Career Success Center : Build my Professional Skills

Volunteering Opportunities

Volunteering is a great way to build new professional competencies and create new connections! Explore the volunteering resources below

Distributed Proofreaders

Registered volunteers may contribute to Distributed Proofreaders in several ways including proofreading, "smooth reading" pre-released e-books to check for errors, managing projects, providing content, or even helping develop improvements to the site

Bookshare

Contribute your skills and passions to help people with print disabilities read

Do Something

DoSomething members join volunteer, social change, and civic action campaigns to make real-world impact on causes they care about

Smithsonian

Become a Smithsonian Digital Volunteer and help make historical documents and biodiversity data more accessible

Skills For Change

Diverse group of volunteers who come from all kinds of backgrounds, cultures and interests with the common bond of being motivated to work with a program for immigrants and refugees

Crisis Text Line

Crisis Counselors answer texts from people in crisis, bringing them from a hot moment to a cool calm through active listening, collaborative problem solving, and safety planning

Amnesty International

An innovative platform for volunteers around the world to use their computers or phones to help our researchers sift through pictures, information and documents

Grow Movement

Make a direct, tangible and sustainable impact. Create employment, enhance the skills of an entrepreneur and increase profitability of a business

Zooniverse

Zooniverse gives people of all ages and backgrounds the chance to participate in real research with over 50 active online citizen science projects

Tech Soup

Access networking events and regional community hubs and ask questions in our online community forums. Learn about the content, products, and resources we provide to U.S. libraries

Missing Maps

Missing Maps is an open, collaborative project in which you can help to map areas where humanitarian organisations are trying to meet the needs of vulnerable people

Translators Without Borders

Translators without Borders depends on volunteers to translate millions of words, but also to help us run the organization. We work with volunteers who have all kinds of great skills – and many learn new skills that they can use in their jobs

The School in the Cloud

The School in the Cloud platform helps accelerate research by helping educators — be they teachers, parents or community leaders — to run their own SOLEs and to contribute to the global experiment by sharing their experiences with others

 

Catch A Fire

Catchafire strengthens the social good sector by matching professionals who want to donate their time with nonprofits who need their skills

Be My Eyes

Be My Eyes volunteers lend their eyes to solve tasks big and small to help blind and low-vision people lead more independent lives

Volunteer Match

VolunteerMatch is the most effective way to recruit highly qualified volunteers for your nonprofit. We match you with people who are passionate about and committed to your cause, and who can help when and where you need them

United Nations Volunteering

The United Nations Volunteers (UNV) programme contributes to peace and development through volunteerism worldwide. Online volunteering allows organizations and volunteers to team up to address sustainable development challenges – anywhere in the world, from any device

UpCancer

Up Cancer and Team Up Cancer Advocacy need awareness volunteers and advocacy volunteers

Learning Ally

Learning Ally's mission is to ensure that all students have equal opportunities to learn by getting volunteers that are willing to do audiobook productions

Distributed Proofreaders

Registered volunteers may contribute to Distributed Proofreaders in several ways including proofreading, "smooth reading" pre-released e-books to check for errors, managing projects, providing content, or even helping develop improvements to the site

Bookshare

Contribute your skills and passions to help people with print disabilities read

Do Something

DoSomething members join volunteer, social change, and civic action campaigns to make real-world impact on causes they care about

Smithsonian

Become a Smithsonian Digital Volunteer and help make historical documents and biodiversity data more accessible

Skills For Change

Diverse group of volunteers who come from all kinds of backgrounds, cultures and interests with the common bond of being motivated to work with a program for immigrants and refugees

Crisis Text Line

Crisis Counselors answer texts from people in crisis, bringing them from a hot moment to a cool calm through active listening, collaborative problem solving, and safety planning

Amnesty International

An innovative platform for volunteers around the world to use their computers or phones to help our researchers sift through pictures, information and documents

Grow Movement

Make a direct, tangible and sustainable impact. Create employment, enhance the skills of an entrepreneur and increase profitability of a business

Zooniverse

Zooniverse gives people of all ages and backgrounds the chance to participate in real research with over 50 active online citizen science projects

Tech Soup

Access networking events and regional community hubs and ask questions in our online community forums. Learn about the content, products, and resources we provide to U.S. libraries

Missing Maps

Missing Maps is an open, collaborative project in which you can help to map areas where humanitarian organisations are trying to meet the needs of vulnerable people

Translators Without Borders

Translators without Borders depends on volunteers to translate millions of words, but also to help us run the organization. We work with volunteers who have all kinds of great skills – and many learn new skills that they can use in their jobs

The School in the Cloud

The School in the Cloud platform helps accelerate research by helping educators — be they teachers, parents or community leaders — to run their own SOLEs and to contribute to the global experiment by sharing their experiences with others

 

Catch A Fire

Catchafire strengthens the social good sector by matching professionals who want to donate their time with nonprofits who need their skills

Be My Eyes

Be My Eyes volunteers lend their eyes to solve tasks big and small to help blind and low-vision people lead more independent lives

Volunteer Match

VolunteerMatch is the most effective way to recruit highly qualified volunteers for your nonprofit. We match you with people who are passionate about and committed to your cause, and who can help when and where you need them

United Nations Volunteering

The United Nations Volunteers (UNV) programme contributes to peace and development through volunteerism worldwide. Online volunteering allows organizations and volunteers to team up to address sustainable development challenges – anywhere in the world, from any device

UpCancer

Up Cancer and Team Up Cancer Advocacy need awareness volunteers and advocacy volunteers

Learning Ally

Learning Ally's mission is to ensure that all students have equal opportunities to learn by getting volunteers that are willing to do audiobook productions

 

***DISCLAIMER:

The Career Success Center at WCSU provides this listing for informational purposes only and is not endorsing any site.

We do not recommend using any Volunteer sites where you are asked to pay to work; however, there are a handful of volunteering sites here that do require a modest monthly or one-time payment. There is no implied or assumed guarantee of employment or skill development as a result of visiting any site.