Needs From: United Way of North Idaho

We are looking for individuals to stain our Gazebo on the Museum site. The Gazebo is used both for Museum events as well as Wedding rentals. This will be outside and will require standing and kneeling, with possibly some ladder use.

Safe Start would love help in cleaning up the Share Hope Memorial Garden in Coeur d’Alene where we hold our annual butterfly release in June. Light gardening work, nothing heavy duty.

Info on the upcoming June event:

Join us at our Share Hope Memorial Garden located at 8th and Gilbert in midtown Coeur d’Alene for our 2026 Memorial Butterfly Release.  This event, held in partnership with Auburn Crest Hospice, is for everyone to remember their children, whatever age, gone too soon.Join us at 5:30 for refreshments and remembrance activities.  During the event we will release dozes on butterflies grown for this event by the University of Idaho’s entomology department. We would love to have you attend and remember your children with us.  If you have any questions, please reach out.

We are grateful to welcome your group to help with essential spring cleaning and updates! Volunteers will keep busy prepping garden beds, doing interior and exterior painting projects, and help with maintenance and deep cleaning to keep this essential community resource ready to welcome neighbors who need a hot meal, a hot shower and a load of clean laundry. Hundreds of individuals use the Father Bill's campus  on a weekly basis. Please bring gloves and if you have them available, gardening tools and paint brushes would be helpful! 

Our facility housing single mothers and their children need sprucing up!  All of this work with be outdoors and will include picking up of debris in the yard, mowing, weed whacking, pulling weeds, planting flowers, washing windows, power washing, organization and possibly painting. 

You’re a people person, naturally friendly, approachable, and helpful. You enjoy guiding others, whether it’s helping them find the perfect item or offering a warm welcome. You thrive in a fast-paced, customer-focused environment and take pride in keeping things organized and visually appealing. If you have a good eye for color, enjoy creating attractive displays, and want to be part of a team that makes a difference, you’ll feel right at home in our thrift stores.

As a store volunteer, you’ll support day-to-day operations and help create an inviting shopping experience by:

Idaho Youth Ranch is one of the oldest nonprofit organizations in the state, and our work is made possible by committed volunteers like you. Our thrift stores support youth programs that promote healing, hope, and resilience across Idaho. By keeping our inventory fresh, helping customers, and maintaining an inviting store environment, you’re directly contributing to our mission—and making a meaningful impact in your community.

You’re a people person, naturally friendly, approachable, and helpful. You enjoy guiding others, whether it’s helping them find the perfect item or offering a warm welcome. You thrive in a fast-paced, customer-focused environment and take pride in keeping things organized and visually appealing. If you have a good eye for color, enjoy creating attractive displays, and want to be part of a team that makes a difference, you’ll feel right at home in our thrift stores.

As a store volunteer, you’ll support day-to-day operations and help create an inviting shopping experience by:

Idaho Youth Ranch is one of the oldest nonprofit organizations in the state, and our work is made possible by committed volunteers like you. Our thrift stores support youth programs that promote healing, hope, and resilience across Idaho. By keeping our inventory fresh, helping customers, and maintaining an inviting store environment, you’re directly contributing to our mission—and making a meaningful impact in your community

Volunteers will deep clean our Discovery Play Area and Art Studio (used by thousands of kids and their families each year!) Our project could have as few as 5 volunteers and as many as 20 volunteers and is a family friendly volunteer project and there are tasks even little ones can help with. We will have several of our staff or board members to help the Deep Clean effort on this day!  Our staff or board members can direct with the list of cleaning tasks, this is a brief peek:

-Clean floors, mop, vacuum carpets, maybe shampoo the carpet (we will have the carpet shampoo machine if that is on our list) 

-Art studio floor - spray cleaner, let soak and then scraped all the paint off  -Wash paint off counters, sink, and wash the front of the art studio cabinets -Wash all the big windows on inside:  

Play Area: -Wet rag with a little cleaner wash every place in the play area where kids put their hands.

If your group wants to bring cleaning supplies to help, these are some of the needed items (or we can have these cleaning items on hand that day): 2 Windex, 2 Spray disinfectant cleaner, large package of paper towels, rags to clean with, a few small buckets for soapy water, green scrubby pads and regular sponges, and we have several brooms/mops, but if it's a big volunteer group, a few more brooms, dust pans, mops would help.

Thank you!!

We have picnic tables that need a face lift! They will need to be sanded and stained. 

Volunteers will deep clean our Discovery Play Area and Art Studio (used by thousands of kids and their families each year!) Our project could have as few as 5 volunteers and as many as 20 volunteers and is a family friendly volunteer project and there are tasks even little ones can help with. We will have several of our staff or board members to help the Deep Clean effort on this day!  Our staff or board members can direct with the list of cleaning tasks, this is a brief peek:

-Clean floors, mop, vacuum carpets, maybe shampoo the carpet (we will have the carpet shampoo machine if that is on our list) 

-Art studio floor - spray cleaner, let soak and then scraped all the paint off  -Wash paint off counters, sink, and wash the front of the art studio cabinets -Wash all the big windows on inside:  

Play Area: -Wet rag with a little cleaner wash every place in the play area where kids put their hands.

If your group wants to bring cleaning supplies to help, these are some of the needed items (or we can have these cleaning items on hand): 2 Windex, 2 Spray disinfectant cleaner, large package of paper towels, rags to clean with, a few small buckets for soapy water, green scrubby pads and regular sponges, and we have several brooms/mops, but if it's a big volunteer group, a few more brooms, dust pans, mops would help