Opportunities From: Volunteer Spokane

Volunteer: Administrative Support Services

Excelsior Wellness has ongoing opportunities to volunteer your expertise or gain experience in our support service departments. Assistance in marketing, social media management, clerical, records management, reception, medical billing, grant writing and development, database management, information services, credentialing support and more.

Agency: Excelsior Wellness

Excelsior Wellness has ongoing opportunities to volunteer your expertise or gain experience in our support service departments. Assistance in marketing, social media management, clerical, records management, reception, medical billing, grant writing and development, database management, information services, credentialing support and more.

Agency: Excelsior Wellness

Opportunity Type: Volunteer

Date: Is Ongoing

Agency Requirement: >18 years old

Zip Code: 99208

Allow Groups: No

Volunteer: Host a Radio Program!

Have a Voice. Share What You Love. Go On the Air.

KYRS Thin Air Community Radio is inviting YOU to host your own radio show.

KYRS isn’t corporate radio. It’s your station, powered by volunteers, fueled by curiosity, and rooted in Spokane’s creative and cultural life. For more than 23 years, community members just like you have stepped behind the mic to share music, ideas, stories, and perspectives you won’t hear anywhere else on the air.

Hosting a show on KYRS is a long-term volunteer commitment, but you won’t be thrown into the deep end. You’ll receive broadcast training, ongoing support, and become part of a welcoming, passionate community of programmers. Many of our hosts have been on the air since the station’s earliest days, and they’re still loving it.

If you’ve ever thought, “There should be a show about this,” this is your sign.

Click Here to learn more about KYRS

Click Here to propose a program


Shows We’re Especially Excited to Add


MUSIC

A show spotlighting local and regional artists, featuring live interviews and in-studio performances, including touring bands passing through Spokane.

A reggae program spanning early and roots reggae through contemporary sounds from around the world.

A music program centered on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer artists, past and present.


COMMUNITY AFFAIRS & CULTURE

A program focused on African-American, Asian-American, or First Nations communities, exploring education, leadership, culture, politics, current events, and opportunities for civic engagement.


If you bring curiosity, care, and commitment, KYRS brings the mic, the skills, and the platform.

This is community radio, made by the community.

We’d love to hear what you want to share.

Agency: KYRS - Thin Air Community Radio

Have a Voice. Share What You Love. Go On the Air.

KYRS Thin Air Community Radio is inviting YOU to host your own radio show.

KYRS isn’t corporate radio. It’s your station, powered by volunteers, fueled by curiosity, and rooted in Spokane’s creative and cultural life. For more than 23 years, community members just like you have stepped behind the mic to share music, ideas, stories, and perspectives you won’t hear anywhere else on the air.

Hosting a show on KYRS is a long-term volunteer commitment, but you won’t be thrown into the deep end. You’ll receive broadcast training, ongoing support, and become part of a welcoming, passionate community of programmers. Many of our hosts have been on the air since the station’s earliest days, and they’re still loving it.

If you’ve ever thought, “There should be a show about this,” this is your sign.

Click Here to learn more about KYRS

Click Here to propose a program


Shows We’re Especially Excited to Add


MUSIC

A show spotlighting local and regional artists, featuring live interviews and in-studio performances, including touring bands passing through Spokane.

A reggae program spanning early and roots reggae through contemporary sounds from around the world.

A music program centered on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer artists, past and present.


COMMUNITY AFFAIRS & CULTURE

A program focused on African-American, Asian-American, or First Nations communities, exploring education, leadership, culture, politics, current events, and opportunities for civic engagement.


If you bring curiosity, care, and commitment, KYRS brings the mic, the skills, and the platform.

This is community radio, made by the community.

We’d love to hear what you want to share.

Agency: KYRS - Thin Air Community Radio

Opportunity Type: Volunteer

Date: Is Ongoing

Zip Code: 99201

Allow Groups: No

Volunteer: Lunch Buddies Mentors Needed

Lunch Buddies is an in-person program requiring matches to meet during the lunch period at least once per week in the school’s cafeteria. Mentors are trained and receive ongoing support from dedicated staff to troubleshoot challenges but otherwise discuss topics of interest to their mentees.  

Agency: Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Inland Northwest

Lunch Buddies is an in-person program requiring matches to meet during the lunch period at least once per week in the school’s cafeteria. Mentors are trained and receive ongoing support from dedicated staff to troubleshoot challenges but otherwise discuss topics of interest to their mentees.  

Agency: Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Inland Northwest

Opportunity Type: Volunteer

Date: Is Ongoing

Zip Code: 99207

Allow Groups: No

Volunteer: Foster Caregivers

We depend on the kindness, love and homes of our foster parents to help us save hundreds of lives every year.  Members of our foster care program open up their homes for shelter animals.  They care for kittens or puppies until they are old enough for adoption, animals with illnesses and injuries until they are healed, and animals who need socialization or those who are not thriving in the shelter environment.  The time commitment varies upon the needs of the foster pet, but generally is between 2 weeks and 3 months. 

 

Fostering is a flexible, fun and rewarding volunteer experience, and requires a special person- able to invest themselves into the lives of foster pets, and let them go knowing they’ve helped save a life.  We provide all supplies foster parents need, from food and bedding to medication. While it is best to have some knowledge about animal behavior and health, we always try to match foster parents with animals whose needs are within your ability level, and we provide ongoing help and support throughout your foster experience. 

 

If you have your own animals, you’ll want to consider how they will adjust to having a foster pet. Some animals do very well with a temporary friend and can help socialize the foster animal. Other pets have a harder time with new animals being added to or leaving the family. You’re the best judge of your pet’s personality.  For the safety of your pets and the foster animal, it’s important to keep your pets up-to-date on vaccinations. In many cases, the foster pet will need to be isolated from your own pets, either temporarily or throughout the foster period.

 

Agency: SpokAnimal

We depend on the kindness, love and homes of our foster parents to help us save hundreds of lives every year.  Members of our foster care program open up their homes for shelter animals.  They care for kittens or puppies until they are old enough for adoption, animals with illnesses and injuries until they are healed, and animals who need socialization or those who are not thriving in the shelter environment.  The time commitment varies upon the needs of the foster pet, but generally is between 2 weeks and 3 months. 

 

Fostering is a flexible, fun and rewarding volunteer experience, and requires a special person- able to invest themselves into the lives of foster pets, and let them go knowing they’ve helped save a life.  We provide all supplies foster parents need, from food and bedding to medication. While it is best to have some knowledge about animal behavior and health, we always try to match foster parents with animals whose needs are within your ability level, and we provide ongoing help and support throughout your foster experience. 

 

If you have your own animals, you’ll want to consider how they will adjust to having a foster pet. Some animals do very well with a temporary friend and can help socialize the foster animal. Other pets have a harder time with new animals being added to or leaving the family. You’re the best judge of your pet’s personality.  For the safety of your pets and the foster animal, it’s important to keep your pets up-to-date on vaccinations. In many cases, the foster pet will need to be isolated from your own pets, either temporarily or throughout the foster period.

 

Agency: SpokAnimal

Opportunity Type: Volunteer

Date: Is Ongoing

Zip Code: 99202

Allow Groups: No

Volunteer: DSHS Lakeland Village Human Rights Committee Member

Are you searching for an opportunity to serve your community? Are you interested in protecting the rights of vulnerable adults? Are you passionate about erasing barriers and ensuring the equitable treatment of people with disabilities?

Lakeland Village Residential Habilitation Center invites applications for the facility’s Human Rights Committee (HRC) in Eastern Washington. The Human Rights Committee (HRC) is mandated under multiple state codes and Department of Social and Health Services policies to serve as an ongoing oversight group tasked with safeguarding the rights of developmentally or intellectually disabled individuals living at the facility.

General responsibilities:

Monitor, review and recommend the approval or disapproval of proposed policies, procedures, care plans, restrictive programs, and other Residential Habilitation activities with a potential to impact resident rights. Advise the Residential Habilitation Facility Superintendent on facility policy and procedures, complaints filed by clients, family members or legal representatives, and general resident rights issues.

Terms of Appointment:

Volunteers of all backgrounds are encouraged to apply, but it’s preferred that applicants are familiar with the disability community with lived experience to include: People with disabilities Family members of people with disabilities Advocates for people with disabilities Caregivers or social service professionals with previous experience supporting people with disabilities. Able to commit to at least a full year of service on the Human Rights Committee and regularly attend monthly meetings in person, using video conference, or by phone. Pass a criminal history background check prior to your appointment and annually throughout the duration of your appointment.

Interested or have questions? Send an email to colette.buck@dshs.wa.gov or melanie.denton@dshs.wa.gov with the subject line “Lakeland Village HRC”.

To apply, email a short description outlining your experience with the disability community and/or why you’d like to serve on Lakeland’s Human Rights Committee. Make sure to include a resume if applicable and the best contact information to reach you.

Agency: DSHS DDA Lakeland Village Residential Habilitation Center

Are you searching for an opportunity to serve your community? Are you interested in protecting the rights of vulnerable adults? Are you passionate about erasing barriers and ensuring the equitable treatment of people with disabilities?

Lakeland Village Residential Habilitation Center invites applications for the facility’s Human Rights Committee (HRC) in Eastern Washington. The Human Rights Committee (HRC) is mandated under multiple state codes and Department of Social and Health Services policies to serve as an ongoing oversight group tasked with safeguarding the rights of developmentally or intellectually disabled individuals living at the facility.

General responsibilities:

Monitor, review and recommend the approval or disapproval of proposed policies, procedures, care plans, restrictive programs, and other Residential Habilitation activities with a potential to impact resident rights. Advise the Residential Habilitation Facility Superintendent on facility policy and procedures, complaints filed by clients, family members or legal representatives, and general resident rights issues.

Terms of Appointment:

Volunteers of all backgrounds are encouraged to apply, but it’s preferred that applicants are familiar with the disability community with lived experience to include: People with disabilities Family members of people with disabilities Advocates for people with disabilities Caregivers or social service professionals with previous experience supporting people with disabilities. Able to commit to at least a full year of service on the Human Rights Committee and regularly attend monthly meetings in person, using video conference, or by phone. Pass a criminal history background check prior to your appointment and annually throughout the duration of your appointment.

Interested or have questions? Send an email to colette.buck@dshs.wa.gov or melanie.denton@dshs.wa.gov with the subject line “Lakeland Village HRC”.

To apply, email a short description outlining your experience with the disability community and/or why you’d like to serve on Lakeland’s Human Rights Committee. Make sure to include a resume if applicable and the best contact information to reach you.

Agency: DSHS DDA Lakeland Village Residential Habilitation Center

Opportunity Type: Volunteer

Date: Is Ongoing

Zip Code: 99022

Allow Groups: No