MEMORIAL ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES (MAM)
What Is It?: A nonprofit that “helps people bounce back from a crisis and care for their families.” Volunteer and paid caseworkers help MAM clients address their immediate needs with an array of emergency services, then help find long-term solutions to underlying issues that will continue to threaten families’ long-term stability.
Help Needed: Assist customers, sort and price donations, and help in other ways at MAM’s popular resale store.
Minimum Age to Volunteer: 13; youth aged 13-15 must be accompanied by an adult while volunteering. Students under the age of 18 need written parental permission to volunteer.
Help Needed
HELP AT RESALE STORE & BOUTIQUE
MAM’s Resale Store sales generate $1.7 million annually. This is 38% of the funds MAM needs to provide services to more than 20,000 people a year. Volunteers are needed to assist customers, sort and price donations, operate the cash register, work on displays, and make simple repairs on merchandise.
COLLECT NEEDED ITEMS
MAM hosts three major drives each year: for back-to-school supplies, Christmas gifts, and household necessities such as cleaning supplies. It also collects items for snack bags that are given to hungry clients. More information about these drives is here.
MAM Resale Store
Store volunteers, 2013
Restocking at Resale Store, 2017
Memorial Hermann Memorial City Med Center toy drive, 2013
BMC Software volunteers at resale store, 2016
Volunteers at Shred Day fundraiser, 2014
Resale store
Girl Scout project: bookcase and books for MAM lobby, 2014
Christ Evangelical Presbyterian Church volunteers donated to supplies cupboard, 2017
Eagles Trace Community donated school supplies, 2015
Resale store customer service staff, 2013
Davis High School toy drive, 2013
Shred Day fundraiser volunteers from U of H, 2017
Eagle Scout Laurent designed and built a storage system for Family Education Program, 2014
Supply cupboard
Emmott Elementary raised $153 for needy families, 2015
Bookmarks to accompany Girl Scout bookcase, 2014
National Charity League volunteer with school supplies, 2016
Girl Scouts held a Christmas toy drive, 2013
Volunteers from Bridgepoint Bible Church's Aspire Bible study group, 2014
Lauren's Girl Scout Gold Award project and a toy drive benefited MAM, 2013
Mechanical Contractors Assn of Houston toy drive, 2014
Memorial High School students modeling clothes from MAM store, 2013
Girl Scout bookcase project, 2014
Toothbrush donations from MetroNational, 2014
National Charity League volunteers with school supplies, 2016
Westwood Elementary students packing snacks that HEB donated, 2015
National Charity League volunteer at Resale Store, 2013
Resale Store necklaces
Parent volunteers from Pine Shadows Elementary, 2014
West Houston Chinese Church volunteers, 2013
Resale Store, 2016
Students from Spring Branch ISD's Bendwood School donated snack sacks, 2014
Shred Day fundraiser volunteers, 2014
Volunteers from Westwood Elementary, Spring Branch ISD, 2015
Resale Store sidewalk sale, 2015
Spring Woods Middle School ACE Program's penny drive benefited MAM, 2014
UH Bauer College of Business students advised about the Resale Store, 2016
Shred Day fundraiser volunteers from U of H, 2017
St. Andrew Lutheran Church donated back-to-school socks and underwear, 2014
Volunteers who sorted Christmas toy donations, 2013
Volunteers from First Congregational Church, 2016
West Houston Chinese Church vollunteers with prayer chain, 2014