Tag: Volunteer

Tuesday, September 17, 2025, from 11 AM – 7 PM (you will be able to choose which sessions you attend and do not need to be there all day)
Location TBD

We’re bringing together EquaSion volunteers, consultants, and board members—past and present—for a day of visioning and collaboration. Join us for one or more sessions as we reflect on our work and shape future programming.

Everyone is encouraged to bring a friend to help us grow our volunteer network and bring in new perspectives.

If you are interested, please register, even though more details are coming soon! Please also fill out this form with your interests as well as registering through the button below.

Are you in middle school or high school? Are you good with young kids? Do you want to volunteer some time to help out with a kids’ program?

Next Wednesday, November 6th Friends for Good (formally Kids4Peace) restarts a program called Citizens of the World where they will play games, do crafts, and more all centered around broadening worldview. Participants will learn universal values and virtues through various religions and cultures from around the world. Friends for Good needs your help to carry out this program with the kids!

If you choose to help, you can lead or co-lead games and other activities. You can work one on one with a child in the program. And you can simply be another helpful, positive, participant in the program to help model kind and loving behavior.

To sign up to help with this program simply fill out this short form.

IPM runs a mobile food pantry around the Cincinnati area. Whether you have need of food or the ability to support others in need, you are welcome to attend the food pantry as it moves around the city.

TO RECEIVE:

10 a.m.-noon Wednesday, Sept. 4: Felicity United Methodist Church, 420 Walnut Lane, Felicity, 45120.

TO GIVE:

Here are IPM’s current most-needed items to stock our pantry:

  • Canned meat: particularly chicken, but also beef, tuna, corned beef hash, fish, beef chili (Skyline, Gold Star)
  • Peanut butter
  • Jelly
  • Shampoo
  • Deodorant
  • Dish detergent
  • Adult diapers

Please bring donations to our pantry, 4623 Aicholtz Rd.:

12-3 p.m. Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday.

9 a.m.-3 p.m. Wednesday.

Thank you for your generosity!

TO CELEBRATE:

IPM will mark its 60th anniversary this month. Please join the celebration on September 27th from 6-8:30 pm. Reservations are required. Click HERE to register.

After a summer of home hosting students from around the world, we have a couple dinner hosting opportunities coming up:

  • Sept 22: Integrated Cybersecurity Education IVLP Group with delegates from Indonesia.
  • Oct 14: Youth Empowerment and Civic Engagement IVLP Group with delegates from Serbia.

Whether you take them out to your favorite restaurant, make a home cooked meal with your family and friends, or have a potluck, food is a great cultural bridge.

Hosted before? Email Emily Rose at erose@cincyworldaffairs.org

After a summer of home hosting students from around the world, we have a couple dinner hosting opportunities coming up:

  • Sept 22: Integrated Cybersecurity Education IVLP Group with delegates from Indonesia.
  • Oct 14: Youth Empowerment and Civic Engagement IVLP Group with delegates from Serbia.

Whether you take them out to your favorite restaurant, make a home cooked meal with your family and friends, or have a potluck, food is a great cultural bridge.

Hosted before? Email Emily Rose at erose@cincyworldaffairs.org

IPM Food Pantry will be hosting its mobile pantry in the month of June at the following locations.
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10 a.m.- noon Saturday, June 1: Bridgeway Riverside Church, 30 Wells St., Moscow, 45153.
10 a.m.-noon Wednesday, June 5: William Bick Primary School, 101 Fossyl Dr., Bethel, 45106.
10 a.m.-noon Thursday, June 6: Lynchburg-Clay Elementary School, 6760 Ohio 134, Lynchburg, 45142.
LEARN MORE HERE
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IPM is so thankful for all the skilled gardeners who share the fruits and vegetables of your labors with us!
In 2023 you donated more than FIVE TONS of fresh produce that we distributed to families in need at our pantries throughout the summer and fall seasons.
If you have a green thumb and a bountiful crop, please consider donating your produce extras to IPM this year!

Are you interested in hosting high school students from around the world? If so, please express your interest by completing a short form HERE.

The fresh fruits or vegetables you harvest at a gleaning, will reach the tables of hungry families in your community within 24-48 hours. Your efforts matter and share great nutrition AND hope for a better tomorrow.
Dear Southwest Ohio Faith Leaders,

My organization is a gleaning organization. We have been working with Miami University’s Institute for Food farm since fall of 2019, gleaning on a weekly basis throughout the harvest season. They have been a wonderful and generous partner, and the vast majority of their donations have remained within Butler County, distributed by TOPSS Pantry, Army of Kindness, and JEE Foods. TOPSS and Army of Kindness are this year’s recipients.It is a rare opportunity to be invited to a farm on a weekly basis, as the MUIFF has done. (Most of our gleanings are one-off events that arise when growers find they have a surplus that needs to be harvested before they plow it under.) Lately, we are having a particular challenge finding enough volunteers to show up, each week, as many of our past regulars are otherwise engaged, this season, and most students are away for the summer. I am reaching out to request your help in spreading the word about this wonderful weekly volunteer opportunity right in Oxford. I’m attaching a flier for posting or sharing electronically. Folks can also register as a volunteer at https://endhunger.org/ohio/, then find the event dates they want to sign up for. (Please note that we ask folks to sign up via our volunteer platform. It’s important that no one just shows up unannounced at an event, in consideration of the farm and the growers. We send specific instructions for where and when to meet, and any other requirements, the evening prior to each gleaning.)We are looking to fill up to 10 volunteer spots in a 3-hour shift on Wednesday mornings, 9-12. We are currently scheduled into November. The food we glean is some of the freshest available, and gets distributed to individuals to rarely otherwise have access to it. Our volunteers love the work and their time on the farm. I am more than happy to field any questions you have about this, via email or phone (see below).
Thank you for your time!
Sue Plummer | Ohio Program Coordinator
2366 Kemper Lane • Cincinnati, OH 45206513-458-9808 | ENDhunger.org Facebook | Instagram

Members of the NoDeathPenaltyOH coalition will be tabling at ComFest this year, a community festival at Goodale Park in Columbus from June 23rd – June 25th. This is an opportunity to work with others across the state, who share in the commitment to end Ohio’s death penalty. Training and materials will be provided.

Register here to volunteer. 

IJPC supports Cincinnati Action for Housing Now’s initiative for affordable housing and we need your help to get it on the November ballot. Join us this Saturday!

The day will include a brief training on how to collect signatures for the ballot initiative, and then teams of two will go to Vine St, Findlay Market, and City Flea in Washington Park to talk to Cincinnati voters about how we can fund more affordable housing in the city. Lunch will be provided. Can’t stay the whole time? No problem – show up when you can.

The ballot measure would restore our earned income tax to its 2020 levels in order to provide a dedicated funding stream to develop housing for the most vulnerable. While there is some promising affordable housing development happening in Cincinnati, very few of those units will serve those living <30% of the Area Median Income (<$18,150/person). The .3% increase will result in $40-50 million per year dedicated to those who need it most.

IJPC Canvass for the Affordable Housing Trust Fund
Saturday, May 13
10:30 AM – 1:00 PM
Buddy’s Place (Miami University Center for Community Engagement in Over-the-Rhine)
1300 Vine Street, Cincinnati, OH 45202

Parking suggestion: Mercer Garage or Washington Park

Sign up here!