Volunteer: 2026 COTS WalkSUNDAY, MAY 3RD! Volunteers are needed to fundraise and to help us run our COTS Walk! www.cotsonline.org/cots-walk for more information. REGISTER TODAY. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfveD8o2NLSuAnORiv5tZz-akEW9Ez2W1L-08pOmg-oIlpufQ/viewform?usp=header to volunteer Founded in 1988, the COTS Walk is one of our oldest and most important peer-to-peer fundraisers. Every year walkers of all ages from businesses, schools, religious organizations, and neighborhoods come together from all over the region to participate. The Walk begins and ends in Battery Park with music from Jenni & the Jazz Junketeers, as well as Ben & Jerry’s ice cream, and fun activities. This family-friendly event guides Walkers along a 3.6-mile route through downtown Burlington visiting some of the shelters and facilities that COTS operates. At this event, COTS seeks to illustrate the path a person experiencing homelessness might take when utilizing COTS services to educate our community about homelessness in our region. Bring your friends, family, coworkers, dogs, and strollers…All are welcome! This year the COTS Walk theme is Every Story Deserves a Home. Every person who walks through the doors of COTS's shelters, housing, and service locations has a unique life story. At COTS, we believe that every story matters, and every person has the power to change the ending. At this year's COTS Walk, we hope you will join us in honoring every story and recognizing that homelessness is a chapter in too many stories in our community. Nonprofit: COTS SUNDAY, MAY 3RD! Volunteers are needed to fundraise and to help us run our COTS Walk! www.cotsonline.org/cots-walk for more information. REGISTER TODAY. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfveD8o2NLSuAnORiv5tZz-akEW9Ez2W1L-08pOmg-oIlpufQ/viewform?usp=header to volunteer Founded in 1988, the COTS Walk is one of our oldest and most important peer-to-peer fundraisers. Every year walkers of all ages from businesses, schools, religious organizations, and neighborhoods come together from all over the region to participate. The Walk begins and ends in Battery Park with music from Jenni & the Jazz Junketeers, as well as Ben & Jerry’s ice cream, and fun activities. This family-friendly event guides Walkers along a 3.6-mile route through downtown Burlington visiting some of the shelters and facilities that COTS operates. At this event, COTS seeks to illustrate the path a person experiencing homelessness might take when utilizing COTS services to educate our community about homelessness in our region. Bring your friends, family, coworkers, dogs, and strollers…All are welcome! This year the COTS Walk theme is Every Story Deserves a Home. Every person who walks through the doors of COTS's shelters, housing, and service locations has a unique life story. At COTS, we believe that every story matters, and every person has the power to change the ending. At this year's COTS Walk, we hope you will join us in honoring every story and recognizing that homelessness is a chapter in too many stories in our community. Nonprofit: COTS Opportunity Type: Volunteer Date: Happens On May 3, 2026 Zip Code: 05401 Allow Groups: No |
Volunteer: Provide Daystation Guests With LunchHelp us provide lunch to guests visiting the Daystation, COTS’s daytime drop-in shelter for adults, open 7 days a week, 365 days a year. The Daystation is located at 95 North Avenue in Burlington. You will see a gate that says welcome in different languages, enter through there. This is a great service opportunity or team-building activity. There is staff on-site to help you navigate prepping and/or serving lunch. We request meals be well-balanced. It's nice to have a vegetarian option and a meat option. Lunch Examples Pasta with a vegetable sauce option and a meat sauce option, a green salad, and chocolate chip cookies. Chicken and vegetarian burrito bowls, sautéed bell peppers and mushrooms, tortilla chips, sour cream, guacamole, and sugar cookies. Variety of sandwiches (turkey, ham, roast beef, veggie meat), lettuce, tomato, banana peppers, pickles for guests to add to their sandwiches, watermelon, lemonade, a green salad, and brownies. Marinated chicken thighs and marinated mushrooms, bean salad, pasta salad, and strawberry short cake. Vegetarian chili, tortillas, bottled water, corn bread, and cookies. Meat and veggie lasagna, homemade bread sticks, green salad, brownies.If you have any questions about volunteering, organizing a drive, or putting on your own event for COTS, email our Community Outreach Specialist at romyt@cotsonline.org. Learn more at www.cotsonline.org/volunteer! Nonprofit: COTS Help us provide lunch to guests visiting the Daystation, COTS’s daytime drop-in shelter for adults, open 7 days a week, 365 days a year. The Daystation is located at 95 North Avenue in Burlington. You will see a gate that says welcome in different languages, enter through there. This is a great service opportunity or team-building activity. There is staff on-site to help you navigate prepping and/or serving lunch. We request meals be well-balanced. It's nice to have a vegetarian option and a meat option. Lunch Examples Pasta with a vegetable sauce option and a meat sauce option, a green salad, and chocolate chip cookies. Chicken and vegetarian burrito bowls, sautéed bell peppers and mushrooms, tortilla chips, sour cream, guacamole, and sugar cookies. Variety of sandwiches (turkey, ham, roast beef, veggie meat), lettuce, tomato, banana peppers, pickles for guests to add to their sandwiches, watermelon, lemonade, a green salad, and brownies. Marinated chicken thighs and marinated mushrooms, bean salad, pasta salad, and strawberry short cake. Vegetarian chili, tortillas, bottled water, corn bread, and cookies. Meat and veggie lasagna, homemade bread sticks, green salad, brownies.If you have any questions about volunteering, organizing a drive, or putting on your own event for COTS, email our Community Outreach Specialist at romyt@cotsonline.org. Learn more at www.cotsonline.org/volunteer! Nonprofit: COTS Opportunity Type: Volunteer Date: Is Ongoing Zip Code: 05401 Allow Groups: No |