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Art of Recycle

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Interested In Hanging With The Cool Cats? Volunteer Today!

Interested in Helping With a Great Cause?

We Need Your Help

Start by downloading our volunteer handbook to begin the process of becoming a member of the team. 


Visit Art of Recycle, take a tour, spend time volunteering, and start learning how you can make a difference in the world around you. Everyday can be a day that makes an impact.

Join Art of Recycle in Making a Difference

Tidy and Stock AoR’s Free Crafting Area

Help With Our Free Crafting Thursday Classes

Tidy and Stock AoR’s Free Crafting Area

AoR’s Free Crafting Area is used everyday, volunteers are needed to stock the crafting area several times a day. Sweeping floors and cleaning tables is a very important task!

Give Away Free Books

Help With Our Free Crafting Thursday Classes

Tidy and Stock AoR’s Free Crafting Area

People love books! AoR has lots of free books to give away to people who want to read, but can’t afford to buy books. Our free book section is located within our crafting area, and it gets messy very quickly. Volunteer to help organize and stock our free book section.

Help With Our Free Crafting Thursday Classes

Help With Our Free Crafting Thursday Classes

Help With Our Free Crafting Thursday Classes

Volunteer as an assistant to help set up and clean up for our free Thursday morning art classes. Our classes are only free because of volunteers like you and us. Did you know that AoR founders are all volunteers?

Help to Keep AoR’s Store Clean and Neat

Help to Keep AoR’s Store Clean and Neat

Help With Our Free Crafting Thursday Classes

AoR’s Store is how AoR raises funds to pay for our free crafting areas. Without AoR’s craft store, there would be no community center. AoR’s craft store raises just enough funds to pay the rent, keep the Iights on, pay the costs of running AoR and hiring the students that need jobs. Our duty is to keep it clean!

Help Sort Free Scrap Paper

Help to Keep AoR’s Store Clean and Neat

Help Check Markers and Bag up Crayons

AoR receives lots of free scrap paper that is put into bins in the free crafting room. Without a volunteer to help with keeping it tidy, scrap paper can get very messy very quickly. 

Help take on that weekly task!

Help Check Markers and Bag up Crayons

Help to Keep AoR’s Store Clean and Neat

Help Check Markers and Bag up Crayons

Do you love to draw and color? We need a volunteer to help test markers and pens for teachers. AoR brags that we only give working pens and markers to classrooms, but that wouldn’t happen without the volunteers that test them all. Crayons and colored pencils need to be bagged in sets, too.

Art of Recycle: Empowering Communities

Wind and Sort Yarn

Roll and Tidy Fabric

Roll and Tidy Fabric

AoR Yarn gets wild! Volunteer to help wind it back up and wrap it with paper. 

Pick a task and make it yours!

Roll and Tidy Fabric

Roll and Tidy Fabric

Roll and Tidy Fabric

Fabric is popular at Art of Recycle and we always need a volunteer or two to help keep it tidy. Fold it, roll it and tie it. It’s a never ending duty!

Organize Ribbon

Roll and Tidy Fabric

Sort Envelopes by Size/Color

Help take the work load off of our current volunteers and help out at AoR. Check out the many tasks that need to be done, such as winding up ribbon and taping it in place!

Sort Envelopes by Size/Color

Sort Envelopes by Size/Color

AoR might just be the only place that you can get envelopes for only a penny. Volunteer to help keep the envelopes sorted by size and color to help people get the right envelope for that perfect card!

Sorting Threads

Thread is an important part of some crafts. Volunteer to keep the thread stocked, tidy, organized and sometimes bagged. Every task means a lot to the people we serve.

Organizing Faux Flowers

Faux flowers are in demand at Art of Recycle. You can volunteer to keep the flowers from getting out of control. Organize them by color in their big bins and help people find what they need!

JOIN OUR SUPERHERO TEAM

Become An Art of Recycle® Volunteer

Together we can help children learn new skills, we can help teachers and other nonprofits receive the teacher resources that they need in order to achieve their mission's goals, and together we can make a difference in the lives of individuals with disabilities and special needs.


We CAN make a difference in the world!

Download Our Volunteer Handbook

Don't wait, become a superhero today!

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Let's do this volunteer thing! Contact Art of Recycle today

AoR's volunteer program is unique.

For those who are searching for job training programs, we are dedicated to finding the right tasks that are directed towards our student volunteers' educational and training needs. Volunteers focus on helping other volunteers to gain confidence, while learning, developing and strengthening life skills.

Contact our staff to find out how your child can volunteer

Even Children Can Be Superheroes

AoR has special volunteer opportunities for children as young as twelve who wish to contribute their time to the art center and the community we serve. This program assists children with learning social skills, acts as an educational program in math skills, artistic creativity, and critical thinking, and it's free. 

Visit Our Summer Camp Program Page

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Art of Recycle®

27 Cloister Avenue, Ephrata, Pennsylvania 17522, United States

(717) 466-6966

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