Looking for Volunteers to Help Pets in Need! 🐾 We’re looking for compassionate volunteers in Greene, Webster, and Christian Counties to temporarily care for dogs while their owners recover from illness, accidents, or need respite care. This is a great opportunity to help pets and their families during a difficult time. What’s Involved: Provide a loving home for a dog Read more...

We will teach you how to feed and care for horses. It will feed your soul, you will get a free workout, it will save you money on a counseling session and you get to spend time outside with beautiful horses. Read more...

We’re looking for volunteers to assist our intake office with answering email inquiries, inputting voicemails into a spreadsheet, and returning phone calls. Our intake office is our greatest, most visible community resource- we need your help to keep up with the ever increasing demand! No experience is necessary- we’ll show you the ropes! Contact us for more information. Read more...

Lucky Paws is our organization’s annual gala ball- and we need your help! As Springfield’s third largest gala, the evening promises to be one of glamor, fun and uplifting community. Volunteers assist in running all aspects of the evening- food and drink, taking auction bids, door greeters and much more. We’re currently seeking volunteers to specifically assist with this event! Read more...

Our isolation building is a satellite building on site that houses dogs and cats who have contagious diseases that may make other animals sick. Our main goal is to make them well enough to move to our main building and find loving, forever homes. We need your help to make this happen! As an isolation building volunteer, we do ask Read more...

Our companion volunteers have the best job of all- caring for and providing love to a furry friend! During your time in our shelter you may be walking dogs, socializing cats, spending quality time with an animal or any number of other related tasks. Read more...

Events volunteers help to represent our organization in the community by working events and assisting with all aspects of setup and take down. Some of our more popular events include Bark in the Park (located at Phelps Grove Park), Petsmart adoption events and Lucky Paws, our fundraising gala. Not a ton of free time? Still consider joining us! We’ll reach Read more...

“The health of our waters is the principle measure of how we live on the land.” – Luna Leopold Everything we do on the land affects our waterways. As a resource management volunteer, you will have the opportunity to protect our local water resources by helping us to effectively manage Valley Water Mill Park, a 100-acre nature park located just Read more...

Helping us with basic duties such as laundry, monitoring recovering animals and other various duties. Read more...

When you become a Valley Hills Animal Rescue volunteer, you’re giving the animals what they want and need most: personal attention, hands-on care and love. Whether you volunteer for a day, weekly or longer, the animals at our rescue truly appreciate the time you spend with them. Volunteering with animals Although we are a working rescue, your volunteer experience can Read more...