Volunteer Opportunities for Individuals
We have onsite opportunities perfect for all kinds of interests!
Long-term individual volunteer opportunities include:
- Skilled Building Maintenance Volunteers in construction or HVAC or plumbing episodically or ongoing opportunities.
- Culinary/Food Service Volunteers comfortable in mass food production environment
- Volunteer Van Drivers between 21 and 70 years of age that are good, safe drivers to transport families from the Chestnut Street House to CHOP in our 14 passenger vehicle. Shifts are 8am to 1pm, 1pm to 6pm, and 6pm to 9pm.
- Front Desk Volunteers with excellent customer service skills to welcome guests and visitors, answer phone, conduct wellness checks, coordinate van runs and support House operations. We are currently seeking volunteers with weekend availability for this role.
- Fun Zone Volunteers – Engage with the kids staying at the House, encouraging play and helping ensure our spaces stay sanitized between use. And this summer, our Fun Zone volunteers will also have the very special opportunity to help support our first ever in-house summer camp. Volunteers will help facilitate movie nights, arts & crafts, and can even help chaperone field trips with our guest families.
- Operations Support Volunteers – Tasks may include helping sanitize surfaces, sorting donation packages, vacuuming, stocking supply closets, folding linens, watering gardens – there is always stuff to do around the House to help support our community! This is a diverse volunteer position with a wide range of tasks for those interested in helping ensure life at the House is running smoothly for our families.
- Family Room Volunteers – Create a welcoming, safe, and friendly environment for families and visitors of patients being treated on critical care units at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children. Volunteers will assist with greeting and checking in families, serving meals, assisting the Family Room Manager with programs as needed, and maintaining a clean, well-organized, and adequately stocked Family Room.
Please note: For the safety of the medically vulnerable families we serve, all onsite volunteers must be age 16 years or older (18 years or older for regular long-term volunteers) and must provide a form of government-issued photo ID at check-in.