Volunteer
Sign up once and coordinators will notify you about search days and tasks that fit your availability. Ground searchers must sign the waiver and check in on-site for safety.
Claim a task from the board
The task board lists what the search needs today: printing and posting flyers, phone calls to tow yards and hospitals, map checks you can do from your couch, supply runs, and equipment rosters for drone and ATV owners. Claim with just your name and phone number — a coordinator may call to coordinate details.
See the task board →Join the ground search roster
Coordinators run organized search blocks with staging locations, grid assignments, and check-in/check-out so everyone is accounted for. Create a free volunteer account and sign the liability waiver (with an emergency contact) — that unlocks the search hub with the volunteer Slack, the live coverage map, and signups for every search day.
Ground searchers must be 18 or older.
Sign up & sign the waiver →You can also apply directly through the nonprofit at silverliningofhope.com/volunteer — you'll automatically receive an invite to the volunteers' Slack group, where day-to-day coordination happens.
Can't search? Equip the searchers. Most-needed items (new or lightly used):
- Boots (sizes vary)
- Binoculars
- Snake gaiters
- Flashlights & headlamps
- Hi-vis safety vests
- Backpacks
Silver Lining of Hope, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit — donations are tax-deductible. All donation options
- Sturdy boots, long pants, water
- Charged phone + power bank
- Weather-appropriate layers
- Signed waiver on file
- Never search alone or on private property without coordinator direction and landowner permission.
- If you find anything significant: don't touch it — mark the location, step back, call the tip line (317-882-9191) and a coordinator.
- Search areas for Tyler are assigned by coordinators to keep coverage organized and searchers safe.