Help Change Lives: Volunteer To Distribute Food & Clothing at Food on Foot’s Sunday Serving
As a volunteer, you’ll strengthen our community by distributing food, clothing and essential supplies to 350 unhoused and low-income neighbors. You will also meet and hear stories from the participants in Jobs & Housing program. Graduates from this program earn their way off the streets with full-time jobs, fully-furnished apartments, life-skills training, and the confidence needed to make their accomplishments long-lasting. Kids are welcome! Volunteering with Food on Foot is kid friendly and the perfect way to give back as a family. Children ages 6 and up are welcome. Everyone under 18 must sign up online and be accompanied by a supervising ticketed adult.
Spread Joy as a Resident Activities Assistant at American Family Housing
Join American Family Housing at the Donations Casita and make a difference! Volunteers in this role will assist at Donation Center throughout the week, creating a warm and welcoming environment for clients. Key Responsibilities: Greet and assist clients accompanied by their case manager as they select items to meet their needs. During slower times, help sort incoming donations, restock pantry shelves, and organize the space to ensure everything is in order. Your support ensures their clients have a positive experience and helps them maintain an efficient and organized Donation Center.
Make and Donate Pet Food Kits at North Hollywood Interfaith Food Pantry
Please help the hungry furry friends in our 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
Spread Joy as a Resident Activities Assistant at American Family Housing
Join American Family Housing at the Donations Casita and make a difference! Volunteers in this role will assist at Donation Center throughout the week, creating a warm and welcoming environment for clients. Key Responsibilities: Greet and assist clients accompanied by their case manager as they select items to meet their needs. During slower times, help sort incoming donations, restock pantry shelves, and organize the space to ensure everything is in order. Your support ensures their clients have a positive experience and helps them maintain an efficient and organized Donation Center.
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!
Spread Joy as a Resident Activities Assistant at American Family Housing
Join American Family Housing at the Donations Casita and make a difference! Volunteers in this role will assist at Donation Center throughout the week, creating a warm and welcoming environment for clients. Key Responsibilities: Greet and assist clients accompanied by their case manager as they select items to meet their needs. During slower times, help sort incoming donations, restock pantry shelves, and organize the space to ensure everything is in order. Your support ensures their clients have a positive experience and helps them maintain an efficient and organized Donation Center.
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.
Spread Joy as a Resident Activities Assistant at American Family Housing
Join American Family Housing at the Donations Casita and make a difference! Volunteers in this role will assist at Donation Center throughout the week, creating a warm and welcoming environment for clients. Key Responsibilities: Greet and assist clients accompanied by their case manager as they select items to meet their needs. During slower times, help sort incoming donations, restock pantry shelves, and organize the space to ensure everything is in order. Your support ensures their clients have a positive experience and helps them maintain an efficient and organized Donation Center.
Join Big Sunday for our Thursday Morning at 10am Events
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. This week we will be sorting and packing clothing for donations.
Join Big Sunday for our Thursday Morning at 10am Events
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. This week we will be packing backpacks for our Back to School Event.
Join Big Sunday for our Thursday Morning at 10am Events
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. This week we will be packing backpacks for our Back to School Event.
Donate to Assistance League of Los Angeles
ALL SUMMER LONG! The Assistance League of Los Angeles has a mission to improve the lives of impoverished children in the community through philanthropy, dedicated service, and compassionate programs. With your support, we can all make a difference in the lives of children throughout Los Angeles.
Join the Fight Against Hunger By Donating to the Long Beach Community Table
ALL SUMMER LONG! Long Beach Community Table (LBCT) is a 501(c)3 nonprofit, cooperative (meaning that all volunteers and recipients share in the effort and the benefits), that nourish those who are struggling and provides resources that allow everyone involved to mutually sustain each other, their families, and their neighbors. They are always in need of monetary donations, as well donations related to hygiene items, gardening supplies, and vehicles/facilities.
Donate to Los Angeles County Teen Challenge To Help Fight Addiction
ALL SUMMER LONG! Contribute a gift to those caught in the nightmare of substance abuse.
Help Donate Beanie Babies to Soldiers Abroad with Operation Gratitude
ALL SUMMER LONG! Each year Operation Gratitude receives thousands of Beanie Babies from grateful Americans across the country, and one goes in every single Care Package they send to service members deployed around the world. They made Beanie Babies a signature item in their Care Packages not only because they bring smiles to the faces of deployed troops, but also because they help American forces build goodwill around the world. Do you have a collection of Beanie Babies, or small plush toys like Webkinz or Burt’s Bears, and are wondering what to do with them? Send them to Operation Gratitude and they will put them in the Care Packages they send to deployed Troops! OR Purchase Beanie Babies, Webkinz or other plush toys, or host a collection drive for new or gently used ones at your workplace, neighborhood or school.
Donate to Support our Troops through Operation Gratitude
ALL SUMMER LONG! Thanks to the generosity and efforts of grateful people like YOU, Operation Gratitude continues to support and provide tangible acts of gratitude to brave troops, military families, veterans and first responders serving both overseas and here at home.
Donate to Support Homeless Pet Owners through PalsNPets
ALL SUMMER LONG! PalsNPets is a nonprofit dedicated to homeless pet owners and their pets. They are a unique kind of organization providing services and establishing shelters specific to the needs of this group, who are often the most in need and we believe have a higher potential to turn their lives around. Your donations will go directly to helping homeless pet owners and their pets with shelter and services to move them forward!
Donate to Support the Empowerment of Caregivers through the Parents’ Place Family Resource and Empowerment Center
ALL SUMMER LONG! Parents’ Place provides information and education to improve knowledge so parents, caregivers, and professionals can become empowered, allowing them to advocate for their children more effectively. Your generous donation allows them to continue to educate and empower families through up-to date- information, training resources, and parents to parent support.
Donate to Project Minnie
ALL SUMMER LONG! Project Minnie relies solely on your charitable contributions! Your gifts makes a world of difference for pets of the homeless. With your donation, they can feed a homeless dog or cat for a week, improve a dog’s safety by providing a leash, harness and/or collar, keep a pet warm with a sweater or bed, and much more!
Help Foster the Creation of Art and Donate to Support Self Help Graphics & Art
ALL SUMMER LONG! Self Help Graphics is guided by their values driven mission of Spirituality and Creative Heart, Social Consciousness, Integrity, Innovation and Accessibility. If you’ve ever attended their programs, workshops, exhibitions and special events, you know that corazón (heart), culture and community, are at the core of what we do for artists of color, individuals, youth and families. Consider donating to support their mission and programs!
Featured Projects
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.
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 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. This week we will be sorting and packing clothing for donations.
Immerse Yourself in a Sound Bath Experience at Big Sunday’s Wellness Mondays
Big Sunday,
alondra@bigsunday.org,
(323) 549-9944
New for the summer of ’25: Stop in and come to a special session in the name of happiness, wholeness, and feeling better. Lay down and close your eyes as The Soundbath Center co-founder Jamie Bechtold performs on gongs and crystal singing bowls to generate an atmosphere of relaxing, meditative calm. You can immerse yourself in healing frequencies, take a well-deserved rest, or simply enjoy the soundscape. If you've never felt the soothing, healing effects of a sound bath, you owe it to yourself to check this one out. As the sound bath is best experienced laying down, please bring a blanket and/or yoga mat. All Wellness Mondays are FREE for all participants!
Celebrate Midsummer and Join Big Sunday for Karaoke Night!
Big Sunday,
nicolo@bigsunday.org,
(323) 549-9944
Mark your calendars: Big Sunday's Karaoke Night will be held Thursday, July 24th from 6:00pm-8:00pm! What better way to celebrate midsummer – and to forget the world’s troubles – than a night of karaoke. And get this: It will be with live musicians, The Pop Rocks Band! The snacks are on us. Price of admission: At least one item for our Back to School Week collection. (No, you don’t have to sing. And no, you don’t have to be a good singer. Trust us. Big Sunday's Karaoke will be held in our headquarters: 1741 N Cherokee Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90028. There is meter parking and street parking around our office or you can park at the public parking garage right across the street from our building! Please note that the parking garage across the street has a fee of $12. If you have any questions, please contact: Nicolo at nicolo@bigsunday.org! Hope to see you there!
Come Along On The Donut Crawl! – Big Sunday’s Friday Field Trips
Big Sunday,
nicolo@bigsunday.org,
(323) 549-9944
For the past few summers, we've had many adventures with all kinds of nice people – vets, foster youth, people experiencing homelessness – all over the city. Including our now-famous Donut Crawl! Here's what it is: We're renting a very cool party bus. It will be leaving from our HQ in Hollywood. We've invited nice but struggling folks from all over town with all kinds of challenges. Then again, we all have some kind of challenges. We'll all get on the bus. We'll be picking up and sampling donuts from donut stores around town, and, together, making our own, unassailable list of which are best in numerous categories. Even better (as if anything could possibly be better than sampling donuts from all over town), we'll also be enjoying one another's company! Please note that there are two Crawls – one from 9:30-11, and another from 11-12:30.
Get Flexible at Goat Yoga – Big Sunday’s Wellness Mondays
Big Sunday,
alondra@bigsunday.org,
(323) 549-9944
New for the summer of ’25: Stop in and come to a special session in the name of happiness, wholeness, and feeling better. Back by popular demand! Work out with the only trained yoga goats in the country! The goats are your helpers during a yoga class for all ages and skill levels. They help you deepen stretches, improve your core strength, test balance, and give you a goat massage at the end! There will be one hour of yoga, followed by an hour of chilling with the goats!
Let’s Go Bowling – Big Sunday’s Friday Field Trips
Big Sunday,
nicolo@bigsunday.org,
(323) 549-9944
For the past few summers, we've had many adventures with all kinds of nice people – vets, foster youth, people experiencing homelessness – all over the city. One of our oldest and most beloved is Bowling! Every year, we head out to Corbin Bowl in Tarzana for a day full of strikes, spares, gutterballs, and pizza! It's a great old bowling alley with fun retro vibes, and best of all it's free. We hope you'll join us to share in the community spirit. Please note that this event is not at Big Sunday HQ in Hollywood – we'll meet you out there in beautiful Tarzana! If you'd like to bring a large group, please contact nicolo@bigsunday.org.
Show Off Your Smarts at Big Sunday’s Trivia Night!
Big Sunday,
nicolo@bigsunday.org,
(323) 549-9944
Test your knowledge (trivia) and test your reflexes (buzzer) on another memorable Big Sunday Trivia Night, hosted by our own Nico and Madison. The snacks are on us for this, too! Price of admission: At least one item for our Back to School Week collection. (And no, we won’t think less of you if you know more facts about sitcoms than you do about botany.) There will be awesome prizes and totally good vibes!