Make A Difference in Your Community
Are you passionate about helping your neighbors and interested in making an impact as a volunteer? The Lift partners with volunteers in many ways to make affordable car repair and honest advice a reality for all Minnesotans! You can donate your time and talents to support our work to create Safe Cars, Secure Lives – you’ll be a driving force behind our success! Thank you for your support of this important work!
Volunteer Opportunities
Individual Volunteer Opportunities
If you’re interested in volunteering your time to help us make affordable car repair a reality for Minnesotans, we’d love your help! Our individual volunteer opportunities include event support, mailing and office administration projects, making thank you calls and writing cards, tabling outreach, data entry and database support, and more.
Do you have professional experience or a skillset you’d like to share with The Lift? You can let us know by filling out the form below and providing more information. Examples of relevant expertise include, but are certainly not limited to, photography, marketing, language interpretation, event planning, and coding and database management. Staff will be in touch if we have a project we’d like to collaborate on. Thank you for thinking of us and generously sharing your talents with your community!
Please note that we are unable to accept volunteer technicians or service writers, but we are grateful for your interest. We encourage you to explore our other volunteer opportunities!
Group Volunteer Opportunities
Is your group looking for opportunities to support your neighbors by volunteering your time together? We occasionally offer volunteer projects that are suitable for groups, depending on our needs. Please reach out to have a conversation about how we might be able to work together. Thank you for thinking of The Lift as a potential partner in making your community a better place!
Committee Member Volunteer Opportunities
The Lift Garage is occasionally seeking non-elected committee members to volunteer their time alongside board members in three areas: Development, Governance, and Finance. Qualified candidates will have a basic understanding of the structural issues that contribute to poverty, a deep respect for diverse people and situations, a willingness to learn, and be able to serve for at least one year. Ideal candidates will be solid individual contributors who can work collaboratively with others towards The Lift’s mission. To learn more and inquire about current openings, contact The Lift Garage.
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Become A Volunteer
Current Volunteers
The Lift has been powered by volunteers since its founding in 2013. While we have a full staff at our shop, our work is made possible by the dedicated time and talent our volunteer community shares with us. Thank you for giving us the gift of your time to support your neighbors!
“There are many organizations that do duplicative work in the Twin Cities. The Lift is unique in that it doesn’t touch a lot of other spaces. I’ve come to learn even more now about The Lift and the impact on women, and families, in particular.” – Ashley, a current volunteer and Development Committee member
FAQs
The Lift Garage is a low-cost auto repair service that specializes in providing affordable car repair and honest advice. Our customers are Minnesotans who fall within 150% of Federal Poverty Guidelines. When faced with an unexpected car repair, our customers simply cannot afford market-rate repairs – The Lift offers low rates at less than 1/3 the market rate as well as free inspections and other supportive services to keep our neighbors safer on the roads.
As a volunteer, you uplift our work with your time and talent, making it possible for us to use our resources wisely. You make it possible for us to continue serving customers at affordable rates and keeping our community safer on the roads! Learn more about our impact by clicking here.
Unfortunately, we are unable to accept volunteer technicians and service writers, but we are grateful for your interest in volunteering with The Lift! We would love to have your help with other volunteer opportunities – while familiarity with cars is not a requirement for our volunteers, it is a great bonus!
If you’re interested in applying to work at The Lift as a technician or service writer, you can learn about job openings here.
Volunteer roles at The Lift are flexible, and there is no minimum volunteer requirement for most opportunities! We share projects and signups in a monthly newsletter to our volunteer community to opt into as they are able, and you can expect to spend 2-3 hours on a project.
Volunteers play a key role in the success of several fundraising and tabling events throughout the year! You can expect invitations to help at our Spring Fundraising Breakfast, our Fall Brewery Event, Community Car Show, amongst other events. Event support tasks typically include set up, clean up, registration support, collecting donations, giving tours, and more.
If you’re looking for a more hands-on role, consider joining our Events Committee! This group of volunteers collaborates with staff to build on the success of our two signature events, Accelerate Our Action and Gear Up for Good. You’ll work on event-specific strategy and accomplish tasks to execute events that inspire guests, boost community engagement and raise money for The Lift!
Many of our volunteer opportunities take place onsite at our shop in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Other opportunities, such as events and tabling appearances, may take place at different venues around the Twin Cities. We also have occasional remote opportunities, such as making phone calls and supporting data entry.
Thanks for your belief in and support of our mission! You can make a donation or learn more about other ways to contribute to our mission by clicking here. If you are part of an organization or business that is interested in partnering with The Lift Garage, please click here to learn more.
We are changing the world one car at a time – join us!
At The Lift, car repair is a vehicle for repairing lives! With your gifts, we are able to create more secure lives for low-income Minnesotans through low-cost car repair.