Hectic or unpredictable schedules often make it difficult to conform to the hours most social services agencies require of their volunteers. HOM provides the solution by creating flexibly-scheduled, meaningful, direct service volunteer opportunities. In partnership with schools, social service and environmental organizations, HOM organizes more than 50 service opportunities each month offering thousands of Miamians the chance to make a difference in our community. Volunteers can spend a morning delivering care packages to AIDS patients in a local hospital, an evening reading bedtime stories to children in an emergency shelter, or an afternoon planting native vegetation to restore our natural beach ecosystems. The HOM model makes community service accessible on anyone's schedule.
Projects take place outside traditional work hours.
Flexible time commitments permit volunteers to serve once a week, once a month, or whenever they can. Our hallmark Flexible Volunteer Program has been a resounding success. Through our work, HOM has recognized additional volunteerism needs in our community, and has evolved to meet them. Corporate sponsors underwrite the day and volunteers tackle projects in teams. In 1996, United Way of Miami-Dade and HOM formed a strategic partnership to promote volunteerism.