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Volunteer in the Community

Everyone has a busy schedule. Our flexible volunteer opportunities make it easy to support children and families in need by volunteering from home, at work, at school, or in your local community. Off-site projects can be completed individually or with a school, business, or community organization, making it simple to get involved in a way that fits your life.

Organize a Drive

Organizing a drive for clothing or essentials is a meaningful way to support the children we serve and ensure we have the items we need to address clothing insecurity and provide basic material needs. Community volunteers are needed year-round to organize and run drives for clothing, sneakers, diapers, new socks and new underwear.

We also have seasonal needs that include Halloween costumes (mid-September to mid-October only), prom and graduation attire (March and April only) and coats (October through December). See below for more details. 

Rally your friends, neighbors, coworkers, or school community by hosting a donation drive at your home, workplace, or organization, then deliver the collected items to The Sharing Shelf for immediate distribution across Westchester County.

Register Your Drive
Volunteers filling hygiene kits for The Sharing Shelf

Kit Building

Help reduce stress on financially struggling families and allow children to feel confident and proud by filling kits with essential needs: 
  • Hygiene kits for infants with: full-size baby shampoo, unscented baby lotion, diaper cream, baby or toddler toothbrush and toothpaste, and a pack of baby wipes. 
  • Hygiene sets for children with full-sized age-appropriate shampoo and condition, a bar of neutral soap, a child sized individually wrapped toothbrush, and toothpaste geared toward younger children 
  • Hygiene sets for teens with full-sized shampoo and conditioner, a bar of neutral soap, deodorant, an individually wrapped toothbrush, and toothpaste
We encourage you to use sulfate-free hair products so we can serve children and teens with all hair types. 
To get started, click below and register your Kit Building effort. It helps us know who is out in the community lending a hand. Contact our staff to find out more about our biggest needs at the moment by emailing volunteer@sharingshelf.org.
Build Kits for The Sharing Shelf

Collection Drive Calendar

Your collection drive helps us address clothing insecurity better. Use our calendar of seasonal needs to maximize the benefit of your efforts and guarantee we can use your donations effectively and efficiently. 

All Year

  • New socks and underwear. We acutely need baby socks and athletic socks in all sizes.
  • Hygiene products (full size, new) and period products, particularly pads. We prefer sulfate free products. 
  • Diapers, particularly sizes 5, 6, pull-ups, and unscented wipes.
  • Rear-facing infant “bucket” car seats, “Pack-n-plays” and strollers (clean before donating, include all parts)

Spring/Summer (March 1 to July 15)

  • Light weight clothing such as T-shirts and sundresses, shorts, and seasonally appropriate sweaters, sweatshirts and jackets, onesies and lightweight pajamas for babies.

Fall/Winter (July 15 to February 28)

  • Cold weather clothing such as long-sleeve shirts, long pants, sweaters and sweatshirts, winter dresses, coats and heavy jackets, baby blankets, winter pajamas, sneakers and boots.

We do not collect: Furniture, bedding, household items, infant equipment, used toys, athletic equipment, hangers or food.