Community Events

Don Peacock will have all applicable information

6053609584

Phone: (605) 692-1600

Email: director@option1.org

They have not planned for the fall yet but will reach out if in need of help and can check back in on occasion too.

If Option 1, which is well supported, does not have any need, it is helpful to reach out to the Haven Center or Plus One in Huron

Haven Center

Anne Hanson 605-881-6659 and hansonmarketing@wat.midco.net) in Watertown, a close relative to our Jon Beebe. She and a few others are starting up a new pregnancy center in Watertown. They are hoping for an ultrasound machine, so don’t be surprised if the state also grabs hold of this. However, Option 1 in Brookings has been well supported and the family baskets for families of newborns are already taken care of in Brookings by the Hospital. As a result, Option 1 got me into contact with Anne. I gave her the contact of the Watertown GK and let her know we would likely contribute financially but would probably leave the physical stuff to the local knights. If you would like to get more information on this please reach out to Anne.

Watertown GK (for collaboration): See District Deputy

Website: https://www.havencentersd.org/ 

Email: havencentersd@gmail.com.

Send Checks to:

Haven Center

PO Box 65

Watertown, SD 57201

Plus One

Contact: Mary Wipf (605) 350-3081

Baby bottle drive in the spring, Can attack cards to candy in the spring for the summer parade season, November parade of lights float the weekend after thanksgiving Febuary Banquet. 

Contact: 605-692-5007 or stop by 908 Hope Drive, Brookings, S.D. Monday, Wednesday, or Friday

Need funds or food drive not really in need of volunteers

Contact: 605 697 2540 

Groups of 6-12 work on a house pick any mon,tues,fri,sat and call to schedule. 

Contact: 605-688-4493, Donations are accepted at Jack's Cupboard during hours of operation, the Housing & Residential Life Office weekdays from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., in the University Student Union during hours of operation, or at the University Police Station (24/7). If you have a large donation, please contact SDSU.jackscupboard@sdstate.edu to set up a drop-off time. 

In desperate need of food and or funds they have more than enough volunteers.

Contact: 605.331.4117 

Website https://sosd.volunteerhub.com/vv2/

They are in desperate need of volunteers. 

Contact: 605.697.7387 

They always need help with fundraising and general upkeep like painting and cleaning for large group work, walking dogs for groups of 5 or less

Contact: (605) 692-4979 

https://volunteer.helplinecenter.org/search?shareId=c788f280a85c4774a45f79239178f9c3 

Contact Info:Nicole Malcom, BSB-HRM, CMP

SFH Volunteer Coordinator

St. Francis House

210 N. Sherman Avenue

Sioux Falls, SD  57103

605-679-0915

volunteer@stfrancishouse.com

Areas that you specifically were intrested included dates in August of 2023 to April of 2024.  One of the best options available if interested is serving dinner every 4th Tuesday of the month.  We can schedule your group well in advance so that the group could plan on once a month.  This would allow the group to comfortably plan scheduling on a consistent basis, not get burned out, and if there are not a lot of people available that day that is ok as well, cause it does not take a significant number of people to serve dinner.  Ideally it would be 3 people, but we can do as little as one volunteer as well.

Our meal serves are as follows

Meal Serves.

Breakfast 6:15a-7:30a 1-3 Volunteers

Noon 11:15a-12:30p 1-5 Volunteers

Evening 6p-8p 3+ Volunteers

The number of volunteers listed is an optimal average and in no way suggests a minimum or maximum requirement. I have had groups as large as 25 serve breakfast and many evening meals are served by single volunteers.

There are currently multiple dates to serve breakfast, lunch, or dinners throughout the 2023 calendar year.  If you are interested in serving a meal consistently throughout the year the following dates for each month are available.

Breakfast

1st – Sundays, Mondays

2nd – Sunday, Mondays, and Fridays

3rd – Sunday, Monday, and Saturdays

4th – Sundays, Monday, Friday and Saturdays

5th – Sunday, Monday, Fridays and Saturdays

Lunches

4th – Saturday

5th – Friday, Saturday

Dinners

2nd – Tuesdays (beginning in June)

3rd – Saturdays

4th – Tuesdays, Fridays, Wednesdays (excludes Sept. & Oct.)

5th – Sundays

There are currently multiple dates to serve breakfast, lunch, or dinners throughout the 2023 calendar year. If you would like to serve on any specific dates for meals between now and the end of September, those dates are as follow:

Breakfast

Mon. Mar. 27th, Fri. Mar. 31st, Sun. Apr. 2nd, Mon. Apr. 3rd, Sat. Apr. 8th, Sun. Apr. 9th, Mon. Apr. 10th, Fri. Apr. 14th, Sat. Apr. 15th, Sun. Apr. 16th, Mon. Apr. 17th, Sat. Apr. 22nd, Sun. Apr. 23rd, Mon. Apr. 24th, Fri. Apr. 28th, Sat. Apr. 29th, Sun. Apr. 30th, Mon. May 1st, Sun. May 7th, Mon. May 8th, Fri. May 12th, Sat. May 13th, Sun. May 14th, Mon. May 15th, Sat. May 20th, Sun. May 21st, Mon. May 22nd, Fri. May 26th, Sat. May 27th, Sun. May 28th, Mon. May 29th , Sun. June 4th, Mon. June 5th, Fri. June 9th, Sat. June 10th, Sun. June 11th, Mon. June 12th, Sat. June 17th, Sun. June 18th, Mon. June 19th, Fri. June 23rd, Sat. June 24th, Sun. June 25th, Mon. June 26th, Fri. June 30th, and Sun. July 2nd, Mon. July 3rd, Sat. July 8th, Sun. July 9th, Mon. July 10th, Fri. July 14th, Sat. July 15th, Sun. July 16th, Mon. July 17th, Sat. July 22nd, Sun. July 23rd, Mon. July 24th, Fri. July 28th, Sat. July 29th, Sun. July 30th, Mon. July 31st, Sun. Aug. 6th,  Mon. Aug. 7th, Fri. Aug. 11th, Sat. Aug. 12th, Sun. Aug. 13th, Mon. Aug. 14th, Sat. Aug. 19th, Sun. Aug 20th, Mon. Aug. 21st, Fri. Aug. 25th, Sat. Aug. 26th, Sun. Aug. 27th, Mon. Aug. 28th, Sun. Sept. 3rd, Mon. Sept. 4th, Fri. Sept. 8th, Sat. Sept. 9th, Sun. Sept. 10th, Mon. Sept. 11th, Sat. Sept. 16th, Sun. Sept. 17th, Mon. Sept. 18th, Fri. Sept. 22nd, Mon. Sept. 25th, Fri. Sept. 29th, Sat. Sept. 30th, and Sun. Oct. 1st.

Lunch

Sun. Apr. 23rd, Fri. Apr. 28th, Sat. Apr. 29th, Sat. May 6th, Fri. May 26th, Sat. May 27th, Sat. June 3rd, Thur. June 15th, Sat. June 24th, Fri. June 30th, and Sat. July 1st, Sat. July 22nd, Sun. July 23rd, Sat. July 29th,   Sat. Aug. 5th, Sat. Aug. 26th, Tue.  Aug. 29th, Thur. Aug. 31st, Sat. Sept. 2nd, Sat. Sept. 23rd, Fri. Sept. 29th, Sat. Sept. 30th, and Sat. Oct. 7th.

Dinner

Tue. Mar. 28th, Tue. Apr. 25th, Thur. May 18th, Sat. May 20th, Fri. May 26th, Sun. May 28th , Mon. May 29th, Tue. May 30th,  Tue. June 13th, Sat. June 17th, Tue. June 20th, Fri. June 23rd, Sun. June 25th, and Thur. June 29th, Mon. July 3rd, Tue. July 4th, Tue. July 11th, Fri. July 14th, Sat. July 15th, Thur. July 20th, Sun. July 23rd, Fri. July 28th, Sat. July 29th, Sun. July 30th, Mon. Aug. 7th, Tue. Aug. 8th, Wed. Aug. 9th, Fri. Aug. 11th, Thur. Aug. 17th, Sat. Aug. 19th, Wed. Aug. 23rd, Thur. Aug. 24th, Fri. Aug. 25th, Sun. Aug. 27th, Tue. Aug. 29th, Wed. Aug. 30th, Thur. Aug. 31st, Sun. Sept. 3rd, Mon. Sept. 4th, Tue. Sept. 5th, Fri. Sept. 8th, Wed. Sept. 13th, Sat. Sept. 16th, Thur. Sept. 21st, Fri. Sept. 22nd, Sun. Sept. 24th, Thur. Sept. 28th, Sat. Sept. 30th, and Mon. Oct. 2nd.

Any dates highlighted in yellow are a holiday or a day that is nationally recognized as something people may celebrate (e.g. Apr. 1st being April Fool’s Day, Apr. 9th as Easter). As always, that dates listed above of those that are currently available as of the sending of this email.  Please note that we do reserve dates on a first come first reserve basis.  

Further information on meal serves.

Unless the individual or group specifies differently all meals are assumed to be serve only.

“Serve Only” means the food is already prepared when you arrive

Arrive at the appropriate time

Serve food as guests come through the line

Eat with guests if desired

No clean up required as that is our guest’s responsibility.

There is a new dress code in the kitchen to be aware of.

All meal servers or kitchen prep volunteers must.

Wear Long Pants

Have close toed shoes.

Wear a head covering. Single-use hair nets are available, or volunteers may wear a ball cap.

Serve gloves will be provided,

If you are interested in general volunteering (individuallay or as a group) it can happen at any time 8a-8p

General volunteering can include one or more of the following

Lite cleaning

Treat making

Sack lunch prep

Food prep

Special occasion craft projects

Seasonal outdoor maintenance:

Snow/ice removal

Leaves

Gardening/planting of vegetable garden

Season special projects including:

Game days with guests during the winter when it is too cold to go outside

Movie days for guests

Wrapping Christmas presents for guests

Packaging presents for guests that need shipped to families outside 

Example of one duty listed above: Sack Lunch Prep is one of our more needed duties. We provide our guests with between 80-100 sack lunches a day.  Sack Lunch Prep usually happens between 9-11am 7 days a week. It’s fast fun and easy a great volunteer opportunity for parents with young children.

Sack Lunch Prep includes the following.

Sandwich making (2 sandwiches per bag.)

Bagging salties (Chip etc.)

Bagging sweets (cookies, doughnuts etc. as available)

Using brown bag or lunch box place: 1 sandwich bag (2 sandwiches), 1 salty & 2 sweets

Write date on bag/box

Current dates/times that I have available for sack lunch making specifically are the 1st, 3rd, and 4th Mondays/Fridays of each month between 9am – 11 am or 1pm – 5pm.

Other dates available for diferent group activities (special projects, gardening, etc.) here at St. Francis House are the 1st, 3rd, and 4th Tuesdays/Fridays of each month between 9am – 11am or 1pm – 5pm.

Please note that we do reserve dates on a first come first reserve basis. To clarify, all times listed (above) are times that we have availability for a volunteer group to be in-house, and within those times provide, a group can select to start later, but must be finished at the latest by the end time provided.  For example, Group a can come in on Sunday, March 19th and begin at 10 am instead of 9am, but the group must be finished volunteering by 11am.