Opportunities From: Metro United Way's Volunteer Connection

Wellspring's Ambassador Board is collecting adult-sized hats, gloves, scarves and SOCKS and underwear for our clients with mental illness coming from homelessness. Items can be dropped off at Wellspring's Administrative Office  at 225 W. Breckinridge Street (40203) or at the Yussman Special Needs Law office (Wyatt Estate Planning) at 6500 Glenridge Park Place, Suite 7 (40222). Or, call Wellspring's Development Team to arrange a pick-up of items.

We depend on scarf and story drives around the world in order to fulfill increasing Hope Scarf requests. You can help us spread the word about the work we do by organizing a scarf drive.

Hope Scarves is an international nonprofit organization based in Louisville, Kentucky with the mission to support people facing cancer through scarves, stories and cancer research. Since our founding in 2012, we have shared over 42,000 scarves and stories with people in every state and 40 countries. In addition to scarves and stories, we have invested $1.3 million dollars in metastatic breast cancer research. We support people facing all types of cancer.

Groups of all shapes and sizes hold scarf drives:

We accept the following scarves:

Mail scarves at no cost to you:

Don’t worry about cleaning or ironing your scarf donation. Once received, each scarf is professionally cleaned. A video showing what works and doesn't work along with more helpful information can be found at hopescarves.org/donate-scarf.

Come & celebrate the birthdays of our Cabbage Patch kids by helping us to replenish our gift closet! 

We are looking for: 

For more information / to sign up, please contact Chelsea at cricci@cabbagepatch.org 

Come & support our Cabbage Patch families by hosting a food and hygiene pantry drive! 

Current needed items include: canned baked beans, canned corn, snacks for kids, bar soap (esp. Dove soap), laundry detergent (esp. Free & Clear), dish soap, feminine hygiene products (unscented pads with wings & tampons), dryer balls or sheets, and cleaning products (bathroom / kitchen cleaners, bleach products, etc.). 

This opportunity includes the option to host a virtual drive by purchasing items from this link: https://a.co/1b1EW1d .

To sign up / receive more information, please contact Chelsea at cricci@cabbagepatch.org! 

Because we know access to books is a leading indicator of a child’s success in school, we build, maintain, and fill a network of 42 Little Free Libraries. Since installing the first libraries in 2015, we’ve distributed 200,000 books. These libraries provide free and easy access to books for children and families who may live a distance from public libraries or lack convenient transportation. We can use your support to help keep the libraries full! You can donate new or gently used books to ensure that everyone who visits the libraries has books.

Books can be dropped off to Metro United Way Monday-Friday 9am-4pm. Please email Dulce Solorio (dulce.solorio@metrounitedway.org) to coordinate a drop off time.

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We are looking for businesses, schools, churches, neighborhoods, and/or individuals to host diaper drives for our diaper bank -- we are the only diaper bank in the state of Kentucky that supplies diapers for multiple agencies in our community and the need is huge!

Our current need is for size Newborn, fives, sixes, and pull ups but all diapers are accepted. We will even accept open packages if your child has out-grown them. Diapers can be dropped off at St. Bernadette Church at 6500 St. Bernadette Ave, Prospect KY or you can call us if you need to arrange for a pickup. 

Monetary donations also accepted (make checks payable to Saint Bernadette Diaper Bank and send to 6500 St. Bernadette Ave, Prospect, Ky 40059 or donate online at https://stb2008.weshareonline.org).

For more detailed information contact us at saintbernadettediaperbank@gmail.com or call us at 502-425-2210 ext. 214 and leave a message.