Administration and Public Relations: You could assist with the bookkeeping and accounting of an organization, develop correspondence for fund raisers, take on reception duties of the agency, work with the annual fund raising events, schedule volunteers, develop a website or design a newsletter, work with phone-a-thons, and (yes!) stuff lots of envelopes!
 
 

Civic or Cultural: Volunteers can help with tours of museums and historical landmarks, work in the gift shop, host events, teach classes in art or music or history, provide gardening and landscaping, become an advocate and begin public speaking for a worthy cause, and provide public relations for events.

Counseling and Mentoring: Have you ever read a book to a group of kids? Well, you can! You can work with mentoring programs and tutoring programs with elementary through high school kids. You can also work with adults to learn to read. You can work with rape victims, children of abuse, families of alcoholics, and people in emotional crisis. Caring individuals are also needed to work with children and youth who are runaways or find themselves in trouble. You can work with teen moms and dads to help them learn the skills necessary to care for their child. You can be a friend to someone who needs to know that someone cares.
 
 

Crisis Intervention: Individuals are needed to assist in staffing "hotlines" or services designed to address immediate crisis situations in the event of rape, suicidal thoughts, drug overdose, family violence, and emotional crisis.

Helping Agencies: You could be helping with day care children, after school programs, nursing homes residents, homebound clients, physically and mentally challenged children and adults, deliver food to shut-ins or pick up a prescription for someone who can't drive to the pharmacy anymore...You can help at the area food banks, prepare a meal at the Mission, or work to help a family find clothing after their house has been destroyed by fire. You can build a house, paint a porch, mow a lawn, or build a playground!