The project will not only improve the home but will introduce new volunteers to the office and give students experience in fields they may choose to study. Futch does not believe students must go into a project with the idea that they cannot get anything out of it. Students in the past have found friends, jobs and even love through volunteering. In addition to Top Step and the Joseph's Home projects, Volunteer Services has something for everyone. There is volunteering at local schools, nursing homes and the Botanical Gardens.
Students can work with all age groups in many different fields.
The office sponsors many events during the year including the Homelessness and Hunger Week, blood drives and Have a Heart Day. Futch has been at both ends of the service spectrum. When she and her family lost their home, they lived in their truck, a borrowed tent and a mobile home that had already housed a somewhat large family of rats. She turned her fortunes around when she took a job as a temporary secretary in the physics department and in turn began the GS Top Step program. And Futch has lit many candles and even a few bonfires.