Volunteer to Make a Difference at Boys & Girls Club of Hollywood
When you volunteer at a Boys & Girls Club, you can make a difference in the lives of youth and give back to your community. Within the first few minutes of walking into a Club, you know you're in a special place. Filled with the sounds and energy of spirited children and friendly, caring professionals, the Club is a fun and hopeful environment. Whether you help with homework, coach a game, or teach an art project, you'll have the opportunity to build healthy relationships with young people eager for adult guidance, and have a positive impact on their lives. In turn, you will find that spending time with these young people has a positive impact on you as well. Please check for age restrictions when registering.
Check out the Aviva’s Youth Center Wishlist
Aviva believes every child and every family in our Los Angeles community deserves the chance for a brighter future. We provide compassionate support, therapeutic services, and guidance to at-risk children and families. The Youth Drop-in Center will offers a safe, welcoming space where young people can access essential services, resources, and support. Serving youth ages 12 - 25, our center will be a beacon of hope and a hub opportunity for some of the most marginalized individuals in our community. By purchasing items from our list, you can help ensure their success by providing them with the essentials they need during visits to the center.
Holiday Drive: Adopt-a-Child/Adopt-a-Family
Aviva believes every child and every family in our Los Angeles community deserves the chance for a brighter future. We provide compassionate support, therapeutic services, and guidance to at-risk children and families. Make the holidays extra special for a child or family by volunteering during the holidays or sponsoring their holiday wish list.
Host an In-Kind Donation Drive
Aviva believes every child and every family in our Los Angeles community deserves the chance for a brighter future. We provide compassionate support, therapeutic services, and guidance to at-risk children and families. Host a drive at your workplace, place of worship or with family and friends to collect supplies from kindergarten to college including Toiletries & Hygiene Ð from baby to adult, Household cleaning and laundry products, Clothing and shoes, Food and transportation gift cards
Donate to Aviva’s Youth Center
Aviva believes every child and every family in our Los Angeles community deserves the chance for a brighter future. We provide compassionate support, therapeutic services, and guidance to at-risk children and families. The Youth Drop-in Center will offers a safe, welcoming space where young people can access essential services, resources, and support. Serving youth ages 12 - 25, our center will be a beacon of hope and a hub opportunity for some of the most marginalized individuals in our community. By purchasing items from our list, you can help ensure their success by providing them with the essentials they need during visits to the center.
Help Project Angel Food with Office Projects
This volunteering opportunity is for those who have a varying schedule, don't particularly have an affinity for cooking, and love to show off their organizational or creative skills. You may help on an as-needed basis in Project Angel Food's offices. There are various projects, including mailings, donor and client outreach, assembling gift bags for events, decorating client birthday bags or meal delivery bags, making Feed Bead bracelets, packaging Project Angel Food's Do Gooding Good Cookies, and countless other tasks requiring nimble and creative hands.
Use Your Sewing Skills to Make GIfts at Home with Operation Gratitude
Operation Gratitude is in need of volunteers across the country to express their appreciation for those who serve through their sewing talents. There are a number of different items needed.
Write Meaningful Letters at Home and Make Someone’s Day with Operation Gratitude
Writing a letter is a simple and meaningful way for volunteers nationwide to say ÒThank YouÓ to all who serve. Your kind words could bring lasting joy to a Care Package recipient. Operation Gratitude includes handwritten letters in every Care Package sent to their Deployed Troops, Recruit Graduates, Veterans, Wounded Heroes, and First Responders. In these unprecedented times, the heroes need everyone's unwavering support. Taking the time to put pen to paper and share your heartfelt thoughts can be what motivates them to keep moving forward in their duties to our nation.
Support our Troops and Make Paracord Lanyards at Home with Operation Gratitude
When you craft a paracord lanyard, you are providing a service member or first responder with a tangible and lasting expression of your gratitude and a symbol of the appreciation of grateful Americans everywhere. When your lanyards arrive at Operation Gratitude's facility, they will attach a carabiner that can be clipped onto almost anything to keep it within reach should an emergency arise. They include lanyards in their Care Packages because they're both functional and meaningful, as they are handmade by Americans who want to show their appreciation to Military and first responders.
Host a Care Package Collection Drive with Operation Gratitude
Operation Gratitude's signature Care Packages are filled with donated items from grateful Americans and corporations. Show your support for our heroes by organizing a collection drive in your community. The items you collect will help them create the best Care Packages ever.
Crochet or Knit Small Gifts at Home with Operation Gratitude
Operation Gratitude is in need of your knitting/crochet skills to create small items for those who serve. These tokens of gratitude create a smile when they are received.
Make Cards For Care Packages 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 handwritten letters from grateful Americans, but also blank greeting cards for our service members' own personal use. They invite you to put your paper crafting skills to work making blank cards that our deployed troops can then use to write home to their loved ones.
Make A Difference at Big Sunday’s AW@10 Event
We'd love to have you join us for our Accessible Wednesday morning program, AW@10! Previously held biweekly as "2W@10," these special events are held from 10:00am Ð 11:30am each Wednesday where we do fun activities to help local nonprofits. And what's extra special about these Wednesday events? Our guests of honor are wonderful and fun volunteers with some developmental challenges who want to give back and help others, in groups and as individuals. The accessible activities we'll do on Wednesdays are specifically designed with these guests in mind, so that everyone can participate and have fun volunteering - because we believe very strongly that absolutely everyone has something to give. People of ALL ability levels are invited to join us on Wednesdays! All we ask is that you show up ready to be part of a community of helpful people! Visit: https://bigsunday.org/get-involved/aw10/
Make A Difference at Big Sunday’s AW@10 Event
We'd love to have you join us for our Accessible Wednesday morning program, AW@10! Previously held biweekly as "2W@10," these special events are held from 10:00am Ð 11:30am each Wednesday where we do fun activities to help local nonprofits. And what's extra special about these Wednesday events? Our guests of honor are wonderful and fun volunteers with some developmental challenges who want to give back and help others, in groups and as individuals. The accessible activities we'll do on Wednesdays are specifically designed with these guests in mind, so that everyone can participate and have fun volunteering - because we believe very strongly that absolutely everyone has something to give. People of ALL ability levels are invited to join us on Wednesdays! All we ask is that you show up ready to be part of a community of helpful people! Visit: https://bigsunday.org/get-involved/aw10/
Make A Difference at Big Sunday’s AW@10 Event
We'd love to have you join us for our Accessible Wednesday morning program, AW@10! Previously held biweekly as "2W@10," these special events are held from 10:00am Ð 11:30am each Wednesday where we do fun activities to help local nonprofits. And what's extra special about these Wednesday events? Our guests of honor are wonderful and fun volunteers with some developmental challenges who want to give back and help others, in groups and as individuals. The accessible activities we'll do on Wednesdays are specifically designed with these guests in mind, so that everyone can participate and have fun volunteering - because we believe very strongly that absolutely everyone has something to give. People of ALL ability levels are invited to join us on Wednesdays! All we ask is that you show up ready to be part of a community of helpful people! Visit: https://bigsunday.org/get-involved/aw10/
Make A Difference at Big Sunday’s AW@10 Event
We'd love to have you join us for our Accessible Wednesday morning program, AW@10! Previously held biweekly as "2W@10," these special events are held from 10:00am Ð 11:30am each Wednesday where we do fun activities to help local nonprofits. And what's extra special about these Wednesday events? Our guests of honor are wonderful and fun volunteers with some developmental challenges who want to give back and help others, in groups and as individuals. The accessible activities we'll do on Wednesdays are specifically designed with these guests in mind, so that everyone can participate and have fun volunteering - because we believe very strongly that absolutely everyone has something to give. People of ALL ability levels are invited to join us on Wednesdays! All we ask is that you show up ready to be part of a community of helpful people! Visit: https://bigsunday.org/get-involved/aw10/
Decorate for the Holidays During Big Sunday’s Annual Holiday Decorating Week!
Each year we get asked to decorate all kinds of places Ð vets' homes, clinics, shelters, group residences Ð in all kinds of ways for all the year-end holidays. Sometimes the residents join in, too! And sometimes even Santa stops by, too. If you or your group wants to spread some cheer this year, let us know and we'll find a place for you!
Make A Difference at Big Sunday’s AW@10 Event
We'd love to have you join us for our Accessible Wednesday morning program, AW@10! Previously held biweekly as "2W@10," these special events are held from 10:00am Ð 11:30am each Wednesday where we do fun activities to help local nonprofits. And what's extra special about these Wednesday events? Our guests of honor are wonderful and fun volunteers with some developmental challenges who want to give back and help others, in groups and as individuals. The accessible activities we'll do on Wednesdays are specifically designed with these guests in mind, so that everyone can participate and have fun volunteering - because we believe very strongly that absolutely everyone has something to give. People of ALL ability levels are invited to join us on Wednesdays! All we ask is that you show up ready to be part of a community of helpful people! Visit: https://bigsunday.org/get-involved/aw10/
Decorate for the Holidays During Big Sunday’s Annual Holiday Decorating Week!
Each year we get asked to decorate all kinds of places Ð vets' homes, clinics, shelters, group residences Ð in all kinds of ways for all the year-end holidays. Sometimes the residents join in, too! And sometimes even Santa stops by, too. If you or your group wants to spread some cheer this year, let us know and we'll find a place for you!
Decorate for the Holidays During Big Sunday’s Annual Holiday Decorating Week!
Each year we get asked to decorate all kinds of places Ð vets' homes, clinics, shelters, group residences Ð in all kinds of ways for all the year-end holidays. Sometimes the residents join in, too! And sometimes even Santa stops by, too. If you or your group wants to spread some cheer this year, let us know and we'll find a place for you!
Featured Projects
Get Your Hands Dirty at Garden School Foundation’s Community Garden Day
Garden School Foundation,
[email protected],
(802) 779-2889
Garden School Foundation provides in-depth garden-based education to youth at Title I schools in Los Angeles, strengthening connections between food justice, environmental stewardship, and community health. By using the full transformative potential of school gardens as teaching sites, we nurture a healthy and mindful generation of children who care for their bodies, their communities, and the earth. We currently serve ten Title I elementary schools, reaching over 3,200 students and their families each year. As a GSF volunteer, you’ll play a indispensable role in maintaining our historic school garden at an elementary school in West Adams. Your work will help us maintain a space that is both educational and beautiful, and will positively impact both the environment and student growth. Join us to learn new skills, connect with nature, and enjoy a fulfilling and rewarding day with our local community. Together you’ll work alongside GSF staff and school families to weed the garden, refresh mulch pathways, harvest veggies from our production farm, build new raised beds, and more! After a morning of hard work and good vibes, we’ll share a light lunch together (provided by our partners at Sprouts) under the fig trees. Volunteers should wear close-toe shoes and loose, comfy clothes that are school-appropriate. Complimentary t-shirts will also be provided. We encourage volunteers to bring their own water bottles and sun protection.
Serve Christmas Meals to Adults Transitioning out of Homelessness in Los Angeles
LA Family Housing,
[email protected],
Help adults transitioning out of homelessness enjoy their own Christmas celebration. Serve a festive holiday meal, host a cheerful bingo game, and hand out gift cards and prizes to bring extra joy to this special time of year! YOUR IMPACT: For many adults experiencing homelessness, the holiday season can feel isolating. Additionally, the cost of a Christmas meal is often out of reach for our participants. By providing a full holiday meal and organizing a fun, community-focused activity, you’re helping spread joy and create lasting memories for individuals in need.
Distribute Food, Clothes, and Essentials to Those in Need with Long Beach Community Table
Long Beach Community Table,
[email protected],
(562) 548-0774
Every weekend, volunteers with Long Beach Community Table deliver fresh produce, nutritious food, toiletry essentials, shoes, socks, and clothing directly to individuals in areas of great need throughout Long Beach. This essential outreach effort ensures that vulnerable community members, including homeless individuals, low-income families, seniors, and those with disabilities, receive vital resources to support their health and well-being. By participating in this impactful initiative, volunteers play a crucial role in combating food insecurity and providing essential supplies to those who need them most, fostering a sense of community and support in the heart of Long Beach.