Volunteer
Gilda's Club needs you! There are many different ways to volunteer for Gilda's Club. Key areas of volunteer activity include planning and participating in special events, and carrying out various administrative tasks.
Volunteers are an integral part of our community and program. They serve in many areas of the Program and we depend on their energy and enthusiasm for many of our activities.
Volunteers are involved in the children's program, Noogieland, where they supervise recreational play for children with cancer or well children whose parents have cancer. Noogieland activities are scheduled on weeknights and Saturdays.
Many Gilda's Club activities are also offered by volunteers. Credentialed and Certified professionals provide workshops, lectures and other events. Such professionals include exercise therapists, meditation and yoga instructors, nurses, doctors, nutritionists and other experts.
Current volunteer activities include:
- Clubhouse Volunteer - Clubhouse Volunteers have a wide variety of activities and tasks that they can participate in including, but not limited to: putting together special mails, taking care of our plants, setting up for our lectures, write thank you notes, teach classes, helping with cleaning projects around the clubhouse, baking goodies for our special events (in-house), cooking for our special events (in-house) as well as staffing and planning special events (in-house).
- Front Desk Volunteer - Front Desk Volunteers are the face and voice of Gilda's Club to everyone that walks through our red door or calls on the phone. You'll help people sign up for activities, gives them tours, help them find community resources, and get to know many of our wonderful members and other volunteers. You must have a friendly personality and sensitivity in responding to people who are experiencing the emotional impact of cancer. If you're able to work a regular schedule it's preferred, but not at all required.
- Noogieland Volunteer - Noogieland is the name of the children and family program and the playroom for the children and teens that come to Gilda's Club Seattle. Supervised play for children 3 and up is available while parents or family members are attending member activities. Whether facing cancer first hand, or as a family member, Noogieland ensures that everyone in the family has the opportunity to seek the emotional and social support of others facing a similar situation. We invite kids to have fun! Noogieland Volunteers assist with summer camps, supervised play in Noogieland, cooking classes, outreach, and special events like our annual Halloween party. In order to become a Noogieland Volunteer, volunteers need to attend a Noogieland training.
- Outreach Volunteer - Outreach volunteers help us get the word out about Gilda's Club so that people know that we're here. Volunteers help with outreach at community and health events and by distributing flyers in their neighborhoods, making phone calls to organizations, and helping with projects in our office.
- Teaching Classes - All of our classes are taught by volunteers - if there is something that you feel you are an expert in, you don't need a degree and you would like to teach others, then this is the volunteer opportunity for you. Class schedules are a compromise of your availability as well as ours; they can be weekly, monthly, or a one time event.
Become a Volunteer
- Sign Up Online
- Call us at 206-709-1400
- Email Us
Volunteer Training
Look for the next volunteer training date and become a Gilda's Club Volunteer
Did You Know?
“I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.”
Gilda Radner