobs Hope Cafeteria
Our on-campus kitchen serves over 7,000 meals each month to Emergency Shelter residents and offers dinner to the public. Staff prepare three meals daily, seven days a week—Breakfast (6:30–7:30am weekdays; 8–9am weekends), Lunch (12–1pm), and Dinner (5–6pm)—with up to six volunteers per meal. Volunteers must be 12 or older, and those under 18 must be accompanied by an adult.
Emergency Shelter:
Our 24/7 Emergency Shelter serves up to 200 men nightly, with expanded capacity in winter. Guests receive lodging, showers, laundry access, clothing, and basic care items. Volunteers can help Tuesdays and Thursdays from 10am–12pm by organizing donations.
Skilled Volunteer Opportunities
Life Skills & Educational Classes:
We welcome volunteers with expertise in banking, food service, health, sanitation, anger management, meditation, and other essential life skills to lead classes for recovery program clients. Your knowledge helps equip participants for successful, independent living after graduation.
We Love Large Groups!
The Blue Community Room inside the Don Ball Campus Center accommodates volunteer groups of 20–30. Groups can prepare sandwiches or sack lunches for Hope Mobile and Street Outreach, assemble hygiene kits for the Men’s Emergency Shelter, create and drop off bags off campus, or on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 10am–12pm clean sleeping mats, (weather permitting, volunteers may also clean shelter mats outdoors.) or other large projects depending on the need of the organization. To schedule a large group service event, email mfields@hopectr.org