Needs From: Winona State University

Volunteer at this year's Apple Fest as a kitchen server or busser! Servers will help serve food from the kitchen and bussers will help clean up tables after folks have finished eating.

About Apple Fest: Largest Polish Festival in Minnesota featuring Polish cuisine, entertainment, crafts, children’s activities, silent auction, and raffle.

Help keep Apple Fest a safe event by managing the flow of traffic coming in and out of the adjoining alleyway and parking lots. 

About Apple Fest: Largest Polish Festival in Minnesota featuring Polish cuisine, entertainment, crafts, children’s activities, silent auction, and raffle.

Help us prepare for Apple Fest by supporting groundswork, including yard work, trimming weeds, cleaning up garbage, and moving picnic tables.

About Apple Fest: Largest Polish Festival in Minnesota featuring Polish cuisine, entertainment, crafts, children’s activities, silent auction, and raffle.

Help us prepare for our annual Apple Fest event by supporting the prep work needed to get the Annex ready! This includes some cleaning tasks and moving tables, chairs.

Help us get Apple Fest ready with set-up! This includes setting up tents, hay bales, and moving items around the property to be prepared for the event.

About Apple Fest: Largest Polish Festival in Minnesota featuring Polish cuisine, entertainment, crafts, children’s activities, silent auction, and raffle.

Help volunteer at Apple Fest by setting up the event! We will have a few things to do Sunday morning to prepare for the event, and we would love your help!

About Apple Fest: Largest Polish Festival in Minnesota featuring Polish cuisine, entertainment, crafts, children’s activities, silent auction, and raffle.

Help at this year's Apple Fest by volunteering as a raffle assistant! Raffle assistants will help bring raffle items inside when the raffle closes and assist with handing out prizes as they are called. 

About Apple Fest: Largest Polish Festival in Minnesota featuring Polish cuisine, entertainment, crafts, children’s activities, silent auction, and raffle.

Be available at this year's Apple Fest to run errands around the event's and support the fest with misc. tasks as they arise.

About Apple Fest: Largest Polish Festival in Minnesota featuring Polish cuisine, entertainment, crafts, children’s activities, silent auction, and raffle.

Help us breakdown Apple Fest and get the museum and grounds cleaned up following our biggest celebration of the year!

About Apple Fest: Largest Polish Festival in Minnesota featuring Polish cuisine, entertainment, crafts, children’s activities, silent auction, and raffle.

Help welcome new students by ushering them into the gym, assisting with seating, and supporting event wrap-up by folding and stacking chairs after the program.

Shift: 10:45 a.m.–12:45 p.m on Friday, August 21, 2026. 

Jovita Light will be in contact with additional directions and instructions before the event.

Looking for volunteers to manage the signing of liability waivers and managing participants for inflatables at Warrior Game Day Experiences. Event happens in all weather conditions so dress accordingly. You will receive additional information a few days prior to the event. 

Looking for (4) volunteers to manage the signing of liability waivers and managing participants for inflatables at Warrior Game Day Experiences. Event happens in all weather conditions so dress accordingly. You will receive additional information a few days prior to the event. 

Looking for volunteers to manage the signing of liability waivers and managing participants for inflatables at Warrior Game Day Experiences. Event happens in all weather conditions so dress accordingly. You will receive additional information a few days prior to the event. 

Looking for (4) volunteers to manage the signing of liability waivers and managing participants for inflatables at Warrior Game Day Experiences. Event happens in all weather conditions so dress accordingly. You will receive additional information a few days prior to the event. 

Looking for (4) volunteers to manage the signing of liability waivers and managing participants for inflatables at Warrior Game Day Experiences. Event happens in all weather conditions so dress accordingly. You will receive additional information a few days prior to the event. 

Sign up Here: https://winonamainstreetprogram.volunteerlocal.com/volunteer/?id=116205

https://runsignup.com/Race/Volunteer/MN/Winona/StormtheDay

Storm Sporting Events is seeking volunteers for Storm the Day on Saturday, October 10, at Prairie Island Park in Winona. Storm the Day is a fixed-time running event where participants complete the same loop as many times as they can from sunrise to sunset.

Volunteer opportunities include lap counting, aid station support, course marshaling, race-day check-in, and medical support. This is a great opportunity to earn volunteer hours, support local athletes, and help raise awareness and funds for youth mental health programs.

Sign up on the website: https://runsignup.com/Race/Volunteer/MN/Winona/StormtheDay

At the heart of the Overnight Shelter – Winona is the affirmation of human dignity. We believe volunteers bring a sense of community and compassion to the shelter that cannot be replaced.

Volunteer opportunities vary—from serving soup and coffee during the evening intake period, to assisting with morning wake-up and hygiene, to participating in one-time large group service projects.

Because the shelter serves a vulnerable adult population, all volunteers are required to complete a background check before serving our guests.

Spend a few hours each day treating your fellow humans as you would like to be treated. Assist the staff in opening the day shelter, setting up breakfast, doing some light cleaning and organizing. Interact with the shelter guests as needed, perhaps with a puzzle or board game, or just providing a sympathetic ear.

Gift Shop Attendants support the museum's gift shop operations by running transactions and packaging purchases for customers. Volunteers are also responsible for cleaning the sales floor and desk and organizing displays throughout their shift. 

Volunteers complete one training shift, approximately 2 - 4 hours depending on retail experience, before they are able to sign up for regular shifts. Volunteers work alongside a museum docent during open hours. 

This position is ideal for students in need of regular, consistent volunteer opportunities or who are looking to fulfill a larger volunteer hour requirement for a course. Preference for students with retail or customer service experience.

Museum Hours:

Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays from 10 am - 2 pm

Custodial Volunteers work to keep the museum clean and operable by sweeping, vacuuming, dusting, taking out the trash and recycling, and assisting with groundskeeping including weeding and outdoor beautification.

While volunteers typically work during museum hours, there is also flexibility to work outside of museum hours when you're available. Shifts can range from 2 - 4 hours depending on the volunteer's capacity. 

Custodial Volunteers work independently, without direct supervision. Preference for motivated individuals who are self-sufficient. Ideal for students with the need for flexible scheduling or for students looking to complete hours requirements for a course at their own pace. 

Museum Hours:

Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays from 10 am - 2 pm

Help serve concessions and earn volunteer hours! We are counting on you if you sign up, whether you are volunteering for your major or earning money for your club. Thank you for signing up!

Help serve concessions and earn volunteer hours! We are counting on you if you sign up, whether you are volunteering for your major or earning money for your club. Thank you for signing up!

Help serve concessions and earn volunteer hours! We are counting on you if you sign up, whether you are volunteering for your major or earning money for your club. Thank you for signing up!

Help serve concessions and earn volunteer hours! We are counting on you if you sign up, whether you are volunteering for your major or earning money for your club. Thank you for signing up!

Help serve concessions and earn volunteer hours! We are counting on you if you sign up, whether you are volunteering for your major or earning money for your club. Thank you for signing up!

Help serve concessions and earn volunteer hours! We are counting on you if you sign up, whether you are volunteering for your major or earning money for your club. Thank you for signing up!

Help serve concessions and earn volunteer hours! We are counting on you if you sign up, whether you are volunteering for your major or earning money for your club. Thank you for signing up!

Help serve concessions and earn volunteer hours! We are counting on you if you sign up, whether you are volunteering for your major or earning money for your club. Thank you for signing up!

Help serve concessions and earn volunteer hours! We are counting on you if you sign up, whether you are volunteering for your major or earning money for your club. Thank you for signing up!

Volunteers needed at the IMPACT Center to supervise and interact with children (grades K-12) during nightly after school activities. This is an ongoing need during each school year. Volunteers have opportunities to help children with homework, play games, do arts and crafts, distribute snacks, and more. During the school year we are open Monday through Friday from 2:30pm-6pm. Volunteer opportunities are available in hourly increments. Please reach out if you enjoy working with children and would like to make a positive impact on their lives!

Looking for volunteers to help serve, set up and take down for our Friday events 

Are you interested in history? We have a unique opportunity to improve our newspaper database!  Volunteer to proofread and edit the Winona City Newspaper Database. We provide all training online and answer your questions.  The work involves reviewing PDF files of a newspaper and then checking the translated text and editing the text to correct any errors. This work can be done anywhere with a computer, web browser, and an internet connection.

Help us survey regional municipalities including cities, townships, counties and area businesses, as well as artists and craftspeople, so we can assemble an inventory of people and resources available to help local schools create outdoor classrooms and nature play areas.

Help create and maintain outdoor classroom spaces at elementary schools in the Winona area. Assist a small team of local volunteers with building outdoor activity stations, gathering natural materials, creating pollinator plantings, and maintaining these spaces.

Life Enrichment programs are designed for adults with disabilities seeking connection and engagement. The programs foster meaningful relationships and enhance personal growth through group activities tailored to individual interests. Participants explore lifelong skills, boost confidence, and strengthen social capabilities while actively integrating into their community.

Community Excursions: Assist staff and program participants on community outings-push a wheelchair, offer companionship and conversation, and offer support and assistance. Make it an enjoyable experience for all persons involved.

Friendship: Come visit, tell a story about your travels or workplace, play a game, and socialize.

Games and Clubs: Run a BINGO game, facilitate a book club, coffee club or other shared interests among program participants.

Are you a skilled baker? Gardener? History buff? Teach a class/share information on a topic of your choosing! There is nothing some of those we work with love more than learning, and we will work with you on designing and running a class for those interested.

If you are interested, please fill out the form at possabilities.com/volunteer!

Looking for individuals who can teach an adaptive dance or yoga class, adapted sport or other movement classes to a group of adults with varying mobility capabilities.

If you are interested, please fill out the form at possabilities.org/volunteer!

Get involved with the arts and work on painting, woodworking, textiles, art facilitation and more.  Share your musical gifts with us by playing an instrument, or teaching a mini class on instrument instruction, songwriting, music composition or whatever your talents.

If you are interested, please fill out the application at possabilities.org/volunteer!

We are in need of people to help set up chairs for events, ticket takers, restack chairs, serve in the coffeehouse, clean up after events.  Of course, you will receive a free ticket to that evening's events.  We also need volunteers for our Free Ink days (4 times a yr) where we are open for families and adults to make cards on our ink press. 

Help introduce local youth to nature through hands-on activities. Training and materials provided through Project Get Outdoors. We will connect you to a local site where you can share your outdoor and nature interests and skills with youth.