Volunteer Groups
Volunteer groups help make the House a home, providing meals, entertainment and activities. In 2019, groups provided 588 meals for our families at our Cleveland House alone. In 2020, even with the suspension of meal groups, our Akron and Cleveland House programs served over 50,000 individual meals–meals that our families would not have been able to safely get on their own.
While the pandemic forced us to temporarily suspend volunteer activity, our groups were never far, contributing financially, sending supplies and catering meals. Simply put, we could not give our families this level of service without your generosity and commitment. If you are able, we are still in need of monetary donations to help provide meals to our families.
Now, we’re excited to welcome volunteer groups back into our Cleveland House! Akron House volunteer group activities remain suspended at this time.
We serve three meals per day at the House. This removes a huge financial burden from our families, and takes away the stress of having to figure out what, when and where to eat in an unfamiliar place. We’ve implemented new 
Our 2+ acres of outdoor space include vegetable & herb gardens, cooking & dining areas, furnished patios, a koi pond, play areas, contemplative walkway and quite places to sit amongst the greenery. Next to meals, our gardens are consistently ranked as one of the amenities most appreciated by families at the House. Since the beginning of the pandemic, our outdoor space has become even more important as a safe and peaceful place families can go to ease their stress.
At our Akron Ronald McDonald House, volunteer groups are a tremendous help with many of our larger projects. Groups can be from 4-6 people at one time with projects around 2-hours in duration. If the group is new to the House we spend the first portion of the visit with a tour of our House and information about our mission and history. This allows the group members to better understand exactly how their volunteer work helps our families.