Become a Volunteer! People who volunteer for Humane Ohio come from all walks of life. Some are teenagers completing school service learning projects, some are professionals looking to spend time working for a cause they love, some are stay-at-home moms or dads, and others are retirees. What they have in common is a love of animals, and a desire to make a difference.
Age Requirement
Due to liability restraints, volunteers under 18 years old are not permitted to volunteer in our spay/neuter clinic, but we do have youth volunteer opportunities like making dog beds and cat toys, organizing a pet food drive to collect dog and cat food for the Humane Ohio Pet Food Bank and more. Click here  to download and view a list of youth volunteer ideas.
If you need to complete community service hours for school credit, please see our short-term community service hour project list.
Volunteer Orientations
What's the first step in becoming a volunteer? Attend a volunteer orientation, offered the first Thursday of every month at 11 am. Come learn about all of the volunteer activities at Humane Ohio, tour our clinic, and get started with a very rewarding volunteer activity.
Please email volunteer@humaneohio.org with any questions or to sign up to attend orientation.
Volunteer Fact Sheet
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Opportunities for Volunteer Involvement (must be at least 18 years of age)
Humane Ohio has designed its clinic as a fast-paced, high-quality, caring and concerned, state-of-the-art spay/neuter clinic. We serve all area pet owners, free-roaming cat caretakers, animal shelters and rescue groups, and we offer a special, even lower rate to people on Medicaid, Food Assistance, WIC, SSI, Section 8 Public Housing, the Heat Assistance Program and Ohio Works First (OWF). With your help, we can streamline our workforce and their tasks to maximize the number of spays/neuters completed every day. There are a large number of jobs that can be performed by our volunteers.
Medical Team Assistant
As a medical team assistant, you will start with level one duties and build experience until you reach level two. You will help with things like laundry, cleaning (cages, carriers, free-roaming cat traps), preparing equipment and supplies for our staff to use and assisting our veterinary staff in watching the animals during recovery and returning recovered animals to their cages. The clinic is open Monday - Friday from 7:30 am - 3:30 pm.
Clerical Assistant
As a clerical volunteer, you will help with things like answering phones, making appointment reminder calls, entering data in the computer, assisting clients with check-in and check-out and special projects like inventorying merchandise or calling people who have not returned our cat traps. The clinic is open Monday - Friday from 7:30 am - 3:30 pm.
Trap/Neuter/Return
Free-roaming cats (stray/feral) are among our most regular clients at the clinic. Feral (wild) kitties must be caught in humane traps and transported to the clinic for their spay/neuter surgery. Soon after spay/neuter surgery, free-roaming cats are released in the same spot where they were trapped, but they will no longer produce litters of more unwanted, wild kitties. We need volunteers to help with trapping and transporting free-roaming cats to the clinic.
PLEASE NOTE: Currently we have a grant that will allow us to spay/neuter 2,600 free-roaming cats in Toledo's 43609 zip code for FREE (normally $25)! See below for more details.
43609 Free-Roaming Cat Project
We have a grant to spay/neuter and rabies vaccinate 2,600 free-roaming cats in Toledo's 43609 zip code for FREE (these cats must come from 43609 and cannot be owned). We have to complete this project by the end of 2011. We need volunteers to help trap cats in the early mornings or evenings, transport cats to/from Humane Ohio for their spay/neuter appointments, build shelters for free-roaming cats (perfect for an individual or group project; we provide the plans) and join us on Spay Patrol Walks to deliver flyers and raise awareness for this project.
Transport Assistant
We provide spay/neuter services to animal shelters/rescue groups who do not have their own spay/neuter programs. To make spaying/ neutering as effortless as possible for our partner organizations, we operate a transport van to pick up animals for spay/neuter surgery and return them after spay/neuter surgery. One volunteer per day is needed to assist our staff driver with loading and unloading animals, completing paperwork, accepting payments, etc. We travel between five minutes and one hour each way.
Humane Ohio Pet Food Bank
The Humane Ohio Pet Food Bank makes free pet food available to pet parents in need and to people caring for free-roaming cats. This program helps make sure that pets and stray cats in our community do not go hungry, it helps pet parents keep their pets even in tough financial times, and it helps ensure that people do not have to share their own meal with their pets and go hungry themselves. The pet food bank is open every Monday from 10 am - 2 pm and we need volunteers to help distribute food. We also need volunteers during Humane Ohio's normal business hours Monday - Friday from 7:30 am - 3:30 pm to unload, organize and log incoming food, enter applications and incoming/outgoing food logs into the computer, and to check pet food bank messages and return calls.
Community Outreach
After joining our team of community outreach volunteers, you can tailor your volunteer experience to whatever you enjoy most. Volunteers lead tabling efforts at festivals and fairs, help with planning and staffing of special fundraising events and distribute flyers around town to places with community bulletin boards.
Donation Canister Volunteer
Be the Change...Collect the Change! We have donation canisters in area businesses. We need volunteers to collect and report on the amount of money collected once a month.
Pet Food Bin Volunteer
We have pet food collection bins in pet supply stores and grocery stores around town so people can purchase food and donate it to the Humane Ohio Pet Food Bank. We need volunteers to empty bins, log pet food donations and deliver food to Humane Ohio.
Can't make the commitment to volunteer on a regular basis?
You can still help with a number of opportunities:
• Assisting with mailings
• Posting flyers at pet supply stores and other places with community bulletin boards
• Participating in booths at fairs and festivals
• Helping with special events and pet food drives
• Checking in clients during promotions at the clinic
• And more!
Wish list
Another way you can help is by donating items/supplies from our "Wish List." All items are greatly needed and appreciated and will save us money that we can put towards our services and programs so we can help even more people and animals.
Donations
Please visit our "Ways to Give" page for information on how you can make a monetary donation. Small, medium and large donations all add up and allow us to help more people and animals.
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