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
Marin Symphony
Volunteering your time and energy to the Marin Symphony Association is a great way to reap significant cultural and social benefits while providing vital support to our organization. Like all cultural institutions, we couldn’t function without our volunteers! In turn, …
Marin County Search and Rescue
You know that we are the Search and Rescue team, but what is it that we do? We… …search for missing people in the wilderness and urban settings all over California …get paged out for a search mission (usually at …
Marin County Civic Center Volunteers
http://www.co.marin.ca.us/depts/HR/ccvol/opngs.cfm
There are several volunteer opportunities available with the Marin County Civic Center in the following areas: Child Support Services Community Development Courts Cultural Services Fire Health and Human Services Housing Authority Human Resources Law Library Marin Advocates for Children Marin …
Marin Community Food Bank
Effective January 1, 2011, San Francisco Food Bank and Marin Food Bank are partnering to accomplish the singular goal of feeding more people at risk of hunger in Marin. Since 2008, both Food Banks have been serving Marin, each distributing …
Marin Advocates for Children
Marin Advocates for Children’s mission is two-fold: preventing abuse and advocating for the best interests of children. MAC has two programs: Marin Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) and Marin Child Abuse Prevention Council (CAPC). With our two programs, MAC not …
March of Dimes
http://www.marchofdimes.com/california
In local communities across the country, we’re helping moms take charge of their health, and supporting families when something goes wrong. The March of Dimes also acts globally: sharing best practices in perinatal health and helping improve birth outcomes where …
Make-A-Wish Foundation
http://sf.wish.org/ways-to-help/volunteering
Since 1980, the Make-A-Wish Foundation® has enriched the lives of children with life-threatening medical conditions through its wish-granting work. The Foundation’s mission reflects the life-changing impact that a Make-A-Wish® experience has on children, families, referral sources, donors, sponsors and entire …
Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford
Welcome to Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital. With over 650 physicians and 4750 staff support and volunteers, Packard Children’s Hospital is a world-class, non-profit hospital devoted entirely to the care of babies, children, adolescents and expectant mothers. Because we’re an academic …
Los Medicos Voladores – “The Flying Doctors”
Los Médicos Voladores (LMV) — in Spanish, the flying doctors — is a volunteer-based nonprofit organization that aims to improve the health and well-being of geographically diverse peoples through education and the provision of no-cost, high-quality medical, dental, and optometric …
Lorenzen Cancer Foundation
Cancer Patients Alliance is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization led by a Medical Director and a five-member scientific board of highly regarded specialists in oncology from around the world. The mission of the Foundation is to promote awareness, increase education, and …
Marin Symphony
Volunteering your time and energy to the Marin Symphony Association is a great way to reap significant cultural and social benefits while providing vital support to our organization. Like all cultural institutions, we couldn’t function without our volunteers! In turn, …
Marin County Search and Rescue
You know that we are the Search and Rescue team, but what is it that we do? We… …search for missing people in the wilderness and urban settings all over California …get paged out for a search mission (usually at …
Marin County Civic Center Volunteers
http://www.co.marin.ca.us/depts/HR/ccvol/opngs.cfm
There are several volunteer opportunities available with the Marin County Civic Center in the following areas: Child Support Services Community Development Courts Cultural Services Fire Health and Human Services Housing Authority Human Resources Law Library Marin Advocates for Children Marin …
Marin Community Food Bank
Effective January 1, 2011, San Francisco Food Bank and Marin Food Bank are partnering to accomplish the singular goal of feeding more people at risk of hunger in Marin. Since 2008, both Food Banks have been serving Marin, each distributing …
Marin Advocates for Children
Marin Advocates for Children’s mission is two-fold: preventing abuse and advocating for the best interests of children. MAC has two programs: Marin Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) and Marin Child Abuse Prevention Council (CAPC). With our two programs, MAC not …
March of Dimes
http://www.marchofdimes.com/california
In local communities across the country, we’re helping moms take charge of their health, and supporting families when something goes wrong. The March of Dimes also acts globally: sharing best practices in perinatal health and helping improve birth outcomes where …
Make-A-Wish Foundation
http://sf.wish.org/ways-to-help/volunteering
Since 1980, the Make-A-Wish Foundation® has enriched the lives of children with life-threatening medical conditions through its wish-granting work. The Foundation’s mission reflects the life-changing impact that a Make-A-Wish® experience has on children, families, referral sources, donors, sponsors and entire …
Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford
Welcome to Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital. With over 650 physicians and 4750 staff support and volunteers, Packard Children’s Hospital is a world-class, non-profit hospital devoted entirely to the care of babies, children, adolescents and expectant mothers. Because we’re an academic …
Los Medicos Voladores – “The Flying Doctors”
Los Médicos Voladores (LMV) — in Spanish, the flying doctors — is a volunteer-based nonprofit organization that aims to improve the health and well-being of geographically diverse peoples through education and the provision of no-cost, high-quality medical, dental, and optometric …
Lorenzen Cancer Foundation
Cancer Patients Alliance is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization led by a Medical Director and a five-member scientific board of highly regarded specialists in oncology from around the world. The mission of the Foundation is to promote awareness, increase education, and …
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