Giving Back Through Volunteering
New York and US-Based Virtual and in-person opportunities
- Review this list from Volunteer New York for opportunities to volunteer from home. You can also find volunteer opportunities aligned with your schedule and the issues you care about via New York Cares. On Help Now NYC, learn how you can help New Yorkers affected by the pandemic.
- Support children through Hearts Over Hands, a volunteer organization started by Anna Beloborodova CC’21, to match University students with families in need of childcare.
- Check out virtual and local opportunities to volunteer through Volunteer Match or Idealist, or match them specifically to your schedule through Catch A Fire.
- Let the Red Cross help you brainstorm ways you can volunteer—from digital advocacy to serving as a local disaster volunteer.
- Provide free online mentorship to students in need via organizations like the World Family Children Foundation.
- Connect with nonprofits in need and remotely support causes you believe in via Create the Good, an initiative from AARP.
- Search for short-term, pro-bono consulting projects, curated on Taproot+ for remote opportunities that fit your skillset.
- Write letters to the elderly in nursing homes as part of Love for the Elderly.
- Transcribe images of historical documents into digital form to help make this data more accessible with Smithsonian Transcribers.
- Scan textbooks, best sellers, children’s books, and career resources or proofread and format scans that others have made for Bookshare’s library that makes reading easier for people with dyslexia, blindness, cerebral palsy, and other reading barriers.
International opportunities to give back
These organizations and volunteer platforms can help you begin your search for your best-fit volunteer experience:
