Manage the Drive-Thru Food Distribution with Giving Children Hope
Join the front-line community team fighting weekend food insecurity across Southern California. Volunteers work collaboratively during the busy Friday morning drive-through operation by pre-packing grocery bags, sorting fresh incoming produce, welcoming arriving families, and loading food packages safely into vehicles. This vital service helps ensure housing-unstable families access healthy nutrition regularly. Open to ages 13 and older (minors need a guardian); accepts volunteer groups up to 15.
Direct Drive-Thru Traffic and Parking Safety with Giving Children Hope
Keep the weekly community drive-through food distribution operating safely and efficiently. Dedicated traffic team members work outdoors on Friday mornings to guide arriving cars smoothly through the site lanes, assist staff with checking in arriving families, and supervise the exit lanes to ensure optimal check-out safety as vehicles leave the campus. Must be 18 years or older and comfortable standing outdoors during active traffic.
Lead Fundraising and Financial Development with Long Beach Community Table
Lend your professional expertise to support the financial development of this mutual aid cooperative. The organization is seeking expert team leaders and enthusiastic, detail-oriented volunteers to assist with grant-writing, sponsor development, in-kind donation acquisition, event planning, and developing nonprofit donor appeals. Requires strong writing skills and prior administrative or fundraising experience.
Manage Administrative Office Tasks with Long Beach Community Table
Support behind-the-scenes operations and community outreach at their facility or remotely. Volunteers can contribute via back-office administrative support—such as filing, bookkeeping, organizing, or cleaning—or through communication channels like managing social media accounts, running email campaigns, overseeing volunteer systems, video production, or staffing event tables. Open to background support volunteers looking for office or digital work.
Join the Ladies Guild with Teen Challenge of Southern California
Become a member of the local Ladies Guild to support regional centers. Vetted women plan special events, coordinate fundraising lunches, manage community collection drives, and perform many valuable acts of service to support the students completing their long-term recovery programs. Open to mature female volunteers looking to engage with local centers.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Share Skills and Passion with Covenant House California
Share your talents and passions to provide opportunities for healing and growth to young people overcoming homelessness and trafficking. Individuals, corporate teams, and civic groups can design custom volunteer experiences based on what they love to do. Engagement ideas include cooking or hosting a group meal, leading wellness workshops (yoga, meditation, or gardening), providing educational tutoring, or hosting recreational events like birthday celebrations, game nights, movie nights, or beach days. Volunteers can also contribute via professional skills like providing haircuts or organizing community donation drives. Requires completing a volunteer application, orientation, and a background check.
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.
Share Skills and Passion with Covenant House California
Share your talents and passions to provide opportunities for healing and growth to young people overcoming homelessness and trafficking. Individuals, corporate teams, and civic groups can design custom volunteer experiences based on what they love to do. Engagement ideas include cooking or hosting a group meal, leading wellness workshops (yoga, meditation, or gardening), providing educational tutoring, or hosting recreational events like birthday celebrations, game nights, movie nights, or beach days. Volunteers can also contribute via professional skills like providing haircuts or organizing community donation drives. Requires completing a volunteer application, orientation, and a background check.
Coordinate Professional Roundtable Workshops with Crime Survivors Resource Center
Assist with the logistics, setup, and execution of the Service Providers Roundtables hosted throughout Southern California. Volunteers support these professional training sessions and workshops by managing check-in desks, distributing informational packets, and arranging meeting rooms. These roundtables bring together psychologists, lawyers, and victim advocates to focus on the newest and most innovative efforts to assist survivors.
Join the Cooking Club and On-Site Service Groups with Downtown Women’s Center
Form a group with friends, family, or corporate colleagues to complete vital hands-on team projects. On-site groups can sponsor and join the Cooking Club to communally prepare, cook, and serve a fresh, home-style lunch for 150 women inside the Day Center kitchen, or register for a morning Snack Pack Workshop to assemble nutritious grab-and-go meal bags. Alternatively, community groups can work together off-site to source, compile, and deliver bulk supply packages, which include Snack Packs, travel-sized Toiletry Kits for the daily shower program, and Clean Home Kits packed in durable tote bags for residents transitioning into permanent housing. All group members must be 18 years or older and complete a liability waiver.
Support Urban Community Development and Environmental Equity with Watts Labor Community Action Committee (WLCAC)
Join residents, artists, entrepreneurs, and community leaders for an open conversation about a proposed mixed-use residential and commercial development designed to support cultural preservation and economic opportunity. The project includes affordable live/work spaces, small business opportunities, and rent-to-own housing pathways for creatives, innovators, and individuals transitioning out of homelessness. Your voice is essential in helping create a development that reflects the history, identity, and future of the community. Open to community individuals and youth groups; minors require parental permission.
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.
Connecting Families to Hope, One Call at a Time – Disaster Action Team Duty Officer Volunteer 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. The Disaster Action Team (DAT) Duty Officer ensures timely activation and monitoring of local and regional DAT responses. The Duty Officer supports the DAT program either at the chapter/territory or region level.
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.
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.