The opportunities are endless, as is the need for your expertise.

You can find a group that matches your interest and location on one website, https://www.volunteermatch.org

Consider how your skills, knowledge, and expertise match their categories.                        

• Advocacy & Human Rights 
• Animals              
• Arts & Culture—Museum Docent          
• Board Development
• Business Mentor                  
• Children & Youth                  
• Community                  
• Computer Education            
• Crisis Support             
• Disaster Relief            
• Education & Literacy           
• Emergency & Safety           
• Employment                
• Environment                
• Faith-Based                
• Health & Medicine                
• Homeless & Housing           
• Hunger               
• Immigrants issues                
• International Causes           
• Justice & Legal           
• LGBT                  
• Media & Broadcasting                   
• People with handicaps                  
• Politics                
• Race & Ethnicity                   
• Seniors               
• Sports & Recreation            
• Veterans issues                   
• Women 

Contact Information for Popular Volunteer Organizations – They need your help! 

Alzheimer’s Association

http://www.alz.org/ 

American Cancer Society

http://www.cancer.org/involved/index 

American Diabetes Association

http://www.diabetes.org/in-my-community/volunteer-opportunities/?loc=footer 

American Heart Association

http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=1200000

American Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

http://www.aspca.org/ 

Animal Welfare Institute

http://www.awionline.org/ 

Arthritis Foundation

http://www.arthritis.org/ 

Child Welfare League of America

http://www.cwla.org/ 

Greenpeace USA

http://www.greenpeaceusa.org/ 

Guide Dog Foundation

http://www.guidedog.org/Voluntr/voluntr.htm 

Helen Keller Services for the Blind

http://www.helenkeller.org/ 

Income Tax Assistance/Tax Counseling for the Elderly

http://www.irs.gov/Individuals/IRS-Tax-Volunteers 

Make-A-Wish Foundation

http://www.wish.org/ 

Muscular Dystrophy Association

http://www.mdausa.org/ 

National Park Service

http://www.nps.gov/volunteer/ 

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

http://www.nrdc.org/siteMap/ 

Lung Cancer Alliance

http://lungcanceralliance.org 

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

http://www.mskcc.org/mskcc/html/44.cfm 

The Salvation Army

http://www.salvationarmysouth.org/about 

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

http://www.stjude.org/volunteers 

Susan G. Komen Foundation

http://ww5.komen.org/ 

More Resources – Contact Information

With this list of recourses, you can go old-fashioned and use the telephone! Please note that some contact numbers may have changed. 

• AARP Foundation 202-434-2018
• American Civil Liberties Foundation 212-549-2500
• American Foundation for AIDS Research 800-392-6327
• American Friends Service Committee 800-638-8299
• Alzheimer’s Association 800-272-3900
• ALS Association—National Office 888-949-2577
• American Association of the Deaf-Blind 301-495-4403
• American Brain Tumor Association 800-886-2282
• American Cancer Society 800-227-2345
• American Diabetes Association 800-342-2383
• American Foundation for the Blind 800-232-5463
• American Heart Association 800-242-8721
• American Kidney Fund 215 241-7000
• American Liver Foundation 800-465-4837
• American Lung Association 212-315-8700
• American Macular Degeneration Foundation 888-622-8527
• American Red Cross 202-303-4498
• Animal Rescue Foundation 925-256-1273
• Anti-Defamation League 212-885-7700
• Arthritis Foundation 800-238-7800
• American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals 212-876-7700
• Big Brothers/Big Sisters of America 215-567-7000
• Boys & Girls Clubs of America 404-487-5700
• Cancer Fund of America 800-578-5284

• Cancer Research & Prevention Foundation 800-227-2732
• CARE USA 800-422-7385
• Children’s Defense Fund 202-628-8787
• City of Hope 800-826-4673
• Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation of America 800-932-2423
• Cystic Fibrosis Foundation 800-344-4823
• Disabled American Veterans 859-441-7300
• Doctors Without Borders, USA 888-392-0392
• Easter Seals 312-726-6200
• Epilepsy Foundation 800-470-1655
• Feed the Children 800-627-4556
• Global Fund for Women 415-202-7640
• Greenpeace 202-462-1177
• Humane Society of the US 202-452-1100
• Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation 800-533-2873
• Leukemia & Lymphoma Society 800-955-4572
• Lupus Foundation of America—N.O. 301-670-9292
• Mothers Against Drunk Driving 800-438-6233
• March of Dimes Against Birth Defects 888-663-4637
• Medic Alert Foundation U.S. 800-ID-ALERT
• Multiple Sclerosis Foundation 800-225-6495
• Muscular Dystrophy Association 800-572-1717
• NAACP 877-622-2798
• National Alliance to End Homelessness 202-638-1526
• National Audubon Society 212-979-3000
• National Mental Health Association 800-969-6642
• National Police Defense Foundation 888-723-3267
• Oprah’s Angel Network 312-633-1000
• Parkinson’s Disease Foundation 800-457-6676
• Ronald McDonald House Charities 630-623-7048
• Salk Institute for Biological Studies 858-453-4100
• Salvation Army 703-684-5500
• Save The Children Federation 800-243-5075
• St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital 800-877-5833
• United Cerebral Palsy Associations 800-872-5827
• United Way of America 800-892-2757
• Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States 816-756-3390
• Volunteer Match 415-241-6868
• Volunteers of America 800-899-0089
• Wilderness Society 800-843-9453
• World Society for the Protection of Animals 508-879-8350
• World Wildlife Fund 202-293-4800