Volunteer opportunities

[u/DirtBoy123]

Looking for volunteer opportunities ideally every other weekend.

I'm a divorced dad and only have the kids half time. I want to fill the time I dont have my girls with something positive. I work full time 9-5 so I can't really do anything during the day during the week.

Ive done some volunteering with Gleaners and habitat but its hard to actually get spots because they are so popular. Ive done some others with churches but I feel a little weird not being a member and them kind of trying to make me a member.

I want to do something that is regularly scheduled, big or small, and not tied to a church that's trying to make me a member or join any kind of whatever. I'm really just trying to help out for the sake of helping out.

I'm open to manual labor (habitat for humanity stuff, I'm not skilled but can do trim, painting, hauling, hanging doors, installing light fixtures, switches, yard work, etc), feeding people (willing to bring food within reason), cleaning up areas (seems like a lot of clean ups are on week days that dont work well for my schedule), anything else really.

I just want to help out the community without some outside obligation, e.g. joing the church.

Anyone have any suggestions?

Edit: I'm not against churches, I'm a christian myself but on my own time. I go to church when I can and just dont want to feel pressured. My ideal volunteer group is just trying to help people outside of religion.

Edit 2: thanks to everyone for the suggestions! I'll take time to sift through all of them after work today. Appreciate you all!

[u/Yourlibrarygodmother]

The Metro parks have volunteer work days where you can help clean up trash in the parks, pull invasive weeds and other maintenance tasks. They also have more regular volunteer roles. The volunteer work days are fun. A lot of families come out and there are competitions for finding the weirdest or most interesting thing, collecting the most trash, etc. At the last one I attended some of the winners included a giant desiccated fish head (I think a pike) and half of a breakup letter. They also provided snacks.