Note: Our official volunteer registration takes place on GivePulse, an online platform for social change . If you’d like to volunteer with us, please visit our GivePulse page here, click to join the “Project Transformation – Tennessee” group, and “sign up” for an account. Then, you can register for specific volunteer opportunities. If you have any questions about volunteering, please call the PT office at 615-810-9620.
School Year Volunteer Opportunities
Help a child with homework and reading! Homework Buddies offer mentorship to elementary students through genuine relationship, encouragement, and one-on-one homework and reading tutoring during out-of-school hours. The commitment is weekly (choose a day M-Th) from 4-5:15 p.m. for at least one semester. Requirements: Orientation session, Age 16+, Cleared background check run in the last 4 years (for age 18+), Love of learning, Flexible, Encouraging spirit
To apply to be a Homework Buddy: Click the community name you’d like to serve in, click the green REGISTER button, and fill out the form!
Madison (Matthews Memorial UMC)
Provide dinner and fellowship for young adults! Each Sunday evening at 6pm, our three young adult Fellows enjoy a community dinner with volunteers on the front porch of their home on the Scarritt Bennett Center campus. Restaurant patios are welcome, too! Volunteers can sign up here.
Support a Family Fun Night! (Group service opportunity!) Twice per semester, we invite the children and families of our programs to our host churches for dinner and fun. We ask church and civic groups to provide meals and participate in the fun! We are in need of meals for 30-40 people (and 3-4 people to serve the meal/ help with games) on Thursday evenings February 24 and April 28 (2022). These events will take place outside when possible. Please email Ashley at Lawter@pttennessee.org if your group is interested in providing a Family Fun Night meal!
Summer Volunteer Opportunities
Read with children! Bookworms Buddies offer genuine relationship, encouragement, and reading help for children attending the summer program. The reading program runs M-Th, 9:45am-12:15pm. Be on the lookout for Summer 2022 sign-ups here!
Collect supplies, books, and snacks! Order books and snacks from our Middle Tennessee Amazon wish list or Memphis Amazon wish list!
Pray with Project Transformation Tennessee! We invite you to join us in surrounding children, young adults, staff, churches, and volunteers in prayer. Ask for God’s transformative power to move through Project Transformation’s summer program.
Support PT by purchasing a t-shirt on Bonfire!
Visit our store here.
The opportunities to get involved are limited only by your interests! Contact Ashley Lawter at 615-810-9620 or lawter@pttennessee.org if there are other ways you might be interested in volunteering your time with children, young adults, and churches. We look forward to hearing from you!
