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
International Institute of the Bay Area
For ninety years in Northern California, people have trusted the International Institutes to give fair, accurate, and low cost legal advice on more than fifty USCIS federal government procedures that can move you and your families toward becoming US citizens, …
Rape Trauma Services
http://www,rapetraumaservices.org
Our services are for all survivors of sexual assault or abuse, whether it happened yesterday or many years ago, and their loved ones. Rape is an act of violence and cruelty, which knows no cultural, ethnic, racial, age, or gender …
Mission Graduates Tutoring Center
http://www.missiongraduates.org
Mission Graduates Tutoring Center believe that every child can go to college, and we are working our best to make college a reality. Starting from Kindergarten on, our Tutoring Centers infuse college-messaging into our curriculum to help students believe that …
San Francisco Child Abuse Prevention Center
Description of Organization and/or Volunteer Opportunities Available: The San Francisco Child Abuse Prevention Center is dedicated to the prevention of child abuse and neglect, the promotion of healthy families and the mental health of children. We need volunteers for our …
San Francisco Architectural Heritage/Haas-Lilienthal
The Haas-Lilienthal House is an historic house museum and landmark located in the Pacific Heights neighborhood of San Francisco. The house is maintained by SF Architectural Heritage. There are several gardens adjacent to the House that require extensive care and …
Optimal Hospice
Optimal began proving home health care in 1992 and today is one of the largest providers of home health in Kern, Tulare and Kings Counties. Providing home nursing, therapy, social work and supportive services to people who have experienced serious …
Global Women’s Leadership Network
Global Women’s Leadership Network (GWLN) exists to help women step out of survival and dependence into their inherent power, enabling the transformation of world conditions – woman by woman. Our policy is to work for women, in partnership with individuals, …
SF Ocean Edge
SF Ocean Edge supports the protection of the habitat and parkland in the western end of Golden Gate Park. We are currently working to protect the park from an urbanized soccer complex and to provide alternatives for the location of …
VIDA USA
VIDA has been serving underprivileged communities in Latin America since 1991 by providing them with medicines, medical supplies and equipment donated to us by San Francisco Bay Area hospitals, clinics and individuals. Through such donations we helped to provide care …
Tibetan Aid Project
http://www.tibetanaidproject.org
Tibetan Aid Project (TAP) is one organization within a collective founded by Tarthang Tulku in the early 1970s. The main focus of our efforts here at TAP is fundraising to support the preservation and perpetuation of Tibetan culture and heritage. …
International Institute of the Bay Area
For ninety years in Northern California, people have trusted the International Institutes to give fair, accurate, and low cost legal advice on more than fifty USCIS federal government procedures that can move you and your families toward becoming US citizens, …
Rape Trauma Services
http://www,rapetraumaservices.org
Our services are for all survivors of sexual assault or abuse, whether it happened yesterday or many years ago, and their loved ones. Rape is an act of violence and cruelty, which knows no cultural, ethnic, racial, age, or gender …
Mission Graduates Tutoring Center
http://www.missiongraduates.org
Mission Graduates Tutoring Center believe that every child can go to college, and we are working our best to make college a reality. Starting from Kindergarten on, our Tutoring Centers infuse college-messaging into our curriculum to help students believe that …
San Francisco Child Abuse Prevention Center
Description of Organization and/or Volunteer Opportunities Available: The San Francisco Child Abuse Prevention Center is dedicated to the prevention of child abuse and neglect, the promotion of healthy families and the mental health of children. We need volunteers for our …
San Francisco Architectural Heritage/Haas-Lilienthal
The Haas-Lilienthal House is an historic house museum and landmark located in the Pacific Heights neighborhood of San Francisco. The house is maintained by SF Architectural Heritage. There are several gardens adjacent to the House that require extensive care and …
Optimal Hospice
Optimal began proving home health care in 1992 and today is one of the largest providers of home health in Kern, Tulare and Kings Counties. Providing home nursing, therapy, social work and supportive services to people who have experienced serious …
Global Women’s Leadership Network
Global Women’s Leadership Network (GWLN) exists to help women step out of survival and dependence into their inherent power, enabling the transformation of world conditions – woman by woman. Our policy is to work for women, in partnership with individuals, …
SF Ocean Edge
SF Ocean Edge supports the protection of the habitat and parkland in the western end of Golden Gate Park. We are currently working to protect the park from an urbanized soccer complex and to provide alternatives for the location of …
VIDA USA
VIDA has been serving underprivileged communities in Latin America since 1991 by providing them with medicines, medical supplies and equipment donated to us by San Francisco Bay Area hospitals, clinics and individuals. Through such donations we helped to provide care …
Tibetan Aid Project
http://www.tibetanaidproject.org
Tibetan Aid Project (TAP) is one organization within a collective founded by Tarthang Tulku in the early 1970s. The main focus of our efforts here at TAP is fundraising to support the preservation and perpetuation of Tibetan culture and heritage. …
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