Volunteer: Multiple Volunteer Opportunities - All Ages - Individual and GroupsHandsOn 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 RSVPAmeriCorps 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 ProjectJoin 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 ProgramsDonate 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 AssociateWe 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 VolunteerFront 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 VolunteerFront 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 CoordinatorBEDS 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 VolunteerEvery 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 VolunteersEPEL 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 |