As a volunteer, you’ll assist us in staffing our various events throughout the year including demo day and conference.
Our phone and web chat hotline receives thousands of calls and chats per year that are primarily answered by volunteers like you. Volunteers provide crisis counseling and support for survivors and their significant others. They also provide resources and referrals to callers. Requires 40-hour training.
Volunteers in the CAPS program work to increase public awareness of the issue of sexual assault, BARCC’s services, and prevention strategies. Volunteers will engage in community outreach activities (i.e. distributing BARCC materials, providing information tables, attending community events, etc.). Experienced volunteers will provide awareness/prevention workshops to various audiences: middle and high schools, colleges, universities, community…
These positions offer a meaningful way to support survivors without being involved with direct services. Volunteers may be needed to work on committees, special events, drives, appeals, and a range of other fundraising-related tasks. Positions may be available in writing, layout, design, graphics, computer work, research, organizing, phone calling, and more.
These positions offer a meaningful way to support BARCC without a long-term commitment. OSVs staff BARCC’s Cambridge office reception area. OSV responsibilities include: welcoming and directing guests, maintaining Cambridge office spaces, and administrative tasks.
The Survivor Speakers Bureau (SSB) reaches hundreds of people every year, including high school and college students, police, journalists, health-care providers, legislators, the military, and others. Joining the SSB is a powerful way to connect with people, put a face to this issue, and motivate communities to take action to end sexual violence. Requires training.
Medical Advocates meet survivors at the hospital following a sexual assault 24-hours a day. They provide as much support and information as needed by the survivor and any significant others who may be with them throughout the time the survivor is in the emergency room. Requires 40-hour training.
Boston By Foot tour guides, or “docents”, are fun, knowledgeable locals who enthusiastically volunteer their time to deliver tours and share their love for Boston. They bring their diverse knowledge and skills to their tours and share a passion for our city and for telling its story. Boston By Foot docents complete an intensive six-week…
Boston Cares has worked with over 400 private corporations of all sizes to engage employees in volunteer community service. If you’re looking to launch your company’s first community service event, we have the experience, connections, and mission to guide you every step of the way so your organization’s volunteering experience goes smoothly, is engaging and…
Power Lunch is Boston’s premier early literacy enrichment program for students in grades K–3. Power Lunch allows corporate volunteers to meet students where they are and lift them to new levels of competency and success. Each reading mentor serves as a role model and friend, providing guidance in school while encouraging an enthusiasm for books…