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  • Vision 2035
    • Vision 2035 Bison
    • Vision 2035 Hub
    • Vision 2035 Horses
    • Vision 2035 Homes
    • Vision 2035 Firewood
  • WHAT WE DO
    • Our Mission, Vision and Values
    • Alleviating Poverty
    • Gen7 Youth >
      • For schools and youth groups
      • Why Gen7 Youth
    • indigenous wisdom
    • Reconciliation
  • HOW TO HELP
    • Donate >
      • Sustainers Circle
      • Donor Advised Funds - DAF
      • Vision 2035
    • Volunteering at Tipi Raisers >
      • Food and Supplies Needed
    • Volunteer Service Trips
    • For schools and youth groups
    • Horse Society >
      • Meet Our Herd
    • more ways to help >
      • Donor Advised Funds - DAF
      • Corporate Matching
      • Organization's Wish List
      • ENGAGING YOUR NETWORKS
      • Program Partners
  • WHO WE ARE
    • Tipi Raisers Team
    • Board of Directors
    • The Organization >
      • 2024 Impact Report
      • 2023 Impact Report
      • 2022 Impact Report
      • 2021 Impact Report
      • Communities Served >
        • About Pine Ridge
        • About Hopi
        • About the Navajo Nation
    • Our Mission, Vision and Values >
      • Our Mission In Action
      • Reciprocity Model
    • Featured Volunteer >
      • Previously Featured Volunteers
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 VOLUNTEER
​SERVICE TRIPS

VOLUNTEER SERVICE TRIPS

"Amazing non profit that applies best practices to serve, advocate and honor our Native  communities while procuring reconciliation and peacemaking. Great staff and great environment to volunteer"! - 2022 Hopi Nation Volunteer
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2025 Volunteer Service Trip Schedule:

March 16 - 22:
Hopi & Navajo Nations, AZ

May 23 - 29:
Hopi & Navajo Nations, AZ

August 22 - 28:
Hopi & Navajo Nations, AZ

Volunteer Service Trips are available to individuals, families or groups on a first-come, first-served basis. There are 30 spots available on each trip.

While service is the top priority on these trips, we strive to incorporate a combination of community building, cultural education, reconciliation dialogues and recreation on each trip.

Sign up soon as Volunteer Service Trips tend to fill up fast!

*Dates and locations are subject to change for a variety of unforeseen circumstances.
REGISTER FOR VOLUNTEER SERVICE TRIPS
Projects include repairing homes in need of windows, doors or handicap ramps, etc., or cutting and distributing firewood, assembling and delivering requested donations or food and supply boxes. Other service opportunities typically arise organically during the trip. Projects are based on the skill level and interests of the volunteers. Many of these projects are done cooperatively with Tribal members. 
​PLEASE NOTE: ​
  • It is a 14 hour drive if driving from Colorado to Arizona, please plan accordingly.
  • Modest lodging is provided and can be rustic and without privacy.  Please feel free to bring a travel trailer, tent or RV.  
  • ​Food is provided but if you have specific food requirements please bring what you need and there will be room for you to store it.
  • Trip orientation packet and packing list will be sent upon registration.
  • Transportation is not provided.
  • Service trips tend to require varying levels of physical labor, please communicate with our team if you have concerns about this.
  • There is a $250 cancellation fee if you sign up and either don't show or cancel within 3 weeks of the trip.
For more information, please contact Mackenzie Tilton.
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In accordance with the easing of tribal Covid-19 restrictions and continued downward trends in CDC-reported COVID-19 cases nationwide, we have made the decision to lift our prior requirement for proof of vaccination or negative COVID-19 test results ahead of volunteer trips.

We continue to practice hand-washing and proper sanitizing protocols on trips, and ask that individuals experiencing symptoms of COVID-19 directly prior to or during a trip to quarantine themselves until the appropriate isolation time per CDC-guidelines has elapsed.
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There is no fee to attend a volunteer service trip, but we do ask that volunteers give back to the best of their ability. As such, we provide ways that you may do your own fundraising and strongly encourage you to engage your friends, family and professional network to help offset our costs for offering these trips free of charge. 

Ways to reciprocate:
Set up a PEER TO PEER FUNDRAISER with a goal of raising $1,000. Click HERE to learn more!

Make a DONATION directly to Tipi Raisers.


Discuss adopting or sponsoring a project with Tipi Raiser's staff prior to the trip.

​Collect needed building materials for your service trip.

Share a testimonial on the Great Nonprofits website to keep our  "top rated" status going!
"When a society loses the sacred - when everything has a monetary value, the commoditization of human life cannibalizes itself."
- Basil Brave Heart
  


In alignment with this Indigenous wisdom from Lakota elder, Basil Brave Heart, all Tipi Raiser's events and programs - including service trips - are FREE. We trust that those who join us will receive the gift that is inherent in their experience and that they will give back to the best of their ability - in this way, we can all stay in balance. 
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Examples of Past Service Projects:
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  • Roof and flooring repairs on 17th century home of Hopi elder.
  • Cutting, stacking and delivering firewood.
  • Landscaping on the Southern Ute football field.
  • Hosting multiple community meals, holiday celebrations and gatherings in support of requests from local community requests.
  • Reconstruction of burned out house interiors.
  • Winterizing hundreds of homes (working on windows, siding and roofs).
  • Filling and laying sandbags during floods after bomb cyclone blizzard.
  • Organizing food and material donations and distributing as needed.
  • Working to restore the Wounded Knee Community Center in Pine Ridge.
  • Planting, tending and harvesting multiple community gardens.
  • Delivery of over 100 mattresses.
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The Tipi Raisers is a registered nonprofit in Colorado and South Dakota and recognized by the Internal Revenue Service as a 501 (C)(3). All donations are tax deductible and a receipt will be mailed or emailed.

Donations can be made online or mailed to:
3336 Arapahoe Road
Unit B-186
Erie, CO 80516

All media/graphics/photographs on this website © 2013 The Tipi Raisers/Ti Ikciya Pa Slata Pi.
Copyright © 2018 The Tipi Raisers

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