Help with seasonal clohing changeover, recruiting for events, and assist with our clothing, toy & equipment drive.
Visitor Center Volunteers welcome visitors, provide an orientation to the site, answer phones, and assist with Museum Shop sales.
House docents guide visitors through the adobe house, share stories about the people who lived there, and explain the historic objects they used in their day-to-day lives. Docent training covers California and Rancho history through the 1940s as well as adobe architecture, decorative arts, textiles, and interpretation techniques.
Gardening Volunteers assist with pruning, weeding, composting, general grooming, and small garden-related construction projects. Volunteers also help plant bulbs, annual color, small perennials, and shrubs.
The Affinity Group was founded in 2005 as a support group for the Volunteer Center. Members of the Affinity Group work together to support Operation Teddy Bear and other Volunteer Center programs through fundraising events and projects, making a difference in the lives, education and futures of underserved children and their families. Affinity Group members…
The Corporate Volunteer Council (CVC) is a professional association of local businesses dedicated to making a difference in the community through the development and promotion of employee volunteerism and community involvement, in close partnership with local nonprofit agencies. The CVC provides volunteer leadership by responding to the changing needs of the local community, as well…
Our donation-driven food pantry provides bags of non-perishable food and nutrition handouts* to select elementary schools in Carson, Compton, Long Beach, San Pedro, Torrance and Wilmington every week. Volunteers assemble and deliver bags of food filled with items to make 2 breakfasts, 2 lunches and 2 dinners to the local schools on Fridays.
We need volunteers to provide transportation and other services to seniors in the Torrance area. Volunteers may also perform minor home tasks (e.g. change light bulbs), help with shopping, etc. Volunteers are also available simply to spend quality time with members by playing board and card games, doing puzzles, watching a movie, reading a book…
We build new mentoring relationships all year-long, which means you can sign up to be a mentor anytime! No-obligation information meetings are held the first week of every month. Mentoring can be a rewarding experience and provides many opportunities to have an impact on another person’s life. Mentors build a one-on-one relationship with their mentee…
If mentoring isn’t for you, we have different volunteer jobs: Volunteering opportunities can range from site supervising to interning to office help to event planning to a range of other opportunities. To help keep an organization like ours running, all forms of help is beneficial. Power 4 Youth runs year-around and we have jobs that…