#GivingTuesday 2024 Service Partner Locations

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The American National Red Cross is a nonprofit humanitarian organization that provides emergency assistance, disaster relief, and disaster preparedness education in the United States. Clara Barton founded the organization in 1881.  

Participants will prepare totes with various supplies in them for veterans, to be distributed during the holidays. 

Volunteer block time available: 2:00 - 4:00 p.m.

In the heart of Corpus Christi's West Side, the Garcia Center connects Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi to the community through resources in the arts, literacy, culture, and counseling.

Volunteers will be decorating for their upcoming special event, Navidad de los Ninos. 

Volunteer block time available: 9:30 a.m.–Noon or 1:30–3:30 p.m.  

Catholic Charities is a multi-program, non-profit social service agency serving the City of Corpus Christi and the surrounding counties of Aransas, Bee, Brooks, Duval, Jim Wells, Kennedy, Kleberg, Live Oak, McMullen, Nueces, Refugio, and San Patricio.  Each year, they provide services to approximately 100,000 persons of diverse racial and ethnic characteristics, experiences, occupations, and income.  

Volunteers will prep supplies for food baskets.   

Volunteer block time available: 9:30 a.m. - Noon  

The Coastal Bend Food Bank is a nonprofit organization that solicits and distributes food which might otherwise go to waste or be discarded by manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers. Since 1982, the Coastal Bend Food Bank has been fighting hunger in South Texas by providing food and personal care products to various charity and service agencies.  

Volunteers will work in the Food Bank warehouse sorting food donations.   

Volunteer block time available: 9:30 a.m. – Noon or 1:30 - 4:00 p.m. 

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The Coastal Bend State Veterans Cemetery is a special resting place, close to home, where friends, family and fellow Texans can honor Texas Veterans. Texas State Veterans Cemeteries are hallowed grounds that are an expression of our respect for the Texas men and women who have served our nation with distinction.  

Volunteers will clean headstones and signage. Possibly trash pickup.     

Volunteer block time available:  2:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. 

CIS of the Coastal Bend is a non-profit that promotes and facilitates the delivery of community social services, health, educational services, enrichment and other support services to Coastal Bend youth and their families. They provide school-based social services in schools throughout the Coastal Bend and serve youth in pre-k to high school.   

Volunteers will be decorating for the holidays at Travis Elementary school.  

Volunteer block time available:  9:30 a.m. - Noon  

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The Corpus Christi Museum of Science and History provides history, science exploration and educational programming. The Museum is also the repository for hundreds of thousands of artifacts and historically significant items in its large facility. The Museum engages and educates the public in science and history through exhibits and programming to inspire curiosity, understanding and an enduring thirst for knowledge.  

Volunteers will decorate for the holidays.    

Volunteer block time available: 9:30 a.m. – Noon  

Glenoak’s certified therapeutic riding instructors and special therapy horses are the catalyst to miracles in handicapped lives. Glenoak’s program is about children and adults who reach beyond the confines of their disabilities because of the intervention of this special therapy team. In this unique setting, horses, dogs, pigs and donkeys roam the property. Participants may be working in close proximity to the animals.  

Volunteers in the morning shift will be working and bathing horses. In addition volunteers may be doing light manual labor on the riding trails on the property.   

FULL Volunteer block time available: 9:30 a.m. – Noon 

Evening shift volunteers will assist with the client therapy classes and will be escorting beside the horses/clients walking close to one mile. Moderate physical activity   

FULL Volunteer block time available: 4:00 - 7:00 p.m.  

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Named for community philanthropist, Gloria Hicks, Hicks Elementary School serves some high-risk neighborhoods.    

Volunteers will be wrapping donated gifts for teachers and staff of Gloria Hicks Elementary   

Volunteer block time available: 10:00 a.m. - Noon

Gulf Coast Humane Society is a non-profit no-kill humane animal shelter to provide shelter and care for homeless animals through adoption, fostering, community partnerships, education and affordable spay-neuter and vaccine services. They work to rehabilitate and care for lost and abandoned animals as well as reunite found pets with their families.   

Volunteers will be socializing, walking, bathing, & playing with the dogs outdoors.  

Volunteer block time available:  FULL 11:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.  or  FULL- 2:00 - 4:00 p.m.  

Kids Against Hunger believes that the best way to engage the largest number of people is through a decentralized, locally-based network of food packaging satellites that are active in their community. St. Mark's is an authorized satellite of Kids Against Hunger/Freedom Foods which provides a nutritious, vitamin fortified rice-based meal.  Kids Against Hunger ships food to local food ministries, and national and international hunger relief agencies.

Volunteers will be creating food packages.  

Volunteer block time available: 5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.  

Mustang Island State Park is a state park located east of Corpus Christi on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico. The park covers 3,954 acres and has a 5-mile beachfront. The land was acquired from private owners in 1972 and opened to the public in 1979. The park offers camping, kayaking with access to the Mustang Island Paddling Trail, fishing, swimming, and birdwatching with over 400 bird species identified here.  

Volunteers will be picking up trash from the beach area. Moderate physical activity  

Volunteer block time available: 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. 

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The Purple Door is a non-profit organization that supports and empowers individuals affected by family violence and sexual assault through safe shelter and outreach while providing advocacy, education, and resources to create a safe, supportive community. 

Volunteers will be helping to clean and organize storage areas and donations, as well as gardening and maintenance, may possibly decorate for the holidays.   

Volunteer block time available: 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. 

The Rise School of Corpus Christi is a nonprofit organization providing he city's first and only school dedicated to early education of children with and without disabilities in an inclusive classroom setting with master's level educators and on-staff speech, occupational, physical, and music therapists.

Volunteers will be organizing closets, light maintenance, and painting.  

Volunteer block time available: 9:30 – 11:30 a.m. 

Special Hearts in the Arts provides weekly Fine Arts classes and performance opportunities to individuals with special needs. This unique program allows our STARS to share their talents with the South Texas area through public engagements and entertaining performances.   

Volunteers will be assisting with preparations for an upcoming fundraiser for the agency, including making gift bags, decorating and gathering supplies.  

Volunteer block time available: 9:30 a.m. – Noon 

The Ark Assessment Center and Emergency Shelter for Youth which is open 24 hours a day and 365 days a year, provides care for children who are removed from their homes by Child Protective Services (CPS) due to abuse or neglect by a parent or guardian. During their time at the shelter, children are assessed by medical doctors, psychiatrists, social workers, psychologists, counselors and other trained professionals for placement in an appropriate long-term site where their needs can be met.  

Volunteers will work to help decorate for the holidays.  

Volunteer block time available: 2:00 – 4:00 p.m.  

The USS Lexington is a national treasure, playing a significant role in the nation’s defense since 1943. As a museum, she provides education and a lasting historical memorial. The Blue Ghost” arrived at Corpus Christi beach in 1992 because of active fundraising, strong community support, and the world’s oldest aircraft carrier has since served as a naval aviation museum, educational facility, and popular area tourist attraction.   

Volunteers will be working on maintenance project that may include painting, cleaning aircraft, polishing brass, and other small projects. They may also be assisting Lexington staff in decorating for the holidays.  

Volunteer block time available: 9:45 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. 

Volunteer block time available: 1:30 p.m. - 4:15 p.m. 

Women’s & Men’s Health Services is a nonprofit agency providing preventive and primary care services to approximately 15,000 women and men each year. Their medical services address acute and chronic conditions, general health maintenance, reducing teen and unplanned pregnancy, preventing STD’s and HIV, and involving men in family planning. Their mission is to provide and promote preventive health services to improve health outcomes in South Texas.  

Volunteers will help make hygiene packs.  

Volunteer block time available: 2:00 – 4:30 p.m.  

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Izzy’s Food Pantry strives to provide food assistance for currently enrolled Texas A&M-Corpus Christi students in need. Providing TAMU-CC students with a convenient site and events to obtain food assistance when needed, helps ensure that students who are food insecure can meet their nutritional needs and minimize adverse impacts on their academic progress and success. 

Volunteers will help clean, stock, sort, and organize the campus food pantry. 

Volunteer block time available: 9:00 - 11:30 a.m.

Join the campus organization Student Volunteer Connection in creating handmade dog toys. These toys upcycle donated t-shirts into soft, chewable toys for homeless dogs in shelters. Providing them with something of their own as they wait for a furever family. 

Volunteers will create dog toys to be distributed to local dog shelters. 

Volunteer block time available: 2:00 – 4:00 p.m.  

The Coastal Bend Blood Center has been serving the Coastal Bend for over 50 years. Over 35,000 caring individual volunteers donate blood each year. These donors enable the Blood Center to provide services to 19 medical facilities in its 10-county service area. They collect blood donations 7 days a week to ensure that hospital and patient needs are met. The Coastal Bend Blood Center is a proud partner in overseeing the healthcare of the Coastal Bend and will continue to do its part to guarantee that the community’s blood needs are met. 

Volunteers can donate blood at the blood mobile located in front of the Dining Hall in the Curlew Parking lot. 

Donations accepted: 2:30 – 4:30 p.m.