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.
Support Interim Shelters with On-Site Pet Care and Operations for PalsNPets
PalsNPets welcome volunteers for on and off-site help to assist pet owners experiencing homelessness. They partner with interim housing facilities to provide on-site pet staff, veterinary assistance, pet education, grooming, and dog training, enabling individuals to access shelter while keeping their beloved pets by their side. They are always on the lookout for veterinarians, vet techs, and pet groomers to donate skills.
Teach Feline Students with Kitty Bungalow Charm School for Wayward Cats
Become a Charm School Teacher! This essential role focuses on the basic husbandry and care of cats on-site at their South LA location, which includes feeding, cleaning, and socializing the feline students. Volunteers work in small teams of 3 to 4, making it a great fit for groups looking to serve together. A single 2.5-hour weekly shift commitment is required. Shift blocks are available 9:00 AM–8:30 PM Monday through Wednesday and 9:00 AM–6:00 PM Thursday through Sunday. Open to parent/child teams (ages 12-17 require 1:1 parental supervision).
Address Community Feline Overpopulation with Kitty Bungalow Charm School for Wayward Cats
Join the TNR (Trap-Neuter-Return) team to actively address community feline overpopulation. This hands-on position includes assisting with the logistics of neighborhood trapping, transporting cats to veterinary appointments, monitoring under-socialized cats while they are temporarily staying on-site, and releasing the feral cats safely back to their original outdoor colonies. The majority of shifts take place during the week, but flexible options are available. Volunteers must be 18 years or older or accompanied by an adult.
Provide Medical Team Care with Kitty Bungalow Charm School for Wayward Cats
Support the veterinary staff as a medical team volunteer. Responsibilities include assisting with basic and supportive medical care such as syringe feeding neonates, administering vaccines and fluids, dispensing prescribed medications, and providing routine ringworm treatments. Shifts run 7 days a week with convenient morning, mid-day, and evening blocks available. Background checks or specialized orientations apply; 18+ to work unaccompanied.
Counsel Prospective Adopters with Kitty Bungalow Charm School for Wayward Cats
Help cats find their permanently matching homes by becoming an Adoption Counselor. Dynamic options are available, allowing you to volunteer in person at community adoption events (such as weekend pop-ups at Petco locations) or complete virtual adoptions work entirely from home. Remote tasks involve reviewing applications and conducting phone interviews with potential pet parents, while on-site tasks involve showcasing the feline graduates to the public. Training and technology onboarding required.
Help with Transportation at Kitty Bungalow Charm School for Wayward Cats
Act as a dedicated taxi driver for the feline students. They are always on the lookout for reliable transport volunteers to safely drive cats and kittens to and from scheduled medical or specialty doctor appointments in the Hollywood area. Volunteers must have reliable personal transportation, a valid driver's license, and up-to-date auto insurance. Must be 18 years or older with a clean driving record and reliable vehicle.
Maintain Neighborhood Fridges with LA Community Fridges
Volunteers sign up to check, clean, and organize independent outdoor community fridges in their own neighborhoods. Responsibilities include wiping down shelves, discarding expired food items, and moving local restaurant or grocery donations into the structures to ensure unhoused and food-insecure neighbors have safe access to fresh ingredients.
Distribute Food and Hygiene Essentials with Long Beach Community Table
Volunteers gather every weekend to bring fresh produce, nutritious food, toiletries, shoes, socks, and clothing directly to people in areas of great need around Long Beach. Currently, there is a morning shift on Saturdays and both morning and afternoon shifts on Sundays, lasting 3 to 4 hours per shift. Volunteers are coordinated through the Band mobile app. Open to individuals aged 14 and older.
Pack and Deliver Homebound Groceries with Long Beach Community Table
Join the Sunday evening team to fill bags with nutritious groceries at their main warehouse and deliver them to seniors, immune-compromised individuals, and financially distressed families throughout the greater Long Beach area. Volunteers can come just to help pack and clean up, or use their personal vehicle to complete contactless home deliveries. A personal vehicle is required only if participating in the delivery route.
Build Urban Spaces with the Long Beach Community Table Garden Team
Help the organization reach its goal of building at least one new urban community garden per month around Long Beach. Volunteers can dig in the dirt, construct garden beds, or assist garden hosts with weekly harvesting tasks that directly supply their weekend food distribution recipients with fresh, organically grown local produce. Open to gardeners of all experience and skill levels.
Drive Commercial Logistics Routes with Long Beach Community Table
Inquire about joining the weekday Pickup Team if you have a reliable personal vehicle and regular free time Monday through Friday. Volunteers collect bulk commercial food donations at the same time and place each week and transport them to senior residences, veteran communities, school campuses, sober living homes, and churches. Open to adult volunteers aged 18 and older with a reliable vehicle.
Lead Fundraising and Financial Development with Long Beach Community Table
Lend your professional expertise to support the financial development of this mutual aid cooperative. The organization is seeking expert team leaders and enthusiastic, detail-oriented volunteers to assist with grant-writing, sponsor development, in-kind donation acquisition, event planning, and developing nonprofit donor appeals. Requires strong writing skills and prior administrative or fundraising experience.
Manage Administrative Office Tasks with Long Beach Community Table
Support behind-the-scenes operations and community outreach at their facility or remotely. Volunteers can contribute via back-office administrative support—such as filing, bookkeeping, organizing, or cleaning—or through communication channels like managing social media accounts, running email campaigns, overseeing volunteer systems, video production, or staffing event tables. Open to background support volunteers looking for office or digital work.
Join the Ladies Guild with Teen Challenge of Southern California
Become a member of the local Ladies Guild to support regional centers. Vetted women plan special events, coordinate fundraising lunches, manage community collection drives, and perform many valuable acts of service to support the students completing their long-term recovery programs. Open to mature female volunteers looking to engage with local centers.
Provide Construction and Trade Skills with Teen Challenge of Southern California
Lend your hands-on construction, carpentry, plumbing, or electrical skills to help maintain the organization's residential properties. There is always meaningful work available for skilled tradespeople to assist with facility renovations, campus safety improvements, and general building upkeep over the summer. Must be 18 or older with proven experience in construction trades.
Tutor Youth at After School Learning Centers with Teen Challenge of Southern California
Support children living in urban communities who are most at risk of academic and social failure. Trained volunteer tutors provide academic mentoring, homework help, literacy tutoring, leadership formation coaching, and digital literacy guidance within their neighborhood learning center programs. Background check and onboarding orientation required to work with minors.
Deliver Spiritual Encouragement as a Speaker with Teen Challenge of Southern California
Share motivational messages and biblical insights with students enrolled in the recovery program. Regional centers are actively seeking local pastors, faith leaders, and Christian speakers to bring a word of encouragement to chapel services or group study settings to support student resilience.
Transport Bulk Supplies with Los Angeles Rabbit Foundation
Deliver critical food and bedding resources to animals in need. Reliability is entirely critical for this position, which handles moving heavy items to regional foster residences and municipal shelter locations. Once drivers become established and trusted within the team, they are entrusted with transporting rescued rabbits to vet clinics and specialist appointments. Must be 21 years or older with a valid driver's license.
Forage Feed Supplies as a Hay Transporter with Los Angeles Rabbit Foundation
Become a "Hay Elf" to ensure rescued rabbits receive vital dietary items! Volunteers pick up 1 to 3 large bales of hay from specialty locations on Riverside Drive in Glendale or from the Red Barn feed store in Reseda, bag it securely, and drop it off at West LA or Playa del Rey holding locations. Most drivers complete runs on weekends when traffic is lighter, and fuel expenses are fully covered by the organization. Requires a valid driver's license and a vehicle large enough for hay bales.
Featured Projects
Join Big Sunday for Relaxation and Community Care at Wellness Mondays
Big Sunday,
dom@bigsunday.org,
(323) 549-9944
If you're feeling like you could use a holiday – or a way to relax and recharge while meeting great, helpful folks -you're going to love Big Sunday's Wellness Mondays. Every Monday at 10 AM, we'll be hosting a different, fantastic sound bath here at Big Sunday HQ. Every Sound Bath is wonderful, designed to help you relax, recharge, and reconnect with yourself and others. They're all incredibly relaxing, totally free, and everyone is invited! We want everyone to be as comfortable as possible and suggest that you bring your own mat, cushion, pillow, blanket, eye cover, etc. – whatever you need to feel relaxed and cozy!
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 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. This week we will be sorting cloths for donations.
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.
Join Big Sunday for our Food Pantry and Food Fridays @ 10am
Big Sunday,
madison@bigsunday.org,
(323) 549-9944
Big Sunday has given away mountains of food over many years, but now we’re going to make it a weekly event. Our Food Pantry will be open year ‘round and will contain both perishable and non-perishable food. We’re also introducing Food Fridays. Every Friday morning we’ll be open from 10-11:30 to sort and pack food. We’ll also distribute to nonprofits and schools from all over town who will distribute the food to hungry and grateful people in their communities. All ages are welcome. Groups, too! We need volunteers, collectors, donors and sponsors.