Giving your time and talent is one of the most rewarding ways you can support the mission of Bright Beginnings. Whether you are supporting the classroom staff in our toddler room or giving a presentation on writing a resume or healthy eating on a budget during a parent workshop, there are many ways to get involved. We would love the opportunity to develop a volunteer experience that works for you!

General Volunteer Requirements:

• Completed Volunteer Application
• Sixteen years of age or older
• Provide a Criminal Background Test
• Proof of a recent, negative Tuberculosis (TB) Test
  

Bright Beginnings, Inc. welcomes the opportunity to work with volunteers on the following projects. Fill out an online application and indicate your volunteer interests.

Projects

Family Forum Night
We hold monthly Family Forums on subjects of interest to parents. Family Forum topics have included financial management, resume preparation, nutrition, family wellness and child development. Job readiness is a key area of interest and need for parents. Volunteers can help the parents by reviewing resumes and cover letters, helping parents review and analyze employment ads, conducting mock job interviews and discussing appropriate business attire.

Parent Auction
Our annual Parent Auction in June is a major incentive program for parents that increases parent participation in activities with their children and at Bright Beginnings. Parents earn auction points based on their participation in our activities. Our parents spend auction points on household, bathroom and kitchen items, movie passes, children’s clothes, gift cards, diapers and toys. Volunteers are always needed to solicit auction items and help the social services team organize and run the auction.

Sprucing up the Center
At regular intervals, we do major cleaning at the center, which may involve cleaning the playground equipment, washing the walls and disinfecting toys and indoor play areas. If you are artistically inclined, we also encourage volunteers who can design and paint murals for our hallways or paint our classrooms on a weekend.

Volunteer Readers
Since literacy is such a big focus for our early childhood program, we can always use volunteers to read an age-appropriate story to our children. It is always a joy for the children to have new faces and voices read to them during their large group and story time.

Classroom Assistant
Teachers often need a helping hand in the classroom to work with children in small groups in different learning areas in the classrooms. Volunteers may be asked to work one on one with children, clean the classroom and assisting with various administrative tasks. If you are planning a volunteer activity for your group, we ask that no more than 12 volunteers as a time serve as classroom assistants for our 7 classrooms.

Field Trip Sponsors
In addition to monthly curriculum-based field trips, volunteers may sponsor an outside activity for our children and serve as chaperones and/or coordinators for the event.