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Volunteering

Do you have love to spare?

Animal enthusiasts just like you make up our volunteer force. Over 150 volunteers from Lane and surrounding counties donate their time to Greenhill Humane Society. All of our volunteers share three things:

1) Compassion and responsibility for all animals
2) Consistency and reliability to help us care for our animals
3) Commitment to reducing animal overpopulation

Volunteers are the foundation of our shelter; without them Greenhill could not provide its current high level of service to our community.  All volunteers must attend an orientation session before volunteering.  You must register to attend one of the monthly orientations.  Click here to RSVP, please leave your name, phone number and area of interest.

Saturday, June 13th from 11:00am-12:00pm (FULL)

Monday, June 22nd from 5:00pm-6:00pm (FULL)

Saturday, July 11th from 11:00am-12:00pm (FULL)

Monday, July 20th from 5:00pm-6:00pm (FULL)

Saturday, August 1st from 11:00am-12:00pm

Monday, August 17th from 5:00pm-6:00pm

Saturday, September 12th from 11:00am-12:00pm

Monday, September 21st from 5:00pm-6:00pm

 

There is a $15 material fee to start volunteering at Greenhill.

Click here to download a volunteer application!

 

Find ways to help Greenhill:

• If you are 16 years or older
• If you are between 12 – 15 years old
• If you are part of a community or corporate volunteer group
• Foster Care Volunteering
• Court mandated community service
• Cub’s Corner (under 12 years of age)

 

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Yumi Hand has been volunteering in the cattery at Greenhill since November 2005! She comes to the cattery every Wednesday morning and helps clean. She is an amazing, hard worker, who supports the cattery staff by doing dishes, laundry, and litter pans as they clean the main cattery floor every Wednesday morning. She understands the importance of the welfare of our animals, and realizes that it cannot all be done by our staff, volunteers are needed too! Yumi’s favorite part of volunteering at Greenhill is socializing our wonderful kitties and visiting with our cattery staff on a weekly basis. 

Yumi has been living in the United States since August of 2003. Her and her husband moved from Tokyo, Japan where they both taught at international high schools there. Yumi taught Japanese to Kindergarten- 5th graders. Before moving to Oregon they had a few chances to travel here, and decided they liked it so much they would move! They are now retired, live in Eugene, and love to enjoy the outdoors with their free time.

Yumi suggests that if one is looking to adopt a cat or kitten from Greenhill, they should talk to the knowledgeable Cattery staff and spend some time in our cattery getting to know the cat or kitten.