Little Brothers offers flexible and diverse volunteer opportunities, enabling volunteers to choose to make weekly, monthly, or seasonal time commitments. Both individual volunteers and groups from community, civic, religious, corporate, and business organizations work to help elders through a variety of activities, ranging from packing gift baskets and preparing food during the holidays to driving an elder to a special event or spending an hour visiting. Little Brothers staff members facilitate these activities by training, recruiting, and monitoring volunteers. See the highlights of our major programs below and become one of the hundreds of Little Brothers volunteers who have discovered that embracing an elder friend is as enriching for the volunteer as it is for the elder. The Visiting Volunteer Program is Little Brothers-Friends of the Elderly's largest, most established and most important program.
Volunteers make a one-year commitment to visit their elder friend at least twice a month.
These visits are especially important during the Thanksgiving and Christmas holiday season which is traditionally a time of sharing with family and loved ones. Each year, over 1,000 volunteers serve more than 500 elders during the Thanksgiving and Christmas season. Additionally, Little Brothers holds at least one home visiting event or outing each month, and volunteers are needed for these occasions. A car is helpful but not necessary for taking part in this flexible program. Elders, who often cannot be released from the hospital unless there is someone to drive them home, rely heavily on this practical, yet personalized service.