Become an Advocate for Public Policy Change for Alzheimer’s Association California Southland Chapter
Alzheimer’s disease is one of the most critical public health issues in America. That’s why the Alzheimer’s Impact Movement (AIM), the Alzheimer’s Association and their advocates are unrelenting. They fight to support Alzheimer's and dementia research funding and advance bipartisan legislation that will have a positive and meaningful impact on people living with Alzheimer's and their caregivers today and in the future.
Help Alzeimer’s Association California Find a Cure & Participate in a Clinical Trial
Alzheimer’s Association TrialMatch® connects individuals living with cognitive impairment, Alzheimer's disease or another dementia, caregivers and healthy participants with current research studies. This free, easy-to-use service helps you find clinical research that may be a good fit, whether you're focused on treatment, diagnosis, care or prevention.
Walk to End Alzheimer’s with Alzheimer’s Association California Southland Chapter
Now is the moment we've been waiting for. With new treatments emerging in the fight against Alzheimer’s and all other dementia, now is the time for hope. Now is the time for action. Help them keep the momentum going in your community at the Alzheimer’s Association Walk to End Alzheimer’s, the world’s largest fundraiser to fight the disease. Register Today for Walk to End Alzheimer's!.
Do What You Love to End Alzheimer’s with Alzheimer’s Association California Southland Chapter
Turn something you love into a fundraiser to end Alzheimer’s and all other dementia. There’s no limit to what you can do! For more than a decade, participants and partners have raised funds to advance the care, support and research efforts for the Alzheimer’s Association® through activities that are personal to them. They are thrilled to build on the success of The Longest Day®, their signature Do-It-Yourself fundraising event, with a fresh name — Do What You Love to End ALZ™ — and new resources that empower their participants to thrive.
From Housing to Hope: Join the Compassion Club at American Family Housing and Change Lives
At American Family Housing, volunteers are at the heart of everything the organization does. The team is incredibly grateful for the time, energy, and compassion volunteers bring to the mission. Believing that everyone deserves an affordable, accessible home in a safe, stable community where they can thrive, American Family Housing relies on this vital involvement to provide high-quality resident services. These activities include holiday events, budgeting classes, dog grooming, walking groups, tutoring, music lessons, and group activities like neighborhood street clean-ups. Every year, incredible volunteers help create lasting change in the lives of thousands of individuals and families across Los Angeles and Orange Counties.
Support Families in Crisis: Deploy with the American Red Cross
When hurricanes, wildfires and other disasters strike, communities are often left with critical needs for basics like food and shelter. You can be one of the first volunteers on the ground to help address these needs – as you provide comfort and help those impacted begin to recover. If you are over 18 years of age and able to travel outside of your local area for two weeks, your compassion can bring hope and relief to those facing their darkest moments. Those that are best suited for this assignment are flexible and able to work in ever changing environments.
Strategic Storytellers Wanted: Volunteer for Media Relations at American Red Cross
This position supports the Regional Communications department. Red Cross Media Relations volunteers are part of a professional volunteer team that develops and delivers the Red Cross story behind-the-scenes, on-camera, in-person and online through media channels, websites, social media feeds and other content platforms.
Disaster Action Team (DAT) Specialist at American Red Cross
This position supports the Regional Disaster Cycle Services (DCS) department. Most of the 60,000 emergencies that the Red Cross responds to each year are local, personal disasters like home fires. Disaster Action Teams (DAT) provide emotional support, financial assistance, and information to help families begin the process of recovery. Disaster Action Team (DAT) Specialists respond to local disasters and provide immediate compassion and care to clients.
Keep Disaster Response Movin; Become a Disaster Feeding Responder at American Red Cross
This position supports the Regional Disaster Cycle Services department. The role of Feeding Service Associate is to serve as a member of a temporary work unit on a disaster relief operation to successfully complete their assigned areas of responsibility on a disaster relief operation. They ensure food safety and proper food service in a variety of work locations.
Be the Link That Moves Help Forward – Become a Government Operations Service Responder at American Red Cross
This position supports the Regional Disaster Cycle Services department. The Government Operations Service Associate acts as the direct daily (if appropriate) contact with government partners, generally in an Emergency Operations Center or other coordination center, during a disaster relief operation. GOs are responsible for ensuring Red Cross actions are aligned with, supportive of, and complementary to government. They effectively represent the Red Cross to external partners, manage internal and external expectations, establish and monitor situational awareness, and seek, collect, evaluate and communicate critical information.
Become a Visual Storyteller for the Red Cross
This position supports the Regional Communications department. This opportunity requires participation in in-person activities and/or performing work in a Red Cross facility. Assist the Red Cross in delivering its mission by taking and sharing photos and/or video to showcase the Red Cross at work, both in disaster and non-disaster times.
Connect People. Build Partnerships. Empower Communities. Become a Disaster Community Engagement Partnership Responder with the American Red Cross
This position supports the Regional Disaster Cycle Services department. The purpose of Community Engagement and Partnerships (CEP) is to work with external organizations to build capacity, coordinate activities, integrate expertise, and provide channels to reach all disaster affected communities, particularly traditionally underserved populations. The role of this worker is to assist with the implementation of the CEP plan.
Become a Disaster Spiritual Care Service Associate for the Red Cross
This position supports the Regional Disaster Cycle Services department. The role of the Disaster Spiritual Care (DSC) Service Associate is to serve as a member of a temporary work unit on a disaster relief operation to provide disaster spiritual care support to individuals and families who have been impacted by a disaster.
Become a Information & Planning Disaster Assessment Service Associate for the Red Cross
This position supports the Regional Disaster Cycle Services department. A Disaster Assessment Service Associate conducts field collection of damage assessment information and conducts damage assessment review and interpretation for Individual Assistance Providers (IAPs). This includes the collection and recording of impact and damage data and supporting Recovery Services with data interpretation.
Become a Information and Planning Chapter/Territory Coordinator for the Red Cross
This position supports the Regional Disaster Cycle Services department. The purpose of this position is to provide leadership to Disaster Cycle Services workers in performing Information Planning activities during preparedness, response, and recovery within a Chapter or Territory.
Become a Staff Planning and Support Supervisor for the Red Cross
This position supports the Regional Disaster Cycle Services department. The role of the Staff Planning and Support Supervisor is to supervise an activity on a disaster relief operation to successfully complete their assigned areas of responsibility on an operation's service delivery plan. The Staff Planning and Support Supervisor ensures their team provides support to traveling disaster responders to include: lodging, Mission Card support, in-processing and out-processing, updating the DR Information System and Volunteer Connection data management and Customer Service.
Manage Operational Errands, Inventory Sorting, and Supply Logistics with Angel Hanz For The Homeless
Smooth daily operations are essential to saving lives, and this team keeps everything running flawlessly. Volunteers in this role handle critical logistics, including running essential errands and keeping the storage spaces fully stocked, organized, and properly inventoried. It is an ideal position for detail-oriented individuals who love staying active and ensuring the team always has the tools they need to succeed.
Secure Critical Program Resources on the Fundraising and Grant Development Team with Angel Hanz For The Homeless
This vital role ensures the organization has the financial foundation needed to sustain its operations. Volunteers assist with strategic grant writing, research new funding opportunities, and help solicit donations and corporate sponsorships from community partners. It is the perfect opportunity for anyone looking to use their professional writing, research, or networking skills to make a massive impact behind the scenes for all the woofers & their owners.
Provide Urgent Emergency Animal Transportation as an On-Call Driver with Angel Hanz For The Homeless
When an animal faces a medical crisis, every second counts. This critical, on-call volunteer position provides urgent transportation for animals experiencing medical emergencies, ensuring they get to trusted veterinary partners as quickly and safely as possible. Volunteers must have reliable transportation, a flexible schedule for on-call windows, and a calm under-pressure attitude to help save lives when it matters most.
Coordinate Guest Services and Essential Resource Distribution at Outreach Clinics with Angel Hanz For The Homeless
This role places volunteers right at the center of the action. Responsibilities include transporting event food, helping guests sign up for essential services, staffing resource tables, and distributing donated goods. Afterward, volunteers help pack up and return supplies to storage. It is ideal for friendly, organized individuals who love community engagement.
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.