Assemble Non-Perishable Food Packages for Families Facing Food Insecurities with Los Angeles Regional Food Bank
Since 1973, the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank has worked to mobilize resources in the community to alleviate hunger. Volunteers will be assembling food packages for over 29,000 families, older adults, and children who face food insecurity in Los Angeles County. (The food packages consist of food items like canned fruit, canned vegetables, rice, cereal and other non-perishable food items.) Please refer to volunteer guidelines and dress code on sign-up. Volunteers must be 14-17 to participate.
Whip Up Some Breakfast for Vets at PATH
PATH provides meals to their residents in interim housing. When groups sign up to provide meals, it helps PATH focus its resources on providing housing and support services for their residents. Their male veterans in West LA love to have home-cooked meals from volunteers. Shifts are currently available at their West LA site. They understand not everyone is comfortable with on-site volunteering. If you want to support the male veterans, ask them about sponsoring a meal through a meal delivery service or catering!
Whip Up Some Dinner for Vets at PATH
PATH provides meals to their residents in interim housing. When groups sign up to provide meals, it helps PATH focus its resources on providing housing and support services for their residents. Their male veterans in West LA love to have home-cooked meals from volunteers. Shifts are currently available at their West LA site. They understand not everyone is comfortable with on-site volunteering. If you want to support the male veterans, ask them about sponsoring a meal through a meal delivery service or catering!
Whip Up Some Lunch for Vets at PATH
PATH provides meals to their residents in interim housing. When groups sign up to provide meals, it helps PATH focus its resources on providing housing and support services for their residents. Their male veterans in West LA love to have home-cooked meals from volunteers. Shifts are currently available at their West LA site. They understand not everyone is comfortable with on-site volunteering. If you want to support the male veterans, ask them about sponsoring a meal through a meal delivery service or catering!
Help Children Foster a Love For Books with Reading to Kids
Reading to Kids' reading clubs meets the second Saturday of each month from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon at seven elementary schools near downtown Los Angeles. The children are divided into several small groups by grade level. Pairs of volunteers are assigned to each of these "reading club" groups. Volunteers are needed to read a pre-assigned book during a ninety-minute session, which also includes an arts and crafts project related to the book being read. At the end of the session, volunteers provide each child with a book of his or her own as a reward for attending. Arts & Crafts Throughout the reading club sessions, teachers roam from classroom to classroom to facilitate book discussions and to assist in arts and crafts projects. In addition, while the reading clubs are taking place, teachers provide training to the parents of the attending children on how to continue the benefits of the reading club by reading to their children at home. All volunteers must be 18+.
Rescue Produce From Being Wasted with Food Forward at Ojai Certified Farmers Market
Recover produce, fight hunger, and build community at your local farmers market! Volunteers "glean"---meaning collect fresh, surplus produce that would otherwise go to waste--and donate 100% to local hunger relief organizations. Join the Volunteer Glean Team to help collect fruit and vegetable donations from vendors at the farmers market, and then box, sort, and weigh the donations. Volunteers should be comfortable carrying boxes of produce that may weigh up to 40 pounds, but can register to volunteer with someone who can help them lift if 40 pounds is too heavy. Volunteers don’t need to worry about bringing equipment or transporting the food. This opportunity is open to volunteers 12 years old and older, though children under 16 years old must be accompanied by a parent or guardian. Please check out the Volunteer FAQ page on the Food Forward website to learn more about what to expect at volunteer events.
Help Change Lives: Volunteer To Distribute Food & Clothing at Food on Foot’s Sunday Serving
As a volunteer, you’ll strengthen our community by distributing food, clothing and essential supplies to 350 unhoused and low-income neighbors. You will also meet and hear stories from the participants in Jobs & Housing program. Graduates from this program earn their way off the streets with full-time jobs, fully-furnished apartments, life-skills training, and the confidence needed to make their accomplishments long-lasting. Kids are welcome! Volunteering with Food on Foot is kid friendly and the perfect way to give back as a family. Children ages 6 and up are welcome. Everyone under 18 must sign up online and be accompanied by a supervising ticketed adult.
Whip Up Some Breakfast for Vets at PATH
PATH provides meals to their residents in interim housing. When groups sign up to provide meals, it helps PATH focus its resources on providing housing and support services for their residents. Their male veterans in West LA love to have home-cooked meals from volunteers. Shifts are currently available at their West LA site. They understand not everyone is comfortable with on-site volunteering. If you want to support the male veterans, ask them about sponsoring a meal through a meal delivery service or catering!
Whip Up Some Dinner for Vets at PATH
PATH provides meals to their residents in interim housing. When groups sign up to provide meals, it helps PATH focus its resources on providing housing and support services for their residents. Their male veterans in West LA love to have home-cooked meals from volunteers. Shifts are currently available at their West LA site. They understand not everyone is comfortable with on-site volunteering. If you want to support the male veterans, ask them about sponsoring a meal through a meal delivery service or catering!
Whip Up Some Lunch for Vets at PATH
PATH provides meals to their residents in interim housing. When groups sign up to provide meals, it helps PATH focus its resources on providing housing and support services for their residents. Their male veterans in West LA love to have home-cooked meals from volunteers. Shifts are currently available at their West LA site. They understand not everyone is comfortable with on-site volunteering. If you want to support the male veterans, ask them about sponsoring a meal through a meal delivery service or catering!
Help Project Angel Food Deliver To Those in Need on the Westside
Project Angel Food is looking for delivery volunteers to helps them bring medically tailored meals and fresh fruit right to their clients' doors. Each delivery route maps out deliveries to 8-10 seriously ill neighbors and takes approximately two hours to complete. You can even do it with a friend! Pick-ups are from 9-10 a.m. and drivers must have a car, valid license and proof of insurance.
Help Project Angel Food Provide Meals To Our Most Vulnerable Neighbors
Project Angel Food’s kitchen is 80% volunteer-driven. Kitchen volunteers don’t need to be great cooks, simply take direction from their professionally trained chefs. You’ll join compassionate people in chopping vegetables, stirring sauces, mixing batter, baking cookies, and packaging the meals. They have shifts Sunday through Friday from 8:00 a.m.–Noon and 12:45–4 p.m. For the safety of all volunteers, staff and clients, all volunteers must have received a COVID-19 vaccination and be 14 years of age or older. Volunteers aged 14 or 15 years must be accompanied by a parent or guardian at all times. Volunteers aged 16 or 17 years must have a parent or guardian sign a liability waiver form.
Help Project Angel Food Provide Meals To Our Most Vulnerable Neighbors
Project Angel Food’s kitchen is 80% volunteer-driven. Kitchen volunteers don’t need to be great cooks, simply take direction from their professionally trained chefs. You’ll join compassionate people in chopping vegetables, stirring sauces, mixing batter, baking cookies, and packaging the meals. They have shifts Sunday through Friday from 8:00 a.m.–Noon and 12:45–4 p.m. For the safety of all volunteers, staff and clients, all volunteers must have received a COVID-19 vaccination and be 14 years of age or older. Volunteers aged 14 or 15 years must be accompanied by a parent or guardian at all times. Volunteers aged 16 or 17 years must have a parent or guardian sign a liability waiver form.
Join the Surfrider Foundation at a Beach Clean-Up in Venice
Join the Surfriders Foundation on the beach at Rose Ave, Venice Beach from 9am-11am! They will be connecting to collect trash from our beloved California shorelines. Meet them on the sand in front of Rose Ave parking lot (1 Rose Ave, Venice, CA 90291) on the southeast/left end of the parking lot. Parking is $18 in the lot, so they encourage walking, biking, carpooling, finding street parking, or getting to the lot early (parking is $9 before 8am). Please note: Gloves, grabbers, reusable trash bags, sunscreen, and a water refill station-are provided. Additionally, all participants (including children attending with adult guardians) must be registered individually by completing the sign-up here which includes our waiver.
Join the Surfrider Foundation in a Beach Clean-Up at the Huntington Harbor
The Surfrider Foundation welcomes you to an engaging day of toes in the sand with family, friends and new acquaintances, raising awareness about litter and plastic pollution. Beach cleanups are a fun and easy way to volunteer your time by helping to keep our beaches and ocean clean!
Spread Joy as a Resident Activities Assistant at American Family Housing
Join American Family Housing at the Donations Casita and make a difference! Volunteers in this role will assist at Donation Center throughout the week, creating a warm and welcoming environment for clients. Key Responsibilities: Greet and assist clients accompanied by their case manager as they select items to meet their needs. During slower times, help sort incoming donations, restock pantry shelves, and organize the space to ensure everything is in order. Your support ensures their clients have a positive experience and helps them maintain an efficient and organized Donation Center.
Assist LA Family Housing with Kitchen Duties and Prepping Meals – Dinner Shift
Volunteering in the kitchen can be a great way to give back to your community. Whether you're helping to prepare meals for those in need, or assisting with kitchen duties such as food serving, bussing, or greeting, your time and effort can make a significant impact on those transitioning away from homelessness. Please keep in mind that you will be asked to also tend to the dining area where you will interact with the participants that LAFH serves. Provide quality service by serving nourishing meals for those who may not otherwise have access to them. You can also help to create a welcoming and inclusive environment where people can gather and connect over a warm meal. Dress code: Pants, closed-toed shoes, and clean shirt. All volunteers will be wearing a hairnet and gloves. Volunteers need to be 18 plus.
Assist LA Family Housing with Kitchen Duties and Prepping Meals – Lunch Shift
Volunteering in the kitchen can be a great way to give back to your community. Whether you're helping to prepare meals for those in need, or assisting with kitchen duties such as food serving, bussing, or greeting, your time and effort can make a significant impact on those transitioning away from homelessness. Please keep in mind that you will be asked to also tend to the dining area where you will interact with the participants that LAFH serves. Provide quality service by serving nourishing meals for those who may not otherwise have access to them. You can also help to create a welcoming and inclusive environment where people can gather and connect over a warm meal. Dress code: Pants, closed-toed shoes, and clean shirt. All volunteers will be wearing a hairnet and gloves. Volunteers need to be 18 plus.
Make and Donate Pet Food Kits at North Hollywood Interfaith Food Pantry
Please help the hungry furry friends in our community - they need food too! Make 5 "pet food kits" by filling a gallon sized ziploc bag full of dry dog or cat food (sign up slots are specific to DOG or CAT). Put the sealed ziploc bag into a plastic or paper grocery bag, and add 3 cans of corresponding wet food into the grocery bag. Please do not open the canned food, or put the canned food into the ziploc bag. They should be separate. Treats may also be added. Each "slot" signed up for is for 5 bags of pet food. Label the bags "DOG" or "CAT" appropriately. Finished pet kits must be dropped off the morning of distribution ON THE DATE FOR WHICH YOU HAVE SIGNED UP at 11634 Moorpark Street between 7:00 AM and 7:15 AM
Make and Donate Sacked Lunches at North Hollywood Interfaith Food Pantry
Prepare and deliver sack lunches. Lunches should include: a sandwich (PB & J, turkey, or ham and/or cheese) a piece of fruit (oranges are best) chips and/or cookies (small bag) a drink (water or juice box) and a napkin. Energy bars or a box of raisins are also good. Brown or white paper sack bags and please label OUTSIDE with the type of sandwich. Sack lunches need to be delivered to the food pantry between 7:00am and 7:15am on the date for which you have signed up.
Featured Projects
Join Big Sunday for our Accessible Wednesday at 10am Event
Big Sunday,
passion@bigsunday.org,
(323) 549-9944
A spin-off of our flagship weekly event TM@10, Accessible Wednesdays @ 10 (AW@10 for short) hosts volunteers every Wednesday to work on hands-on projects to help local nonprofits. The difference? The projects we do on Wednesdays are specially geared to be accessible to folks of all ability levels! Our guests of honor at each AW@10 are groups of volunteers with intellectual and developmental disabilities from some of our partner organizations like AbilityFirst, ETTA, PassAbility, Partners For Potential, and Arroyo Development Services. At Big Sunday, we firmly believe that everyone has something to give, and that everyone has fun helping others! Anyone and everyone is invited to join us for AW@10, whether it’s with a group or as an individual who wants to help out and hang out with some of the best volunteers in the business. From assembling goodie bags for unhoused people and their dogs to decorating pumpkins for underserved kids at Halloween, there’s always something fun going on at AW@10.
Create Mosaic Suns With Big Sunday at our Art Tuesdays
Big Sunday,
josh@bigsunday.org,
(323) 549-9944
Every Tuesday, volunteers join us at Big Sunday HQ to decorate mosaics in the shape of a sun. These beautiful works of art are then donated to schools, shelters, food banks – anywhere in need of a little more sunshine and warmth! This wonderful project is the brainchild of our old friend Cathy Weiss and led by Cathy and our own Big Sunday staff. You don’t need to be a brilliant artist to participate – just friendly and sincere. Just about everybody who’s worked on one tells us the mosaic suns are their favorite Big Sunday project!
Join Big Sunday for our Thursday Morning at 10am Events
Big Sunday,
nicolo@bigsunday.org,
(323) 549-9944
TM@10 (Thursday Morning @ 10) is not only one of our favorite programs, but it’s one of our most popular, too! Every Thursday morning from 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM, volunteers gather at Big Sunday HQ to work on hands-on projects that help local nonprofits. We’ve assembled birthday gifts for folks in shelters, written letters to soldiers stationed overseas, packed backpacks for ex-gang members starting college, made fleece blankets for shelter kittens, and done about a thousand other fun and meaningful things. In classic Big Sunday fashion, it’s a great way for people to meet new people, work together, and enjoy some laughs while helping someone else. It’s no wonder we have so many regulars who come every single week! We’re regularly joined by groups like AbilityFirst, Partners For Potential, and of course the famous TM Ladies! Projects we’ve worked on have benefited organizations like Covenant House, Carlos Santa Ana Academy, PATH, Exceptional Children’s Foundation, Angelus Plaza, and countless others. This week we will be sorting and packing clothing for donations.
Immerse Yourself in a Sound Bath Experience at Big Sunday’s Wellness Mondays
Big Sunday,
alondra@bigsunday.org,
(323) 549-9944
New for the summer of ’25: Stop in and come to a special session in the name of happiness, wholeness, and feeling better. Lay down and close your eyes as The Soundbath Center co-founder Jamie Bechtold performs on gongs and crystal singing bowls to generate an atmosphere of relaxing, meditative calm. You can immerse yourself in healing frequencies, take a well-deserved rest, or simply enjoy the soundscape. If you've never felt the soothing, healing effects of a sound bath, you owe it to yourself to check this one out. As the sound bath is best experienced laying down, please bring a blanket and/or yoga mat. All Wellness Mondays are FREE for all participants!
Celebrate Midsummer and Join Big Sunday for Karaoke Night!
Big Sunday,
nicolo@bigsunday.org,
(323) 549-9944
Mark your calendars: Big Sunday's Karaoke Night will be held Thursday, July 24th from 6:00pm-8:00pm! What better way to celebrate midsummer – and to forget the world’s troubles – than a night of karaoke. And get this: It will be with live musicians, The Pop Rocks Band! The snacks are on us. Price of admission: At least one item for our Back to School Week collection. (No, you don’t have to sing. And no, you don’t have to be a good singer. Trust us. Big Sunday's Karaoke will be held in our headquarters: 1741 N Cherokee Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90028. There is meter parking and street parking around our office or you can park at the public parking garage right across the street from our building! Please note that the parking garage across the street has a fee of $12. If you have any questions, please contact: Nicolo at nicolo@bigsunday.org! Hope to see you there!
Come Along On The Donut Crawl! – Big Sunday’s Friday Field Trips
Big Sunday,
nicolo@bigsunday.org,
(323) 549-9944
For the past few summers, we've had many adventures with all kinds of nice people – vets, foster youth, people experiencing homelessness – all over the city. Including our now-famous Donut Crawl! Here's what it is: We're renting a very cool party bus. It will be leaving from our HQ in Hollywood. We've invited nice but struggling folks from all over town with all kinds of challenges. Then again, we all have some kind of challenges. We'll all get on the bus. We'll be picking up and sampling donuts from donut stores around town, and, together, making our own, unassailable list of which are best in numerous categories. Even better (as if anything could possibly be better than sampling donuts from all over town), we'll also be enjoying one another's company! Please note that there are two Crawls – one from 9:30-11, and another from 11-12:30.
Get Flexible at Goat Yoga – Big Sunday’s Wellness Mondays
Big Sunday,
alondra@bigsunday.org,
(323) 549-9944
New for the summer of ’25: Stop in and come to a special session in the name of happiness, wholeness, and feeling better. Back by popular demand! Work out with the only trained yoga goats in the country! The goats are your helpers during a yoga class for all ages and skill levels. They help you deepen stretches, improve your core strength, test balance, and give you a goat massage at the end! There will be one hour of yoga, followed by an hour of chilling with the goats!
Let’s Go Bowling – Big Sunday’s Friday Field Trips
Big Sunday,
nicolo@bigsunday.org,
(323) 549-9944
For the past few summers, we've had many adventures with all kinds of nice people – vets, foster youth, people experiencing homelessness – all over the city. One of our oldest and most beloved is Bowling! Every year, we head out to Corbin Bowl in Tarzana for a day full of strikes, spares, gutterballs, and pizza! It's a great old bowling alley with fun retro vibes, and best of all it's free. We hope you'll join us to share in the community spirit. Please note that this event is not at Big Sunday HQ in Hollywood – we'll meet you out there in beautiful Tarzana! If you'd like to bring a large group, please contact nicolo@bigsunday.org.
Show Off Your Smarts at Big Sunday’s Trivia Night!
Big Sunday,
nicolo@bigsunday.org,
(323) 549-9944
Test your knowledge (trivia) and test your reflexes (buzzer) on another memorable Big Sunday Trivia Night, hosted by our own Nico and Madison. The snacks are on us for this, too! Price of admission: At least one item for our Back to School Week collection. (And no, we won’t think less of you if you know more facts about sitcoms than you do about botany.) There will be awesome prizes and totally good vibes!