Volunteer Opportunities For ARS Students

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1	Organization/Company	Volunteer Opportunity	Volunteer Contact and How to Volunteer	Timeframe
2	Just Serve	Data base of local volunteer opportunities	https://www.justserve.org/?cid=2023_justserve_search&gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQjwvb-zBhCmARIsAAfUI2vH2LHR1LL15hFv-8-Y34GXbgxz5jBwnMMyw-CEgJCLRZM-pPWQyDYaAkYLEALw_wcB	Ongoing
3	Teens Take Inititiave	Teen volunteer organization in the Austin area	https://www.teenstakeinitiative.com/	Ongoing
4	Generation Serve	Generation Serve was created to make volunteering easier for families in Austin and to inspire lifelong volunteerism in children. When you visit the Generation Serve website, you’ll find an online activity calendar that offers different ways families can give back to the community. Generation Serve partners with 100 local nonprofit organizations each year. You may find opportunities listed like preparing meals for Ronald McDonald’s house, packing toiletry kits for SafePlace, crafting decorations to hang in the emergency room at Dell Children’s Hospital, and helping load trucks for Mobile Loaves & Fishes to deliver meals to homeless families. One thing to note about Generation Serve is that is extremely popular (with great reason!), so activities fill up very quickly with eager volunteers. It’s best to sign up for their email list so you can be notified first about open volunteer spots. Kids 3 and older can volunteer with their families, and there’s also a teen service program where older kids can volunteer with their peers.	https://www.generationserve.org/teenservicedays.html	Ongoing
5	Austin Animal Shelter	This program offers volunteer opportunities year round for youth starting at 13 years of age. Guardians or parents must volunteer with youth between the ages of 13-15 years of age.	https://www.austintexas.gov/department/volunteer-animal-center	Ongoing
6	Austin Allies	Austin Allies’ goal is to organize meaningful volunteer opportunities for families in the Greater Austin area, partnering with local nonprofits and those that they serve. You can find their calendar online, which shows several volunteer opportunities for the whole family including such things as tote bag packing, school supply drives, and Barton Springs clean-ups. Join Austin Allies for their Book Club for kids in third through eighth grade held on the fourth Saturday of every month at BookPeople.	https://www.austinallies.org/volunteer	Ongoing
7	Austin Food Bank	Nearly 46,000 Central Texans, 34 percent of them children and teens, are counting on the Central Texas Food Bank each week to get the nutritious food they need that they otherwise wouldn’t be able to afford. The Food Bank knows that youth volunteers are great helpers but also learn valuable skills. They offer volunteer opportunities for kids as young as 8. Youth volunteers (ages 8-17) must be accompanied by an adult age 21 or older. Youth groups must bring one adult chaperone for every five youths under 18. Morning and afternoon shifts are available to youth volunteers Monday through Saturday as well as a family night on the first Tuesday of the month. To participate, you can sign up on their online registration system.	https://www.centraltexasfoodbank.org/get-involved/volunteer	Ongoing
8	Mobile Loaves and Fishes	Mobile Loaves & Fishes has two different tracts for volunteering. There are many opportunities available at Community First! Village — a 27-acre master-planned community that provides affordable, sustainable housing, and a supportive community for the disabled, and chronically homeless. At Community First! Village, you can sign up for tasks like garden maintenance, rabbit and chicken coop care, meal distribution, grounds beautification, and more. Or you can opt to help the Food Truck Ministry which delivers meals to the homeless, including tasks such as prepping meals, delivering food, and even washing delivery trucks. All volunteers under age 18 must be accompanied by an adult.	https://mlf.org/volunteer/	Ongoing
9	Meals on Wheel Central Texas	Meals on Wheels Central Texas is one of the largest meal-delivery organizations, distributing 3,000 meals each business day to homebound older adults and people with disabilities. Part of the Austin area community since 1972, they also offer many programs and services including home repairs; grocery shopping assistance; a monthly supply of shelf-stable groceries; veteran services; problem-solving therapies; Alzheimer’s respite care; and pet food and pet health care. If your kids don’t mind riding in the car with you on errands, they can be helpers with you to deliver meals to seniors and homebound adults. Check out this list of ways to get involved and look at this list of current needs to see if there’s a good fit for you.	https://www.mealsonwheelscentraltexas.org/	Ongoing
10	Austin Pets Alive!	Austin Pets Alive! has a wide variety of volunteer projects for ages 12 and up. Click here to view the full list of options and volunteer requirements. You can also take a look at the programs at Austin Animal Center for ages 13 and up, as well as Austin Humane Society for ages 14 and up. As a family, you can also consider becoming a foster family for a pet, too.	https://www.austinpetsalive.org/	Ongoing
11	Austin Parks Foundation	Austin Parks Foundation is a non-profit organization devoted to building partnerships to develop and maintain parks, trails, and open spaces in Austin and Travis County. Their website lists opportunities to sign up or to attend open work days.	https://austinparks.org/	Ongoing
12	Keep Austin Beautiful	This nonprofit organization’s goal is to educate and engage citizens in building more beautiful communities. Their largest volunteer effort, Keep Austin Beautiful Day, is a county-wide service day each April spanning 100+ sites in 31 zip codes in the greater Austin area. They also organized big community clean-ups, Lady Bird Lake clean-ups, and more.	https://keepaustinbeautiful.org/	Ongoing
13	Habitat for Humanity	Various opportunities	https://austinhabitat.org/get-involved/volunteer/youth-volunteering/	Ongoing
14	City of Austin	Various opportunities	https://www.austintexas.gov/department/volunteer-city-austin	Ongoing
15	The Trail Foundation	To support its mission of ensuring that our 10-mile hike-and-bike trail remains one of Austin’s most well-loved places, the Trail Foundation offers frequent public volunteering days where people help with mulching, seeding, weeding, plant removal, and other ecological activities.	https://thetrailfoundation.org/act/volunteer-opportunities/	Ongoing
16	Pease Park Conservatory	The Pease Corps supports the work of the Pease Park Conservancy to restore and maintain this beautiful Austin park. Families can help with planting, creek clean-ups, and other maintenance projects.	https://peasepark.org/volunteer	Ongoing
17	Saint Louise House	Saint Louise House supports women and their children experiencing homelessness, providing stable housing and services that empowers them to become independent. Some of their family-friendly volunteer opportunities are providing a meal and a cake for moms and children on their birthdays, preparing or purchasing a meal for the entire community, and helping to serve and clean up the meal.	https://saintlouisehouse.org/get-involved/#volunteer	Ongoing
18	Caritas of Austin	Caritas of Austin seeks to end homeless in our city by providing safe housing, healthy food, employment, and educational opportunities. They have many at-home volunteer opportunities great for families, such as compiling hygiene care kits, COVID-19 care kits, and snack care kits. Kids ages 12 and up can also prepare and serve lunch in the community kitchen to people experiencing homelessness.	https://caritasofaustin.org/get-involved/volunteer/	Ongoing
19	Foundation Communitites	This local nonprofit, founded in 1990, owns 22 communities in Austin and North Texas that provide affordable housing and services to families, veterans, seniors, and people with disabilities. Two great family-friendly opportunities are creating Welcome Home baskets for new residents, and writing Care Cards with kind and inspiring words for residents at the communities.	https://foundcom.org/get-involved/volunteer/	Ongoing
20	Keep Austin Fed	Keep Austin Feds seeks to reduce food insecurity by redistributing excess food to organizations that feed people in need. Kids are encouraged to accompany adults on food runs, which are available every day of the week. A food run takes about an hour and redistributes enough food to provide 160 meals and keeps over 190 pounds of food out of the landfill.	https://www.keepaustinfed.org/volunteer	Ongoing
21	Pop-up Birthday	The mission of this organization is to provide a personalized birthday experience to children in foster care. You can become a birthday buddy and shop for a specific child to make their birthday wishes come true. Volunteers can also help prepare birthday boxes, wrap gifts, or help out in the office.	https://popupbirthday.org/volunteer/	Ongoing
22	Any Baby Can	This organization, which prioritizes child development and healthy families, is seeking volunteers to make popsicle stick puzzles for young children in their programs, as well as hand puppets for families to play with. You can also donate books for their clients and place notes of encouragement in the pages.	https://anybabycan.org/get-involved/volunteer/	Ongoing
23	BookSpring	BookSpring works to build literacy skills and encourage a love of reading in kids and young adults. Individuals and groups can come into the BookSpring warehouse to sort and label books that will be donated. They are also in need of read-aloud videos from people of all ages; you can submit a screen recording of yourself reading a book for their YouTube channel.	https://bookspring.org/en/support/volunteer/	Ongoing
24	SAFE Austin	The SAFE Alliance serves survivors of abuse, and many people come to the shelter with very little. Families can shop for items from their list of needs and deliver them to their warehouse.	https://www.safeaustin.org/	Ongoing
25	Youth2Seniors	Youth 2 Seniors creates programs designed to partner up youth with seniors living in assisted living facilities, and this excellent volunteer opportunity enhances the lives of both child and senior. There is no better way to volunteer than to show the elderly that you are there for them.	http://www.youth2seniors.org/	Ongoing
26	Urban Roots	This is another fantastic opportunity to show your family how to grow and obtain food, as well as helping out others at the same time. Children as young as ten can volunteer with an adult at this beautiful 3.5-acre sustainable farm in East Austin. Almost half of the food is donated to shelters and food banks.	https://www.timeout.com/austin/things-to-do/urban-roots	Ongoing
27	Partnership for Children	Bring the family out and help sort, tag, and wrap gifts for children that are less fortunate giving them the opportunity to unwrap gifts during the holiday season. This is a great opportunity to teach sharing.	https://www.timeout.com/austin/things-to-do/partnerships-for-children	Holiday Season
28	Hungry Souls	A great option in South Austin for a regular volunteer opportunity, packing food boxes that are delivered to schools around town to feed hungry kids and families. The packing parties they host are quick and simple and can accommodate lots of people. They need volunteers every week so there are lots of great options.	https://www.hungry-souls.org/volunteer	Ongoing
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