Needs From: United Way of Metro Chicago

Volunteer: Multiple Volunteer Opportunities - All Ages - Individual and Groups

HandsOn Suburban Chicago connects individuals and groups interested in volunteering with opportunities to serve their community.

Opportunities are available in more than 100 social service organizations and schools throughout Northern Cook and Northern DuPage County. There are hundreds of volunteer opportunities that fit every need-virtual, one day, short term projects or long term. You can use your professional skills, volunteer remotely, or even become a board member!

Learn more at www.HandsOnSuburbanChicago.org to search volunteer opportunities!

Agency: HandsOn Suburban Chicago

HandsOn Suburban Chicago connects individuals and groups interested in volunteering with opportunities to serve their community.

Opportunities are available in more than 100 social service organizations and schools throughout Northern Cook and Northern DuPage County. There are hundreds of volunteer opportunities that fit every need-virtual, one day, short term projects or long term. You can use your professional skills, volunteer remotely, or even become a board member!

Learn more at www.HandsOnSuburbanChicago.org to search volunteer opportunities!

Agency: HandsOn Suburban Chicago

Need Type: Volunteer

Date: Is Ongoing

Zip Code: 60005

Allow Groups: No


Volunteer: Volunteer with AmeriCorps Seniors RSVP

AmeriCorps Seniors RSVP is a volunteer program serving 44 cities and towns in Northern Cook County and DuPage County north of North Avenue.

You can help people in your community while being part of a national program by becoming a volunteer of AmeriCorps Seniors RSVP. Choose from several impact areas, such as:

Helping people age with dignity

Tutoring elementary aged children

Help a nonprofit build capacity

And many more!

Whatever you choose to do, you will make a real difference. Stronger families. Better schools. Safer communities. With AmeriCorps Seniors RSVP, you will see tangible outcomes and learn first-hand how your contributions can change your community.

Please visit www.HandsOnSuburbanChicago.org to search volunteer opportunities, or call us for more information at 847-228-1006!

Agency: HandsOn Suburban Chicago

AmeriCorps Seniors RSVP is a volunteer program serving 44 cities and towns in Northern Cook County and DuPage County north of North Avenue.

You can help people in your community while being part of a national program by becoming a volunteer of AmeriCorps Seniors RSVP. Choose from several impact areas, such as:

Helping people age with dignity

Tutoring elementary aged children

Help a nonprofit build capacity

And many more!

Whatever you choose to do, you will make a real difference. Stronger families. Better schools. Safer communities. With AmeriCorps Seniors RSVP, you will see tangible outcomes and learn first-hand how your contributions can change your community.

Please visit www.HandsOnSuburbanChicago.org to search volunteer opportunities, or call us for more information at 847-228-1006!

Agency: HandsOn Suburban Chicago

Need Type: Volunteer

Date: Is Ongoing

Zip Code: 60005

Allow Groups: No


Volunteer: Garden Project

Join us on our North Campus to help us clean up and keep our Serenity Garden looking nice for our youth and staff. Our youth who live and attend school on our campus use this garden as a place to decompress and therapy sessions. Your work helps support our mission to promote stability through a nurturing, healthy living environment for our youth. 

Agency: Lawrence Hall

Join us on our North Campus to help us clean up and keep our Serenity Garden looking nice for our youth and staff. Our youth who live and attend school on our campus use this garden as a place to decompress and therapy sessions. Your work helps support our mission to promote stability through a nurturing, healthy living environment for our youth. 

Agency: Lawrence Hall

Need Type: Volunteer

Date: Is Ongoing

Zip Code: 60625

Allow Groups: Yes


Volunteer: Donate Activities for our Mentoring and Tutoring Programs

Donate activities and games for our tutors and mentors to use during their weekly sessions with our youth. Find our wishlist on Amazon: https://a.co/dR00LpN

Agency: Lawrence Hall

Donate activities and games for our tutors and mentors to use during their weekly sessions with our youth. Find our wishlist on Amazon: https://a.co/dR00LpN

Agency: Lawrence Hall

Need Type: Volunteer

Date: Is Ongoing

Zip Code: 60625

Allow Groups: No


Volunteer: Make a difference – join us on the beach!

Keeping our Great Lakes beaches clean starts with you! Adopt-a-Beach cleanups are a fun, free, easy way to give back to your community and keep plastic pollution out of our Great Lakes. It’s easy to jump right into the Adopt-a-Beach community. Join a cleanup today!  

The Alliance for the Great Lakes is a nonpartisan nonprofit working across the Great Lakes region to protect our most precious resource: the fresh, clean, and natural waters of the Great Lakes. We are active in advocacy, volunteering, education, and research.  

Each year, through the Adopt-a-Beach program, thousands of volunteers work to keep the Great Lakes shorelines healthy by removing litter from our beaches and collecting important data. 

Join the Adopt-a-Beach movement today! You can take part in two ways: 

Find an Adopt-a-Beach cleanup near you and sign up. A Team Leader will meet you at the beach with all the supplies!  You can also become a Team Leader and host your own cleanup with friends, family, or community members. This is a great opportunity to keep your community beautiful and engage those around you. We have lots of resources to help you organize a successful cleanup! 

We hope to see you on the beach this season! 

Agency: Alliance for the Great Lakes

Keeping our Great Lakes beaches clean starts with you! Adopt-a-Beach cleanups are a fun, free, easy way to give back to your community and keep plastic pollution out of our Great Lakes. It’s easy to jump right into the Adopt-a-Beach community. Join a cleanup today!  

The Alliance for the Great Lakes is a nonpartisan nonprofit working across the Great Lakes region to protect our most precious resource: the fresh, clean, and natural waters of the Great Lakes. We are active in advocacy, volunteering, education, and research.  

Each year, through the Adopt-a-Beach program, thousands of volunteers work to keep the Great Lakes shorelines healthy by removing litter from our beaches and collecting important data. 

Join the Adopt-a-Beach movement today! You can take part in two ways: 

Find an Adopt-a-Beach cleanup near you and sign up. A Team Leader will meet you at the beach with all the supplies!  You can also become a Team Leader and host your own cleanup with friends, family, or community members. This is a great opportunity to keep your community beautiful and engage those around you. We have lots of resources to help you organize a successful cleanup! 

We hope to see you on the beach this season! 

Agency: Alliance for the Great Lakes

Need Type: Volunteer

Date: Is Ongoing

Zip Code: 60601

Allow Groups: No


Volunteer: Childcare Associate

We are looking for regular childcare volunteers who would be able to help out at both our Chicago and Oak Park locations. We would need childcare a couple of days a week and up to four evenings per week! Shifts are about 2 hours long. Two background checks are required to be passed before an individual can work with children.

Agency: New Moms

We are looking for regular childcare volunteers who would be able to help out at both our Chicago and Oak Park locations. We would need childcare a couple of days a week and up to four evenings per week! Shifts are about 2 hours long. Two background checks are required to be passed before an individual can work with children.

Agency: New Moms

Need Type: Volunteer

Date: Is Ongoing

Zip Code: 60651

Allow Groups: No


Volunteer: Front Desk Volunteer

Front desk volunteers work for 4 hour timeframes answering the phone, transferring calls and interacting with visitors to the Ogden Avenue Supportive Housing Facility located in La Grange. Morning shifts between 8am-12pm and 12pm-4pm are currently available. 

Agency: Beds Plus Care

Front desk volunteers work for 4 hour timeframes answering the phone, transferring calls and interacting with visitors to the Ogden Avenue Supportive Housing Facility located in La Grange. Morning shifts between 8am-12pm and 12pm-4pm are currently available. 

Agency: Beds Plus Care

Need Type: Volunteer

Date: Is Ongoing

Zip Code: 60525

Allow Groups: No


Volunteer: Front Desk Volunteer

Front desk volunteers work for 4 hour timeframes answering the phone, transferring calls and interacting with visitors to the Ogden Avenue Supportive Housing Facility located in La Grange. Morning shifts between 8am-12pm and 12pm-4pm are currently available. 

Agency: Beds Plus Care

Front desk volunteers work for 4 hour timeframes answering the phone, transferring calls and interacting with visitors to the Ogden Avenue Supportive Housing Facility located in La Grange. Morning shifts between 8am-12pm and 12pm-4pm are currently available. 

Agency: Beds Plus Care

Need Type: Volunteer

Date: Is Ongoing

Zip Code: 60525

Allow Groups: No


Volunteer: In-Kind Donations Coordinator

BEDS Plus uses in-kind donations to assist formerly homeless clients get back on their feet. Items like couches, side tables and lamps in good condition help furnish their new apartments. We are looking for someone to volunteer for 1-2 hours per day coordinating these items for the staff that works directly with clients. This person would have their own BEDS email to interact with donors with items. 

Agency: Beds Plus Care

BEDS Plus uses in-kind donations to assist formerly homeless clients get back on their feet. Items like couches, side tables and lamps in good condition help furnish their new apartments. We are looking for someone to volunteer for 1-2 hours per day coordinating these items for the staff that works directly with clients. This person would have their own BEDS email to interact with donors with items. 

Agency: Beds Plus Care

Need Type: Volunteer

Date: Is Ongoing

Zip Code: 60525

Allow Groups: No


Volunteer: Laundry Volunteer

Every week, our guests need their sheets, pillowcases, and towels to be washed. The cleaned linens are then folded and put away so that they can be re-distributed to guests during the evening after dinner. 

This volunteer opportunity would be on-site at the shelter. 

While the linens are being washed, you may also help with general organizational needs (such as organizing donations, clothing closets, or the food pantry). 

This is an on-going shelter need. If you are able to commit on a regular basis, that would be fantastic. Otherwise, we are more than happy to have volunteers who want to come in just once or twice. 

 

Agency: PADS of Elgin, Inc.

Every week, our guests need their sheets, pillowcases, and towels to be washed. The cleaned linens are then folded and put away so that they can be re-distributed to guests during the evening after dinner. 

This volunteer opportunity would be on-site at the shelter. 

While the linens are being washed, you may also help with general organizational needs (such as organizing donations, clothing closets, or the food pantry). 

This is an on-going shelter need. If you are able to commit on a regular basis, that would be fantastic. Otherwise, we are more than happy to have volunteers who want to come in just once or twice. 

 

Agency: PADS of Elgin, Inc.

Need Type: Volunteer

Date: Is Ongoing

Zip Code: 60123

Allow Groups: Yes


Volunteer: Early Learning Laundromat Volunteers

EPEL is looking for people who love young children. We have two Laundromats that have books and materials to engage our youngest learners. We are always looking for volunteers to read and engage children while their parents are doing their laundry. A Laundromat is a non-traditional place for children to learn while they wait!

 

Do you speak Spanish? That is a bonus, with a cherry on top! You do not need to be a teacher, you just have to love children and families.

Agency: Enriching Partnerships for Early Learning

EPEL is looking for people who love young children. We have two Laundromats that have books and materials to engage our youngest learners. We are always looking for volunteers to read and engage children while their parents are doing their laundry. A Laundromat is a non-traditional place for children to learn while they wait!

 

Do you speak Spanish? That is a bonus, with a cherry on top! You do not need to be a teacher, you just have to love children and families.

Agency: Enriching Partnerships for Early Learning

Need Type: Volunteer

Date: Is Ongoing

Zip Code: 60120

Allow Groups: No


Volunteer: Help us Feed the Community! (Wheaton)

Pre-pack bags of groceries, unpack and stock items, and place groceries in clients’ vehicles.  Opportunities in Wheaton, Westmont, and West Chicago.  

 

Social distancing, masking, and safety protocols will be followed at all sites.  

Because West Chicago is within a school, the masking mandate will also be followed.

 

What would make you a good fit for this opportunity?

 

You are 13+yrs old You can stand for 3 hours and lift 25lbs (3gal of water) You are willing and able to help where needed in the pantry each time you volunteer You enjoy working both indoors and outdoors You are available during these times: Wheaton/Westmont - mornings, afternoons, or evenings West Chicago- Tuesdays, 3:30-6pm

 

The West Chicago location is especially in need of volunteers who know (or are eager to learn!) basic Spanish phrases.  

 

Join us!  Fill out a volunteer application at www.peoplesrc.org/volunteer 

Agency: People's Resource Center

Pre-pack bags of groceries, unpack and stock items, and place groceries in clients’ vehicles.  Opportunities in Wheaton, Westmont, and West Chicago.  

 

Social distancing, masking, and safety protocols will be followed at all sites.  

Because West Chicago is within a school, the masking mandate will also be followed.

 

What would make you a good fit for this opportunity?

 

You are 13+yrs old You can stand for 3 hours and lift 25lbs (3gal of water) You are willing and able to help where needed in the pantry each time you volunteer You enjoy working both indoors and outdoors You are available during these times: Wheaton/Westmont - mornings, afternoons, or evenings West Chicago- Tuesdays, 3:30-6pm

 

The West Chicago location is especially in need of volunteers who know (or are eager to learn!) basic Spanish phrases.  

 

Join us!  Fill out a volunteer application at www.peoplesrc.org/volunteer 

Agency: People's Resource Center

Need Type: Volunteer

Date: Is Ongoing

Zip Code: 60187

Allow Groups: No


Volunteer: Help us Feed the Community! (Westmont)

Pre-pack bags of groceries, unpack and stock items, and place groceries in clients’ vehicles.  Opportunities in Wheaton, Westmont, and West Chicago.  

 

Social distancing, masking, and safety protocols will be followed at all sites.  

Because West Chicago is within a school, the masking mandate will also be followed.

 

What would make you a good fit for this opportunity?

 

You are 13+yrs old You can stand for 3 hours and lift 25lbs (3gal of water) You are willing and able to help where needed in the pantry each time you volunteer You enjoy working both indoors and outdoors You are available during these times: Wheaton/Westmont - mornings, afternoons, or evenings West Chicago- Tuesdays, 3:30-6pm

 

The West Chicago location is especially in need of volunteers who know (or are eager to learn!) basic Spanish phrases.  

 

Join us!  Fill out a volunteer application at www.peoplesrc.org/volunteer

Agency: People's Resource Center

Pre-pack bags of groceries, unpack and stock items, and place groceries in clients’ vehicles.  Opportunities in Wheaton, Westmont, and West Chicago.  

 

Social distancing, masking, and safety protocols will be followed at all sites.  

Because West Chicago is within a school, the masking mandate will also be followed.

 

What would make you a good fit for this opportunity?

 

You are 13+yrs old You can stand for 3 hours and lift 25lbs (3gal of water) You are willing and able to help where needed in the pantry each time you volunteer You enjoy working both indoors and outdoors You are available during these times: Wheaton/Westmont - mornings, afternoons, or evenings West Chicago- Tuesdays, 3:30-6pm

 

The West Chicago location is especially in need of volunteers who know (or are eager to learn!) basic Spanish phrases.  

 

Join us!  Fill out a volunteer application at www.peoplesrc.org/volunteer

Agency: People's Resource Center

Need Type: Volunteer

Date: Is Ongoing

Zip Code: 60559

Allow Groups: No