What We Do Here
The purpose of this website is to provide information about volunteer opportunities in the San Francisco Bay Area. Hopefully, volunteerism will be stimulated and facilitated by letting potential volunteers know about the wide range of opportunities open to them and by giving Bay Area non-profit organizations a means of publishing their goals and needs.
If you are considering volunteering, we hope this site helps you find the opportunity you are looking for. Volunteers are needed to do just about anything from repairing computers to picking fruit to making sandwiches. Time commitments can range from a few hours for a single project to as much time as you have available. Try something new. Learn new skills and meet new people.
We provide the most comprehensive searchable database of Bay Area nonprofits with continuing volunteer needs. We do not list individual opportunities. You may search for nonprofits geographically (above), by area of interest (search box above), or by other categories (links in yellow background to the right) to find organizations with the most appropriate opportunities for you.
How to Use This Website to Find Great Volunteer Opportunities Particularly Suitable for You
For example, if you are interested in working with children, type 'children' in the search box below and you will be presented with several pages of appropriate organizations and their websites for you to review and make contact with.
If you wanted to know about organizations only in Alameda County, you could type in 'Alameda' or click on 'Alameda' in the yellow box to the right, or click on 'East Bay' above to get organizations and their websites.
Then go to the listed websites to get more information and make contact through that organization's website to learn more and to set up the opportunity most suitable just for you. Hope this helps!
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Recent Volunteer Opportunities
Huntington’s Disease Society of America (HDSA) SF Bay Area Chapter
https://sanfrancisco.hdsa.org/
Welcome to the Huntington’s Disease Society of America’s (HDSA) San Francisco Bay Area Chapter. We are a part of HDSA’s Pacific West Region. In California, the affiliate extends from Santa Rosa to Gilroy, including the city of San Francisco, Oakland, and …
Catchillinzone
Volunteers: Provide the daily care and attention our residents need for living happy lives. Some of these activities are washing feeding bowls, filling drinking bowls, renewing litter boxes, and vacuuming cat trees or rugs and various facility projects. We also …
Sequoia Living
https://sequoialiving.org/volunteer-with-empowering-children-bay-area/
Founded in 1958, Sequoia Living is a Bay Area nonprofit organization that provides stimulating, joyful living environments and services that enrich the lives of older adults from all economic backgrounds. Through our diverse network of life plan communities, affordable housing communities, and community …
Instituto Familiar de la Raza
https://www.ifrsf.org/volunteer
The mission of Instituto Familiar de la Raza (IFR) is to promote and enhance the health and well-being of the Chicano/Latino/Indígena community of San Francisco. Serving over 6,000 clients each year, IFR provides health & wellness programs & services targeting the …
Sexual Assault & Domestic Violence Response and Recovery Team (SARRT)
https://www.alamedahealthsystem.org/
The Sexual Assault & Domestic Violence Response and Recovery Team at Highland Hospital in Oakland has both in-person and virtual opportunities to provide care and support to victims of domestic violence and sexual assault, including hotline counseling, medical and legal …
Kids Cooking For Life
https://www.kidscookingforlife.org/
Kids Cooking For Life teaches nutrition and inspires lifelong healthy eating through hands-on cooking to students in low-income communities throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. Join our team as a volunteer Assistant Instructor. As an Assistant Instructor, you are there …
En Acte Arts Inc
EnActe Arts is a company that seeks to bring affordable, high quality to theatrical and film performances to the bay area community. We have constant need for volunteers to accomplish this goal, such as ushers and supervisors for ongoing events. …
Scholar Match
https://scholarmatch.org/get-involved/volunteer/
VOLUNTEER COLLEGE COACH (VIRTUAL) Having a college degree is one of the most powerful ways to increase economic mobility in society. However, most first-generation college students face the unique challenge of having little to no guidance in applying to college. …
Women’s Daytime Drop-In Center
Women’s Daytime Drop-In Center gives out free breakfast and lunch, groceries and other supplies each, Monday through Friday. to unhoused and low income women and children — Mon – Fri 8:30 – 3:30. We are currently looking for volunteers to …
Colma Historical Association Museum
The Colma Historical Association was founded in 1993 in order to collect, preserve and display documents and artifacts and to provide information about the history of the Town of Colma. Our museum, in its present location since 2003, depicts the …
Huntington’s Disease Society of America (HDSA) SF Bay Area Chapter
https://sanfrancisco.hdsa.org/
Welcome to the Huntington’s Disease Society of America’s (HDSA) San Francisco Bay Area Chapter. We are a part of HDSA’s Pacific West Region. In California, the affiliate extends from Santa Rosa to Gilroy, including the city of San Francisco, Oakland, and …
Catchillinzone
Volunteers: Provide the daily care and attention our residents need for living happy lives. Some of these activities are washing feeding bowls, filling drinking bowls, renewing litter boxes, and vacuuming cat trees or rugs and various facility projects. We also …
Sequoia Living
https://sequoialiving.org/volunteer-with-empowering-children-bay-area/
Founded in 1958, Sequoia Living is a Bay Area nonprofit organization that provides stimulating, joyful living environments and services that enrich the lives of older adults from all economic backgrounds. Through our diverse network of life plan communities, affordable housing communities, and community …
Instituto Familiar de la Raza
https://www.ifrsf.org/volunteer
The mission of Instituto Familiar de la Raza (IFR) is to promote and enhance the health and well-being of the Chicano/Latino/Indígena community of San Francisco. Serving over 6,000 clients each year, IFR provides health & wellness programs & services targeting the …
Sexual Assault & Domestic Violence Response and Recovery Team (SARRT)
https://www.alamedahealthsystem.org/
The Sexual Assault & Domestic Violence Response and Recovery Team at Highland Hospital in Oakland has both in-person and virtual opportunities to provide care and support to victims of domestic violence and sexual assault, including hotline counseling, medical and legal …
Kids Cooking For Life
https://www.kidscookingforlife.org/
Kids Cooking For Life teaches nutrition and inspires lifelong healthy eating through hands-on cooking to students in low-income communities throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. Join our team as a volunteer Assistant Instructor. As an Assistant Instructor, you are there …
En Acte Arts Inc
EnActe Arts is a company that seeks to bring affordable, high quality to theatrical and film performances to the bay area community. We have constant need for volunteers to accomplish this goal, such as ushers and supervisors for ongoing events. …
Scholar Match
https://scholarmatch.org/get-involved/volunteer/
VOLUNTEER COLLEGE COACH (VIRTUAL) Having a college degree is one of the most powerful ways to increase economic mobility in society. However, most first-generation college students face the unique challenge of having little to no guidance in applying to college. …
Women’s Daytime Drop-In Center
Women’s Daytime Drop-In Center gives out free breakfast and lunch, groceries and other supplies each, Monday through Friday. to unhoused and low income women and children — Mon – Fri 8:30 – 3:30. We are currently looking for volunteers to …
Colma Historical Association Museum
The Colma Historical Association was founded in 1993 in order to collect, preserve and display documents and artifacts and to provide information about the history of the Town of Colma. Our museum, in its present location since 2003, depicts the …
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