Opportunities From: Helpline Center Volunteer Connections

Our Red Kettle Campaign is our largest fundraiser and where most of the money we give out in financial assistance comes from. During the holiday season (November 11th to December 23rd), we will be ringing at 6 different locations to spread the word about our organization and offer free-will donations. Ring the bell to support your community and raise funds to help families in need! Sign up at registertoring.com or call the office at 605-219-8970. There are multiple open slots at each location. 

Why ring the bell?

The money raised during kettle season goes right back into our community to help families in need with hotel stays for the homeless, rent/mortgage, utility bills, prescriptions, gas for medical appointments, groceries, and more.

Fiscal year 2024 we spent $36,500 on financial assistance.

We assisted 620 families financially.

We helped 65 homeless adults and 22 homeless children with a hotel room.

We give out dental, laundry, personal hygiene, cleaning, & homeless packs every day

Prepare a meal under the direction of the kitchen coordinator.

Serve a meal and visit with guests

Serve Breakfast

Assist in preparing a breakfast

Help make the holidays brighter by lending a hand during our special Thanksgiving and Christmas lunches! Holiday Lunch Helpers assist with preparing, serving, and cleaning up meals while spreading cheer to everyone who attends. Every day brings something new — from setting tables to serving food and sharing smiles with guests.

This is a fun, festive way to give back during the holiday season, whether you volunteer for one day or more.

Duties may include:

Assisting with meal prep and setup for holiday events

Serving food and drinks with a friendly smile

Cleaning tables, dishes, and kitchen areas

Helping create a warm, welcoming holiday atmosphere

Recycling Plastic into Park Benches
Sioux Falls Lions Club

Location: 1401 N Cleveland Ave, Sioux Falls – building on the left-hand side when you pull into the driveway

Minimum Age: 14+

 Project Details: Help clean and sort 200 lbs of plastic that will be recycled into park benches! All materials and training will be provided. Supervision and support throughout your shift. 

What to Wear: Clothes you don’t mind working in

Make a hands-on impact in your community while keeping plastic out of landfills!

Please join us in the 2026 Point-in-Time (PIT) Count, a Housing and Urban Development required event is a vital community effort to better understand housing insecurity in our region. The PIT Count provides critical data that informs funding, planning, and services to support individuals and families experiencing homelessness and housing insecurity.  The Survey of Housing Insecure People is a local effort to identify individuals that are living on the brink of homelessness.  These statistics are also used for funding, planning, and services to support individuals and families experiencing housing insecurity.  Volunteers are needed to help with administering surveys to individuals struggling with housing security and data entry after the event. 

Bring the joy of the season to the Education & Visitor Center by setting up trees, decorating trees with lights and decor, setting up a false fireplace, topiaries, and other holiday items!

Contact Lori Puetz at lori.puetz@sdstate.edu or (605) 688 6707 with any questions.

Lasagna Love was started at the beginning of the pandemic when the founder of Good to Mama was looking for a way to help moms in her community. She and her toddler started making and delivering meals to families in the neighborhood who were struggling, whether that struggle was financial, emotional, or simply a feeling of overwhelm.
Lasagna Love has since grown into a national movement, with thousands of people all cooking and delivering meals to families in their communities. What we do is simple: feed families, spread kindness, and strengthen communities. Our mission is not only to help address the incredible rise in food insecurity among families but also to provide a simple act of love and kindness during a time full of uncertainty and stress.
Volunteers can sign up for a frequency that works for them, making a meal monthly, weekly, 3 times a week, etc. The volunteer would sign up on the website (lasagnalove.org), and then would be provided with a family's information to coordinate a date and time to deliver the meal. To register, please visit lasagnalove.org. For more information, email Laney.

Lasagna Love was started at the beginning of the pandemic when the founder of Good to Mama was looking for a way to help moms in her community. She and her toddler started making and delivering meals to families in the neighborhood who were struggling, whether that struggle was financial, emotional, or simply a feeling of overwhelm.
Lasagna Love has since grown into a national movement, with thousands of people all cooking and delivering meals to families in their communities. What we do is simple: feed families, spread kindness, and strengthen communities. Our mission is not only to help address the incredible rise in food insecurity among families but also to provide a simple act of love and kindness during a time full of uncertainty and stress.
Volunteers can sign up for a frequency that works for them, making a meal monthly, weekly, 3 times a week, etc. The volunteer would sign up on the website (lasagnalove.org), and then would be provided with a family's information to coordinate a date and time to deliver the meal. To register, please visit lasagnalove.org. For more information, email Laney.

Lasagna Love was started at the beginning of the pandemic, when the founder of Good to Mama was looking for a way to help moms in her community. She and her toddler started making and delivering meals to families in the neighborhood who were struggling, whether that struggle was financial, emotional, or simply a feeling of overwhelm.

Lasagna Love has since grown into a national movement, with thousands of people all cooking and delivering meals to families in their communities. What we do is simple: feed families, spread kindness, and strengthen communities. Our mission is not only to help address the incredible rise in food insecurity among families, but also to provide a simple act of love and kindness during a time full of uncertainty and stress.

Requesting SculptureWalk Volunteers

Who: Requesting able-bodied volunteers 13 and older. Volunteers who are OK with heavy lifting are a plus!
What: Assist with all the logistics involved in taking down the organization's current set of sculptures and getting new sculptures put up at their downtown Sioux Falls locations

Where: Installation activities take place along the SculptureWalk route (mostly along Phillips Avenue between 8th and 13th Streets)

When: Taking down the current set of sculptures usually happens in the early morning on a Saturday in mid-April. Putting up the new set of sculptures usually happens in the early morning on a Saturday in early May

To volunteer, Express Interest below. For more information, call (605) 731-2375

Basic automotive mechanical skills taught and assisted with for helpful participants from Black Hills Works. Help to show how to use tools, tighten / loosen bolts, check oil, etc....  basic mechanical skills lead for a small group.  Christian values and automotive knowledge preferred.  Thursdays from 1-3 pm, starting ASAP.  Contact Troy for more information & to see if you would be a good fit to help coach & make a difference.  

At each giveaway, we need over 80 volunteers to help pack food and boxes, bring food outside, direct more than 1,000 vehicles, and load boxes into vehicles. ​

To ensure the success of our giveaways, we urge you to consider volunteering with us. Your contribution is vital in ensuring those in need receive the support they deserve. ​

Each volunteer serves as an essential piece of the puzzle, and without your assistance, we cannot achieve our goal of helping thousands of individuals and families through these difficult times. ​

We understand everyone has busy schedules, but even just a few hours of your time can make a significant difference in someone's life. Whether it's an individual, family, workgroup, or service project...  

Join us at 3 pm at the fairgrounds on the giveaway day. Feel free to sign up on our form here or come on the day of the giveaway. We value your support and look forward to seeing you there!

GROUPS

We extend a special invitation to larger groups such as youth groups, work teams, or mission trips. Mobilizing your group for a day of service with us can create a meaningful impact while strengthening the bonds within your team.  

To explore open dates, please fill out the volunteering form here. For more information or to ask any questions, please contact us.   We eagerly await the chance to collaborate with you on this important undertaking. Remember, together, we can make a world of difference.

Every Thursday, we need a group of volunteers to help us pack boxes of food, starting at 2pm. The main job is to pull a wagon and fill boxes with food items (bread, cans, eggs, and other items), then bring the box outside to stack on a pallet. We do also need some volunteers to help us distribute the boxes. Guests drive up between 3pm and 5pm to get a box.
Please sign up on this Sign up Genius: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/30e0f49aeaa2fa57-volunteers#/
We couldn't do this every week without volunteers!

Looking to help SHIFT Sioux Falls? It takes all kinds of people to make SHIFT run smoothly. Whether you love working on cars, talking to people, or doing office work we can find a place for you here! We perform mostly minor repairs, brakes, oil changes, belt changes, etc. We also perform many suspension repairs that are bolt-off, bolt-on style repairs. We don't go inside the engine or touch the transmission. SHIFT is a great place to learn and no experience is required to join in!

For more information call: 605-408-3647 or email joe@shiftgarage.org.

Keep Clean Downtown Brookings is a volunteer effort to remove litter in the Downtown Brookings neighborhood. Downtown Brookings works with various groups and individuals looking to volunteer during the spring, summer, and fall months (as weather and volunteer participation allows). Anyone can volunteer, including all ages and groups sizes, during most daylight hours, seven days a week. All supplies and instructions will be provided at the event - just bring yourself and a friend or two!

Volunteers must complete a waiver before volunteering. Waivers will be sent ahead of time or can be completed onsite. If under 18, parents must sign the waiver and an adult must accompany them during cleanup.

The Volunteer Service Bank is looking for compassionate individuals to provide transportation to medical appointments for those in need. A few hours of your time can make a impact on someone in our community!

The Furniture Mission is a faith-based organization providing gently used furniture to those in need free of charge. We also pick-up donations of furniture. We are seeking a warehouse volunteer who is comfortable loading furniture for families onsite. When an appointment arrives, they pick out their needed items and we load their trucks. Volunteers will be trained on moving furniture and use of equipment dollies for easier transporting. A comfortable home provides dignity, security and a better environment in which to raise a family. With your help, we can truly improve the quality of life for many in our wonderful community.  For more information, please contact 605-977-6800.

Owen's Outfitters is a new medical equipment lending library based in Sioux Falls, SD. We're looking for regular volunteers who can spare 1-2 hours a week to help manage donated durable medical equipment intake. Volunteers will help us sort out donations, clean and repair items as needed, prepare items for display and storage, and assist staff with equipment database management. The position may require some lifting and rotating actions, but accommodations will happily be provided. This is an ideal opportunity for anyone who likes working with their hands, and full training will be provided. To volunteer, you can go ahead and Express Interest below.
For more information, please visit our website or call 605-215-0884.

Owen's Outfitters is a medical equipment lending library in Sioux Falls whose mission is to provide durable and disposable medical equipment at no charge to those who need it most, sourced through community donations. 
Servers truly are the heart of Owen’s Outfitters. They meet and greet clients, assist with orders, process lending paperwork, and track item requests. They also process and organize donations, stock and manage inventory, and maintain our storefront so it’s always clean and tidy. We are looking for regular volunteers who can provide us with a minimum of four hours a month to work as Servers.
Servers often come to us with prior experience in the medical industry or knowledge of medical equipment and supplies. Although this kind of background can be helpful to get you up and running quickly, it’s certainly not essential for the role. Full training is provided, flexible shifts are available, and accommodations are happily offered to suit all abilities. To volunteer, please Express Interest below. For more information, please visit www.thelegacyfoundationsd.com/owens-outfitters or call 605-215-0884.