For Starters
Call United Way hotline. When you call their hotline and you hit the button for volunteer work they will give you a list of 15 different organizations to volunteer with. Call 2-1-1 for help with food, housing, employment, health care, counseling and more! For more information click here!
Contact a YMCA
Google a YMCA near you or even better walk into a YMCA and ask them for volunteer opportunities. Most of these places run background checks. You may have to go through some training but it is mainly to get you familiar with the company.
Contact Your Local High School, Elementary School, and Middle School
You’re a familiar face! Walk into the front office and introduce yourself. Let them know that you want to give back to the community or for any reason you want to volunteer and they will get you in contact with a volunteer coordinator. A lot of times different school outings (football games, track meets, basketball games, wrestling matches) all need and are sometimes run by volunteers. Get involved with something that you may have wanted to do in high school but never had a chance to. There is a lot of work to be done in all of these places and your presence is often needed.
Boys & Girls Club
Contact your local boys and girls club and ask at the front desk for a volunteer application. It is likely that they’ll refer you to a volunteer coordinator and they can get you registered with the company.
With the boys and girls club you can make an immediate impact. They are really good and they allow you to create your in programs. You get to work with kids and you create genuine relationships with the kids and their staff. Good staff will always support you and help you with the kids. Plus sometimes there are really good other programs you hear about through other volunteers because most of the time volunteers have a couple of organizations they work with.
Work
Your Job! Corporate sponsors usually have a list or a couple of school programs that they work with. I know Turner Construction worked with the boys and girls club once and built the kids bicycles from scratch. It was a team work event that used the best of both worlds. They use the strengths of your company and work off that for special projects for their clients.
Be proactive, google and find charity work through your church or with Habitat for Humanity.
And of course don’t forget about BCG! Right here find more than 200 charities to support, local charity events in your community and all the good news you can use.
