Hospice volunteer opportunities include patient companionship, bereavement support, scrapbooking, etc. Masters in Social Work Field Practicum Hours available. Service Hours for college students welcome! Read more...

Museum Program and Event Volunteers help the History Museum on the Square on a wide variety of offerings throughout the year. Volunteers are needed to help represent the museum at community events and museum programs and even lead programs like walking tours and presentations. This volunteer opportunity is flexible and works around your schedule. It’s a great way to get Read more...

Volunteers assist with a variety of projects related to packing food that will be distributed to our partner community agencies. Projects may include sorting and repacking donated product, assembling Weekend Backpack bags or Senior Boxes, labeling and boxing food items, and other projects as needed. Projects may involve checking food safety guidelines and expiration dates, sorting like items and repacking 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...

Support The Victim Center’s 24-hour crisis response line for victims of violent and sexual crime. The primary role of a volunteer victim advocate is to listen, validate, and support the victim through crisis intervention by phone. Volunteer victim advocates choose two to four call shifts per month and attend a monthly meeting for training and support. 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...

Landscaping, garden work, manual labor, outdoor work, trash removal, occasional indoor cleaning, occasional carpentry work etc Read more...