Category: Needs

The 2017 Taste of Georgetown is fast-approaching on September 24th and Georgetown Ministry Center is seeking volunteers to help during the event!

GMC is the beneficiary of this long-running epicurean event that brings together the best of Georgetown’s culinary scene in one taste bud-tantalizing, fun-filled afternoon. We are seeking volunteers to help during the following shifts:

1/2 Day Shift: 10am-1pm

1/2 Day Shift: 1-5pm

Full Day Shift: 10am-5pm

Volunteers will receive 2 Tasting Tickets in return for volunteering. If you are interested in volunteering, please email carolyn@gmcgt.org to receive more info & sign up!

The holidays are upon us! As we move into this season of giving and gratitude, we hope you will consider supporting the 300 guests who will visit our Center this month.

Here are some ways you can make a difference for our guests:

• Check out our Amazon.com Wish List to see what items we need for guests at our Center. Your in-kind donations of socks and hand warmers are especially appreciated as we move into the coldest months of the year.
• Select GMC as your charity of choice on Amazon Smile. A percentage of all of your purchases made through the Smile program on Amazon.com will go toward supporting GMC’s work.
• Make a year-end donation. Your financial gifts provide us with the resources to: keep our Center open 7 days a week, 365 days a year; do weekly outreach walks to engage the most withdrawn and service resistant members of our community who are experiencing homelessness; maintain a winter shelter for 10 people throughout the coldest months of the year; and much more. Checks can be made out to Georgetown Ministry Center and sent to our office or you can donate online with a credit card.
• Donate through workplace giving programs. GMC is a member of the United Way (#9635) and CFC (#31661), and participates in the World Bank Community Connections and the International Monetary Fund Giving Together campaigns.
• Be a GMC ambassador. Tell your friends, family, and co-workers about GMC! Take it a step further and ask them to make a donation to GMC in honor of a birthday, wedding, or other celebration.
• Follow us on social media. GMC is on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, so follow us for updates about our work, as well as important information in case of a cold emergency.

Thank you for your support and we wish you a joyful holiday season!

The 2014 Taste of Georgetown is coming, and we need your help!

It’s finally here! The Taste of Georgetown befitting Georgetown Ministry Center returns September 13 from noon to 5 PM with a new location and better than ever! This year we are excited to host the event on K Street, near the Georgetown Waterfront. We also have  over 10 more restaurants than last year and fun for all ages– outdoor bocce ball, children’s activities, a lively music stage, and a bigger, better beer and wine pavilion. With all that is new and exciting we need your help more than ever and hope you’ll join us as a volunteer!

Jobs include help with activities, info booth, ticket booth, food runner for judges and more! Discounted parking will be available to you. We are looking for both morning early and late afternoon volunteers. The time slots available are:

8:30 AM to 11:30 AM (limited need)
11:00 AM to 2:30 PM
2:00 PM to 5:30 PM

Volunteers will receive free parking (based on lot availability) and complimentary pack of tasting tickets. Please email events@georgetowndc.com with you preferred time frame and/or flexibility and we will contact you with a specific job and details for getting around day of! Check out our new website here for more fun details and we hope to see you at the Taste!

In January 2013, we turned our old administrative office in the rectory of Grace Church into a clothing closet for our guests. For the past year and a half, staff and volunteers have sorted through donations of clothes, organized the closet, and distributed clothes to our guests on a weekly basis. Thank you so much to everyone who contributed in some way!

In August, there will be some changes to our clothing closet. We are moving our closet across the hall to a smaller space, and so we are now limiting the kind of clothing donations we accept and distribute. We are striving to always have clean socks and underwear for our guests — the most needed and requested items — as well as t-shirts in good condition, travel-sized toiletries, seasonal items, and specially requested items.

Because of this change, we are only accepting the following items:

• gently used or new athletic socks, adult men’s and women’s
• new men’s and women’s underwear
• gently used or new t-shirts and undershirts
• travel sized toiletries
• and other seasonal items as requested

You can find out more details on our Wishlist page. Additionally, we now have an Amazon wish list where you can see what we need and send donations directly to GMC.

We have already told our guests of this change and have contacted other service providers to create a list of alternate resources for our guests. We hope that you will help us make our new clothing closet a success by providing us with the bare necessities that our guests so desperately need. Check out our Amazon Wish List today!

Today we bring you a list of our volunteer and in kind needs. Please, if you know of anyone who can drive us to and from the Nats game next Tuesday, let us know ASAP!

VOLUNTEER NEEDS

Driver with a van (or mini-van)

GMC is searching for someone with a van (or two people with two mini-vans) who would be willing to drive a small group of GMC guests and staff to and from the Nationals game on Tuesday, July 8. The driver is invited to the game with us!

The maximum number of people in the group, drivers included, is 10 people. Please contact Stephanie Chan, Communications Director, at stephanie@gmcgt.org for more information or if you are interested.

Volunteers for Georgetown Community Homeless Census

GMC and the BID are planning to do a summer follow up to the annual winter Point in Time count of homeless persons. The tentative date for this is Wednesday, July 23 or Thursday, July 24 starting at 9pm.

We are searching for volunteers to help us count and survey homeless individuals in Georgetown that night. Volunteers should be 16 years or older and able to walk at least a mile. Please contact Stephanie Chan at stephanie@gmcgt.org for more information or if you are interested.

IN-KIND NEEDS

Supplies for GMC’s Art Therapy Group

GMC is starting its very own Art Therapy group led by a psychologist who is volunteering with us. Please help us get this group off the ground. We are in need of two simple supplies — newsprint pads and crayons.

Supplies can be dropped off at GMC any day between 8am and 4pm. Please let the staff person know that they are for our art therapy group.

Deodorant

Now that it’s hot and sticky outside, many of our guests have been requesting deodorant, and we don’t have any to pass out! Can you help our guests feeling and smelling fresh? Travel or full sized NEW deodorant is much appreciated.