WHAT IS SHARE?

 
Self  Help and Resource Exchange is a private, not-for-profit organization
that builds and strengthens communities through volunteer service.

SHARE offers up to 50% savings on nutritious food packages.
Everyone who volunteers just 2 hours a month is welcome to particpate.
(See at the bottom of the page how you can volunteer!)
There are no other income or eligibility guidelines.

Once a month SHARE distributes food from "Host Sites" in your community.
Harrison County's Host Site is at the Eagleville city hall.

Eagleville area contact is Marilyn Jones
Daytime phone - 867-5202 - Evening phone - 867-5611.
Contact In Bethany area, Betty Tharpe - 425-3693

Join us and become a part of SHARE - VOLUNTEER and SAVE!

For more information, call 1-800-344-1107 or go to the SHARE Website

HOW YOU CAN VOLUNTEER!
Text taken from the Share-Iowa Website

Part of the focus of SHARE is to promote volunteer service in our communities.
SHARE participants are required to contribute 2 hours of volunteer service
for each food package they purchase.
You may already be doing this. Any service given to nonhousehold
members is considered eligible volunteer service.
We've organized a list of ways to volunteer according to
interests and abilities you may have.
We couldn't list every opportunity to volunteer in your community.
You can think of many other ways to pitch in and lend a hand.

HAVE A CAR?

• Offer a ride to a friend
• Carpool with a co-worker
• Bring friends to SHARE distribution day
• Drive an elderly neighbor to the store or a medical appointment

HAVE A PHONE?

• Call a sick neighbor
• Call a latchkey child everyday
• Make calls for your SHARE host site

CHURCH MEMBER?

• Assist in church choir
• Be a committee member
• Work on church activities
• Watch children in the nursery
• Help with maintenance or landscaping
• Assist in church office, answering phone, doing mailings
• Teach a lesson at services or religious education classes

LIKE TO HELP OTHERS?

• Baby-sit for a friend
• Cook for a sick friend
• Care for elderly or sick friend
• Organize block or apartment party
• Participate in a Neighborhood Watch Group
• Be a member of child's PTA/PTO or help teachers

HAVE A SPECIAL SKILL?

• Fix cars
• Give haircuts
• Bake cookies for child's class or church
• Knit or crochet items for non-profit groups
• Do plumbing, electrical carpentry work for a friend
• Use your computer to make flyers or create a database for your host site

STRONG AND HEALTHY?

• Help people move
• Help with distribution at your host site
• Call Visiting Nurses Associations to see if anyone
  needs help with chores around the house

ENJOY TALKING?

• Give a presentation on SHARE to community groups
• Call legislators and advocate for bills supporting the hungry and homeless
• Call Visiting Nurses Association for referrals of people
  who are lonely and in need of companionship

LIKE TO GARDEN?

• Plant a tree
• Mow a neighbor's yard
• Work in community block gardens
• Pull weeds for a senior or disabled neighbor
• Grow extra food in your garden to give others
• Plant and care for flowers around the neighborhood

LIKE A CLEAN COMMUNITY?

• Paint out graffiti
• Pick up litter at a local park
• Recycle items from your neighborhood
• Adopt an area of a street or road to keep clean
• Provide bins for recycling in your apartment complex

ENJOY COMMUNITY GROUPS?

• Assist in Little League
• Volunteer at senior center
• Help with boys and girls clubs
• Volunteer at community agencies
• Help out at local food pantry/soup kitchen
• Volunteer at local library, hospital or school

NEED MORE IDEAS?

• Check with neighborhood school
• Call any non-profit/volunteer organization
• Call United Way for a list of opportunities
• The SHARE Warehouse always has opportunities
• Contact the volunteer coordinator at a local hospital
• Become a participating member of a service organization such as:
• Lions
• Jaycees
• Boy/Girl Scouts
• Big Brothers/Sisters
• Habitat for Humanity
• Volunteer Fire Department

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