As a volunteer, you’ll assist us in staffing our various events throughout the year including demo day and conference.
We have a limited number positions available on our Junior Staff team. These youth serve as volunteers at our organization on a weekly basis throughout the year working in our program areas.
In response to the pandemic, Boston Cares has worked with our community partners to identify ways volunteers can support local needs from the safety of their own homes. Opportunities include DIY projects at home, virtual/phone support, tutoring, and capacity building roles, with more needs being added regularly.
Boston Cares’s signature calendar program provides opportunities for volunteers to sign up to serve at projects that fit their interests and availability on a flexible basis. Visit www.bostoncares.org/calendar to see and search opportunities by location, impact area, age requirements, and more.
Volunteer Leaders (VLs) are an integral part of the Boston Cares experience. They serve as a liaison between volunteers, agency partners, and Boston Cares to ensure a positive experience for all. Every project posted on our calendar is first picked up by a VL – without VLs, there would be no projects on our calendar…
After-School Homework Clubs focus on meeting the educational needs of low-income children from the Beverly community. Volunteers tutor students providing a positive and supportive environment in which the student can reach their full potential. The ideal volunteer will be flexible and patient while working with students in a small classroom environment.
The constant flow of donations makes the Thrift Shop a busy and exciting place to volunteer. Most volunteers find their own niche at the shop, be it sorting clothes, displaying items, marking housewares, helping at the register or keeping the shop appearance appealing to our customers.
We welcome everyone from teen interns to corporate teams to local avid gardeners to help with a range of tasks like building a new community garden, leading a weekly community garden harvest, leading a school taste test, mentoring our gardeners, watering and weeding school or community gardens, working at our pop-up shop, and helping us…
Birthday Wishes is looking for folks who want to “walk the walk” for Birthday Wishes by becoming a Community Ambassador. Create your team and invite friends, family, school, business and organizational contacts to join, or create their own team. ANYONE can be a Community Ambassador! And ANY community can become a team! Schools: Students can…
Reading and doing activities with preschool age children; Organizing the library and curriculum materials; translating materials into Chinese. Volunteers must be at least 16 years old.