Opportunities From: HandsOn Twin Cities

Who We Are
Clare Housing is a Minneapolis-based non-profit agency that provides affordable housing with services to 300 neighbors living with HIV/ AIDS. Those who live with us have often experienced systemic and individual harm and discrimination, so we commit to ensuring that living at Clare Housing feels healing, empowering, dignifying, and connective. This goal is not achievable without the partnership of neighbors and friends from the broader community (such as you!).

The Opportunity
Supper Club is one of our longest-running programs. Individuals, pairs, or small groups (max 4 people) prepare, serve, share, and clean up after the evening meal for 4 neighbors living in one of our South Minneapolis community care homes. More important than the meal itself, they offer companionship and community. If you like to cook, eat, and/or build community, come join the Supper Club!

Note: if possible, we ask Supper Club volunteers to commit to a regular shift at their designated care home (at least monthly), which helps deepen relationship and strengthen community.

Note: All Supper Club volunteers are required to undergo a background check and fingerprinting (paid for by Clare Housing)

Want to learn more? Click or tap on the blue “Respond” button below and send us a message! You can also reach out to our Data and Volunteer Resources Specialist directly at (612)-248-2978 or crystal.erickson@clarehousing.org

Who We Are
Clare Housing is a Minneapolis-based non-profit agency that provides affordable housing with services to 300 neighbors living with HIV/ AIDS. Those who live with us have often experienced systemic and individual harm and discrimination, so we commit to ensuring that living at Clare Housing feels healing, empowering, dignifying, and connective. This goal is not achievable without the partnership of neighbors and friends from the broader community (such as you!).

The Opportunity
Many of us have memories of playing games together with friends or family, having warm conversation and tasty snacks while engaging in some (friendly) competition. Help us create that sense of togetherness with our residents by hosting a game night at one of our apartment buildings!

You pick the game, the prizes, and the snacks, whatever feeds your spirit and gets you excited!

Want to learn more? Click or tap on the blue “Respond” button below and send us a message! You can also reach out to our Data and Volunteer Resources Specialist directly at (612)-248-2978 or crystal.erickson@clarehousing.org

Who We Are
Clare Housing is a Minneapolis-based non-profit agency that provides affordable housing with services to 300 neighbors living with HIV/ AIDS. Those who live with us have often experienced systemic and individual harm and discrimination, so we commit to ensuring that living at Clare Housing feels healing, empowering, dignifying, and connective. This goal is not achievable without the partnership of neighbors and friends from the broader community (such as you!).

The Opportunity
Life happens; we all know this. Sometimes daily necessities, such as personal hygiene items, cleaning supplies, and food are hard to come by; that’s why we like to keep some basic items on-hand for days and moments when our community needs a little boost.

We like to stock nutritious, satisfying, and non-perishable food and household items on an ongoing basis. Some examples include:

Peanut butter Canned soups and stews (chili, hearty soups, etc.) Laundry detergent Kitchen and bathroom cleaners Rice Microwaveable instant oatmeal Pancake mix Special diet foods - gluten-free, low-sugar, low-sodium Vinegar and baking soda Sponges

For a current list of basic needs supplies, please check out our registry with Target, which you can shop from directly! The link is https://www.target.com/gift-registry/gift/clare-basic-needs

Want to learn more? Click or tap on the blue “Respond” button below and send us a message! You can also reach out to our Data and Volunteer Resources Specialist directly at (612)-248-2978 or crystal.erickson@clarehousing.org

Who We Are
Clare Housing is a Minneapolis-based non-profit agency that provides affordable housing with services to 300 neighbors living with HIV/ AIDS. Those who live with us have often experienced systemic and individual harm and discrimination, so we commit to ensuring that living at Clare Housing feels healing, empowering, dignifying, and connective. This goal is not achievable without the partnership of neighbors and friends from the broader community (such as you!).

The Opportunity
Hair is powerful and about so much more than just looking good; how we style our hair can tell a story about who we are, where we come from, and what matters to us. It’s a representation of our humanity and identities.

Help your Clare Housing neighbors deepen their confidence, self-expression, and pride by offering your personal care services for a few hours! If you are licensed to cut and style hair, provide nail treatments, or offer other salon services, we would be ecstatic to hear from you.

Note: We’re ideally looking for folks who can make an ongoing commitment (~3-4 hrs every 1-2 months) and are willing to undergo a background check

Note: our residents come from a variety of racial and ethnic backgrounds, so having some background styling different hair types is preferred

Want to learn more? Click or tap on the blue “Respond” button below and send us a message! You can also reach out to our Data and Volunteer Resources Specialist directly at (612)-248-2978 or crystal.erickson@clarehousing.org

Who We Are
Clare Housing is a Minneapolis-based non-profit agency that provides affordable housing with services to 300 neighbors living with HIV/ AIDS. Those who live with us have often experienced systemic and individual harm and discrimination, so we commit to ensuring that living at Clare Housing feels healing, empowering, dignifying, and connective. This goal is not achievable without the partnership of neighbors and friends from the broader community (such as you!).

The Opportunity
Strengthen community and connection by hosting a meal at one of our apartment buildings! We welcome groups of up to 8 folks to prepare, serve, share, and clean up a meal for residents (usually anywhere from 10 - 20 folks) at one of our properties in Northeast Minneapolis, South Minneapolis, or Robbinsdale. The possibilities are endless: breakfast for dinner, summer barbecue, hotdish night... whatever gets your creativity going and energy flowing!

We welcome individuals and groups who are able to serve one-time or on a recurring basis. Whatever works best for you!

Want to learn more? Click or tap on the blue “Respond” button below and send us a message! You can also reach out to our Data and Volunteer Resources Specialist directly at (612)-248-2978 or crystal.erickson@clarehousing.org

Who We Are
Clare Housing is a Minneapolis-based non-profit agency that provides affordable housing with services to 300 neighbors living with HIV/ AIDS. Those who live with us have often experienced systemic and individual harm and discrimination, so we commit to ensuring that living at Clare Housing feels healing, empowering, dignifying, and connective. This goal is not achievable without the partnership of neighbors and friends from the broader community (such as you!).

The Opportunity

We have all experienced unexpected challenges and barriers, right? Sometimes, when life throws a curve-ball, our residents aren’t able to cover all their regular expenses.

Enter: neighbors like you.

We invite you to provide a little relief in these moments by gathering and donating some gift cards. Cards from grocery, discount, or drug stores are always welcome (think Target, Cub Foods, Hy-Vee, CVS, Walgreens, Dollar Tree, Holiday, and Speedway). Even just $25 can go a long way in helping your Clare Housing neighbors navigate tough moments and continue achieving their goals!

Want to learn more? Click or tap on the blue “Respond” button below and send us a message! You can also reach out to our Data and Volunteer Resources Specialist directly at ((612)-248-2978 or crystal.erickson@clarehousing.org

Who We Are
Clare Housing is a Minneapolis-based non-profit agency that provides affordable housing with services to 300 neighbors living with HIV/ AIDS. Those who live with us have often experienced systemic and individual harm and discrimination, so we commit to ensuring that living at Clare Housing feels healing, empowering, dignifying, and connective. This goal is not achievable without the partnership of neighbors and friends from the broader community (such as you!).

The Opportunity
We all have a special skill, talent, or hobby to share, whether we believe it or not! Maybe it’s a specialized hobby (woodworking, anyone?) or an everyday life skill (we see you, kitchen lovers!), but it’s something you enjoy doing, something you’ve learned and practiced.

Help your neighbors expand their skillsets by teaching that specialty at one of our apartment buildings! We welcome individuals or groups to come by and share something they’re good at, whether through a one-time class or instructional series, to highlight, diversify, and enrich the strengths and abilities of our resident community.

Want to learn more? Click or tap on the blue “Respond” button below and send us a message! You can also reach out to our Data and Volunteer Resources Specialist directly at (612)-248-2978 or crystal.erickson@clarehousing.org

Who We Are

Clare Housing is a Minneapolis-based non-profit agency that provides affordable housing with services to over 300 individuals and families living with HIV/ AIDS. Our residents have often experienced systemic and individual harm and discrimination, so it is our goal to provide them with environments and programs that feel dignifying, welcoming, destigmatizing, supportive, humanizing, and compassionate. This goal is not achievable without the partnership of neighbors and friends from the broader community (such as you!).

 

The Opportunity

While dining at a restaurant or getting take-out can be a fun treat, there is nothing quite like a home-cooked meal that brings up sweet memories or connects us to familial and cultural heritage. As many have said, it often contains a special ingredient: love!

If you enjoy food and believe in its power to connect (even if you don’t consider yourself a gourmet cook), we invite you to prepare a meal for those in our Community Care Homes! Each home houses 4 residents and is staffed around the clock by 1-2 caregivers. While the caregivers often prepare meals for the house, it’s a relief for them to simply be able to pull something out of the fridge or freezer and heat it up when days get unexpectedly busy.

You can prepare a meal for 4-6 folks at home, drop it off at your convenience, and savor the sweetness of knowing that your meal will provide nutrition, comfort, and wellbeing for your neighbors.

Note: we welcome one-time volunteers for this opportunity, as well as those who can make an ongoing commitment (monthly, weekly, biweekly, etc.)

Want to learn more? Click or tap on the blue “Respond” button below and send us a message! You can also reach out to our Data and Volunteer Resources Specialist directly at (612)-248-2978 or crystal.erickson@clarehousing.org

Who We Are
Clare Housing is a Minneapolis-based non-profit agency that provides affordable housing with services to 300 neighbors living with HIV/ AIDS. Those who live with us have often experienced systemic and individual harm and discrimination, so we commit to ensuring that living at Clare Housing feels healing, empowering, dignifying, and connective. This goal is not achievable without the partnership of neighbors and friends from the broader community (such as you!).

The Opportunity

It’s sometimes the little things that help you feel at home after a move: eating from a favorite bowl, sipping a warm cup of coffee in the morning, or dancing in a freshly-cleaned living space.

Folks often move in to Clare Housing with some personal items, but not all they need to set up their new homes. While we can connect them to furniture, we invite our community to welcome new residents by providing some other household essentials.

The total cost of putting together a welcome basket of new items is about $500, with each one including:

Small Appliances (coffee maker, microwave, toaster oven, etc.) Utensils Dishes Pots & Pans Sheets & Towels Cleaning Supplies Paper Products Large, lidded, plastic storage containers

Please reach out if you and/or your organization would like to put some baskets together (this is a great opportunity for groups!); we would be so glad to have your support in welcoming our new neighbors home!

For a complete list of items, check out our Target Registry at https://www.target.com/gift-registry/gift/clare-welcome-baskets. Items purchased do not need to be the exact ones in the registry, but each type of item must be included in the basket (e.g. - towels do not need to be Room Essentials brand, but towels must be included).

Want to learn more? Click or tap on the blue “Respond” button below and send us a message! You can also reach out to our Data and Volunteer Resources Specialist directly at (612)-248-2978 or crystal.erickson@clarehousing.org   

Who We Are
Clare Housing is a Minneapolis-based non-profit agency that provides affordable housing with services to 300 neighbors living with HIV/ AIDS. Those who live with us have often experienced systemic and individual harm and discrimination, so we commit to ensuring that living at Clare Housing feels healing, empowering, dignifying, and connective. This goal is not achievable without the partnership of neighbors and friends from the broader community (such as you!).

The Opportunity
Residents in our Scattered Site program receive a rental subsidy and live independently in homes throughout the Twin Cities Metro area. The program provides a high amount of dignified choice and independence, which sometimes means folks move to communities that are not conveniently located to resources in the city centers (food shelves, county offices, etc.).

In particular, we have many participants who are members of The Aliveness Project, a partner organization serving neighbors living with HIV. Aliveness runs an excellent, high-quality food shelf in South Minneapolis, which some of our participants aren’t easily able to get to.

Help folks access this amazing resource by serving as a Transportation Aide! Our case management staff will schedule food shelf appointments with residents, and you’ll provide the wheels to get there (along with companionship and connection, of course!).

Want to learn more? Click or tap on the blue “Respond” button below and send us a message! You can also reach out to our Data and Volunteer Resources Specialist directly at (612)-248-2978 or crystal.erickson@clarehousing.org 

Who We Are
Clare Housing is a Minneapolis-based non-profit agency that provides affordable housing with services to 300 neighbors living with HIV/ AIDS. Those who live with us have often experienced systemic and individual harm and discrimination, so we commit to ensuring that living at Clare Housing feels healing, empowering, dignifying, and connective. This goal is not achievable without the partnership of neighbors and friends from the broader community (such as you!).

The Opportunity
Residents in our Scattered Site program receive a rental subsidy and live independently in homes throughout the Twin Cities Metro area, with ongoing support available from a Clare Housing Case Manager. The program provides a high amount of dignified choice and independence, and, without the on-site staff and events that exist at our apartment buildings, some of these residents may not feel as connected to the communities they live in. That’s where our Bridge-builders come in!

By serving with us as a Bridge-builder, you will have the opportunity to connect with a neighbor you may not have otherwise met! What you all do together is up to you - chat over coffee at their home, go out to see a movie, cook and share a meal together, or take a walk around a local park. It’s up to you both!

Our Bridge-builders play a crucial role in expanding these residents’ sense of belonging and connection to their neighborhoods and help feed an environment and culture where neighbors show up for each other, learn from each other, and build bridges across varied life experiences.

Want to learn more? Click or tap on the blue “Respond” button below and send us a message! You can also reach out to our Data and Volunteer Resources Specialist directly at (612)-248-2978 or crystal.erickson@clarehousing.org