Volunteer: 18 Ideas for Volunteering With Non-profits

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Volunteer: 18 Ideas for Volunteering With Non-profits

These volunteer opportunities help support the hard work of specific non-profit organizations.

We found a variety of causes and ways to serve others, plus we included some of our favourites!

  1. Sign up with Volunteer Now to find local organizations that match up with your interests and family members’ ages. You will get notifications about opportunities that you otherwise wouldn’t have known about.
  2. Participate in organized volunteer or community service projects. Invite others to join you.
  3. Hold a book drive for your favourite organisation: They bring free books to the nation’s poorest communities and under-resourced libraries. Check out the variety of options on our Volunteer Now site.
  4. Gather some friends or coordinate with a club advisor to write letters to lonely senior citizens through Love for the Elderly.
  5. Sign up to deliver food to seniors and older adults through Meals on Wheels.
  6. Participate in a walk or run for a good cause that matters to your family. Park Run is a great resource for finding running events in your city or state across the US.
  7. Sign up for virtual activity that benefits a non-profit organization.
  8. Volunteer at a community garden (find one near you).
  9. Organize or distribute food at a local food bank. Even better, host a canned food drive and donate it to the food bank. Dry food and cans work best for organisations as the SA Government has closed down many soup kitchens,
  10. Find a local non-profit and offer to help with cleaning and/or organization. Your local church or even your school could use your help.
  11. The YMCA welcomes volunteers of diverse abilities, so there are lots of options here.
  12. Pack a shoebox for Santa’s Shoe Box.
  13. Start your own Little Free Library If you sing or play an instrument, contact a nursing home or local hospitals to find out how you can use your talent on a regular basis to bring some joy to patients.
  14. Plant a garden and share extra produce with a church or local food bank (contact them first).
  15. Foster an animal through a local animal shelter or rescue organization.
  16. If you love photography, offer to take pictures at local non-profit events.
  17. Organize an Angel Tree Christmas at your church, Estate or organization for the children of prisoners in your area.
  18. Crochet or knit a beanie or 12 to donate to a variety of organisations on our platform. It will control your anxiety in the process