City Dogs & City Kitties Volunteering Activities
Volunteering at City Dogs & City Kitties Rescue is rewarding!
Join the team!
As an almost completely volunteer-powered rescue, our volunteers are essential in saving the lives of cats and dogs.
CDCK VOLUNTEER POSITIONS
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Foster Dog Buddy
Attention dog loving volunteers! We’re looking for caring, reliable volunteers to walk dogs or dog-sit for short periods while our amazing foster parents are away for the day or evening. Whether you’ve got 30 minutes for a walk or a few hours to hang out with a pup, you can make a HUGE difference in a dog’s life—and help keep our foster network strong. Flexible scheduling. DMV in-person volunteer opportunity.
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Event Planning Assistant
Are you a motivated volunteer interested in planning an exciting upcoming event? This position includes reaching out to vendors, local businesses, and potential sponsors to aid in planning a large-scale event. There will also be an opportunity to help out in person at the event. This is a temporary, virtual position beginning now through the beginning of May.
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Dog Intake
This is an in-person position for volunteers over 18 years old. We are always in need of people to help with our animal intake which consists of helping to unload and outfitting the incoming shelter animals in order to hand them off to adopters and fosters. Intake occurs on Saturdays and requires in-person volunteering at 1812 1/2 11th St. NW, Washington, DC 20001. Each intake takes about 2 hours and training is required before attending.Â
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Virtual Dog Adoption Event Host
This is a remote position! We are looking for volunteers who can host our monthly virtual adoption events. The responsibilities include transferring information from spreadsheets into documents for attendees, keeping track of first-time attendees, writing down question responses during events, and editing the event’s recording into separate clips as requested. The time commitment is 3-5 hours per month, typically on the 4th Monday of the month at 7pm EST. This position needs a consistent host who is comfortable speaking to our fosters about their foster dogs. Hosts are provided with a script and are off-camera for these events. Example: https://www.youtube.com/live/s7s1DewPCR0
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Animal Transporter DC to Columbia, MD
We are looking for individuals with their own car and a flexible schedule to help transport animals during weekday hours to vet appointments for their spay/neuter and illness appointments. Typically, this will mean picking up animals from DC in the morning to drop them off at their appointments in Laurel. Then, they will need to be picked up after the appointment and brought back to DC. Many of these appointments are outside the city where we are able to get discounted vet care in order to help as many animals as possible.
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Dog Foster
This position is in-person and requires a minimum of two weeks. We are in great need of people who can give a temporary yet loving home to some of our dogs. City Dogs & Kitties Rescue pays for all pre-approved vetting during the foster period and provides basic supplies like a collar, harness, leash, crate, etc. Fosters go through a basic training and are matched with pets who will suit their home best. Check out our foster page!
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Vet Care Case Manager
This is a remote position! Volunteers will be responsible for responding to new health forms/cases as they arrive in the VetCare inbox for cats. You’ll be corresponding with fosters/trial adopters and helping them triage various health issues. If a cat needs to go to the vet, case managers help send records and correspond with clinics. This role is a little more involved and time-consuming, as you’ll need to stay up to date and respond to fosters in a timely manner. You will need to have access to GChat and email throughout the day. You will need to check email daily and perform admin task for the position on a daily basis. Case managers work on each case until symptoms resolve or the cat is adopted. Knowledge on common cat vet care is preferred but not required. A willingness to learn is required;) The time on this would be between 10-20 hours a week.
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Event Team
This is an in-person or virtual volunteer opportunity to get involved with City Dogs City Kitties Rescue for events! In-person events can include adoption events, Holiday Photoshoots, and general fundraisers. Tasks may include setting up or tearing down event set-up, handling animals, or engaging with the crowd and passersby. Virtual events are held entirely online and include live-streamed or pre-recorded Q&As with dog or cat fosters. Tasks may include hosting a Q&A, monitoring the chat, or taking notes on foster answers.
City Dogs & City Kitties Kids
Kids and pets go together, which is why we love when kids ask how they can help City Dogs & City Kitties Rescue!
Do you have a child who loves dogs and cats and wants to help CDCK?
While we are not a shelter and do not have any adoptable cats or dogs at our administrative office there are still creative ways for kids to get involved! Below are just a few ideas that you and your child can do together to help rescue dogs and cats. Email volunteer@citydogsrescuedc.org to learn more!
- Host your own fundraiser! CDCK kid Ethan wanted to rescue dogs for his birthday, so he made t-shirts and raised over $15,000 for CDCK!
- Host a bake sale at an adoption event with your parents! Visit the calendar to find out about what’s coming up. (Please note: children under 16 cannot handle dogs at events.)
- Make a video for a dog or cat in need of adoption! See the video the Georgetown Day School students made for now-adopted Holly below.
- Host a dog wash, car wash or bake sale!
- Write a blog post (about 250 words) about an adoptable dog or cat – or better yet, your very own foster dog or cat! – for us to post on our website!
- Teach your friends about Dog Safety! Watch the video below and learn more here.
- Teach kids appropriate ways to approach dogs to help prevent bites.