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17th Annual Volunteer Expo
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The 17th Annual Volunteer Expo welcomes all to Prudential Center to meet over 40+ non-profits, seeking volunteers to join their organizations.
Each year, our Volunteer Expo assists an array of local nonprofits in their search for volunteers. This popular event brings together office clients, locals, and students from the community and allows attendees to interact with representatives from organizations from throughout the Boston area.
The following organizations will be lined up throughout the Huntington Arcade, eagerly ready to meet potential volunteers for 2024:
ARTS & CULTURE
- Boston Raising Powerful Musicians
- SPOTLIGHT: Authentic Caribbean Foundation Inc.
For over 10 years, Authentic Caribbean Foundation has been dedicated to providing education and training, health, community tourism and support services to children and adults in both the United States and Caribbean. The Foundation assists with education, special disability, health issues (aids & cancer), and community exchange programs – helping to eliminate poverty by assisting the community to achieve a high level of development and sustainability. Volunteers assist with many opportunities, from festivals and events to mentoring and more.
DIVERSITY & INCLUSION
- Encouraging Women Across All Borders
- InnerCity Weightlifting
- Partners for Youth with Disabilities
- SPOTLIGHT: Gay For Good
Gay For Good Boston mobilizes lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer (LGBTQ+) and ally volunteers in the broader Boston community to promote diversity, foster inclusion and enhance LGBTQ+ visibility. The organization facilitates welcoming, inclusive service projects in support of a wide range of causes – such as: environment, animal welfare, and people in need in each city chapter (including organizations not traditionally associated with the LGBTQ+ community) – throughout Boston and the surrounding areas. Gay For Good believes in the power of service and working hand-in-hand with community partners to foster mutual understanding and respect for all. They aim to increase LGBTQ+ awareness, representation, and goodwill through authentic interactions and relationship building and above all, make a positive difference and have fun!
EDUCATION & RESEARCH
- BUILD.org
- Cancer Education and Research Institute
- Friends of the Boston Harborwalk
- National Multiple Sclerosis Society
- New England Donor Services
- Parkinson’s Foundation – New England Chapter
- SPOTLIGHT: Boston Partners in Education
Boston Partners in Education has been helping students realize and achieve their full potential since 1966. By creating supportive relationships between students and volunteer mentors, Boston Partners in Education ensures a more equitable city where every BPS student is equipped with the skills, opportunity, and confidence to succeed in the classroom and beyond. Nearly 60 years later, BPIE proudly stands as the oldest active nonprofit partner of the Boston Public Schools. Today, academic mentors make a commitment for the entire school year to work with students identified by teachers and families as needing extra academic support and attention.
ENVIRONMENT & ANIMALS
- Food Rescue US
- SPOTLIGHT: Boston’s Forgotten Felines
Throughout the city of Boston there is a population of feral and abandoned cats suffering homeless lives. Boston’s Forgotten Felines is a group of dedicated caretakers who feed, TNR (trap, neuter, return), and re-home friendly cats. The organization believes education is the key to decreasing, and one day, preventing animals from being homeless. The largest volunteer needs are for feeders, trappers, and fosters, which require a car or spare room. Those without a car or extra room can also help by holding cat food drives, hosting a fundraiser, and spreading adoption and other needs by word-of-mouth or via social media.
HUMAN SERVICES
- Boston Cares
- Boston Children’s Hospital Blood Donor Center
- Circle of Hope
- Fenway Community Center
- Fenway Community Development Corporation
- Metro Housing Boston
- MIRA Coalition
- Pan-Mass Challenge
- People Making a Difference
- Rian Immigrant Center
- Room to Grow
- Victory Programs
- March of Dimes
- SPOTLIGHT: The Outreach Program
The mission of The Outreach Program is to provide safe water, food, medical care and education to children and those in need, at home and abroad. The Outreach Program was founded by Floyd Hammer and Kathy Hamilton while on a trip to Nkungi, Tanzania in 2004. Originally, Floyd had planned to help convert a leprosy hospital into an AIDS hospice center, while Kathy had planned to volunteer at a local hospital. Within the first few days of their trip, their plans changed after a fifth child died of hunger. From this experience, Floyd and Kathy knew that to truly make a lasting difference in Nkungi, they would need to build up the entire community. After meeting with local villagers and tribal leaders to determine the most critical needs & four themes: feed the hungry, clean water, medical care, and education. What was once a small seed to impact a community has flourished and now provides these four critical needs to thousands throughout the United States and abroad.
WOMEN’S SERVICES
- Dress for Success Boston
- Junior League of Boston
- The American Cancer Society Making Strides Against Breast Cancer
- SPOTLIGHT: Ovations for the Cure
Ovations for the Cure is dedicated to the relentless pursuit of a cure for ovarian cancer, while offering patient support. The Boston-area based organization provides education programs that prioritize increasing awareness of ovarian cancer to improve early detection – over 20,000 women are diagnosed with ovarian cancer each year! Focused on improving the lives of women currently diagnosed with ovarian cancer, Ovations has created and participates in many patient programs like the “Helping Hands” program that provides patients currently undergoing active chemotherapy treatment with free healthy and easy to prepare meals.
YOUTH SERVICES
- Boston Court Appointed Special Advocates
- Camp Casco, Inc.
- Coaching4Change
- Comfort Zone Camp
- Girl Scouts of Eastern Massachusetts
- Volo Kids Foundation
- YMCA of Greater Boston
- SPOTLIGHT: Silver Lining Mentoring
Silver Lining Mentoring empowers youth in foster care to thrive through committed mentoring relationships and the development of essential life skills. SLM is one of only a few mentoring organizations in the country exclusively focused on youth impacted by foster care. Volunteer mentors are needed consistently throughout the year. SLM also engages volunteers in time-limited projects including supporting the Match Gala Committee, running as part of SLM’s Boston Marathon team, and sharing personal or professional skills that support the organization (e.g. graphic design, social media analytics, data processing, event planning, photography, etc).