Current Opportunities

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Database Volunteer Opportunity with Get Involved Foundation

To get started on volunteering or confirm your service hours, email projects@getinvolvedfoundation.org

Categorize organizations into a database for our service hour tracking app. The timing is flexible and all hours are conducted online. Volunteers will be instructed on how to organize nonprofits into the database. This is the perfect opportunity to help the community and earn service hours!

What One Community is Doing

In the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, members of the Palo Alto, CA community continue to make an impact through service work.

Dreamcatchers: Dreamcatchers is a nonprofit organization based on tutoring middle school students to get academic help! Currently, high school tutors from Palo Alto and Gunn High School are tutoring students online via Zoom! To donate to their work, click here!

Boys and Girls Club: The Boys and Girls Club of the Peninsula have found creative ways to serve the community in the Bay Area, including distributing meals and stocking food banks. To support their relief, click here.

Health Trust: The Health Trust Foundation brings new opportunities to the table from San Jose to other cities. With donations, volunteer work and more, their work never stops. To see their response to the crisis and help, click here.

My New Red Shoes: My New Red Shoes is a nonprofit dedicated to helping low income communities in the Bay Area gain necessities for school. They’ve recently started a new mission; providing local hospitals with hand-sewn masks to combat COVID-19. See what they're doing here.

Masks for the Masses: A group of middle school students and parents in Palo Alto started hand making masks to deliver to shelters, senior residences and postal workers. To see more of these kids’ amazing work, click here.

Basic Necessities Drive: Another high school sophomore at Palo Alto High School created a necessities drive for kids and pregnant women. To learn more and see how to support, visit this GoFundMe page.

Palo Alto Free Tutoring: Palo Alto High School sophomores Freddie Kiessling and Sidd Shashi created a free online tutoring program to help elementary and middle school students during this time of crisis. For ways to get started, click here.

Project WeHope: Project WeHope’s annual mission to provide housing to their communities has shifted to multiple mini projects to benefit the first responders during COVID-19! To participate in some of these cool events, visit their website here.

Palo Alto Emergency Services: The City of Palo Alto has updated their emergency services department to become even more inclusive of the community! Visit their website here and begin volunteering now.

And There Are Always More Service Opportunities

Multiple online projects are continuing to support adolescents in this time of need by listing service opportunities in the community. Look at some of them now!

  1. DoSomething.org: A youth led movement to project happiness in good deeds across America.

  2. JustServe.org: Combining providing your community with participating in a hobby you love makes COVID-19 a lot more fun (while staying safe)!

  3. Youth Service America: Thousands of organizations with nonprofits, online programs, educational resources and more to maintain the joy in the community.

  4. VolunteerMatch.org: VolunteerMatch provides opportunities for students to work with nonprofits and organizations in their area. Find your next volunteering opportunity now.

  5. Youth Community Service (YCS): YCS aims to bridge the gap between communities through service opportunities for students in middle and high school.

  6. HandsOn Bay Area: HandsOn Bay Area connects organizations with prospective volunteers and provides a network of projects and events.

  7. California Volunteers Program: Governor Gavin Newsom’s California Volunteers Program has taken action on making a difference in the community, including blood donations, supporting your neighbors and more!