Empower the Next Generation of Readers: Donate to YouthLit today
Donations to the American Youth Literacy Foundation directly support the expansion of the groundbreaking FUNetix reading app, a tool capable of teaching children how to read in just 12 hours. Because the foundation is dedicated to ending youth illiteracy, financial contributions help ensure this vital learning tool remains completely free for underserved children and families. A gift today is a direct investment in a child's lifelong academic and personal success.
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.
Manage Event Logistics and Heavy Equipment Infrastructure on the Setup Crew with Angel Hanz For The Homeless
This hands-on team handles the critical first and last steps of the day. Volunteers pick up and deliver donated goods, set up tables and canopies, and break everything down safely once the event ends. It is the perfect role for energetic individuals who love active work and want to see an event come together from the ground up.
Advocate for Vulnerable Communities by Supporting Unhoused Families and Their Pets with Angel Hanz For The Homeless
Over 50,000 homeless people live in the greater Los Angeles area, many with animals. They work on the front lines providing services, information, respect and compassion to those less fortunate. Using all the tools available, they go into the community to reach out and provide hope and support. Through flyers, internet postings, blogs and personal contact, their goal is to help people find their way back into the mainstream of life. They advocate for those who have been marginalized and made to feel invisible (human and animal). Help them provide the attention and assistance they deserve.
Provide Meals for Ascencia’s Residents, Be Part of the Guest Chef program with Ascencia
The Guest Chef program is central to the resources they provide their residents on a daily basis; and removes the worry about where their next meal is coming from. Volunteers in their Guest Chef Program commit to providing meals for 40-45 people. Chefs will plan the menu, purchase and prep the ingredients, then cook and serve the meal to their shelter residents. They also have many Guest Chefs get food delivered, or pick up food from local restaurants and drop-off!.
Pack with Purpose: Assemble Hygiene Kits from Home with Ascencia!
Purchase and assemble hygiene kits for their Outreach Case Managers to hand out while out in the field! You can host a donation drive to collect items, or purchase travel sized hygiene materials. Assemble them into Ziploc bags at home and schedule a drop-off!.
Pack with Purpose: Assemble Snack Bags from Home with Ascencia!
Purchase and assemble snack bags for their Outreach Case Managers to hand out while out in the field! Collect non-perishable snacks and drinks like protein bars, chips, water, sports drinks, etc., pack them into Ziploc bags, and donate them to Ascencia! Snack bags go quick, so the more the merrier.
Pack with Purpose: Assemble Brown Lunch Bags from Home with Ascencia!
They are asking for volunteers to make brown bag lunches for clients in the shelter to supplement meals not covered by guest chef, or for street outreach to pass out to individuals on the streets. Lunches can include PB&J sandwiches, fruit, chips, protein bars, water, etc.
Behind-the-Scenes Impact: Join Ascencia’s Admin and Operations Team with Ascencia
Support Ascencia by providing administrative or organizational support. Work in their admin office to complete tasks such as data entry, filing, writing thank you cards, organizing the donation closet and food pantry, and more.
Build a Welcoming Space: Help with Maintenance, Cleaning, and Handiwork with Ascencia
They are always looking for folks to help with light maintenance, cleaning, or handiwork at their access center or at the homes of their housed clients. Let them know you are willing and able to help with this, and they will reach out when the need arises.
Celebrate with a Cause: Host a Birthday Fundraiser for Ascencia with Ascencia
Host an online fundraiser for your birthday! Facebook, Instagram, and GoFundMe fundraisers are very easy to set up, and 100% of funds raised go towards their programs and services.
Be a Digital Advocate: Help Raise Awareness with Ascencia
Like, comment, share, and subscribe to increase their engagement and grow their community! @AscenciaCA on Twitter/X, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn, and Youtube.
Host a Clothing and Undergarment Drive with Ascencia
Often when new clients arrive to their Access Center, the only clothes they own are what they are wearing. They’d love to welcome their clients with a fresh new set of clothes to wear while they wash their clothes and to make them feel more comfortable. Currently, they have high need for underwear. New items only please.
Host a Hygiene Kits and Snack Bags Drive with Ascencia
An integral part of Ascencia’s mission is their street Outreach! While their Outreach Case Managers are out helping their unhoused neighbors, they provide them with hygiene kits and snack packs to pass out. Help them by doing a drive with your community to gather some essentials for their clients, or purchase and donate the items. You can donate the items on their own, or assemble them into kits to donate. New, toiletry-sized hygiene items, and non-perishable, unopened snacks only please.
Host a Welcome Home Drive with Ascencia
Welcome their clients as they move into their new homes by providing them with a home starter kit. Supplies for home starter kits can include plates, utensils, cups (dining); toilet paper, bathroom cleaning supplies, soap, shampoo, conditioner, towels (bathroom); laundry detergent, laundry basket, fabric softener (laundry); pots and pans, dishwashing soap, sponges, cooking utensils (kitchen).
Host a Food Pantry Drive with Ascencia
Donate dry goods, canned food, and breakfast items for their food pantry in their Access Center. This food helps to supplement meals in their emergency shelter and help their housed clients with immediate needs. Items must be unexpired and unopened.
Host a Blanket Drive with Ascencia
No matter the weather, blankets are an essential item to give to their clients and for their Outreach Team to pass out to individuals living on the street. You can collect new bed sheets, comforters, throws, quilts, etc. Some volunteers even buy fabric and make their own tie blankets!.
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.