The Bowery Mission serves homeless and hungry New Yorkers and provides services that meet their immediate needs and transforms their lives from poverty and hopelessness to hope. Volunteers can sign up for 1.5 hour shifts to prepare and serve food in their kitchen.

Learn more: BOWERY.ORG

Working together, we can rescue all excess food. Volunteer Food Rescuers help us transport food from our food donor partners to local homeless shelters, soup kitchens, and other human service agencies in our communities. Each food rescue event typically takes less than an hour. Volunteer opportunities in NYC.

Learn more: rescuingleftovercuisine.org

Team Rubicon is a disaster relief non-profit that utilizes the skills of military veterans, first responders, and civilians to provide disaster relief rapidly. Volunteers can volunteer virtually.

Learn more: teamrubiconusa.org

Safe Place for Youth’s mission is to inspire, nurture, and empower the resilient human spirit of homeless youth by providing immediate and lasting solutions, one young person at a time.

Volunteer opportunities: In person contactless meal deliveries.

Learn more: www.safeplaceforyouth.org/

Virtual Volunteer opportunity with the International Rescue Committee: Virtual English Tutors - Virtual English tutors will work adults to acquire conversational English skills and to use those skills to meet self-identified goals, such as job advancement.

Learn more: rescue.org/volunteer/virtual-english-tutors

Virtual Volunteer Opportunities with the International Rescue Committee: Virtual Family Mentor - Family mentors are paired with a newly arriving or recently arrived refugee individual or family. Mentors are empowered to involve clients in their lives as much as desired, with the knowledge that participation in any variety of activities will assist refugee families in their adaptation to life in the United States.

Learn more: rescue.org/volunteer/virtual-family-mentor

Virtual volunteer opportunities with International Rescue Committee: Story Time - This initiative will allow families to enjoy story time together in their own languages with books they might not have at home while we are all staying safely quarantined. As schools adapt to remote learning, the IRC wanted to galvanize our energetic and passionate supporters through this innovative effort for young learners.

Learn more: rescue.org/announcement/story-time-irc

International Rescue Committee: Assemble at-home learning kits for newcomer students - Students all across the region have shifted to remote learning over the past few months, and will continue to do so in some capacity through the school year this fall. Rally your community groups, family, and friends to help from home by assembling backpacks with school supplies for newcomer students as they take on their education from home!

Learn more: rescue.org/volunteer/assemble-back-school-kits-newcomer-students

LA Regional Food Bank is short on volunteers! $25 = 100 MEALS. Join the fight against hunger when the children of LA County need us most. One in five people in Los Angeles County experiences food insecurity. Our vision is that no one goes hungry in Los Angeles County.

Learn more: lafoodbank.org

Adopt a Family Miami is a recently formed group of four women and thousands of concerned neighbors and friends that began by feeding 200+ families in Miami Beach during the pandemic. They are known as the “Invisible Workforce” and are looking for volunteers to grocery shop and help make sure that no kid goes hungry.

Learn more: instagram.com/adopt.afamilymiami/

No Kid Hungry is a national campaign run by Share Our Strength, a nonprofit working to solve problems of hunger and poverty in the United States and around the world. No Kid Hungry and Get Food USA are looking for volunteers to call local food banks and verify hours of operation so that their meals app is continuously up to date.

Learn more: nokidhungry.org

Water Drop LA brings running water to the unhoused population of LA. Water Drop LA is a community organization whose mission is to provide clean drinking water to people experiencing homelessness. Founded by two USC students, Water Drop LA needs volunteers to help pass out the water. By distributing 1,000+ gallons of water during weekly water drops, Water Drop aims to meet the immediate needs of the community.

Learn more: waterdropla.org

The BOPC is looking for volunteers to volunteer in their green spaces. The Buffalo Olmsted Parks Conservancy is the first nonprofit organization in the nation to manage and operate an entire historic urban park system that consists of 850 acres of beautifully designed parks, parkways and circles.

Learn more: bfloparks.org

Food Rescue Miami is looking for volunteers to help in their community kitchens. COVID-19 Relief projects: hosting community kitchens, feeding frontline & free meal distributions. App based. VOLUNTEERS needed: ellen@foodrescue.us

Learn more: foodrescue.us

Hungry Post is looking for volunteers to deliver food to frontline workers.

Learn more: instagram.com/thehungrypost/

Virtual and in person volunteer opportunities! We are committed to ending child and family homelessness in our country. We advocate for the right of every child and every family to a home; as essential to their wellbeing and prosperity as food, education and health care.

Learn more: lotushouse.org