Looking to volunteer once a week or once a month? Want to get your company more involved in the community? Had a good volunteer experience and want to take the next step? Each month Building Impact will feature opportunities with our non-profit partners that will take you one step deeper with their organization. Check out the opportunities below and email your Community Connector if you are interested! To find your Community Connector's contact information, click here.
Ongoing Volunteer Opportunities Featured This Month:
Boston and Framingham Areas
Become a Samaritans Befriending Volunteer.
Both The Samaritans' 24-hour befriending service and Samariteens, a teen befriending line, are staffed entirely by trained volunteers from two locations in Boston and Framingham. Volunteers do not need any particular prior experience or training, but should have deep respect for human life and a desire to reach out to those in pain. Samaritans builds on these qualities in an extensive training course, teaching the skills necessary to volunteer as a helpline befriender. To find out how to become a volunteer in Boston or Framingham, contact your Community Connector.
Lowell Area
Become an advocate for a student in need.
The Special Education Surrogate Parent Program recruits and trains volunteers across the state of Massachusetts to act as special education decision-makers for children who are in in the custody of a state agency. These children have no parent or guardian available to make these decisions on their behalf. Volunteers will advocate for a student during the school year. To learn more or to sign up for a training, contact your Community Connector.
Corporate Volunteer Opportunities Featured This Month:
Boston Area
Participate in the Pine Street Inn Learn and Serve program.
The Pine Street Inn Learn and Serve opportunity consists of an educational tour and hands-on volunteer work.Their goal is to provide your company with a deeper understanding of the issues of homelessness, poverty and Boston’s lack of affordable housing. A session can be designed to meet the needs of your group, morning and evening opportunities are available. Contact your Community Connector to learn more or sign up.
Lowell Area
Help out with a local fall food drive.
The Merrimack Valley Food Bank fall food drive needs teams of volunteers to help in the following ways:
1. Your company can collect paper bags to serve as food collection bags.
2. Your office could serve as a food collection center, and employees can then bring the donations to the Food Bank.
3. Your company can volunteer at the Food Bank after the drive sorting and inspecting donations.
Contact your community connector to learn more or sign up.
Framingham Area
Hold a company volunteer day at Project Just Because.
Located in Hopkinton, Project Just Because provides critical items to families in need in the greater Framingham area, while creating an element of hope for a brighter tomorrow. They also work to educate families who would like to give back to their community but are not sure how to go about it. Your company can volunteer at their warehouse sorting donations and filling requests from families. To schedule a volunteer day, contact your Community Connector.
These opportunities not what you were looking for?
Building Impact can work with your company to schedule a volunteer opportunity that works for you.
Volunteer in your office.
Building Impact will bring a volunteer activity to your conference room during lunch hour. Take a break, help a local non-profit, and spend some non-working time with your coworkers. This August, make a card for a student for their first day of school and promote the Cradles to Crayons Ready For School backpack drive! Contact us to schedule a date for your company.
Volunteer outside of your office.
Want to spend half a day cleaning up the Charles River or preparing and serving meals for those in need? Contact your Community Connector to schedule a company volunteer day.
