Maintain a Community Fridge with LA Community Fridges
The LA Community Fridges provide a variety of foods for EVERYONE! It is entirely community run and helps people from all walks of life access nutritionally complete food. Sign up for a cleaning shift at your local fridge! Feel free to sign up for one or many. Sign up here. https://community-fridge.bubbleapps.io/
Be a Part of a Local Garden Building Team with the Long Beach Community Table
Are you a master gardener or just love to dig in the dirt? Come help the Long Beach Community Table reach their goal of building at least one new urban garden per month at various locations around Long Beach! You can also volunteer to help garden hosts do their weekly harvesting to supply their weekend recipients with fresh, organically grown local produce. For more info: https://www.longbeachcommunitytable.com/volunteer
Join Long Beach Community Table’s Food Delivery Team
If you have a reliable vehicle and regular free time one day during the week Mon.–Fri., then inquire about the Long Beach Community Table's Pickup Team! You'll collect bulk food donations at the same time and place(s) each week and transport them to various locations in Long Beach, such as senior residences, veteran communities, school campuses, sober living homes, churches, etc. 18+ only. For mroe info: https://www.longbeachcommunitytable.com/volunteer
Provide Fundraising Skills and Financial Support to Long Beach Community Table
If you are experienced in fundraising, grant-writing, sponsor development, in-kind-donation acquisition, event planning, or developing nonprofit donor appeals, Long Beach Community Center can use your assistance! They are seeking expert team leaders to take over each of these areas, as well as enthusiastic, committed, detail-oriented volunteers with great writing skills and follow-through abilities. Email area(s) of interest to:LBCommunityTable@gmail.com For more info: https://www.longbeachcommunitytable.com/volunteer
Provide Admin Support for Long Beach Community Table
Do you prefer volunteering behind the scenes to support nonprofit operations or community outreach? Please email Long Beach Community Table with your area of expertise, whether it is back office support such as filing, bookkeeping, organizing or cleaning, or communication-related activities, like social media, email campaigns, volunteer management, video production, or event tabling.Email your abilities to: LBCommunityTable@gmail.com For more info: https://www.longbeachcommunitytable.com/volunteer
Knit Winter Accessories at Home with Operation Gratitude
In the cold winter months, Operation Gratitude includes a lovingly handmade scarf or hat in every Care Package they send to the Troops. To make that happen, they need the knitting and crocheting talents of many Volunteers across the country. For more info: https://www.operationgratitude.com/express-your-thanks-virtual/handmade-with-love/knit-and-crochet-virtual/
Write Letters at Home with Operation Gratitude
There is nothing more thoughtful and personal than a handwritten note inside a beautiful handmade card. Every Care Package Operation Gratitude sends not only includes letters from grateful Americans, but also blank cards for the service members’ own personal use. They invite you to put your paper crafting skills to work making blank cards that the Deployed Troops can then use to write home to their loved ones. During this time of social distancing, you don’t need to leave your home to mail your handmade items! Please use their guide to order boxes, print postage, and have your box picked up by the post office. For more info: https://www.operationgratitude.com/express-your-thanks-virtual/handmade-with-love/blank-greeting-cards-virtual/
Become a Volunteer at the Karsh Family Social Service Center
Located in one of Los Angeles’s most dense, diverse, and economically challenged neighborhoods,
the Karsh Center offers multiple services under one roof. At the Karsh Center, clients can access
dental care, vision care, mental health services, pro bono legal services, grief support, healthy and
nutritious groceries, clothing vouchers, baby supplies, and other resources, as well as learn about
additional regional service providers from Karsh Center volunteers. In order to make this all possible, the Karsh Center needs your help. You can give back in a variety of different volunteer opportunities that can be found here: https://karshcenter.org/volunteer/
Sew Accessories at Home with Operation Gratitude
Join Operation Gratitude's Sewing program! Use your sewing talent to create different items to support the troops serving overseas. During this time of social distancing, you don’t need to leave your home to mail your handmade items! Please use Operation Gratitude's guide to order boxes, print postage, and have your box picked up by the post office. For more info: https://www.operationgratitude.com/express-your-thanks-virtual/handmade-with-love/sewing-program-virtual/
Make Paracord Bracelets at Home with Operation Gratitude
Not only do paracord bracelets look cool, they can actually be used to save a life in an emergency situation. Operation Gratitude includes them in their Care Packages because they’re both functional and meaningful, as they are handmade by an American who wants to show their appreciation to our Troops and First Responders. During this time of social distancing, you don’t need to leave your home to mail your handmade items! Please use their guide to order boxes, print postage, and have your box picked up by the post office. For more info: https://www.operationgratitude.com/express-your-thanks-virtual/paracord-bracelets-virtual/
Write Letters at Home with Operation Gratitude
Interested in writing letters with Operation Gratitude? Every Operation Gratitude Care Package includes a bundle of letters from grateful Americans thanking their Military & First Responder Heroes for their service to our country. To join them in letter writing, please register at the their website. Operation Gratitude will email you a letter-writing guide, printable coloring sheets for children, and instructions for shipping the letters to them. For more info: https://www.operationgratitude.com/express-your-thanks-virtual/write-letters-virtual/
Volunteer to Prepare and Serve Breakfast Meals with Union Rescue Mission
Help prepare and serve breakfast meals to those sheltered at Union Rescue Mission's Angeles House campus. Angeles House is their new campus which just opened this past April and shelters an additional 86 families in Los Angeles. Find out more and sign up at the link below: https://www.cervistech.com/acts/webreg/eventdetail.php?event_id=1594&org_id=0267&event_category_id=&keyword=&sort=&zip=&zip_radius=5&source=&filter_choice=&cal_choice=&cal_year=2022&cal_month=9&res_choice=&console_mode=console&res_code=&disp_status=open&filter_date=None&filter_start_time=&filter_end_time=
Volunteer to Prepare and Serve Dinner Meals with Union Rescue Mission
Help prepare and serve dinner meals to those sheltered at Union Rescue Mission's Angeles House campus. Angeles House is their new campus which just opened this past April and shelters an additional 86 families in Los Angeles. Find out more and sign up at the link below: https://www.cervistech.com/acts/webreg/eventdetail.php?event_id=1593&org_id=0267&event_category_id=&keyword=&sort=&zip=&zip_radius=5&source=&filter_choice=&cal_choice=&cal_year=2022&cal_month=9&res_choice=&console_mode=console&res_code=&disp_status=open&filter_date=None&filter_start_time=&filter_end_time=
Volunteer to Prepare and Serve Dinner Meals with Union Rescue Mission (Hope Gardens)
Help Union Rescue Mission and Hope Gardens Family Center prepare and set-up for meals, serve, as well as assist in the clean-up process. Meal services volunteers are required to be at least 14 years of age. Find out more and sign up here: https://www.cervistech.com/acts/webreg/eventdetail.php?event_id=1112&org_id=0267&event_category_id=&keyword=&sort=&zip=&zip_radius=5&source=&filter_choice=&cal_choice=&cal_year=2022&cal_month=9&res_choice=&console_mode=console&res_code=&disp_status=open&filter_date=None&filter_start_time=&filter_end_time=
Volunteer to Prepare and Serve Breakfast Meals with Union Rescue Mission and Hope Gardens Family Center
Help prepare and serve breakfast meals to those at the Hope Gardens Family Center. Must be 14 years of age or older to partcipate. Find out more and sign up at the link below: https://www.cervistech.com/acts/webreg/eventdetail.php?event_id=1108&org_id=0267&event_category_id=&keyword=&sort=&zip=&zip_radius=5&source=&filter_choice=&cal_choice=&cal_year=2022&cal_month=9&res_choice=&console_mode=console&res_code=&disp_status=open&filter_date=None&filter_start_time=&filter_end_time=
Volunteer to Prepare and Serve Lunch Meals with Union Rescue Mission (Angeles House)
Help prepare and serve lunch meals to those sheltered at Union Rescue Mission's Angeles House campus. Angeles House is their new campus which just opened this past April and shelters an additional 86 families in Los Angeles. Must be 14 years of age or older to volunteer. Find out more and sign up at the link below: https://www.cervistech.com/acts/webreg/eventdetail.php?event_id=1592&org_id=0267&event_category_id=&keyword=&sort=&zip=&zip_radius=5&source=&filter_choice=&cal_choice=&cal_year=2022&cal_month=9&res_choice=&console_mode=console&res_code=&disp_status=open&filter_date=None&filter_start_time=&filter_end_time=
Volunteer to Prepare and Serve Lunch Meals with Union Rescue Mission (Hope Gardens)
Hope Gardens Family Center provides 3 hot meals per day to all guests. Volunteers are needed to help prepare and set-up for each meal, serve, as well as assist in the clean-up process. Meal services volunteers are required to be at least 14 years of age. Find more information and sign up here: https://www.cervistech.com/acts/webreg/eventdetail.php?event_id=1110&org_id=0267&event_category_id=&keyword=&sort=&zip=&zip_radius=5&source=&filter_choice=&cal_choice=&cal_year=2022&cal_month=9&res_choice=&console_mode=console&res_code=&disp_status=open&filter_date=None&filter_start_time=&filter_end_time=
Get Involved with Acts of Compassion
A nonprofit is as strong as the community that holds it up. Together, you and Acts of Compassion can do more than you can do alone. Bring your abilities and passions together to affect real change. There are many ways to join them and support their mission of working with the homeless, and at risk families from underserved communities. Contact them to find out more about volunteer opportunities, fundraising events, and ways that you can get their message to your friends and family! Please visit: https://actsofcompassions.org/contact-us
Volunteer at AHEAD With Horses
AHEAD With Horses is devoted to improving the quality of life of disabled, disadvantaged, and special needs children through equine therapy using vaulting also known as gymnastics on a horse. Whether it’s seeing a smile from an otherwise “non-responsive” child, or watching someone taking their first steps, the hundreds of children we serve each year regularly hit major physical, mental, and emotional milestones—gifts that last a lifetime. Volunteers play a very important role at AHEAD With Horses, and they wouldn’t be as successful as they are today without them. They have more than 300 volunteers each year from all parts of Los Angeles County, many of which return to them on a regular basis. VOLUNTEERS MUST: Be fully vaccinated for COVID-19 and be 12 years of age or older for general volunteer work. Please visit: https://aheadwithhorsesla.org/volunteer/
Tutor at Alexandria House’s After School Program
At Alexandria House, their volunteers are a treasured part of their community. Together they laugh, cook, eat, play, and work as they help women and children in need. Their after-school program needs volunteers to help students (grades K-5) with homework, reading activities, and enrichment projects. Volunteers should be at least high school age. Please visit: https://www.alexandriahouse.org/volunteer