Volunteer Opportunities

CVC informs and guides volunteers about opportunities matching their interests, time and experience.

We provide a platform for people share their offerings (goods, services, misc.) with those in the community who may need them.

Become a volunteer, lend companionship or provide your skill sets to create memorable keepsakes for patients! YOU can make a difference and bring a smile to someone otherwise suffering.

We run an overnight emergency shelter for young adults (ages 18-24) in Harvard Square, open between October 15th and April 15th.

Bridging The Gap enriches the lives of teenagers through a life-skills curriculum, site visits, and community service projects.

The MIT/Wellesley Upward Bound Program is a year-round, coeducational, multicultural college preparatory program for high school youth who reside in Cambridge.

Our volunteer mentors and tutors work 1:1 with immigrant high school and college students for an academic year to empower them to achieve academic, career, and person success.

This is our traditional program where adult mentors are paired with children ages 7-12. Bigs agree to meet Littles for 3 hours, a couple of times a month. Matches and meetings will happen virtually.

We provide mentoring to youth and adults with disabilities to reach their full potential.

We offer volunteering opportunities at our food and supply pantry that are crucial to those we serve. Volunteers have an 11am-3pm shift during one of our pantry days, Tuesday-Friday.

Since 1999, the CommonCare Meals Ministry has been offering community meals that are open to all. We are currently seeking volunteers to assist with our meal distribution.

Join us for fun live math classes online! We offer a range of classes to students in grades 1-8 in Cambridge, MA and beyond.

We need volunteer cyclists to pick up story orders from local businesses and delivery items to seniors and other vulnerable residents.

We help senior citizens, the immunocompromised, and people with pre-existing medical conditions by organizing volunteers to deliver groceries, medicine, and other necessary supplies.

Henry Street Farms will provide one vegetable or herb seedling to each Cambridge student for free! We could really use help from volunteers and those interested in giving in-kind goods.

Sign up with us to be a pen pal and ABC will match you with a child or family, or another adult.

We are partnering with the Chelsea Collaborative to gather food and supplies in Cambridge to drive over to Chelsea. People can support us by donating in-kind food and supplies and delivering them.

We provide a platform for volunteers to recover excess food from businesses and transport it to local human service agencies.

We have urgent need for adult volunteers who can choose from several opportunities we send to applicants.

The Stress and Development Lab at Harvard University is looking for children and teens between the ages of 11 - 17 years to participate in our study on mental health.

Volunteer to help an older adult in Cambridge or Somerville budget and manage their finances.

This guide contains volunteer listings from over 100 agencies where you can volunteer to help address different issues ranging from hunger to homelessness to education.

Help the City decide how to spend part of a our public budget.

Our drop-in is open to four people at a time in the backyard. Check website for updated hours. Use a laptop, charge devices, get help from a volunteer, pick up food & supplies at the door, T-passes.

Do you love helping those in your community? If so, we offer various volunteering opportunities that will help enrich the lives of those we serve.