Volunteer

Yard work volunteers
The heart of the North End-South Como Block Nurse Program is its volunteers.  These great volunteers support our seniors by providing transportation to appointments, making friendly visits, providing telephone assurance, celebrating birthdays and helping with shopping—whatever it takes to brighten the lives of our neighborhood seniors.

There is no single profile of our NE-SC Block Nurse Program volunteers.  They are students in college and elementary school, working folks and retired folks, men and women, those who have unlimited time to volunteer and those that have just a few hours a month to give.  The only thing that truly matters is that they care about our neighborhood seniors.

Every one of us has some special gift to share.  A friendly visit, a ride to the beauty shop, picking up groceries, a chat on the phone—it really doesn't take much to add a “bit of sunshine” to a senior’s life.  If you'd like to volunteer we know several seniors who would be thrilled to meet you!  
Volunteer Opportunities
  • Be a friendly visitor
  • Drive people to  appointments or  shopping
  • Run errands for groceries, household supplies and other necessities
  • Help with household projects 
  • Help with computer skills
  • Provide blood pressure checks
  • Lead exercise classes 
  • Assist with fundraising
  • Help to care for pets 
  • Help with seasonal chores; lawn care, gardening, snow removal, etc.
  • Become a Board Member
Seniors!  
We have volunteer opportunities for you as well as a PenPal with a 4th grader.  [Learn more]
Alaina Gall is our volunteer coordinator.  You can call her at 651-489-4067,  email or come in to the office to sign-up to volunteer. 
Volunteer Application
Everyone must fill out a Volunteer Profile/Application.
  1. Paper application--to download it click the application image on the right, print it, fill it out and mail it in (or drop it off) to Alaina at Como By the Lake. Alaina@nescbnp.org.
  2. Click here for the on-line form. On-line form.
How much is your volunteer time worth?
To our seniors, the time you spend with them as a volunteer is priceless.  Your visits with them, your help with yard work, grocery shopping, or other things you do to help our seniors is willingly offered at no cost to them but there is a cost to us in management of volunteers.  To help defray these expenses, a cost sharing letter is sent to anyone receiving volunteer services. Family members also have an opportunity to donate to the North End-South Como Block Nurse Program through the cost sharing letter or our annual appeal. 

As a point of reference, the estimated value of volunteer time in Minnesota for 2016 is $26.40 per hour, according to Independent Sector, a coalition of charities, foundations, corporations, and individuals that publishes research important to the nonprofit sector. 
Click to open the application in PDF format.
NE-SC Block Nurse Program