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Flexible Schedule
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Seattle, WA 98146
Are you passionate about children's safety and have a desire to ensure families have car seats for their children? If so, we would love to have you join our Car Seat Prep and Inspection Team! With supervision from our Car Seat Technician, this volunteer opportunity would include: Laundering cloth car seat covers Cleaning car seats Creating packets with car seat safety information for families
Date Posted: Mar 21, 2025
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Flexible Schedule
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Seattle, WA 98146
WestSide Baby is a non-profit organization that strives to see a day when the needs of every child in King county are met. We collect new and gently used items and partner with non-profit organizations in our community that are working directly with families. WestSide Baby is currently looking for 2-3 personable and fun-loving volunteers to utilize our spinter van for the following: Delivering diapers to provider partners serving families Picking up donations of new and gently used items from drop sites Taking various items to the dump Requirements for this opportunity include: Proof of car insurance Ability to lift up to 30 lbs Stepping up/down from the van
Date Posted: Apr 15, 2025
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Flexible Schedule
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Seattle, WA 98146
Use your handy skill sets or learn the skill set and become a valued member of the WestSide Baby team as a Baby Equipment Specialist. WestSide Baby distributes gently used equipment to children in need, including car seats, strollers, and high chairs. Your 'handy’ help will assist in ensuring donations are safe, clean and ready to go to a family in need. Every piece of used equipment that is donated from the community will go through our quality control process of checking for recalls, ensuring each item is safe and functional, as well as, being cleaned up before distribution. Requires some research for certain equipment’s manufacturing processes. WestSide Baby will provide all the tools and training needed to set you up for success. Prospective volunteers training will be scheduled during weekdays during business hours. Once comfortable in the role, the volunteer may set their own schedule and will be supported and supervised by WestSide Baby staff. At WestSide Baby, we appreciate our volunteers as they are an integral of our team!
Date Posted: Apr 15, 2025
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Flexible Schedule
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Seattle, WA 98146
At WestSide Baby we distribute diapers and gently used children’s items, including clothes, toys, books and safety equipment, free of charge to families in need by partnering with social service agencies. Last year we served about 35,000 children in western King County by working with over 150 service agencies such as food banks, public health clinics, refugee resettlement organizations, churches and many others. We have an online ordering system where our partner agencies can place orders for specific children and they can tell us exactly what that child needs. We rely on volunteers to help us in all stages of this process. Volunteer projects in our warehouse include: Sorting of incoming donations. This could include clothing, toys or other types of children’s equipment. Filling orders for children. At WestSide Baby, we partner with over 150 social service agencies. The representatives at these agencies place orders for the children they support using our online ordering system. Volunteers then fill the orders (it is sort of like shopping WestSide Baby). Bundling Diapers - At WestSide Baby we provide a package of 50 diapers per month/per child. We use volunteers to make the packages. Toy packaging/recall checking - We receive many donations of toys and they all need to be deemed safe and packaged according to age appropriateness. Please contact Shaina Williams, Volunteer Production Manager at volunteer@westsidebaby.org with any questions. View our full calendar and sign up at: https://westsidebaby.volunteerhub.com/. Our volunteer sessions are fun, rewarding, and inclusive. We have a few guidelines in place to ensure everyone’s safety and success! Closed-toed shoes are required. Volunteers are required to sign-in when arriving, sign-out when leaving & notify the supervisor if leaving early. WestSide Baby welcomes children ages 8 and older to volunteer. All children under 18 must have a minor consent form on file. Children under 13 must be accompanied by an adult during their volunteer shift. Children ages 13+ can volunteer on their own. Everyone attending a volunteer session must register online, including children
Date Posted: Apr 15, 2025
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Flexible Schedule
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Seattle, WA 98146
Purpose of Position: To process orders of clothing, diapers, and baby equipment in the WestSide Baby ordering system and organize processed orders for provider partner pick ups. Responsibilities: This volunteer would fill an essential need in WestSide Baby’s mission. Volunteer would assist Program staff in the preparation and organization of provider partners’ orders for their clients. This includes knowing the ins and outs of WestSide Baby’s online ordering system, inputting data into the ordering system, and organizing orders of clothing, diapers, and baby equipment onto provider pickup shelves. The order processor will gain valuable experience working in a database and collaborating with other volunteers to prepare and process orders. This position also requires great organizational abilities to create efficiency with pickups so provider partners will be able to pick up their orders with ease. The volunteer will need to be able to organize large objects. This position can be physical at times. Will need to be able to lift 25lbs and also have the ability to use a ladder. Volunteers are needed either Monday, Saturday or both.
Date Posted: Apr 15, 2025
