Orphans of the Storm is your community's animal shelter. By choosing to volunteer your time and talents you are helping to make a difference to thousands of homeless animals that arrive to our door each year.

The first step to becoming a volunteer is to attend one of our off site adoption events. At over 100 of these events each year, volunteers transport dogs and cats out into the community where they are introduced to meet the public and find loving homes. By attending these events you will become familiar with us and our shelter programs. Gradually volunteers may choose to move into the shelter to join one of our in-house dog or cat programs.

Other ways of supporting our work is through fundraisers; sponsoring an event at your school, work, or community center to benefit Orphans; collecting newspapers and blankets; or inviting a representative of Orphans to come speak to your group or company to help spread the word about our life-saving work. You may even have your own exciting ideas that we could work with you to help further our mission! To volunteer at the shelter working directly with the animals, you must be at least 18 years old.

Please read our Volunteer Waiver information. Then fill out the Volunteer Interest Form, click Submit and you'll be added to our contact database. This will allow us to include you in our notices of volunteer events as they are scheduled. When an event interests you, simply reply to sign up. Before the date of that event you will receive a second email with details and your specific assignment.

Orphans of the Storm relies on the generosity of its volunteers to further our mission of finding forever homes for the stray and abandoned dogs and cats of Lake County and beyond. We could not do our critical work without you. We look forward to meeting you!

For questions please contact our Director of Community Outreach, Jackie Borchew.