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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2026 Volunteer Service Trip Schedule:

March 8 - 13:
Hopi & Navajo Nations, AZ

May 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.

engage your network

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RESERVATION OUTREACH

Beyond our scheduled Volunteer Service Trips, our outreach efforts on the reservations occur throughout the year. Tipi Raisers volunteers may visit the reservations we serve for various purposes. Whether it's transporting our Native friends, delivering firewood or food, preparing the land for the bison, or participating in a reconciliation initiative, there are often opportunities for volunteer outreach within Native communities. These outreach activities are coordinated by us and may or may not include some of our team members on the trip. Reach out if you would like to get involved!​

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:

• 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.