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Direct service Direct service activities address immediate needs, but not necessarily the systemic conditions from which these needs emerge. Examples include tutoring immigrant families in English literacy and conversation, serving food at a soup kitchen or homeless shelter, or staffing a suicide prevention or sexual assault hotline.
All of the national service organizations featured here have local affiliates. If your specific interests are not reflected here, a local web search for organizations in your field of interest will undoubtedly be fruitful. Of course, most organizations will respond favorably to inquiries from persons seeking to share their skills and talents with them as volunteers!
Featured organizations
The Big Brothers/Big Sisters mission is to help children reach their potential through professionally-supported, one-to-one relationships with mentors that have a measurable impact on youth.
Habitat for Humanity works in partnership with God and people everywhere, from all walks of life, to develop communities with people in need by building and renovating houses so that there are decent houses in decent communities in which every person can experience God’s love and can live and grow into all that God intends.
ICRC is an impartial, neutral, and independent organization whose exclusively humanitarian mission is to protect the lives and dignity of victims of war and internal violence and to provide them with assistance.
United Way International helps build community capacity for a better quality of life worldwide through voluntary giving and action.
The mission of United Way National is to improve lives by mobilizing the caring power of communities.
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