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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

Telegraph Hill Neighborhood Center

Telegraph Hill Neighborhood Center

Founded in 1890, Telegraph Hill Neighborhood Center (Tel-Hi) builds community strength for the neighborhoods of northeast San Francisco in three ways: Tel-Hi provides services for 600 people each day to increase their well-being. Tel-Hi brings the neighborhood together through celebrations …
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Coaching Corps

One Goal. Countless Victories. Coaching Corps works to create a world in which all kids have sports opportunities that teach valuable life lessons. What We Do We help create after-school sports opportunities for girls and boys that build their confidence …
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Tax Aide – AARP Tax Counseling

Tax Aide - AARP Tax Counseling

AARP Foundation Tax-Aide, an AARP Foundation program, helps low- to moderate-income taxpayers have more discretionary income for everyday essentials, such as food and housing, by assisting with tax services and ensuring they receive applicable tax credits and deductions. AARP Foundation …
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Taproot Foundation

Taproot Foundation

Most organizations tackling social problems don’t have access to the marketing, design, technology, management or strategic planning resources they need to succeed. Without this talent, few are able to have their intended impact on critical issues like the environment, health …
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Rosetta Project

Rosetta Project

The Rosetta Project is The Long Now Foundation’s first exploration into very long-term archiving. It serves as a means to focus attention on the problem of digital obsolescence, and ways we might address that problem through creative archival storage methods. …
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Ronald McDonald House of San Francisco

Ronald McDonald House of San Francisco

Parents of an ill child are not prepared for the emotional and financial toll an illness takes on the entire family. Today, highly specialized hospitals can save the lives of children who would have been lost ten or even five …
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Rocket Dog Rescue

Rocket Dog Rescue

We rescue not for politics, fortune, or fame, my friend… but for the kiss of a dog. Rocket Dog Rescue, the name says it all. We are an all-volunteer nonprofit group dedicated to saving homeless and abandoned animals from euthanasia …
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Rising International

Rising International

Rising promotes ownership of craft-based businesses by women in both impoverished areas of developed nations as well as in developing nations. Our focus is primarily on women in high risk environments such as those in refugee camps, those living with …
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Refugee Transitions

Refugee Transitions

Refugee Transitions’ mission is to assist refugee and immigrant families in becoming self-sufficient in the United States by providing services to help them attain the English language, life, job and academic skills they need to succeed in their new communities. …
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Restore Oakland’s Cleveland Cascade

Restore Oakland's Cleveland Cascade

The Cleveland Cascade was born in Oakland, California, in 1923, conceived and midwifed by noted landscape architect Howard Gilkey. A stunning Italian-inspired water feature, it hugged the steep hill, falling almost into Lake Merritt from the Cleveland Heights hill above. …
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