Volunteers Are Key to Our Success and Sustainability
As a volunteer, you will:
- Meet others and build relationships here in your own community
- Share your skills and your time
- Make a positive difference in someone’s life
- Have fun while giving back to your community
There are many ways to volunteer with HAH.
We need help in these areas:
- Social work or nursing – to conduct home visit assessments and connect older neighbors with resources
- Construction/maintenance trades – to participate in home repairs that keep members of our community safer, warmer, and drier
- Social connection – to make weekly phone calls to neighbors, providing support or socialization
- Cooking and/or hosting – to provide meals and social opportunities through our Lunch with Friends, Meals in a Pinch, Cooking at 43° North programs
- Driving – to provide free rides to appointments, run errands, or socialize
- Project management – to plan/coordinate one of our efforts and activities
- Leadership – to chair one of our committees, engaging volunteers to help drive our mission
- Creative – to direct or take part in one of our TV programs on health and wellness, photography/videography, graphic design, etc. or other types of artistic expression
- Writing/editing – to communicate about and promote awareness of HAH and our activities
- Social media – to support our communication efforts in promoting HAH
- We’re also looking for neighborhood groups to join in the fun by partnering with HAH to cook for a Lunch with Friends event. Groups like: Neighborhood Associations, Road Associations, Community-Based Organizations (garden clubs, historical societies, sports groups, book clubs, yoga classes, non-profits, church groups, artist associations), Local Businesses, Civic Groups
- Listen and record – to help to save shared oral histories for the next generation.
Please join us in supporting our community to age in place. After all, everybody needs a hand sometimes.
For more information about volunteering, please complete the form or email us at [email protected].
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Volunteer Newsletters
- Inside HAH – March 2024
Dear HAH Volunteers – Some live by these words – I learned; I earned; I now give back. Many HAH volunteers are living this life. You, as HAH volunteers, are making a difference here in our fantastic town of Harpswell! If you went to any of the Town Comprehensive Plan Meetings you would… Read more: Inside HAH – March 2024 - Inside HAH – October 2023
Dear HAH Volunteers – What a busy season for Harpswell Aging at Home—in one single week in October,we’ll have Meals in a Pinch, a VTN drivers’ meeting, a Cooking at 43°North program, a long-range planning session, Friends Together at the Town Hall, and several committee meetings. Much to celebrate and much to do! - Inside HAH – April 2023
Dear HAH Volunteers – Although Harpswell’s winter started with a mild and mostly easy December and January, the last weeks of February and the winds and snow of March have made us all realize that winter in Maine is not for the faint of heart! Many Meals in a Pinch recipients have remarked… Read more: Inside HAH – April 2023 - Inside HAH – December 2022
Dear Harpswell Aging at Home Volunteers- Happiest of holiday greetings to you all! What a year it has been for HAH with record breaking meals prepared and served, more homes repaired and miles driven, and notes written both to and from our grateful neighbors. The long hours that the Communications team put into… Read more: Inside HAH – December 2022