Retail
These businesses sell office supplies, electronics, furniture, and usually feature a copy and print center inside.
Office Depot, Staples
This employer is one of our worksites for our Paid Internship Program, and is a pizza restaurant with several locations in California, including in Ventura, Oxnard, Camarillo, and Port Hueneme.
Pizza Man Dan's
This employer is a pharmacy and convenience store, providing prescription-filling services, health and wellness products, health information, and photo services. The closest one to our office is 1.0 miles away, or a 4-minute drive.
Walgreens
This employer is an animal rescue and cat and dog adoption center located in the Thousand Oaks mall.
Paw Works
This is a humanitarian organization that provides emergency assistance, disaster relief, and disaster preparedness education. Some volunteer opportunities involve blood collection support, the disaster action team, and installing free smoke alarms in homes.
American Red Cross
This employer is the largest home improvement retailer in the United States. Employees who work here help customers looking for tools, construction products, and other home improvement services.
Home Depot
This employer is a fast food chain specializing in American-style Mexican cuisine, offering burritos and tacos, as well as burgers, fries, and shakes. The closest chain to our program is located on Rose Ave.
Del Taco
This employer is a warehouse that only members are allowed to shop from. They sell a huge variety of items, including bulk groceries, electronics, clothes, and more. They also have a pharmacy and optometrist on-site, a food court, a gas station, and a car and tire services.
Costco
The Canine Adoption and Rescue League (CARL) serves all breeds, and is a no-kill dog rescue and adoption organization, rescuing and placing thousands of unwanted, sick, abandoned, and homeless dogs. Volunteers are able to help out with CARL by doing any of these tasks.
- Direct dog care
- Adoption events
- Outreach, community support, marketing
- Boutique thrift store
- Facility support
The Community Roots Garden in Oxnard is where we had our costume party at this year. Volunteers are invited to help with digging, weeding, composting, planting, cooking, and painting every week on these 2 days.
Wednesdays and Saturdays
This is a shopping center in Ventura County located just off highway 101. There are about 160 retailers located here, including Adidas, The North Face, Lululemon, Vans, and Nike.
The Camarillo Outlets
This employer is described as an American fast casual restaurant, specializing in fish tacos. The closest chain is 1.2 miles away from our office, or a 5-minute drive.
Rubio's
This grocery store offers a "Personal Shopper" employee position where you take customers' online orders and prepare those items into bags for the customer to pick up later. These shifts are flexible and can occur throughout the day, and need to be at least 4-hours long. Also, this employer is popularly known for its organic selections.
Whole Foods
This employer sells pet products, services, and small pets. Jobseekers interested in a career here can help with retail, grooming salons, pet hotels, distribution centers, and call centers. The closest location to our office is 1.0 miles away, or a 5-minute drive.
PetSmart
The Oxnard Performing Arts Center is an organization that promotes connection through engagement with the arts. They would like volunteers to help with the following kinds of tasks.
- Gardening/landscaping
- Venue upkeep/maintenance
- Administration and office tasks
This employer carries a variety of arts and crafts materials, party supplies, fabric, and home-decor items. Every Monday morning, they receive 12-16 palettes of product in their warehouse behind their store.
Hobby Lobby
This employer is one of our worksites for our Paid Internship Program, and serves healthy shakes, smoothies, and teas.
All Shook Up
All the employees of this supermarket store are members of a union, meaning that all the employees work together to protect their wages, work hours, and other working conditions. Their logo displays all the letters of their name in the color red.
Vons
This employer provides overnight boarding, daycare, spa services, and a retail store to dog owners. Our program also toured this worksite earlier this fall.
Dioji K-9 Resort & Athletic Club
VolunteerMatch, United Way
This employer provides a wide range of fabrics and sewing supplies, and other arts and crafts items. Before COVID, this store would also offer classes and workshops to their customers.
JOANN Fabrics and Crafts
This employer is a casual breakfast and lunch restaurant offering waffles, omelets, sandwiches, and more. Their location is just a few doors down from our office.
Cafe Amri
This grocery store is known for its unique products. Their employees, or Crew Members, are expected to be knowledgeable about their products, as well as friendly to customers.
Trader Joe's
The Stepping Stones Riding Program provides riding lessons and horse experiences to the economically disadvantaged in Ventura County. They currently work with 12 horses and 2 ponies. Volunteers can help the Riding Program by performing these activities.
- Grooming and tacking of horses
- Leading and sidewalking with students during lessons and rides
- General horse care
- Stall/pasture cleaning and maintenance
- Feeding of all animals (horses, cats, goats)
- Assisting with fundraising
- Assisting with birthday parties
This organization helps feed the hungry in Ventura County, and offers several volunteer opportunities, including packing produce, packing disaster boxers, packing senior kits, distributing food boxes, wrapping labels onto canned foods, helping at food pantries, driving a bread truck, making reminder phone calls, and assisting at the Senior Garden.
Food Share