VolunteerMatch

Great place to find volunteers. Our first email provided us with an excellent new volunteer for a big project. #SoCalSeriesTuneUp

Military Lounge at TF Green Airport. we just started to use Volunteermatch and right away we have volunteers asking for info. I hope this continues. so far, wonderful !!

Volunteer Match has listings of volunteer opportunities on their website. I first heard of
when I was in high school. Although volunteer work wasn’t even a mandatory requirement I needed to complete for high school graduation. Through several California Scholarship Federation lunch meetings in high school, I learned the importance of lending a helping hand. Contributing my efforts to helping other people is a great way to learn from the folks around you. This is also a very great way to socialize and make new friends. If completing a certain amount of time for volunteer work was a high school graduation requirement I had to fulfill, I’d probably be using this website a lot. If volunteering is something you want to do during your free time or it is a requirement for school, then I’d recommend looking up:
There are volunteer opportunities in other cities in addition to San Francisco, CA! Just click on
for more information. Volunteer Match’s website has changed a lot during the years. There are now over 1,000’s of volunteer opportunities and participating organizations. If you are a middle school or high school student and volunteer work is mandatory, then I’d recommend clicking into this website to check out all the volunteer opportunities near you. If you are a teacher or counselor looking for volunteer resources and opportunities for your students,
is the website to turn to. I don’t recall having a bad experience with Volunteer Match’s website. I must admit that this website has an abundance of volunteer resources. Browsing around through all the listed volunteer opportunities listed is a great way to keep yourself busy even when you are on the internet. Day off from school or work? Don’t want to be spending the entire day at home? Visit
or visit their office for volunteer opportunities and resources. Overall, excellent website for students, instructors and counselors to turn to for any volunteer resources and opportunities.

As a high school counselor I ensure that students meet their hours required, but also realize the importance of supporting and helping others. Empathy is something our world needs. and with the new president I sincerely hope «Change has come to America» I do use Volunteer Match to give my students ideas and it has been successful. The website has grown and evolved in the past few years which is great, but I do know with expansion comes grown pains and difficulties.

VolunteerMatch (VW) = Good Idea, Poor Execution.
The concept: Users make a profile w/​in VW’s website to find volunteer opportunities that will fit user’s interests and volunteer organization’s needs.
Within profiles, email alerts can be set up to highlight new matches between users and organizations. I found this email feature to be worthless. I ended up being constantly spammed w/​volunteer openings that had nothing to do w/​my preferences/​interests. It seemed to me that I was merely being emailed every time ANY new volunteer opening was posted, regardless of what my profile was. I finally just blocked VW’s email address.
I wish VM luck; they have a strong idea, just not the system to support it currently. I might update my profile sometime down the road and see if I get real matches vs. spam, but to date, not a fan.

Volunteer Match is a very useful source if you are interested in volunteering. It’s easy to navigate and find many different organizations that parallel your interests.

Volunteermatch makes finding a volunteer opportunity too easy! The website is very user friendly and is a great tool for connecting volunteers to organizations in need of support. It will save you lots of time and links you directly to causes you feel passoniate about. The listing of volunteer organizations is very extensive (it covers the whole USA) and you are linked to local organizations based on your zipcode. Awesome concept! There’s no reason not to volunteer since volunteermatch makes it so effortless.

VolunteerMatch is the best place to find places to Volunteer. Enter your zipcode and search pages of opportunities from over 44,000 nonprofits in the country, not just SF Bay Area. The listings are kept current and you can search by different interest categories, key word etc.
They also have tools for corporate volunteer programs and employee volunteering. Very cool organization!

I highly recommend
if you are interested in volunteering. You can easily find a volunteer opportunity near your home or work!
My experience has been positive. I was able to land a graphic design volunteer assignment designing a corporate sponsor package for a wonderful non-​profit organization called Greenbelt. Obviously, compatibility is a factor but the volunteer match process allows for you to gain some rapport with the organization you are interested in helping.
The website is easy to use and a wonderful way to discover how you can help the San Francisco community. From graphic design to actual physical volunteering, you can use your talents in so many ways and help those in need. Definitely worth a visit while you’re on the Internet!

If you’re interested in volunteering but not sure what’s out there, VolunteerMatch is a great place to start. It’s easy to search, they list thousands of opportunities and make it easy to connect directly with the nonprofit.