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It's true! The volunteer network of People's City Mission is looking for someone with your interests, qualifications and motivation to serve. As a volunteer, you can communicate Christ's love and care in a special way, one that will deeply touch the hearts of the homeless and low-income. Of course, the needs are endless!
To meet these needs, People's City Mission depends upon God's abundant supply of caring people who have heard God's call. Whether you are young or old, male or female, employed or at home, a student, whatever you do, you can make a difference. People's City Mission needs you to be part of Lincoln's largest outreach to the homeless and impoverished.
Please contact a Volunteer Coordinator, for more information. Scroll down find a list of volunteer opportunities and applications. All applicants must also complete a Release of Information Form, which allows the Mission to do background checks on all volunteers. Please note: anyone convicted of a sex offense is not allowed at the shelter or Homeless Prevention Center.
Individual Volunteer Opportunities
Serve others by utilizing your talents and skills! If you have any professional experience or skills that you would like to offer the People’s City Mission, please fill out our Individual Volunteer Application. This online form will be sent to the Volunteer Coordinator who will contact you at a later date. See you at the Mission!
Coffee Shop
Open to men only, this position is located in the Agape Café, the coffee shop and common area in the Curtis Center, which is our transitional housing facility for men. Responsibilities include serving coffee and laundry supplies from a designated area in the Agape Café; however, the majority of your time will be spent building relationships with our male guests.
Club E.D.E.F.Y. (Youth Program, grades 1-8)
This volunteer aids the E.D.E.F.Y. program when school is not in session (after school and vacations), Monday through Friday, with coordinating, organizing, and supervising our after school-care program for children ranging from 5 to 13 years of age. You must complete our individual volunteer application available at the top of this page. Volunteers are needed in the following areas Monday through Friday:
• Work with the Club EDEFY director to plan a special activity (45 minutes) for the kids. This may be an art project, a large group game(s), a sport, a service project, or a music, dance, or drama activity.
• You can also come in and do whatever the kids are doing! Play games, help make crafts, or lead brief small group discussions or prayer time (this will be prepared ahead of time and will be easy to lead).
E.D.E.F.Y. Jr.
Join our on-site daycare in caring for infants and pre-school children in the morning. This is a great way for high school students to fulfill volunteer requirements during the summer. For more information, complete our Individual Volunteer Application. This online form will be sent to the Volunteer Coordinator who will contact you at a later date.
Family Fun Nights
Once or twice a month the Family Shelter organizes special events for our guests. This may include movie night, makeover night, fitness challenge, game night, teen night, and many more. Contact the Family Shelter if interested in helping out with one of our monthly events. You may complete a volunteer application.
Kitchen Assistant
This position assists with food preparation and cooking, as well as serving meals and cleaning up. Shifts available daily.
Summer Camp E.D.E.F.Y. (Summer Day Program in June and July, grades 1-12)
Camp EDEFY is held in the PCM Recreation Center. The program hours are usually in the afternoon and evening Monday-Friday. Individual volunteers are needed to help coordinate, organize and supervise summer program for children ranging in age from 5-18 years. You must complete our individual volunteer application available at the top of this page. Volunteers/Interns are needed in the following areas from late May through early August:
• Camp EDEFY Activities Director Intern. This position works with the Family Shelter Director to help oversee summer program, plan events, train volunteers and supervise activities. This can be used for college credit.
• 2-3 individual Volunteers or Interns to help plan, coordinate and supervise an 8 week summer program. This can be used for college credit.
• Individual volunteers to work with Club EDEFY Activities Interns to plan a special activity or event for the kids. This may be an art project, large group game(s), sport activity, craft, service project, music, dance, drama activity, field trips, etc.
• You can also come in and join in on what the kids are doing! Play games, help make crafts, lead brief small group discussions or prayer time (this will be prepared ahead of time and will be easy to lead).
Warehouse Assistant
This opportunity has also been known as "clothing sorter". We have expanded the position to include loading and unloading donations, as well as sorting through them and putting them on display. The Homeless Prevention Center is open for volunteers Monday through Friday from 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Group Volunteer Opportunities
Get your church, workplace, school organization, association or family involved! All volunteers must fill out our Group Volunteer Application and mail, fax or email it to a Volunteer Coordinator before they begin their experience. See you at the Mission!
Donations Sorters
For a group of 10-12 volunteers or less, this is an opportunity to make clothing and household items available to the impoverished and needy by sorting and displaying them. Volunteers must be 16 and olde, unless given specific information from the Homeless Prevention Center management. Please contact Nora Ragon at 402.475.6888 to volunteer at the Homeless Prevention Center.
Club E.D.E.F.Y.
Volunteer groups can aid the EDEFY program when school is not in session (after school and vacations), Monday through Friday, with coordinating, organizing, and supervising our after school-care program for children ranging from 5 to 13 years of age. You must complete our volunteer application available at the top of this page. Group volunteers are needed in the following areas:
• Work with the Club EDEFY director to plan a special activity (45 minutes) for the kids. This may be an art project, a large group game(s), a sport, a service project, or a music, dance, or drama activity.
• You can also come in and do whatever the kids are doing! Play games, help make crafts, or lead brief small group discussions or prayer time (this will be prepared ahead of time and will be easy to lead).
E.D.E.F.Y. Jr.
Join our on-site daycare in caring for infants and pre-school children in the morning. Help lead activities, learning time and play time with our kids. This is a great activity for groups of 2-8 people. For more information, complete our Individual Volunteer Application. This online form will be sent to the Volunteer Coordinator who will contact you at a later date.
Family Fun Nights
Once or twice a month the Family Shelter organizes special events for our guests. This may include movie night, makeover night, fitness challenge, game night, teen night, and many more. Contact the Family Shelter if interested in helping out with one of our monthly events. You may complete a volunteer application.
Meal Servers
For a group of 8 volunteers or less, this is an opportunity to really serve the homeless people who live at the Mission by serving them a meal, washing their dishes, or cleaning the food prep area.
Summer Camp E.D.E.F.Y. (Summer Day Program in June and July, grades 1-12)
Camp EDEFY is held in the PCM Recreation Center. The program hours are usually in the afternoon and evening Monday-Friday. Group volunteers are needed to help coordinate, organize and supervise summer program for children ranging in age from 5-18 years. You must complete our individual volunteer application available at the top of this page. Volunteers/Interns are needed in the following areas from late May through early August:
• Volunteers to work with Club EDEFY Activities Interns to plan a special activity or event for the kids. This may be an art project, large group game(s), sport activity, craft, service project, music, dance, drama activity, etc.
• Help lead our kids in Vacation Bible School.
• Help lead music, sports or drama camps.
• You can also come in and join in on what the kids are doing! Play games, help make crafts, lead brief small group discussions or prayer time (this will be prepared ahead of time and will be easy to lead).
Seasonal Projects
These projects are especially great for groups, including church groups, bible-studies, workplaces, school organizations, associations or a group of friends and family. Contact a Volunteer Coordinator for dates, times and number of volunteers needed for these special projects.
• Halloween Food Drive and Party
• Thanksgiving and Christmas Food Basket Registration
• Annual People's City Mission Banquet
• Thanksgiving Food Basket Giveaway
• Thanksgiving Meal
• Christmas Food Basket Giveaway
• Christmas Meal
Volunteer Coordinators/Forms
Volunteer Application form
Release of Information PDF
General Volunteer Opportunities
Michele Orth
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402.475.1303
Homeless Prevention Center
Amy Cink
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402.475.6888
Free Clinic
Kristine Rodriguez
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Donate
Donate Online
It's easy to help change the lives of the homeless in our community by providing hot meals, lodging and more at the People's City Mission.
Donate by Mail
Please send your check, cash, money order, or credit card number to People’s City Mission, Attn: Contributions Supervisor, P. O. Box 80636, Lincoln NE, 68501.
Monthly, Bi-Monthly, EFT
Set up automatic deductions from your account by filling out the attached form and faxing or mailing to People’s City Mission, Attn: Contributions Supervisor, P.O. Box 80636, Lincoln NE, 68501.
Honor/Memorial Gifts
Make a donation in honor or in memory of a loved one. When mailing or submitting your donation, please donate that it is in honor or memory of a particular person. If you wish us to send them a notification of the donation made in their name, please send us their name and mailing address.
United Way
United Way allows employees to designate their pledge to specific non-profits. Ask your employer for a Donor Choice Form and fill in all pertinent information about People’s City Mission.
Workplace Giving
Check with your employer. They may match your contributions to People’s City Mission.
Charitable Requests
Charitable bequests are gifts made from your estate, after your death, as a result of provisions in your will. Bequests enable you to preserve assets during your life and make gifts only after you have adequately provided for loved ones and yourself.
Charitable bequests can provide for the contribution of a specific amount or a percentage of your residual estate, meaning what remains after all debts, taxes and specific bequests have been paid. Bequests can be outright or contingent, meaning only in the event that loved ones do not survive you.
Charitable bequests are revocable until death; hence there are no income tax benefits. Bequests do, however, qualify for an estate tax deduction if you have a taxable estate.
Language to include a gift to the People's City Mission in your will is:
Specific bequest of a dollar amount, shares of stock, parcel or property or other asset: I give, devise and bequeath to the People's City Mission in Lincoln, NE, the sum of $__________(or __________ shares of stock of ________Company, or specific property).
Residual bequest, meaning what remains after all debts, taxes and specific bequest have been paid: I give, devise and bequeath all (or ________%) of the rest, residue and remainder of my estate, both real and personal, tangible and intangible, to People's City Mission in Lincoln, NE.
Contingent bequest, meaning a gift only in the event that designated loved ones do not survive you: I give, devise and bequeath the sum of $______ to ____(name)_______ provided he/she survives me. In the event he/she predeceases me, I direct that this sum be paid to the People's City Mission, in Lincoln, NE.
Your will should be drafted by a qualified estate planning attorney. Wills should be reviewed periodically to ensure they are current with respect to your personal wishes, circumstances and applicable laws.
Charitable Remainder Trusts
Many donors today are seeking ways to increase the annual income they receive from their securities and cash balances. Charitable Remainder Trusts (CRTs) provide the potential to increase annual cash flow from investment assets, while deferring capital gain taxes, generating a charitable income tax deduction, avoiding estate taxes and eliminating money management concerns.
Charitable Remainder Trusts involve the creation of a separate legal entity, the trust, which is funded by an irrevocable transfer of cash or certain other assets. The trustee of a CRT receives the gift assets, invests them, makes at least annual distributions to the income beneficiary(ies), files necessary reports and tax returns and, upon the death of the income beneficiaries, distributes any remaining trust assets to the charity or charities named in the trust document as remainder beneficiaries.
There are two main types of CRTs: annuity trusts, in which you establish the annual payment amount at the creation of the trust, with payments remaining fixed for the life of the trust; and unitrusts, in which you establish the payment percentage at the creation of the trust, with payments varying each year based on the value of the trusts assets each year on the annual valuation date, typically January 1.
CRTs can be funded with cash, appreciated securities or certain other assets. Since CRTs are tax-exempt, appreciated assets transferred to the trust can then be sold without creating an immediately taxable capital gain. That means that 100 percent of the trust assets can be reinvested to generate income and appreciation. The donor defines the annual trust distribution amount (annuity trust) or percentage (unitrust) at the outset of the trust. Annual trust payments typically range from five to nine percent. The taxation of the trust payments to the income beneficiary depends on the character of the income earned by the trust (ordinary, capital gain, tax-free or return of capital).
In the year the trust is funded, the donor receives a charitable income tax deduction for a portion of the fair market value of the assets contributed to the trust. The deduction is not 100 percent of the value because the donor or other designated beneficiary will receive payments from the trust. The amount of the deduction varies with the number and ages of the income beneficiary(ies) as well as the trust payment rate and interest rates when the trust is funded.
Assets in a CRT are no longer part of your estate and avoid any estate taxes that may otherwise be due upon your death. Finally, CRTs eliminate your money management concerns since the trustee of the trust, selected by the donor, is responsible for managing the money.
Gifts and Services in-kind
Food can be donated to the Shelter at 110 Q Street or the Homeless Prevention Center on 21st and N Streets.
Clothing, wearable and not wearable, can be dropped off at the Homeless Prevention Center on 21st and N Streets. Unusable clothing is recycled and the proceeds help fund PCM.
Gift Cards can be used to purchase needed items, thus helping reduce expenses at the shelter.
Professional Services
Personal Care Items, Bedding, and Other Household Items can be brought to the shelter at 110 Q Street.
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Bedding for Single Beds Food Other Needs |
Personal Care Items Distribution Center |
Homeless Prevention Center Client Hours and Services
Monday through Friday
9:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
1:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Homeless Prevention Center Donation Drop Off Times of Service
Monday through Saturday
8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Sunday
12:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Donate a Car
Call our Financial Director at 402-475-1303 to donate a car. Your tax-deductible donation will provide transportation for a family in need.
PCM Foundation
The People's City Mission Foundation was founded in 1989 to encourage our Mission friends to support our important work through legacies, life insurance and other planned giving instruments. The most common ways of giving tax-deductible gifts to the People's City Mission Foundation include:
| • | Cash Gifts |
| • | Wills A portion of your will may be left to the Foundation. |
| • | Charitable Remainder Trusts Donate while receiving the benefits of increased income, management of assets, and tax savings. |
| • | Appreciated Property Examples are stocks and bonds, land, residences and collectibles. |
| • | Life Insurance Policy Name the People's City Mission Foundation the owner and beneficiary for all or a portion of the policy amount. Assigning your annual dividends to the Foundation is another way of giving tax-free income to your favorite charity. |
| • | Memorials Lasting gifts given to honor a loved decedent. |
| • | Residences Giving this gift allows you to retain the right to use for life. |
| • | Bank Accounts and Certificates of Deposit Naming the People's City Mission Foundation as beneficiary or co-beneficiary of the account allows any amount remaining in the account on death to be automatically available to our institution. |
| • | Other Planned Giving Instruments |
Building a "foundation of compassion" is what People's City Mission is all about. Your support of the Foundation will ensure that the Mission is able to continue to help homeless single moms and their children, single men, and the sick and forgotten, both now and for many years in the future.
Friends of the Mission are encouraged to contact our Major Donor Department for more information regarding our planned giving programs. We are a 501{C}{3} tax exempt corporation and our IRS number is 47-0723542.
Mission Bean
Great Coffee
for the Greater Good.
On May 5, 2008, we launched Mission Bean Coffee, a new venture selling freshly roasted, premium coffee to benefit People's City Mission and its many programs and services. What makes this coffee unique is what is accomplished in the purchase. Buying one bag of coffee provides a nutritious meal to a homeless person. So you are actually consuming for two people - yourself and someone else in need.
Bailey Lauerman, a local advertising firm in Lincoln, NE. joined us in this effort. Bailey’s other clients include firms like Disney, Pepsi, Union Pacific, and the Smithsonian. They designed an incredible coffee bag using letters from some of our guests. This was supported with outstanding POP materials. But the most amazing this is, they did it for free.
In 2010 Mission Bean was nominated for anEffie award. The Effies represent the highest national award that an organization can receive in the field of advertising. Mission Bean won the gold Effie in the category of Goodworks Non-Profits, and was nominated for "best of the best." We didn’t win, but our competitors included Apple Computers, Ford Motor Company, Kraft, Hyundia and Miller High Life. We were honored to be in such company!
Mission Bean coffee is now available on the Internet and comes in four delicious flavors – regular, dark roast, decaf and hazelnut. It is a premium cup of coffee and costs only $ 8 a bag. We invite you to join us in changing a life with every cup that you drink. We call it "great coffee for the greater good!"
For more information on the Mission Bean story, check out this short video.
