Want to add some volunteer work to your spring calendar? With dozens of local causes making change in our city, you can seek out options that suit your interests and availability (or try something totally new).
To help you find your fit, we rounded up a few upcoming volunteer opportunities aligned with specific personal interests and personality traits.
The nature lover
Help clean up our local parks.
- Date: Saturday, March 28
- Locations: Various parks in the Fan
- Sign up here.
Join The Fan District Association for an annual neighborhood parks clean up, which will include Scuffletown Park, Meadow Park, Grace Park, Pradise Park, and Sydney Park.
Over the years, Friends of East End has recovered more than 3,300 hidden grave markers at East End Cemetery, which was first founded in 1897.
Photo via Friends of East End
The introvert
Prepare student snack kits at home.
- Dates: Drop-offs due Thursday, March 26-27 or Monday, April 27-28
- Location: Make the kits in your own space; drop off at Start 1 Spark in western Henrico.
- Sign up here.
Start 1 Spark, a nonprofit supporting low-income middle school students, is seeking volunteers to help prepare snack kits for student athletes attending John Rolfe, Brookland, Falling Creek, and Salem Church middle schools in Henrico and Chesterfield.
Bonus: Recruit a crew and sign up as a team if you’d prefer some social time.
The historian
Help preserve a 19th-century cemetery.
- Date: Saturdays - March 28, April 4, April 18 + May 2
- Location: Evergreen Cemetery
- Sign up here.
Help clear overgrowth, recover hidden grave markers, and honor the history of an African American cemetery in Richmond’s East End. Established in 1891, Evergreen Cemetery serves as the final resting place of Maggie Walker, John Mitchell Jr., and thousands of other African Americans.
Over the years, Friends of East End has recovered more than 3,300 hidden grave markers at East End Cemetery, which was first founded in 1897.
Photo via Friends of East End
The entrepreneur
Help balance business books.
- Date: Wednesday, April 1 (every first Wednesday of the month)
- Location: JWC Foundation
- Sign up here.
Step in to support local small business owners in balancing their books and inspire confidence as you talk through tricky accounting questions.
Pro tip: JWC welcomes volunteers to bring their own work to occupy any downtime.
The animal lover
Pitch in at an annual pet expo.
- Date: Sunday, April 12
- Location: Hardywood, West Creek
- Sign up here.
Keep FETCH a Cure’s annual pet wellness festival running smoothly while tabling, assisting with registration, setting up or breaking down the event space, and meeting plenty of pups.
