VOLUNTEER YOUR TIME

For the safety of both our guests and volunteers, we are compliant with all current COVID-19 guidelines. 

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Dorothy Day House serves a Community Breakfast six days a week, Monday through Saturday. This meal is generally served to people who are still homeless, many still living on the streets.

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We also serve breakfast and dinner to our current shelter guests at the Dorothy Day House Shelter.

Shelter Guests and Community meals are now all served in the basement of the Veterans Building at 1931 Center Street. 

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Community Breakfast Volunteering:

• First shift volunteers arrive at 7:00 to prep food for the 8:00 am serve time.

• Second shift volunteers come at 8:00 to serve at the 8:00 meal.

• Third shift volunteers arrive at 9:00 to help clean up, unload, restock supplies, and prep food.​

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Community Lunch Volunteering:

• Lunch shift volunteers arrive at noon to help prepare and set up. Volunteers can then help serve lunch from 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm and optionally help clean up until 2:00 pm. 

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Shelter Dinner Volunteering:

• The Shelter Dinner is served between 7:30 pm and 8:30 pm. Volunteers generally arrive at 6:00 pm to help prepare and/or set up and serve at 7:30 pm.

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In the true spirit of Dorothy Day, many of our monthly scheduled activities at the Berkeley Community Resource Center are driven by the assistance of the volunteer's “individual action and community” dedication.

Activities, Mentorship, and Socialization are examples of how you can help be part of this new and exciting path for Dorothy Day House in realizing the BCRC vision.

At the BCRC, we provide on average 50 showers a day, 8-10 loads of laundry per day, and storage locker services for 58 homeless
individuals to store their belongings. Our day program also includes
breakfast daily at 8:15 am and lunch at 12:30 pm. We are committed
to bringing in Community Service agencies for Housing Solutions,
Income, Employment, and Mental Health Services, to name a few.

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Volunteer service includes:

• Assist in monitoring the above-mentioned services

• Clean up: House laundry, wipe tables, sweep, and mop

• Minor “home” improvement i.e. bookshelves, deep baseboard cleaning

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Volunteer Service Shifts:

• 1-3 pm Daily for social interaction/games/assisting facilitators

• 3-5 pm  Daily for clean up-tables, chairs, sweep and mop