VolunteerNC
NC Commission on Volunteerism & Community Service
Volunteer Opportunities
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| Day and Time | Organization | Event | Location | Website |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thurs, Sept 11, 2025: 8:00am-10:00am | Simple Gifts Community Garden | Harvesting, weeding, watering and perhaps planting new crops. | Apex, NC | Sign up |
| Wed, Sept 10, 2025: Daytime | Habitat for Humanity of the Charlotte Region | On the September 11 National Day of Service and Remembrance, Americans of all ages and backgrounds are invited to join and lead community service projects to honor the lives and service of those we lost on September 11. | Charlotte, NC | Sign up |
| Thurs, Sept 11, 2025:Daytime | Habitat for Humanity of Alamance County | Habitat Alamance will lead a small community group in marking the 24th anniversary commemoration ceremony of the day that changed our lives forever. | Burlington, NC | Sign up |
| Thurs, Sept 11, 2025: 8:30am-11:30am | Urban Community AgriNomics | Repurposing a plantation by removing harvested tree sections and stack for firewood. Trim cedar poles for fencing. Will assist with measuring 1-acre for planting, dig pole holes and set. May also perform trail mantenance, walking and ADA. | Durham, NC | Sign up |
| Thurs, Sept 11, 2025: 9:00am-12:00pm and 1:00pm-4:00pm | Garner Parks, Recreation and Cultural Resources Department | Invasive Species removal at White Deer Park After a brief orientation, including how to identify the target plant species, you will work in teams to hand pull or cut various invasive plant species. Some species will also be chemically treated to ensure success. | Garner, NC | Sign up |
| Thurs, Sept 11, 2025: 10:00am-12:30pm | Activate Good | Listen, learn, serve, and reflect alongside others as we benefit a variety of causes, such as education, poverty, food insecurity, children, the environment seniors, and more! | Raleigh, NC | Sign up |
| Thurs, Sept 11, 2025: 12:00pm-2:00pm | Diaper Bank of North Carolina | Volunteers will count and wrap hygiene products to be distributed out into the community. | Hillsborough, NC | Sign up |
| Thurs, Sept 11, 2025: 12:30pm-4:00pm | The Umstead Coalition | The focus of service day will be sanding tables/benches and weather permiting applying protective polyurethane. Weather permitting, we will be sanding and polyurathaning viewing benches at nearby Sycamore Lake. | Raleigh, NC | Sign up |
| Thurs, Sept 11, 2025: 5:30pm-8:00pm | Activate Good | Listen, learn, serve, and reflect alongside others as we benefit a variety of causes, such as education, poverty, food insecurity, children, the environment seniors, and more! | Raleigh, NC | Sign up |
| Thurs, Sept 11, 2025: 3:00pm-6:00pm | Trees for the Triangle | Activities can and will include weeding, digging, and more. Gloves and tools will be provided, as well as water, but please bring a refillable container to keep this event low waste! We will have a water cooler to fill from. | Raleigh, NC | Sign up |
| Thurs, Sept 11, 2025: Ongoing | SECU Family House at UNC Hospitals | Filling bags with goodies when making the day less difficult at the hospital. ie: snacks, gum, water, muffins, cookies, activity books, cozy socks, and encouraging cards. | Chapel Hill, NC | Sign up |
| Thurs, Sept 11, 2025: Ongoing | Note in the Pocket | Volunteers are stationed at the front desk greeting visitors and answering phone calls. They make sure all volunteers sign in for their shifts and record any donation drive or drop-box drop offs. Volunteers also assist with clothing donations. | Durham, NC | Sign up |
| Thurs, Sept 11, 2025: Ongoing | Note in the Pocket | Volunteers serve as the first round quality check for donated clothes, ensuring that we are providing quality clothing to those that we serve. Items that meet our criteria will be sorted in categories: mens, womens, girls, boys and infant/toddler. | Raleigh, NC | Sign up |
| Thurs, Sept 11, 2025: Ongoing | Note in the Pocket | Volunteers sort clothes by quality, as well as into the following categories: mens, womens, girls, boys and infant/toddler. Volunteers may also be folding, labeling or shelving clothes. | Durham, NC | Sign up |
| Thurs, Sept 11, 2025: Ongoing | Amy's Rays of Sunshine | Your cards of encouragement & support for Amy's Rays of Sunshine Boxes will be sent to young adult cancer patients going through bone marrow transplant. After you ail them to Amy, they will be packaged into Sunshine Boxes and delivered to patients. | Remote | Sign up |
| Wed- Sept 12, 2025: Daytime | Cape Fear Habitat for Humanity | Cape Fear Habitat seeks to honor our local first responders and veterans through volunteer days this September. Join us for a day of honoring and remembering our veterans and those in active service. First responders and veterans can join us on construction sites on 9/10 and 9/11. We will host a wall build day for veterans in our construction warehouse on 9/12. No prior construction expereince is needed! We will teach you everything you need to know. | Wimington, NC | Sign up |
| Friday, Sept 12, 2025: 9:00am-1:00pm | Fire Fighter Steven Oakley Foundation | Volunteers for breakdown will assist in removing flags and memorial photo cards as well as breaking down other remaining items from the memorial. | Charlotte, NC | Sign up |
| Sat, Sept 13, 2025: 8:30am to 4:00pm | Habitat for Humanity Orange County | At Habitat for Humanity of Orange County, we are deeply grateful for your service and look forward to building homes, community, and hope alongside you. | Chapel Hill, NC | Sign up |
Organization | Event | Location/s | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| National Emergency Child Care Network | You will be deployed to help families with emergency child care. | Asheville,NC | Sign up here |
| United Way of Asheville and Buncombe County | Volunteers to help with evolving daily operations of our offices. | Asheville,NC | Sign up here |
| Energy Savers Network | Volunteers join our team at client homes to complete energy efficiency repairs and upgrades, from swapping in LED light bulbs to insulating attic hatches and more. No prior experience necessary. | Asheville, NC and surrounding areas | Sign up here |
| Manna Foodbank | Volunteers gather to sort and pack the food donations that come through our doors. | Mills River, NC | Sign up here |
| BeLoved Asheville | Distrubution center help. | Asheville,NC | Sign up here |
| Red Cross | Volunteers work directly with residents to ensure their basic needs are met as well as help them access additional services. | Asheville,NC | Sign up here |
| Catholic Charities | General office support and food pantry | Asheville, NC | Sign up here |
| Heart with Hands | Assist with packing boxes with water, hygiene kits, cleaning supplies, baby supplies, cat and dog food. | Swannoanoa, NC | Sign up here |
| Lutheran Services Carolinas | Support long-term relief and recovery efforts. | Salisbury, NC | Sign up here |
| Baptist on Mission | Skilled and unskilled volunteers to help with this first rebuild phase which will get people back into their home and make it safe, sanitary and functional (not finished) before the worst of winter. Volunteers will be needed for the next few years to help people finish their homes. | 7 disaster rebuild locations in WNC | Sign up here |
| Second Harvest Food Bank of Northwest NC | Food Sorting and Community Meals programs, directly helping provide much-needed food and resources to the communities affected by Helene. | ongoing sign up in: Alamance, Alexander, Alleghany, Ashe, Caldwell, Caswell, Davidson, Davie, Forsyth, Guilford, Iredell, Randolph, Rockingham, Stokes, Surry, Watauga, Wilkes, Yadkin | Sign up here |
| ABCCM- Asheville Buncombe Community Christian Ministry | Assist with emergency food boxes, sorting of clothing and furniture items, and other resources | Arden, NC | Sign up here |
| Support WNC | Various opportunities | Western North Carolina | Sign up here |
| Fuller Center Disaster ReBuilders | Contstruction and Labor. | Buncombe/McDowell | Sign up here |
| NECHAMA Jewish Response to Disaster | Manual labor outside. | Henderson and Buncombe | Sign up here |
| Resilient Recovery NC | Contstruction and Labor, equipment operator, electrician, plumber, and fundraising | McDowell, Mitchell, Avery, Buncombe, Rutherford, Yancey, and Watauga Counties | Sign up here |
| Lost Province Center for Cultural Art/Old Lansing School | Organizing, sorting, receiving, traffic, and personal shopping. | Lansing, NC | Sign up here |
| Compassion in Action | Load/unload, sort, inventory, stock | North Wilkesboro, NC | Sign up here |
| Avery County Donation and Volunteer Coordination | Various opportunities for skilled volunteers. | Newland, NC | Sign up here |
| Appalachian Rebuild Project | Appalachian Rebuild Project is doing home/property repair in Avery, Mitchell, and Yancey Counties. I'm unsure exactly where they will be on that Monday and Tuesday, but can make a connection for more details if this is of interest" | Spruce Pine, NC | Sign up here |
| Asheville Poverty Initiative-12 Baskets Café | Volunteering with Project Conserve members to servea meal | Asheville, NC | Sign up here |
| Beacon of Hope | Pantry and Thrift store opportunities | Marshall, NC | Sign up here |
| Hola Carolina | Distribution Center | Hendersonville, NC | Sign up here |
| Caja Solidaria Cata Norena | Provides healthy produce, meats and protein options to area residents in need.Volunteers can sign up for 3-hour shifts to package fresh produce and bulk goods, clean, organize and stock. | Hendersonville, NC | Sign up here |
| Mountain CORE Mission | Organize and sort donations, help load deliveries and pick ups, and other warehouse duties. | Sylva, NC | Sign up here |
| Marshall Relief Alliance 806 | clean up work for Marshall High Studios (Art studio - local artists livelihood) in downtown Marshall OR organization of Disaster response materials | Marshall, NC | Contact Rebecca Sharp 828-329-0675 |
| Catawba River Inn | A hotel that transformed into a distribution center to support its community continues to host distribution events, provide meals, and operate a clothing closet. This area was a hard to reach area. | Marion, NC | Contact Melanie Harris 828-460-2080 |
| Mitchell County Distribution Center | Mitchell County Distribution Center located at Bowman Middle School | Bakersville, NC | Contact Katie Vogel 828-467-8783 |
| The Sanctuary at Red Bell Run Farm | This is a hay and feed bank for all of WNC. Very active during Helene | Columbus, NC | Contact Mary Adams 863-956-7571 |
| Reconcilation House Food Pantry | They have become the primary post-storm distribution site for Yancey, and have been a trusted and respected community support for decades addressing food insecurity, heating and rent assistance, among other supports. They may have opportunities on Tuesday as we | Burnsville, NC | Sign up here |
| Bald Creek Relief | Assist with unloading and sorting supplies as well as assisting the shoppers find what they need. | Burnsville, NC | Sign up here |
| Hospitality House | A variety of tasks to support the operation of the Hospitality House. | Boone, NC | Learn more here |
| Mountain True | Various volunteer opportunities. | Asheville, NC | Sign up here. |
| Blunt Kitchen | Volunteers to help in our mobile kitchen in Swannanoa, where you will kitchen prep, readying meals for delivery pickup, organizing, cleaning, delivery driving, and more. | Swannanoa, NC | Sign up here |
| Literacy Together | Seeking tutors to meet with students K-5 twice a week for 50 minutes, between 3:30 pm and 5:30 pm. The Youth Literacy Program works with two after-school programs that primarily serve youth of color. | Asheville, NC | Sign up here |
| Equal Plates Project | Volunteers with process local farm products, chop fresh vegetables, prepare meals and portion into meal trays, wash dishes, related kitchen tasks as needed, have fun with the awesome and talented Central Kitchen team. | Asheville, NC | Sign up here |
| Meher Archive Collective | Seeking able-bodied volunteers to help our team clean our building. Sweeping, cleaning windows, mopping, dusting, and vacuuming | Weaverville, NC | Sign up here |
| MountainTrue | Design volunteers needed architects, engineers, landscape architects, environmental consultants, land planners, surveyors, and soil scientists. | Swannanoa and Marshall, NC | Sign up here |
| Open Hearts Art Center | Transports adults with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (IDD) Monday through Friday. | Asheville, NC | Sign up here |
| Western North Carolina Bridge Foundation | Housekeeping, Front desk, Maintenance, and Kitchen duty | Asheville, NC | Sign up here |
| OneGenAway | Get food ready to be place in families cars, greeting, and places boxes in the trunks of families | Asheville, NC | Sign up here |
| Valley Hope Foundation | Volunteers with experience in skilled trades and general contracting. | Black Mountain, NC | Sign up here |
| Haywood Street Congregation | Assist with meal prepping. | Asheville, NC | Sign up here |
| Samaritan's Purse | Assist with home rebuild. | Asheville, Boone, & Burnsville, NC | Sign up here |
| Anchor Ridge | Assist with loading/unloading trucks, processing items for families, assisting with distribution, and activities with kids | N. Wilkesboro, NC | Sign up here |
| G4G Ministries | Assist with providing meals for the community. | Statesville, NC | Sign up here |
| Riverview Community Center | Assist with the center operations. | Creston, NC | Sign up here |
| Neonatal Kitten Alliance | Assist with the care of taking care of neglected kittens and nursing them back to health | Arden, NC | Sign up here |