10 Volunteer Opportunities to Try This Week
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This week, we're rounding up 10 volunteer opportunities that are ✨ live ✨ on idealist.org and span the United States (with a couple remote opportunities that can be completed from anywhere)!
Brooklyn Community Cleanup Day – Volunteers Needed! with Find Community Connection Project
📍Kings County, NY
Join Find Community Connection Project (FCCP) and Little Haiti BK. We’re bringing volunteers together to help clean and beautify the Little Haiti BK community. This is a great opportunity for students, families, community members, and groups looking to give back and earn community service/volunteer hours.
Change a Life, Teach Someone English with San Gabriel Valley Literacy Council
📍Hybrid Opportunity in California, US
Help adults succeed through language, connection and community.
Volunteer Coalition-Builder with Democratism
📍Remote Opportunity Based in Illinois, US
As a volunteer Coalition-Builder, you build a local coalition for this effort in your own community. You should be ready to reach out to people, make connections, and bring organizations and allies into the work. You will not do it alone: we provide guidance and support, and research on whom to approach. But the outreach and the relationships are yours to make.
Lead an NSPN Chapter with National Substance Prevention Network(NSPN)
📍Remote Opportunity
Apply to become an NSPN Chapter Leader and build leadership experience while making an impact in your school or community.
Light The Night Westchester Hudson Valley with Blood Cancer United, Inc.
📍Rye, NY
At Light The Night, we gather as a community to celebrate, honor, and remember those touched by cancer. Friends, families, schools, corporate teams, and sponsors join together to bring light to the darkness of cancer. The funds raised by this community fund lifesaving research, advocacy and support for blood cancer patients and their families.
Social Media Specialist with LGBTQ+ Assoc. Far
📍Remote Opportunity
Reporting to the Social Media Director, the Social Media Specialist will plan, write, and publish the content on FAR's social channels, which for many people are the first place they encounter us.
Helping Elders is Awesome! with ElderHelpers.org
📍Milwaukee, WI
Have some time and compassion to spare? We put you in touch with elders in need of care who don't require special skills, just good-hearted people. Help Elders with activities that you enjoy on a schedule that works best for you.
Deliver Warm Welcomes & Essential Resources to Refugees in Tucson with The Welcome to America Project
📍Tucson, AZ
Spend your Saturday morning doing something meaningful and fun by delivering furniture, household essentials, and a warm welcome to newly arrived refugee families. You’ll help transport household items, unload furniture, unpack essentials, and help set up a warm space for a family’s fresh start.
Biodiversity & Climate Citizen Scientist with Earthwise Aware
📍Winchester, MA
You can make a meaningful contribution to our collective understanding of biodiversity and conservation. Earthwise Aware trains community members to support national research on how climate change affects the life cycles of plants, insects, and other organisms. Participation is easy, engaging, and no prior experience is required.
Hospice Volunteer with Bayou City Hospice, LLC
📍Kingwood, TX
Are you a good listener or enjoy reading, writing, watching tv or simply sitting with someone who is lonely? Opportunities from companionship, administrative duties, making phone calls, running errands, preparing small treats can make a world of difference to a patient in this season of their life.
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