Goodwill Rescue Mission - Volunteer Opportunities

Our Mission

Goodwill Rescue Mission offers help and hope to North Jersey’s urban poor and dispirited.

•	For mind and body: food, clothing, shelter, training and teaching.
•	For soul and spirit: the life-changing message of God’s love revealed in Jesus Christ.

Special Project

Hope Totes
Can you join us in this front-line ministry by collecting items to fill the totes?
Click here for more info.

Volunteers are an important part of Goodwill Rescue Mission’s family, donating thousands of hours of service annually. Without volunteers, our staff simply couldn’t provide the quantity or quality of services and programs our clients need.

GRM appreciates and needs individual volunteers, and often has volunteer opportunities for your church, business or group. For more information, contact Veronice Horne at (973) 621-9560, ext. 50.

To check out open volunteer slots in our kitchen click the Google Calendar button below.

General Volunteer Opportunities

(Suitable for both groups and individuals)

Serve in the kitchen or thrift store.
Do special projects like painting, carpentry and landscaping.
Redecorate an outdated room.
Take up a collection.
Tutor in the Learning Center. Help men gain math, reading, personal financial management, interviewing and job search skills.
Hold a company-wide theme day to take up a donation.
Sponsor a drive to collect much-needed items like socks or coats.
Assemble basic care packages, filled with personal hygiene items.
Use your decorative painting or stenciling skills to beautify a room.
Make decorative quilts or floral arrangements to hang on the walls.
Help with clerical jobs like filing or computer data entry.

Staff from the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities
volunteered at Goodwill the September to mark the
First Anniversary of 9/11/01.

Volunteer Opportunities for Professionals

Health care workers to teach clients about nutrition.
Social welfare pros to do case management and client surveys, and help clients access social services.
Educators to lead classes (and students to do student teaching at the Mission).
Religious leaders to do presentations at afternoon chapel.
Mental health professionals to counsel clients.
Financial experts to teach personal money-management skills. (No need to prepare anything – use our curriculum.)
Photographers to take candid shots at Mission.
Video technicians to produce a promotional video on the Mission.
Skilled workers like carpenters, plumbers and electricians to help with special projects.
Musicians, vocalists or actors to present special musicals or performances.
Grant writers to help develop financial resources.
Follow-up specialist to track the progress of former clients.
Vocational training opportunities coordinator to help us connect with agencies providing training, courses and scholarships.
Public relations and community relations experts to help get the Mission’s message out.
Assistant volunteer coordinator.

Youth Volunteer Opportunities

Any of the above. plus, see our U.S.E.M.E. page.

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