Volunteer

Help set up for the day!

Location: Newton

Come ready to assemble craft kits, do some banner painting and/or make some decorations.

Please bring your own water bottle, comfortable shoes, clothes that you don’t mind getting paint on and a positive energy.
Parking is limited to the left side of the building so come prepared to pay for street parking around the area (75 cents per hour).

Location: Newton

Come ready to assemble craft kits, do some banner painting and/or make some decorations.

Please bring your own water bottle, comfortable shoes, clothes that you don’t mind getting paint on and a positive energy.
Parking is limited to the left side of the building so come prepared to pay for street parking around the area (75 cents per hour).

Location: Newton

Come ready to assemble craft kits, do some banner painting and/or make some decorations.

Please bring your own water bottle, comfortable shoes, clothes that you don’t mind getting paint on and a positive energy.
Parking is limited to the left side of the building so come prepared to pay for street parking around the area (75 cents per hour).

Location: Newton

Come ready to assemble craft kits, do some banner painting and/or make some decorations.

Please bring your own water bottle, comfortable shoes, clothes that you don’t mind getting paint on and a positive energy.
Parking is limited to the left side of the building so come prepared to pay for street parking around the area (75 cents per hour).

Location: Newton

Come ready to assemble craft kits, do some banner painting and/or make some decorations.

Please bring your own water bottle, comfortable shoes, clothes that you don’t mind getting paint on and a positive energy.
Parking is limited to the left side of the building so come prepared to pay for street parking around the area (75 cents per hour).

Location: Newton

Christmas In the City is partnering with the Boston Bruins Foundation for their 50/50 raffle! Sign up to be an elf and sell raffle tickets at TD Garden during the Bruins game Thursday 12/18.

Please note – you will be assigned a designated area to sell tickets and will not actually be in a seat watching the game. You must be willing and able to be at TD Garden from 5:15 PM until the end of the game. A unique, super fun, and important volunteer opportunity with CITC!

Shelter captains are the team leaders of a team they assemble. Each Shelter team is assigned a shelter, and is responsible for collecting and delivering food and gifts to their shelter. Shelter Captains will receive wish lists from each child in that shelter, coordinate collecting gifts and backpacks for the children, and coordinate delivering gifts to each shelter. Shelter Captains can sign up their friends/coworkers/colleagues/inlaws to be on their team. Shelter Captains will meet every Monday virtually starting in December, where they will receive training and check in with other shelter captains.

Must be available for online training meetings on the following Mondays, 7-8PM: Nov 24, Dec 1, 8 and 15.

Shelter Captains must be able to deliver gifts on the weekend preceding Christmas, December 20-21.

Requirements
Shelter Captain must be over 18.
Shelter Captains MUST sign up their own team. Shelter Captains must bring their own team of at least 5 to help you with distribution (we will assign shelter captains to appropriately-sized shelters based on size of teams

IMPORTANT By signing up as a shelter captain, you can either commit to providing gifts to kids at the assigned shelter yourselves (with you buying gifts yourself and/or some fundraising or hosting toy drives) OR you agree to pick up all the gifts from your wishlist at a designated spot in either Marshfield or Needham. You must be able to get to either Marshfield or Needham. You will be responsible for wrapping and labeling all gifts.

Teams Size: Minimum of 5 and a maximum of 15
When you sign up, please list all languages spoken by members of your team.