News & Upcoming Volunteer Opportunities

The Richmond Police Department requests volunteers for the 2019 100 Men Read Program on Friday, February 15, 2019.

Volunteer Job Description: 

• Department/ Organization: Richmond Police Department 
• Project Website: https://bit.ly/2WsZ3Tl
• Volunteer Job Title: 2019 100 Men Read Program
• Brief Description of Position: Commit to a minimum of one hour of reading books to elementary school children
• Skills Required: Reading ability

FeedMore needs volunteers to assist with its Plate Waste Study, to be held in various Richmond and Henrico Schools during the month of March.

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Volunteer one evening per week to help under served middle school students improve their academic and social performance.

Volunteer Job Duties:
Higher Achievement needs volunteers like you to provide middle school students in underserved communities with caring role models. Higher Achievement provides a no-cost, intensive academic after-school and summer program for students in 5th-8th grade that includes mentoring, homework coaching, electives, college visits, and field trips. As a result, 95% of Higher Achievement students go on to graduate from high school on time, compared to 80% across Richmond Public Schools.

• Who: Higher Achievement mentors are a diverse group of people from a variety of backgrounds. You do not need to have any prior teaching experience to be a mentor. Mentors choose their subjects and receive significant support from Higher Achievement, including curricula, orientation, and regular training and coaching.
• What: Teach a small group of 5th, 6th, 7th or 8th graders in a core academic subject: math, English Language, Arts, or elective seminar
• When: One hour a week between 6-7pm (exact time varies by location) on either Tuesdays or Thursdays from October – early May.
• Where: At one of our four Achievement Centers: Boushall Middle School, Henderson Middle School, Binford Middle School, or Wilder Middle School (Henrico Co.)

Help Soles4Souls by hosting a shoe drive.  

The Northside Food Pantry Partnership is seeking (1) Shopping Assistants to help clients shop for food and help them bag (if needed); (2) Food Unloaders to lift, carry, and stock items into the pantry store room.

Parks, Recreation and Community Facilities is seeking volunteers to assist as Receptionists at several city community facilities: Bellemeade, Hotchkiss Field, Pine Camp, Powhatan,and Randolph.

The Junior Achievement program is seeking volunteers in Richmond Public Schools to instruct lessons focusing on financial literacy, community and entrepreneurship.

Assist the Black Male Emergent Readers (BMER) program through planning, meeting attendance, presentations, and activities with children, teens and adults at library and RPS locations.

Become a CASA Volunteer (Court Appointed Special Advocates) in the Richmond area.

The Metro Richmond Flying Squad is seeking volunteers interested in providing firefighter rehabilitation services (i.e., rest, warmth, cooling, water, oxygen) on various emergency calls throughout the year.

Food pantry volunteers are needed to help CAPUP distribute food packages to low income communities in Richmond’s East End.

The Richmond Public Library Law Librarian is seeking volunteers to help in processing and re-shelving law books, finding books in library catalog, and logging patrons on computers.

Neighbor-To-Neighbor (N2N) has recently launched its new Leaf Brigade, an initiative that engages volunteers to assist vulnerable residents with bagging leaves. This service will be offered as a pilot program this year to residents who qualify as participants.

If you are a resident inquiring about this service OR would like to volunteer to bag leaves for vulnerable residents, please contact us at 

Department Volunteers and Neighbor to Neighbor

1209 Admiral Street
Richmond, VA
23219 USA
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Phone: (804) 646-6528