Get Involved!

​VOLUNTEERING FOR STAR:

 

STAR provides meaningful opportunities to experience the tremendous satisfaction of serving others. We have a wide variety of volunteer opportunities in any of the towns we serve: Norwalk, Westport, Weston, Wilton, New Canaan, Darien and Stamford. Individuals and groups can volunteer for a few hours, a day, a season or an event.

 

Whether you have a few hours available each week, month or year, your gift of time or in-kind services are valuable to the STAR community.

 

You can get involved:

 

  • As an intern, and earn valuable experience while making a difference

  • With a group and coordinate a special activity, outing or project for our adults with disabilities

  • Using your skills to assist with office tasks such as spreadsheets, online research, bookkeeping, graphics or public relations

  • As a chaperone and assistant for adults with disabilities, by helping out with our recreational programs (evenings and weekends), 

  • Share your skills by providing a demonstration to our clients (e.g. painting, dance, music, puppetry, cooking)

  • With a group and coordinate a team-oriented project such as improvements to one of our group homes or other facilities

  • By volunteering to assist with mailings and other office tasks

  • By assisting with preparations for special events

  • By helping to raise membership and visibility at summer festivals or tables outside area businesses

  • By joining a committee for one of our special events

  • By joining our board and providing an in-kind donation of your professional services

  • By providing an in-kind donation of trade skills such as plumbing, carpentry

  • By making an in-kind donation of in-house printing services

  • By making an in-kind donation of tee shirt printing for special events

  • By making an in-kind donation of sign/banner printing for our special events

 

For a volunteer application, click FORM

 

To learn more about volunteer opportunities available at STAR, contact Megan Johnson at mjohnson@starinconline.com

 

In-kind donations:

 

You can also get involved by supporting the mission of STAR with a donation of in-kind goods or services. Whether your donation is electronics from a store you own or trade skills such as plumbing or carpentry, your in-kind donation is greatly appreciated.  Other in-kind opportunities include:

 

  • Share your skills by providing a demonstration to our clients (e.g. painting, dance, music, puppetry, cooking)

  • Bring a group to donate a project such as landscaping, lawn care (of our homes) or painting

  • Be an in-kind sponsor to an event with a donation of snacks, beverages or decorations

  • Donating jewelry, home items or other gift items for STAR fundraising auctions

  • By joining our board and providing an in-kind donation of your professional services

  • By providing an in-kind donation of trade skills such as plumbing, carpentry

 

To learn more about in-kind opportunities available at STAR, contact Megan Johnson at  mjohnson@starinconline.com