Provide Healthy Social Interaction with a Family Game Night at LA Family Housing
Volunteers play board games and chat with families transitioning out of homelessness at interim housing sites in Los Angeles County. One of the most powerful ways to help participants transitioning out of homelessness is to give them opportunities for healthy social interaction. It may seem like you are just playing checkers, but you are helping someone practice their communication skills and heal their interpersonal relationships. REQUIREMENTS: Must first attend their required (but awesome) training. Must be over 18. They do not fulfill court-ordered volunteer hours.
Make and Donate Pet Food Kits at North Hollywood Interfaith Food Pantry
Please help the hungry furry friends in the 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.
Help Project Angel Food Provide Meals To Our Most Vulnerable Neighbors
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 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
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 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 Pico Union Project for their Community Garden Cleanups
Have some extra time in your day and looking for a good way to spend it? Join Pico Union Project for their weekly community cleanups to help beautify their thriving two-acre garden. It’s a chance to weed, plant sweat and bloom! Gardening opportunities always include a tasty community meal as well. Volunteers can come to the Pico Union Project any time between 9 am and 3 pm to help out.
Sort and Style Essential Goods for Transitioning Families at LA Family Housing
Volunteers work behind the scenes to transform raw donations into an organized, dignified shopping experience for families transitioning into permanent housing. Shifting out of homelessness is a major life transition, and walking into an organized resource space provides participants with comfort and choice. Tasks include inventorying, sorting, and merchandising incoming clothing, hygiene items, and household goods. Must be over 18 and attend a required training session.
Sort Essential Community Donations with PATH (People Assisting the Homeless)
Lend a hand to PATH Community Affairs staff by signing up for a donation sorting shift at PATH Metro Villas. Volunteers are a part of PATH's essential donation program that receives donated items from all around LA County. This experience involves receiving, sorting, organizing, and distributing donated items such as hygiene items, home goods, food, clothing, and more. They accept it all and do their best to make sure each donated item goes to an individual or family affected by homelessness in the community. Shifts are available on Tuesdays from 10:00 AM–12:00 PM & 12:30 PM–2:30 PM, and on Thursdays from 10:00 AM–12:00 PM. Sign-up is completed through Better Impact.
Sort Essential Community Donations with PATH (People Assisting the Homeless)
Lend a hand to PATH Community Affairs staff by signing up for a donation sorting shift at PATH Metro Villas. Volunteers are a part of PATH's essential donation program that receives donated items from all around LA County. This experience involves receiving, sorting, organizing, and distributing donated items such as hygiene items, home goods, food, clothing, and more. They accept it all and do their best to make sure each donated item goes to an individual or family affected by homelessness in the community. Shifts are available on Tuesdays from 10:00 AM–12:00 PM & 12:30 PM–2:30 PM, and on Thursdays from 10:00 AM–12:00 PM. Sign-up is completed through Better Impact.
Create Mosaic Suns With Big Sunday at our Art Tuesdays
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!.
Help Project Angel Food Provide Meals To Our Most Vulnerable Neighbors
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 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
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 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 Deliver To Those in Need in North Hollywood
A delivery volunteer helps 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.
Provide Healthy Social Interaction with a Family Game Night at LA Family Housing
Volunteers play board games and chat with families transitioning out of homelessness at interim housing sites in Los Angeles County. One of the most powerful ways to help participants transitioning out of homelessness is to give them opportunities for healthy social interaction. It may seem like you are just playing checkers, but you are helping someone practice their communication skills and heal their interpersonal relationships. REQUIREMENTS: Must first attend their required (but awesome) training. Must be over 18. They do not fulfill court-ordered volunteer hours.
Join Big Sunday for our Accessible Wednesday at 10am Event
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.
Help Project Angel Food Provide Meals To Our Most Vulnerable Neighbors
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 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
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 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 Pico Union Project for their Community Garden Cleanups
Have some extra time in your day and looking for a good way to spend it? Join Pico Union Project for their weekly community cleanups to help beautify their thriving two-acre garden. It’s a chance to weed, plant sweat and bloom! Gardening opportunities always include a tasty community meal as well. Volunteers can come to the Pico Union Project any time between 9 am and 3 pm to help out.
Volunteer at the Vida Sana Farmers Market with Pico Union Project
Volunteers gather every Thursday morning to help run the weekly Vida Sana Farmers Market. The volunteer call time is at 9:00 AM, and tasks include setting up activities, running workshops, and distributing free, fresh produce to neighborhood families to foster health, resilience, and neighborhood revitalization.
Sort Essential Community Donations with PATH (People Assisting the Homeless)
Lend a hand to PATH Community Affairs staff by signing up for a donation sorting shift at PATH Metro Villas. Volunteers are a part of PATH's essential donation program that receives donated items from all around LA County. This experience involves receiving, sorting, organizing, and distributing donated items such as hygiene items, home goods, food, clothing, and more. They accept it all and do their best to make sure each donated item goes to an individual or family affected by homelessness in the community. Shifts are available on Tuesdays from 10:00 AM–12:00 PM & 12:30 PM–2:30 PM, and on Thursdays from 10:00 AM–12:00 PM. Sign-up is completed through Better Impact.
Wanted: Summer Fun Ambassadors for A Place Called Home’s Park Day Field Trip
Volunteers will join APCH youth members and staff to help spread the spirit of summer at their annual summer kickoff event – a celebration to officially usher in a summer of fun! Volunteers will support a welcome pep rally, setup and facilitation of activities and games, snack and meal service, and more! Please Note: Role may include moving, bending, walking, light-medium lifting and extended periods of standing. Please let the APCH team know if there is anything they can do to make this project more comfortable for you.
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.