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!
Find A Volunteer Opportunity
Recent Volunteer Opportunities
Little Brothers – Friends of the Elderly
http://www.littlebrotherssf.org
Little Brothers – Friends of the Elderly is a national network of non-profit volunteer-based organizations committed to relieving isolation and loneliness among the elderly. We offer to people of goodwill the opportunity to join the elderly in friendship and the …
The Plant Exchange
http://www.theplantexchange.com
The Plant Exchange is held every March and October in Oakland. It is fun, free and encourages reuse, recycling, organic living, resource sharing, and information exchange. Come meet other gardeners, landscapers, urban farmers, and outdoor fans who come from all …
ASD Climber Foundation
VOLUNTEERS MAKE A CHANGE FOR MY CHILD WITH AUTISM Do you know how you could best contribute as a volunteer and learning tools to help a kid with autism to reach his full potential? •Are you enthusiastic about supporting a …
San Francisco City Guides
San Francisco City Guides is looking for volunteers to give our famous historical neighborhood walking tours. As the official ambassadors of San Francisco, locals and visitors love our volunteers and the stories they share. But it’s not just about history! …
Youth Community Service
http://www.youthcommunityservice.org
CS programs engage youth in community service activities that promote increased awareness of the needs of their communities and the development of individual community service self-efficacy, and positive emotional and behavioral health. We actively collaborate with a number of K-12 …
The Women’s Building
Every year billions of dollars in tax credits go unclaimed by low-income taxpayers who don’t know they are eligible. VITA volunteers help clients apply all the appropriate tax credits, allowing the people who need it most to get the returns …
Animal Place
Founded in 1989, Animal Place is one of the oldest and largest sanctuaries for farmed animals in the country. Nestled on 600-acres in Grass Valley, CA, Animal Place provides refuge to hundreds of neglected farmed animals. In addition to permanent …
The Marsh
A twenty-five-year-old theater in diverse neighborhood of the Mission, The Marsh cultivates over 600 stunning solo performances per year and provides year-round, high-quality performing arts programs for youth regardless of financial ability. We are a small, “all-hands-on-deck” staff seeking an …
Saffron Strand, Inc
Saffron Strand, Inc. is a unique 501(c)(3) non-profit membership organization whose mission is to get homeless people and those at risk of homelessness off the streets and back to work. Those who join Saffron Strand become members of an all-volunteer …
Treehouse ( a program of the Jamestown Community Center)
http://jamestownsf.org/volunteer
Treehouse, a program of the Jamestown Community Center in San Francisco’s Mission District, is looking for volunteer facilitators to run our counseling and prevention youth groups. Treehouse is a program which places at-risk youth into social support groups with caring, …
Little Brothers – Friends of the Elderly
http://www.littlebrotherssf.org
Little Brothers – Friends of the Elderly is a national network of non-profit volunteer-based organizations committed to relieving isolation and loneliness among the elderly. We offer to people of goodwill the opportunity to join the elderly in friendship and the …
The Plant Exchange
http://www.theplantexchange.com
The Plant Exchange is held every March and October in Oakland. It is fun, free and encourages reuse, recycling, organic living, resource sharing, and information exchange. Come meet other gardeners, landscapers, urban farmers, and outdoor fans who come from all …
ASD Climber Foundation
VOLUNTEERS MAKE A CHANGE FOR MY CHILD WITH AUTISM Do you know how you could best contribute as a volunteer and learning tools to help a kid with autism to reach his full potential? •Are you enthusiastic about supporting a …
San Francisco City Guides
San Francisco City Guides is looking for volunteers to give our famous historical neighborhood walking tours. As the official ambassadors of San Francisco, locals and visitors love our volunteers and the stories they share. But it’s not just about history! …
Youth Community Service
http://www.youthcommunityservice.org
CS programs engage youth in community service activities that promote increased awareness of the needs of their communities and the development of individual community service self-efficacy, and positive emotional and behavioral health. We actively collaborate with a number of K-12 …
The Women’s Building
Every year billions of dollars in tax credits go unclaimed by low-income taxpayers who don’t know they are eligible. VITA volunteers help clients apply all the appropriate tax credits, allowing the people who need it most to get the returns …
Animal Place
Founded in 1989, Animal Place is one of the oldest and largest sanctuaries for farmed animals in the country. Nestled on 600-acres in Grass Valley, CA, Animal Place provides refuge to hundreds of neglected farmed animals. In addition to permanent …
The Marsh
A twenty-five-year-old theater in diverse neighborhood of the Mission, The Marsh cultivates over 600 stunning solo performances per year and provides year-round, high-quality performing arts programs for youth regardless of financial ability. We are a small, “all-hands-on-deck” staff seeking an …
Saffron Strand, Inc
Saffron Strand, Inc. is a unique 501(c)(3) non-profit membership organization whose mission is to get homeless people and those at risk of homelessness off the streets and back to work. Those who join Saffron Strand become members of an all-volunteer …
Treehouse ( a program of the Jamestown Community Center)
http://jamestownsf.org/volunteer
Treehouse, a program of the Jamestown Community Center in San Francisco’s Mission District, is looking for volunteer facilitators to run our counseling and prevention youth groups. Treehouse is a program which places at-risk youth into social support groups with caring, …
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