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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

Soul Shoppe

Soul Shoppe supports school communities by providing interactive > workshops and assemblies that teach students useful communication > skills, conflict resolution and community building. We provide > programs that teach students important skills to support them in all > areas …
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Midpeninsula Community Music Center

The Midpeninsula Community Media Center is a non-profit organization where every citizen can make a difference. Use it to: -Learn Video Production Make Shows on Local Cable TV Access Channels -View Programs on the Cable Channels or this Web Site …
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Reach Potential Movement

To equip youth and families with leadership, learning and life skills to strengthen our community. Ongoing opportunities to volunteer in our reading readiness program to tutor elementary students as well as a variety of other programs held throughout the year.

Doctors Medical Center

The staff and patients at Doctors Medical Center need YOU! Become a hospital volunteer and join the Doctors Medical Center (DMC) Service League! As a volunteer you will receive training, support and satisfaction in knowing you are making a difference. …
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Vibha

Vibha is a volunteer driven non-profit organization working towards the cause of underprivileged children. Started in 1996, the Bay Area Action Center was one of the first few Vibha action centers in US. Vibha Bay Area is a group of …
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Asante Africa Foundation

Asante Africa Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that promotes quality educational access and leadership development for children in East Africa (Kenya and Tanzania). Asante Africa Foundation believes in the power of knowledge as a catalyst to help young people …
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Citizen Schools

Teach what you know and love to low-income middle schoolers in the East Bay, South Bay, or on the Peninsula with Citizen Schools! Volunteers are needed to teach students topics from robotics to soccer to law in 10-week apprenticeships (90 …
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