Make a Difference
Volunteer
**Children under the age of 18 must have a parent or guardian volunteer with them while at the shelter.
Volunteering is a rewarding way to give back to your community and help save precious lives. While our staff works very hard, they can't do it all. Here are just a few of the ways that you can help out at our shelter:
General Volunteer Shift: Help us complete essential tasks around the shelter such as laundry, dishes, prepping enrichment for animals, and other tasks. These tasks are important for providing every animal with a clean and comfortable space while controlling disease spread.
Office Assistance: Assist with tasks such as answering phones, helping with paperwork, and other duties around the office as needed. Volunteers in this role are incredibly important to our organization and to the community since they help us better serve our community in so many ways.
Photography and Social Media: Create content (including pictures, videos, bios and more) about our animals that helps get them adopted. Updated content on our animals that can be shared on adoption sites and social media is crucial to our mission.
Dog/Cat Socialization: Many animals come into the shelter nervous and afraid, but they can quickly come out of their shell with the help of patient staff and volunteers. Here is a link to a video about canine body language that can be helpful when working with canines in shelters. https://youtu.be/gFFto1XVtxI
Adoption Helpers: Help facilitate and process adoptions during off-site adoption events and during peak adoption times at MOAS. Having enough volunteers and staff members to assist with every adoption helps so many animals find their forever homes.
Transport Volunteers: MOAS works with many rescue organizations, both local and across the country, to save as many animals as possible and it requires lots of people to move animals to and from different organizations. Transport volunteers are essential to our mission and save countless lives!
Special Event Volunteers: Help with set-up, breakdown, and other roles during events including our monthly vaccine clinic, Bark and Wine, and additional fundraisers throughout the year.
Becoming an active MOAS Volunteer*
Submit the Volunteer Application
Read follow-up email from our Volunteer Coordinator
Complete the Virtual Volunteer Orientation and Assessment
Email our Volunteer Coordinator to schedule your beginner shifts
At the beginning of you will complete a beginner shift/orientation and all required paperwork. While working these shifts you will become familiar with our facilities, staff members, and other volunteers.
Continue attending training opportunities offered by MOAS to begin taking on additional volunteer roles if desired
*If you have a unique skill set or background working with animals and would like to donate your time and skills to MOAS that goes beyond the outlined volunteer roles, please contact our Volunteer Coordinator at coordinator@moaspets.com.
We can't wait to have you join our volunteer family!
Urgent Volunteer Needs:
We are currently looking for volunteers to help us with the following projects and tasks:
Photography of shelter animals.
Updating and creating posts for our social media accounts.
Writing short biographies, stories, and updates about shelter animals.
Writing articles for our e-newsletter The MOAS Muttropolitan.
Assisting with off site adoption events.
Help with fundraising and solicit donations.
Exercise and socialize our dogs.