Back room
Sorting donations
Opening bags and boxes as they come off the orange tables, deciding what can go on the floor, and setting worn linens aside for the kennels.
Volunteer
There is nobody on payroll here.
That is not a slogan, it is the accounting. Every hour the shop is open is an hour somebody gave it, and every hour it is open is money for the Blytheville Humane Society — vaccinations, heartworm tests, and the spay or neuter surgery Arkansas law requires before any animal can be adopted.
A few hours a week is enough to matter, and there is no minimum commitment. You will not handle an animal on a shift here; the shelter does that work. What you will do is fund it.
Call (870) 623-9964 and ask for Pam, or email info@orphananniesinc.info.
The work
What a shift actually looks like.
Nothing here needs experience. If you can fold a shirt or carry one end of a table, there is a job.
Back room
Cleaning and pricing
Wiping down housewares, checking that small appliances still work, and putting a price on things — low enough to sell, high enough to be worth the shelf space.
Sales floor
Hanging and stocking
Getting clothes onto racks by size, keeping shelves tidy, and rotating seasonal stock so the shop is worth walking into again next week.
Front
Working the register
Taking payment, writing donation receipts, and answering the question every new customer asks: where does the money actually go?
Heavy
Moving furniture
Getting sofas and tables in the door and out again. If you have a truck and a free morning, this is the help we are shortest of.
Anytime
Whatever needs doing
Sweeping, breaking down boxes, a run to the hardware store. Small jobs are most of what keeps a shop open.
Getting started
Call, then come in once and see.
There is no application form and no interview. Ring the store during opening hours, say what you are good at and roughly when you are free, and Pam will tell you when to turn up.