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Aquidneck Island Adult Learning Center |
Volunteers are referred to Literacy Volunteers of the East Bay.
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Audubon Society of RI - HQ |
Volunteer Opportunities
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Blackstone River Watershed Council |
This group has occasional cleanups and is attacking the invasive knotweed along the river.
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Brown University Herbarium |
People who are interested in plant diversity and herbarium work and would like to be involved with volunteer projects at the herbarium are invited to inquire.
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Burrillville Green Team |
Team Up to Clean Up!
If you would like to join the Green Team and are looking for an area to clean up please send email to Andrea Hall or call 568-4440 x12.
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Clean Bays |
Become a Volunteer
Clean Bays depends on its loyal and ambitious team of volunteers to help with debris removal. If you would like to join our team, please sign up here, and you will be contacted with a list of dates when help is needed. We need help in the field, but we can always use help in the office too! Let us know if you are interested in coordinating fundraisers, or helping with other events or activities.
Click here to volunteer online.
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Community Action Partnership of Providence (CAPP) |
Volunteer Needs: Computer Instructor Intern. See this page and fill out the 2016 volunteer application.
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Cozy Rhody Litter Clean-up |
Find cleanup notices in this group's Meetup page.
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East Bay Food Pantry & Thrift Shop |
Our goal is to involve YOU in our work!
As more caring community members like you join our circle, our impact in the East Bay grows. With your sustaining support, we can provide assistance to those affected by financial hardship. Your generosity will empower the East Bay Food Pantry to care for our most vulnerable neighbors.
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East Bay Food Pantry Community Farm |
Each spring, The RI Food Bank's community farms begin accepting volunteers to help prepare the land, plant and harvest. No experience is necessary and all ages are welcome. It’s a great activity for families, schools, businesses and civic groups!
To volunteer, contact the coordinator.
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Food4Good |
Things Needed
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Franklin Farm |
Each spring, The RI Food Bank's community farms begin accepting volunteers to help prepare the land, plant and harvest. No experience is necessary and all ages are welcome. It’s a great activity for families, schools, businesses and civic groups!
To volunteer, contact the coordinator.
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Genesis Center |
Volunteers Needed: Workforce Training/Mock Interview Day, conversation tutor, citizenship tutor, student support center tutors, ESL tutors, computer lab volunteer, financial literacy volunteer, garden volunteer
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God's Little Acre |
Each spring, the RI Community Food Bank farms begin accepting volunteers to help prepare the land, plant and harvest. No experience is necessary and all ages are welcome. It’s a great activity for families, schools, businesses and civic groups! To volunteer, contact the coordinator. - 2017
"Located behind St. Philip School, God’s Little Acre is one of many efforts sponsored by the parish to provide fresh, nutritious food for those in need throughout the local community. Distributed through the parish’s St. Vincent de Paul Society, excess harvest from this important ministry is provided to the R.I. Community Food Bank. For more information on how you can help tend to God’s Little Acre, please contact the parish office at 401-949-1500." - From the website, April 8, 2021.
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Literacy Volunteers of East Bay (LVEB) |
Volunteers Needed: Literacy tutors
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Literacy Volunteers of Kent County |
Our 18-hour tutor training workshop teaches the skills needed to effectively work one-to-one with an adult student. Once the workshop is underway, volunteers are matched with a student and they meet in a public location on their own schedule for 2 hours a week. Prospective tutors must be 18 years old and have a high school diploma or GED. Lessons are typically conducted in libraries, churches, or community centers.
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Literacy Volunteers of Washington County - Westerly |
Volunteers Needed: Tutors, office help, fundraiser organizers, committee members
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McCoy Community Farm |
Each spring, The RI Food Bank's community farms begin accepting volunteers to help prepare the land, plant and harvest. No experience is necessary and all ages are welcome. It’s a great activity for families, schools, businesses and civic groups!
To volunteer, contact the coordinator.
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MyCoast RI |
RI Coastal Resources Management Council needs your help to capture photographs of King Tide events and storm flooding sites. RICRMC will evaluate your photographs and include them in its long-term analysis of coastal vulnerability and planning initiatives with municipalities. RICRMC may also use your photographs in presentations, publications, and on its website.
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Nature Conservancy |
The Nature Conservancy has several opportunities for volunteers.
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Neighborhood Alliance of Pawtucket |
NAP organizes cleanups for Earth Day in Pawtucket. They also participate in the Buy Nothing Day Coat Drive.
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New England Plant Conservation Program (NEPCoP) |
Volunteers needed: The organization is heavily dependent on Plant Conservation Volunteers (PVCs) for monitoring local populations of rare and endangered plants. Expertise is not required, just a will to help and learn new things.
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Project Learn |
ADULT EDUCATION: "Without the help of our volunteers, we would not be able to help the hundreds of people in our community learn to communicate more effectively. Project Learn serves adults locally and can certainly use the help in our computer lab, our one on one learning tutors and many other administrative areas if you like. Learn more about how you can help adult readers in your community. Learn more about how you can make a difference in the local community through sharing your knowledge."
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Project Learn (Community Care Alliance) |
Adult Ed: Volunteer tutors are needed.
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Providence Community Tree Keepers |
This is a volunteer opportunity for people who have taken the RI Tree Steward course or comparable training, as well as the PVD Tree Keeper training.
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RI College Outreach Program |
Contact us at (401) 456-8902 or Email Dawne Pezzuco for more information. More info...
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RI Natural History Survey |
Annual BioBlitz orientation for volunteer participants is in early May each year. RI BioBlitz is an early June 24-hour period on a Friday and Saturday.
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Save the Bay |
See the Volunteer Page for details of current needs.
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South County Museum |
"We seek volunteers interested in helping us interpret, preserve, and present local history and assisting in various capacities.... We are looking for year-round, seasonal and special event volunteers." - from the website, July 6, 2018
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URI Watershed Watch |
Volunteer environmental monitoring can be a great family activity, a good excuse to get out on the water, or simply a good way to learn about pollution of water, and how to protect your favorite waterbody. Our volunteers come from diverse educational backgrounds and experiences, with some holding advanced degrees in science, and others still in high school. No previous education or training is required order to participate, simply a way to get to your monitoring site, and a desire to help out, and get a little wet. URI Watershed Watch provides all the training (classroom and field), equipment and laboratory analyses. Read more...
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We Share Hope |
This organization is a food rescuer, whose mission is to locate, gather, and distribute food to groups that feed the poor, distressed, and the underprivileged. Volunteers are needed for all kinds of work, from driving trucks to helping out in the office.
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Westbay Community Action |
Westbay Literacy/GED
Under the guidance of the GED instructors, volunteers will work with adult students one-on-one in a classroom setting at the Buttonwoods Community Center. Volunteers work with the students on building skills in math, writing and reading in order to work towards passing the GED tests.
To volunteer for this department, call or email Dona Smith, Volunteer Coordinator at 401-732-4666 x152 or dsmith@westbaycap.org
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Westbay Farm |
Volunteers needed to help grow food.
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What Cheer Flower Farm |
Donations and volunteers needed!
Become a friend of the What Cheer Flower Farm in Providence!
- In-kind donations
- Plant, water, weed and harvest
- Drive flowers to nonprofits
- Assist with fundraising
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