Welcome to EENP's volunteer site! Your help changes lives -- whether the lives of our inmate-trainers as they learn to shape our pups into highly-skilled assistance dogs, or the lives of our clients, who have the support of canine partners to assist them in their daily lives. You might even find that the experience of volunteering changes your own life...
Trainings for volunteer activities, including volunteer orientation and Canine Care & Safety.
| Activity | Shifts | Start | End | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Canine Care & Safety Training | 6 | 6/25/2025 | 11/19/2025 | |
| Volunteer Information Session | 6 | 6/25/2025 | 11/19/2025 | |
Volunteer opportunities related to Client Training seminars.
| Activity | Shifts | Start | End | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Evaluation Helpers - Adult/Child team - Durham Southpoint Mall | 1 | 6/26/2025 | 6/26/2025 | |
| Evaluation Helpers - Adult/Child team - Hillsborough Pizza Hut | 0 | 6/27/2025 | 6/27/2025 | |
| Evaluation Helpers - Novel Dog - Durham Southpoint Mall | 0 | 6/26/2025 | 6/26/2025 | |
| Evaluation Helpers - Novel Dog - Hillsborough Pizza Hut | 0 | 6/27/2025 | 6/27/2025 | |
| Food - Provide snacks and cold drinks for training | 2 | 6/13/2025 | 10/17/2025 | |
| Lunch for clients and staff | 0 | 6/16/2025 | 6/27/2025 | |
| Novel Dog - EENP Office | 0 | 6/16/2025 | 6/19/2025 | |
| Novel Dog - Hillsborough Home Depot | 0 | 6/20/2025 | 6/20/2025 | |
| Off Leash and Bath Class | 0 | 6/25/2025 | 6/25/2025 | |
| Solo "spies" | 2 | 6/26/2025 | 10/30/2025 | |
| Training Room and Office Deep Clean | 2 | 6/12/2025 | 10/16/2025 | |
| Welcome Dinner Helper | 1 | 6/16/2025 | 10/20/2025 | |
Volunteer opportunities related to dog team graduation and associated events.
| Activity | Shifts | Start | End | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Costco Graduation Food Pick-up | 1 | 6/27/2025 | 6/27/2025 | |
| Graduation - Clean Up | 1 | 6/28/2025 | 6/28/2025 | |
| Graduation - Information table | 1 | 6/28/2025 | 6/28/2025 | |
| Graduation - Setup | 1 | 6/28/2025 | 6/28/2025 | |
| Graduation - Video streaming | 2 | 6/28/2025 | 11/1/2025 | |
| Graduation Lunch - Food Pick Up | 1 | 6/28/2025 | 6/28/2025 | |
| Graduation Lunch - Lunch Clean up | 2 | 6/28/2025 | 11/1/2025 | |
| Graduation Lunch - Lunch Setup | 1 | 6/28/2025 | 11/1/2025 | |
Staffing information booth at fairs and festivals.
| Activity | Shifts | Start | End | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pup Socialization Visit With Orange County Department Directors | 1 | 6/27/2025 | 6/27/2025 | |
Activities related to program work -- includes dog training, training assistants, training room assistants, novel dog volunteers, scent sample volunteers, etc. These volunteer opportunities are typically on-going and not event-related.
| Activity | Shifts | Start | End | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Evaluation Helpers - Novel Dog - EENP Office (Hillsborough) | 1 | 6/13/2025 | 6/13/2025 | |
| Office/Training Room Helper with Diabetes | 0 | 6/12/2025 | 6/12/2025 | |
| Pet Dog Assessment | 12 | 7/11/2025 | 10/10/2025 | |
| Puppy Wrangler and Training Room Helper | 6 | 6/12/2025 | 7/24/2025 | |
| Activity | Shifts | Start | End | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pup Transport To/From OCC | 3 | 6/17/2025 | 6/19/2025 | |
| Transport Paris or Sookie to Duke Canine Cognition Center | 0 | 6/13/2025 | 6/26/2025 | |
Pup assignments will be posted here. Please sign up if you are available!
| Activity | Shifts | Start | End | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 06/02/25-06/14/25 Rudolph | 0 | 6/2/2025 | 6/14/2025 | |
| 06/03/25-06/12/25 Wren | 0 | 6/3/2025 | 6/12/2025 | |
| 06/07/25-06/16/25 Stormy | 0 | 6/7/2025 | 6/16/2025 | |
| 06/08/2025-06/12/2025 Clementine (JLAD) (end date could change) | 0 | 6/8/2025 | 6/12/2025 | |
| 06/10/25-06/17/25 Noni | 0 | 6/10/2025 | 6/17/2025 | |
| 06/13/25-06/16/25 Sky | 0 | 6/13/2025 | 6/16/2025 | |
| 06/14/25-09/18/25 Sookie | 0 | 5/20/2025 | 9/18/2025 | |
| 06/18/25-06/22/25 Comet | 0 | 6/18/2025 | 6/22/2025 | |
| 06/18/25-06/22/25 Ori | 0 | 6/18/2025 | 6/22/2025 | |
| 06/19/25-06/22/25 Paris | 1 | 6/19/2025 | 6/22/2025 | |
| 06/21/25-08/14/25 Blitzen | 1 | 6/21/2025 | 8/14/2025 | |
| 06/24/25-07/01/25 Haywood | 0 | 6/24/2025 | 7/1/2025 | |
| 07/01/25-07/09/25 Rivers | 0 | 7/1/2025 | 7/9/2025 | |
| 07/01/25-07/10/25 Cupid | 1 | 7/1/2025 | 7/10/2025 | |
| 07/03/25-07/18/25 Stormy | 1 | 7/3/2025 | 7/18/2025 | |
| 07/07/25-07/10/25 Louise | 0 | 7/7/2025 | 7/10/2025 | |
| 07/10/25-07/17/25 Babette | 1 | 7/10/2025 | 7/17/2025 | |
| 07/28/25-08/10/25 Comet | 0 | 7/28/2025 | 8/10/2025 | |
Volunteer opportunities helping with administrative, management, and technical tasks. Generally these are on-going shifts or as-needed activities (such as stuffing envelopes for a mailing).
| Activity | Shifts | Start | End | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Contact Vets for Graduate Teams (Remote) | 1 | 9/8/2025 | 9/8/2025 | |
| Cook Bland Diet | 7 | 6/30/2025 | 12/29/2025 | |
| Landscaping and Lawn Care (day/time flexible) | 2 | 6/13/2025 | 6/14/2025 | |
| Make Special Treats for Pups | 7 | 6/30/2025 | 12/29/2025 | |
| Provide Carrots and Celery for Training | 29 | 6/16/2025 | 12/29/2025 | |
Sign up for these activities to indicate your interest in helping when needed.
| Activity | Shifts | Start | End | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cook Bland Diet | 1 | |||
| Dog Transport | 1 | |||
| Interested in remote volunteer opportunities during COVID-19 response? | 1 | |||
| Scent Samples | 1 | |||
| Video! | 1 | |||
Eyes Ears Nose and Paws partners people with dogs to improve lives.
We collaborate with the correctional system to train assistance dogs that we partner with people who have disabilities. Our incarcerated trainers develop interpersonal, leadership, and job skills while giving back to the community despite their incarceration; and our clients receive life-changing support for their disabilities in the form of a highly-trained canine partner.
Our mobility service dogs assist people with mobility impairments. These dogs assist with a wide variety of daily tasks, including retrieving items, opening doors, operating buttons and switches, and helping prevent and recover from falls. Our medical alert dogs are trained to detect and alert to changes in medical conditions such as diabetes; retrieve medical kits; and get help in an emergency.
