Build Wooden Nest Boxes with Los Angeles Rabbit Foundation
Lend carpentry skills to build custom wooden sanctuary boxes for rescued rabbits. Volunteers use a blueprint provided via email to construct specialized nest boxes using 3/4" solid unfinished pine wood, small nails, or screws. These structures provide rabbits in temporary facilities with insulation to stay warmer, a secure location to hide, and a durable surface to jump on. Because materials are un-funded, this serves as an ideal project for community groups, schools, or Eagle Scouts looking to source and assemble items.
Foster Homeless Bunnies with Los Angeles Rabbit Foundation
Provide a temporary indoor home environment for rescued house rabbits awaiting adoption. The organization supplies spayed, neutered, and litterbox-trained rabbits, and handles animal placements responsibly so foster parents are never stuck with long-term financial commitments. Homes must be indoors only, provide a spacious playpen area when un-supervised, and reside within 20 miles of primary adoption venues in the Mar Vista and West LA areas. Requires an orientation, home contract verification, and driver's license.
Nurture Shelter Animals as a Care Volunteer with Los Angeles Rabbit Foundation
Assist abandoned rabbits housed in municipal animal shelters. Care duties involve adhering to set feeding schedules, cleaning enclosures, providing enrichment, and exercising the rabbits in secure play environments. Volunteers must maintain kind collaboration with shelter staff and follow exact directions to preserve the animals' daily care routines. Open to ages 12+ (minors aged 12-15 require constant parental accompaniment).
Become a Weekly Safe Haven Volunteer with My Friend’s Place
Partner directly with staff to help young people access food, clothing, showers, phone access, and other basic care resources during their weekday drop-in hours. This vital position helps youth find respite from the daily demands of survival. A background check, TB test, onboarding training, and a committed weekly schedule of at least six months is required. Must be 18 years or older.
Join a Monthly Birthday Celebration with My Friend’s Place
Help create moments of pure joy and social connection by volunteering at one of their monthly birthday celebrations for drop-in center youth. Serving pizza and cake might seem small, but it creates powerful moments of belonging and reminds young people they matter. No extended training or background check is required for this community role.
Provide a Nourishing Meal with My Friend’s Place
Share the comfort of a healthy meal with young people navigating homelessness. Volunteer groups can fund a breakfast or lunch or directly arrive on-site to serve it. This generosity offers nurturing warmth, care, and connection to drop-in center guests. Meals can be prepared off-site or coordinated directly with their team.
Offer a Transformative Skills Workshop with My Friend’s Place
Share your talents by designing and leading a workshop in creative arts (theatre, writing, or visual media), employment readiness, health and wellness, or essential life skills. These educational programs open new doors for young people and help them gain the tools, confidence, and perspective they need to thrive.
Become Welcome Home Helpers with My Friend’s Place
Form a volunteer group with friends, family, or co-workers to support youth transitioning out of homelessness. When a young person secures housing, this group functions as Welcome Home Helpers by purchasing and compiling a personalized wish list of household essentials. The items are then delivered to the organization by appointment to furnish the client's new space.
Coordinate Fundraising Initiatives with Parents’ Place Family Resource and Empowerment Center
Lend your organizational skills to support behind-the-scenes financial development. Volunteers partner with professional staff to help manage donor outreach databases, track regional gift contributions, organize physical donation bins, and handle logistics for seasonal fundraising campaigns that fund educational programs for families raising children with special needs.
Support Seasonal Educational Workshops with Parents’ Place Family Resource and Empowerment Center
Assist with the execution of on-site family programs, including community workshops, informational open houses, parent educational panels, and transition conferences. Volunteers handle multi-tier assignments such as preparing sign-in stations, greeting incoming families, arranging classroom spaces, distributing literature packets, and supporting cleanup.
Manage Office Operations and Clerical Support with Parents’ Place Family Resource and Empowerment Center
Provide essential back-office support to help the resource center run smoothly. Clerical volunteers assist with basic administrative tasks, which include answering public inquiry calls, filing documentation, compiling physical resource folders for new clients, sorting mail, and updating informational packets distributed across the San Gabriel and Pomona Valleys.
Assemble Welcome Home Kits with PATH (People Assisting the Homeless)
Every week, PATH moves dozens of Angelenos off the streets and into homes. Volunteers can help these new residents feel safe and comfortable in their new home by providing a "Welcome Home Kit" filled with basic home goods, kitchen items, and cleaning supplies. These kits are critical to help neighbors start their journey of having a new place to call home. Urgent needs include bedding, home goods (laundry hamper, bathmat, shower caddy), kitchen items (pots & pans, dishes, utensils), hygiene items (soap, shampoo, toothpaste), cleaning supplies, and Target gift cards. For health and safety reasons, all items must be new and unopened.
Rescue Excess Food Resources with PATH (People Assisting the Homeless)
Food rescue drivers help the staff team to combat food insecurity by helping to bring much needed food resources directly to the communities that they serve. PATH partners with local food rescue agencies, grocery stores, and restaurants to rescue excess food and then distribute it to individuals and families that are food insecure. Drivers commit to a regularly scheduled shift where they are assigned a day and time to pick up food donations for drop-off at a local PATH site. Volunteers are expected to use their own vehicle, or a PATH van, to pick up food donated from local community partners. This position is ideal for individuals who would like to help support individuals and families impacted by homelessness and reduce food waste.
Engage in Diverse Community Services with Los Angeles LGBT Center
Join the volunteer network to support a wide array of essential programs caring for the LGBTQ+ community. Vetted individuals can contribute across multiple departments based on current center needs and personal skills. Opportunities include serving meals to seniors or unhoused youth, assisting with community group check-ins, mentoring youth, providing legal and health clinic clerical support, helping with back-office administration, and staffing major summer fundraising and cultural events. All volunteers must complete an initial orientation process to match with open shifts. Requires a volunteer profile setup, orientation, and background check for sensitive roles.
Deliver Animal Assisted Therapy and Operational Support with Love On 4 Paws
Join the team to bring comfort through animal-assisted therapy. For volunteers wishing to participate with their dogs, the process involves an initial evaluation of the dog's temperament, a formal facility audition, and field training during live visits. For animal lovers who do not have a dog but want to help, general volunteer positions are available to assist with special events, handle administrative office tasks, coordinate visit schedules, or photograph therapy teams in action at various community facilities. Handlers must be 18 or older; dogs must be at least 1 year old and pass testing.
Pack Pet Food Resources with Michelson Found Animals Foundation
Join them as a Pet Food Packing Volunteer and help prepare nutritious food bags for cats and dogs in need! As part of their regular pet food distribution program, which partners with local human food distributions, and their monthly pet events, volunteers play a key role in assembling and organizing pet food packages for families and individuals with pets.
Serve as a Pet Pantry Community Ambassador with Michelson Found Animals Foundation
Join them as a Pet Food Pantry Community Ambassador. Volunteers help ensure pets receive the nourishment they deserve by supporting their food pantry operations and helping distribute food to pet owners during their scheduled community distributions.
Provide Event Support with Michelson Found Animals Foundation
As an Event Support Volunteer, individuals assist with various tasks such as setting up and breaking down the event space, distributing pet food, registering microchips, checking in attendees, making pet ID tags, providing information, and assisting staff and Community Partners. Events can range from Better Neighbor Project-led and organized events to community events to which BNP is invited to bring pet support. Volunteers play an integral role in ensuring that events run smoothly and that pets and their owners are supported in any event the program is a part of.
Serve as a Volunteer Crisis Listener with Community Helpline, Inc.
Become a Volunteer Crisis Listener to provide a confidential, safe, and empathetic space for individuals facing hardships such as addiction, abusive relationships, depression, or grief. Volunteers answer the regional crisis hotline to offer non-judgmental emotional support and resource referrals. Vetted participants must complete a mandatory two-phase training program, which begins with up to 25 hours of intensive, in-person active listening and communications classes held in the South Bay area of Los Angeles. Following classroom completion, volunteers undergo individual mentorship and shadowing in the office for 5 to 9 shifts alongside a seasoned listener before handling calls independently. A one-year commitment of one 3-hour shift per week (or two shifts per week for 6 months) is required. Must be 16 years or older, clear a Live Scan fingerprint background check, and submit an application essay.
Join the Emergency Response Volunteer Roster with CORE (Community Organized Relief Effort)
Sign up for the emergency response roster to form the backbone of their domestic disaster operations. Vetted participants enable the organization to significantly expand its impact when a crisis occurs. Roster members play a vital role in all facets of US-based operations, from on-the-ground assistance to logistical and administrative support. A willingness to help, regardless of skill level, is invaluable to their mission's success during regional crises, hurricanes, wildfires, or other sudden humanitarian emergencies over the summer. Must be 18 years or older to be deployed to active disaster zones.
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.