Wicomico Habitat needs volunteers to work in the ReStore
Habitat for Humanity of Wicomico County needs volunteers to help run its ReStore home improvement outlet in Salisbury. The ReStore accepts donated home improvement items, appliances and furniture and sells them for the benefit of Habitat’s home building program.
Requirements for volunteers are simply a knowledge of and commitment to the philosophy of Habitat, an open, cooperative attitude for working directly with donors, customers and staff and willingness to learn. No home improvement or retail experience is necessary.
The benefits for volunteers who work with Habitat are the satisfaction of serving a good cause, meeting new people with similar interests and learning the ins and outs of a nonprofit organization.
Volunteer positions available include cashier/customer service pro, pricing assistant, repair volunteer and donation collection assistant.
The front register volunteers are the first people a shopper sees at the ReStore. Volunteers who like to interact with people throughout the day and feel comfortable running a cash register are needed.
With donations coming in daily, the backroom can get overloaded. Pricing assistants will help accept donations directly from drop off donors with an emphasis on what the ReStore does and does not accept. The volunteers will also sort, price and send donations out to the floor.
With a little repair work, many donated items can help raise funds for Habitat and be rescued from unnecessarily cluttering landfills. Repair volunteers can help provide some TLC to donated furniture, appliances and other items.
Contact with our donors is a top priority for Habitat. The ReStore has a truck on the road each week day collecting donated items for resale and needs volunteers to ride along, help determine which items can be accepted and load them.
Volunteers are needed to work at the ReStore any day or time during regular business hours, which are Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Saturday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. To become a volunteer at the ReStore, contact the Rota Knott, ReStore manager, at rota@wicomicohabitat.org This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or 410-546-1551.
8 comments:
Gary Comegys is on the Board of directors and may be responsible for some shady lot deals for them
And I was thinking about volunteering until I read that Bubba in on the Board of Directors. Forget it now.
Where is this store located?? Sounds like a very good thing!!
dogg
Gary Comegys is just ONE of the slick ones involved in that group.
It's such a shame too because Habitat for Humanity is a fantastic organization but it must be run at the local level by ones who believe in the "mission" instead of those with big egos.
There is no room for big egos in this mission.
On Shiloh Street off of Snow Hill Road, behind Jack's Religious Gift Shop
Habitat is a wonderful organization. The restore is a great opportunity for this community to not only give but to support the concept of home ownership.Being personally involved in this organization I have no idea what 4:32 is talking about. I only interact with caring dedicated individuals who firmly believe in the mission of habitat.
Mike Purkey
Board Member
9:18 Mr. Purkey
Open your eyes and look around you.
Look at some of the other members on the Board.
I have dealt with 3 of them personally and I can attest they have HUGE egos and are NOT there for the mission but for themselves to look good while they run off good volunteers.
Sure, they look okay to your face, but watch out as to what they are doing and saying when you're not around.
They know who they are, I don't have to list them.
And like I said in my original post, Habitat for Humanity is a GREAT organization if the MISSION is being performed by a local group who truly cares about the MISSION.
I'm not saying you don't, but there are others around you who don't.
And one more thing,
In case someone does not know what the MISSION is....
It is to rid the world of poverty housing by offering a hand up instead of a hand out.
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