Community Bulletin Board
Ken Garff Esports Spring Celebration
We need your help to run this event! Anyone interested can get more info here.
Date & Time: March 10th
Location: Huntsman Center
Date Posted: 1/20/23
Contact: kengarffesports@sieutah.org
National Ability Center
Call for volunteers for our annual Huntsman Cup Adaptive Alpine Ski Race? The race takes place from February 1st through February 3rd!
Date & Time: Feb. 1st - 3rd
Location: Park City
Date Posted: 1/20/23
Our volunteer website is www.volunteer.discovernac.org
The Huntsman Cup is an alpine ski race sanctioned by the international paralympic committee and welcomes adaptive ski races from around the globe.
ComfortZone Camp
Looking for help with ComfortZone Camps! The volunteer would be what we call a "Big Buddy" and be a mentor to the child for the weekend trip.
Date & Time:
Aug. 11- 13 (Camp Kostopulos)
Aug. 18-20 (Big Canyon Camp
Date Posted: 1/30/23
Our volunteer application is located here.
Comfort Zone Camp is a nonprofit organization that transforms the lives of children who have experienced the death of a parent, sibling, primary caregiver, or significant person.
Office of Undergraduate Research (OUR)
The Office of Undergraduate Research (OUR) facilitates and promotes undergraduate student-faculty collaborative research and creative works in all disciplines throughout the U campus.
Date & Time: Friday, February 17, 8:00am-5:00pm
Location: Student Union & Alumni House
Date Posted: 1/30/23
Please complete this form.
The University of Utah is hosting the Utah Conference on Undergraduate Research (UCUR) on Friday, February 17 from 8:00am-5:00pm. We expect over 700 people from across the state to attend.
Conversa Language School
Do you enjoy teaching? Do you love people and want to help change lives? Come teach English to Hispanic Adults! English teachers and class assistants needed for this semester!
Date & Time: Monday, Wednesday, Friday evenings
Location: 9324 Hawley Park Rd, West Jordan, UT
Date Posted: 1/20/23
Contact: Shelby Martin, shelby@conversaschool.org
Conversa Language School is a non-profit organization that exists to emower and equip adult language learners with excellent language training, and to create a community of hope by building relationships and teaching helpful content for everyday life.
Youthlinc Real Life Program
Real Life, one of Youthlinc’s 5 core programs, is an afterschool life skills and peer mentoring program that serves refugee and immigrant youth in the Salt Lake Valley. Volunteers will work with students in elementary school, jr. high, or high school.
Date & Time: Various Dates
Location: Salt Lake Valley
Date Posted: 1/20/23
Contact: Allie Baxter, allie@youthlinc.org
Real Life volunteers act as peer mentors primarily for refugee and immigrant youth in the Salt Lake area. Volunteers provide academic tutoring and participate in hands-on, life-skills activities.
For more information and to sign up: https://www.youthlinc.org/real-life/real-life-peer-mentors/
Camp Hobe
Camp Hobé is a Utah nonprofit serving kids with cancer (& similarly-treated disorders) and their families. We run camps every summer for Utah kids being treated for cancer (& similarly-treated disorders), and their siblings, and also offer free family outings throughout the year. Our organization utilizes more than 200 volunteers each year during the summer camp. We are currently recruiting volunteers for our summer camp sessions . We are trying to recruit more diverse volunteers, in order to better reflect the diversity of our camper population.
Location: Salt Lake Valley
Date Posted: 1/20/23
Click here for more info
Day Camp / Hobé Juniors: Thurs June 8 to June 10, for campers aged 4 to 6 years. Day
campers (4-5 year olds) do not stay overnight, while Hobé Juniors (6 year olds) have
a 1-night overnight
Kids Week: Sun June 11 to Fri June 16, overnight resident camp for campers aged 7
to 11 years
Teen Week: Sun June 18 to Fri June 23, overnight resident camp for campers aged 12
to 19 years
Virtual Camp: July 10-13, ages 6-19.
Junior Achievement
Junior Achievement is a nonprofit organization that inspires and prepares young people to succeed in their futures. Volunteers present lessons to students to promote financial capability, work and career readiness, and business ownership.
Mesopotamia Community of Utah
This organization helps provide refugees with different items and food and are hoping to get more volunteers to work at their food bank.
Date & Time: Wednesday (12pm) and Friday (10am)
Location: 3422 S 300 W
Date Posted: 1/20/23
Contact: Obaid, 385-465-8934
Salt Lake Harm Reduction Project (SHRP)
SHRP aims to reduce the negative consequences associated with drug use through health and social services such as disease/overdose prevention, education, and needs based resourcing. Volunteers can choose to help make safe-use-kits or be involved with community interaction.
Date & Time: Flexible
Location: 1400 1100 E, SLC, UT 84105
Capitol Hill Assisted Living
looking for volunteers to do a weekly activity with residents in Memory Care. Possible ideas: manicures, hand massage, reading to residents, sing a long, simple art projects, reminiscing, simple word games or trivia.
Date & Time: Flexible
Location: 76 S 500 E, SLC, UT 84102
Date Posted: 1/20/23
Contact: Brandy Hall, 801-359-0050
https://stellarliving.com/communities/capitol-hill-assisted-senior-living/
Clean the Darn Air
A grassroots group aiming to put a clean-air-and-climate measure on the ballot in Utah in 2024. We’re looking for volunteers to gather signatures in 2023 and otherwise get involved! Sign up for email updates at DarnAir.org or contact info@DarnAir.org.
Date Posted: 1/20/23
Basic Needs Collective
We are hosting our BNC Ambassador trainings! Come learn how to get involved with the collective and make a difference on campus. Our BNC Ambassadors will engage in education and outreach on campus to promote the collective. Examples include conducting brief in-class announcements, tabling at events, spreading the word through student groups, and posting flyers.
Location: University Union - Basement next to Feed U Food Pantry.
Date Posted: 10/26/2022
* Prospective volunteers must attend one training prior to service.
If you have questions, email: BasicNeedsCollective@sa.utah.edu
The Basic Needs Collective (BNC) provides a central location for resources related to finances, food, housing, health insurance, financial management, legal services, mental health, and more. Located in the basement of the A. Ray Olpin Student Union, the BNC, offers virtual and in-person resource support.
NeuroRestorative
This facility provides an Intensive Skilled nursing level of care to persons of all ages who have suffered catastrophic injuries or illnesses. As a volunteer you would interact with the residents through reading stories/news articles, making crafts, talking with, and playing games. You would also be able to help facilitate and prepare group activities for residents. If you know how to play chess and/or poker that is something many residents enjoy.
Location: 13747 S Redwood Rd., Riverton, UT 84065
Volunteer hours are needed M-F between the times of 1:00pm-5:00pm and Saturday’s from 12:00pm-5:00pm.
Date Updated: 1/26/2023
Contact: Caroline Thornock, caroline.thornock@sevitahealth.com
Please only reach out if you can make a long term commitment of at least 5 months or more and can volunteer for at least 8 hours a week or more. Thank you!
Kindergarten Math Mentor (Virtual)
Barriers to succeeding in school, many of which have been worsened by the pandemic, mean extra support in math is especially important right now.
Location: Virtual, supporting Philo. T. Farnsworth Elementary in West Valley.
Dates/Times: Monday/Wednesday, Tuesday/Thursday, or one-day-a-week opportunities from 9:30-10:15 am
Date Posted: 9/22/2022
Contact: Pele Neiufi, pele.neiufi@uw.org
Volunteers are here not only for the patient but also for their caregivers.
Sign up here: https://x.gldn.io/e/OBuqNPvUltb
Applegate Hospice
Applegate Hospice is in need of volunteers to be a friend to hospice patients near them. We ask for 1 hour/week for 6 months. You will visit the patient’s home for companionship or other help, like walking a dog or painting fingernails.
Date Posted: 9/14/2022
Contact: Alexandra Malovich, alexandram@applegatehomecare.com
1/hr week at patient’s home
We work with your schedule
We reimburse mileage!
Inspiration Home Health & Hospice
Our volunteers offer terminally ill patients and their families comfort, support, and companionship during a patient’s most challenging days, weeks, and months.
Location: Patient Location (Provo-Tremonton)
Dates: Flexible
Date Posted: 9/14/2022
Contact: Tandalaya Stitt, tstitt@asf-insp.com
Volunteers are here not only for the patient but also for their caregivers.
Tanner Dance LEADD Program
We are in search of volunteers for our LEADD Program during the year. The LEADD Program (Learning and Engaging through Arts Discipline and Development) is an arts and education program for adults with disabilities.
Location: U of U Campus
Date Posted: 9/8/2022
Contact: Eliza Zenger at eliza.c.zenger@utah.edu
The LEADD Program teaches valuable life skills through dance, music, theater, and visual art, and incorporates lifelong learning through reading, creative writing, and science classes.
Behavioral Health Volunteers
The Marian Center is an acute care in-patient senior behavioral health hospital, and we are looking for some capable and compassionate people interested in working with our patients.
Location: South Salt Lake
Dates: Flexible
Date Posted: 9/8/2022
Contact: Shelby Ence at sence@ensignservices.net
Assist with arts and crafts, music, bingo, gardening, exercise and much more!
Project Read Tutoring & Lab Volunteers
Project Read is initiating a program expansion into Salt Lake County and across the state of Utah to continue to help individuals improve their ability to read, write, compute, and use technology sufficiently to meet personal goals, function well in society, and become more productive citizens.
Location: Utah
Date Updated: 1/20/2023
Contact: Rob Fuller rob@projectreadutah.org
One-on-One Tutoring: Meet with an adult literacy student to improve English literacy skills and assist them in using those skills to meet self-identified goals.
Lab Volunteers: Assist the Project Read Literacy Specialists in teaching small groups of students and help in lab with their personal reading and writing projects.
Utahns Against Hunger
Utahns Against Hunger is looking for volunteers to do outreach for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, also known as food stamps)
Location: Utah
Date Posted: 9/8/2022
Contact: Gina Cornia at info@uah.org
Volunteers will assist clients with SNAP [Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program] applications, and other federal nutrition programs. Volunteers will be trained on how to pre-screen clients, complete the application, and follow up with clients.
More info: https://www.uah.org/meet-uah/work-with-us
Children Welfare Volunteer
Volunteer your time to Change a Child's Story™. As a CASA Volunteer, you are empowered by the courts to advocate for a child involved in the child welfare system due to abuse or neglect. You will be the one consistent adult in the child’s life, fighting for their fundamental right to be treated with the dignity and respect every child deserves. And in doing so, you will enrich your life as well.
Location: Utah
Date Updated: 9/8/2022
Contact: Contact Ashleigh at ashleighh@utcourts.gov
Volunteers get to know the child or children by visiting them frequently and getting to know them on a personal level. Advocates also investigate by talking to the child’s caseworker, therapist, teachers, and foster parents.
Stone of Hope Youth Mentor Program
Seeking volunteer mentors with a passion for at-risk youth to help run their after-school mentor program at Stansbury Elementary School in West Valley City.
Location: Utah
Date(s): 2 hours/week
Date Updated: 9/8/2022
Contact: Contact Us!
Mentors must be 18 years or older and have their own transportation. The program runs Monday afternoons from 3:15 - 5:15pm. Contact us at info@stoneofhopeyouth.org.
Salt Lake County Health Education
We offer a variety of health, wellness, and fitness, evidence-based classes designed to help older adults stay healthy, be social, and increase their quality of life.
Location: Salt Lake County
Date(s): Flexible (ongoing for duration of class taught)
Date Updated: 9/8/2022
Contact: Contact Us!
Help us promote and teach health education in senior communities. Classes you may be teaching include Arthritis Foundation Exercise Program, Living Well with Chronic Conditions, and Walk with Ease!
Impact Mental Health
We provide psychiatric care to uninsured, low-income Utahns with serious mental illness at no cost to the patient. We provide medication management and psychiatric care as well as case management and community resources.
Location: 515 East 4500 South Salt Lake City, UT 84107
Date(s): Flexible
Date Posted: 7/22/2022
Contact: Connie Gardner
Intake specialists engage with people who reach out for help and assist them with either booking an appointment at IMH and/or helping them find other useful resources in the community. Spanish interpreters work with psychiatrists, advanced practice nurses and social workers to help eliminate language barriers as treatment is provided.
Housing Connect Activities Volunteer
We are looking for volunteers that can come to the affordable housing site to do some activities for adults and/or children.
Location: 750 W South Temple
Date(s): Flexible
Date Posted: 7/22/2022
Contact: Violet Nanchengwa
These activities can be anything such as a literacy/reading activity for children, a craft activity, basic computer lessons etc. Feel free to contact Violet for more information.
Green Urban Lunch Box
Green Urban Lunch-box is seeking volunteers to help out with various programs that empower the Salt Lake City community through cultivating fresh food.
Location: Salt Lake City, UT
Date(s): Varies weekly
Date Posted: 6/29/2022
Contact: Kerrigan Bunker
Volunteers can sign up to work with Back-Farms, Fruitshare, or Free Farm Stands when they are available. This is a great way to engage with the community, learn about how to grow food, and volunteers are always given the opportunity to take home fresh produce! If you are interested, please go to our volunteer page to access program sign-ups.
For The Kids Food Drive
For The Kids is a local nonprofit that provides weekend meal kits to 400 children at 4 low-income elementary schools in the Salt Lake Valley. You can help us provide food and hope to under-privileged kids.
Location: Salt Lake Valley
Date(s): Flexible
Date Posted: 3/17/2022
Contact: Kenzie Richardson
We need your help hosting food drives! This is a great project for the youth, for your neighborhood, your family, your church, your community organization or even for your business. We provide all materials and assist in organization.
Aspen Ridge Home Health and Hospice
Volunteers provide invaluable service to hospice patients and their families.
Location: Aspen Ridge Home Health and Hospice @ 5323 Murray Blvd, Murray, UT 84123
Date(s): Flexible
Date Posted: 3/15/2022
Contact: Drake Cottman
Hospice volunteers visit hospice patients to provide companionship and support through conversation, music, arts & crafts, walking dogs, reading to and playing games with patients, and much more.
Orphanage Support Services Organization
Come volunteer with OSSO! We currently support seven orphanages in Ecuador year-round with volunteers or monetary donations. We offer trips year round for anywhere from a week to 6 months!
Location: Ecuador
Date(s): Flexible
Date Posted: 3/15/2022
Contact: Contact Us!
We have sent over 5,000 volunteers internationally to give nearly 1.5 million hours of face-to-face service in orphanages and millions of dollars in financial support. Visit our website to learn more!
PBS Utah Volunteers
The education department with PBS Utah is looking for volunteers to support select Title I elementary schools.
Location: Select Title I schools in Granite School District and the Eccles Broadcast Center at 101 Wasatch Drive (located on the U of U campus)
Date(s): M-F during the school day
Date Posted: 2/27/2022
Contact: Annie Frazier, PBS Utah Education Program Manager
Our volunteers will help with literacy and learning initiatives and gain hands-on experience working with children. Training will be provided.
Salt Lake Valley Institute: Peer Tutor
We have a continual need for peer tutors who could serve and help in our classes. It is an unpaid opportunity, but students can receive credit towards Institute graduation.
Location: University of Utah Institute & Granite Institute
Date(s): Flexible
Date Posted: 2/27/2022
Contact: Dr. Aaron Pond
Our program has been specifically created to ensure students with adapted needs of any kind have the help they need to succeed and progress towards spiritual independence.
Hospital Elder Life Program (HELP)
The Hospital Elder Life Program (HELP) is an international patient care program that focuses on preventing physical and cognitive decline in hospitalized individuals ages 70+.
Location: University of Utah Health
Date(s): Mon-Fri
Date Posted: 01/04/2022
Contact: christine.lee@hsc.utah.edu
To start the process, please send a statement of interest and resume to christine.lee@hsc.utah.edu. Please note we have a minimum time commitment of one four-hour shift per week for one year, or 150 hours of volunteer service with the program is required. At this time, our program runs Monday-Friday.
Valley Behavioral Health
Valley Behavioral Health is a nonprofit organization for community mental health in Salt Lake City.
Location: Millcreek, UT
Date(s) and Time(s): Sundays & Mondays – Lunch 11:30am to 1:00pm & Dinner 4:30 to 6:30pm
Date Posted: 1/30/2023
Contact:
Pheasant Hollow is in serious need of ongoing volunteers to help staff with meals. Volunteers will be prepping and serving lunch or dinner to help staff and all of the residents. Pheasant Hollow provides alternative housing for Medicaid clients with physical disabilities and brain injuries who desire to live independently.
Clever Octopus
The SLC-based nonprofit Clever Octopus, a creative reuse center and arts and crafts thrift store, offers onsite and remote volunteering opportunities for students to help us meet our mission to make quality art supplies more accessible.
Location: Clever Octopus- 2250 S. West Temple, SLC, UT 84115
Date(s): Mon-Thurs 12-3pm, Fri & Sat 12-5pm
Date Posted: 12/21/2021
Contact: Contact Community Engagement Coordinator Alexandra Parvaz at Volunteer@clearoctopus.org.
Students can help us organize our ever-expanding inventory of clean salvaged crafting goods donated to us by the public and businesses through onsite work parties as well as through convenient take-home kits.
Backman Elementary
Looking for volunteers to read and tutor K-6th grade students at Backman Elementary
Location: Salt Lake City, UT
Date(s): Monday-Thursday (12:30-2:30pm) until the end of May
Date Posted: 1/30/2023
Contact: Madison Armonda
Volunteers will participate in a structured reading tutorial program that provides achievement gains for students needing extra support. We are looking for volunteers that are able to commit to the remainder of the school year of service, with at least two hours of volunteering each week.
Hospice Volunteers
Hospice volunteers visit individuals on our service; listen to music, conversation, reading, writing, listening, crafts, games, painting, recalling and recording memories and so much more!
Location: Across Utah
Date(s): Flexible
Date Posted: 10/18/2021
Contact: Click here!
We provide all of our volunteers with extensive training on topics such as communication skills, family dynamics, grief and bereavement, home safety, personal safety, stress management, infection control, and more.
Historic Scott School: After School Program
Requesting help for our afterschool program in tutoring and homework help, specifically with math support for 4th-10th graders primarily.
Location: 3280 S 540 E South Salt Lake 84106
Date(s): Monday – Thursday 3:30 – 5:30pm
Date Posted: 9/21/2021
Contact: https://x.gldn.io/OgyICGo2Hjb
We could use help Monday-Thursday (with a few exceptions) generally between the hours of 3:30-5:30 throughout the school year. UWSL is encouraging volunteers be fully vaccinated for Covid-19 and is requiring masks.
Volunteer Ushers
Join the elite team who usher at Abravanel Hall, Capitol Theatre, Eccles Theater on Main Street, Rose Wagner and the new Mid-Valley Performing Arts Center in Taylorsville. You will be part of a group who are devoted to providing a treasured experience to every patron who walks through our doors.
Location: Across Salt Lake City
Date(s): Various Dates
Date Posted: 8/31/2021
Contact: Here.
When you volunteer to usher, you’ll enjoy performances by presenters including Ballet West, Utah Symphony, Utah Opera, Repertory Dance Theatre, Ririe Woodbury Dance Company, Plan-B Theatre Company, the GAM Foundation and national acts presented by Live at the Eccles and Broadway Across America.
Granite Education Foundation
The United Way of Salt Lake is recruiting volunteers to help the Granite Education Foundation provide fresh, nutritious foods through the School Food Pantry Program.
Location: Granite Foundation Donation and Distribution Center
Date(s): Wednesdays 9am-12pm or 1-4pm
Date Posted: 8/31/2021
Contact: http://volunteer.uw.org
The Granite Education Foundation is looking for weekly volunteers to help from 9-noon or 1-4pm to put away perishable foods, help input inventory, and help pull and sort orders for schools.
Jordan River Nature Center Trail Clean-up
Join the Jordan River Nature Center to help clean up and maintain the Jordan River Trail. Join staff members in picking up trash, pulling puncture vine, and caring for our Native Plant plots. Tools for cleanup can be provided.
Location:1125 W 3300 S, South Salt Lake, UT 84119
Date(s): Tuesday-Saturday, by appointment (9 a.m.-8 p.m.)
Date Posted: 8/22/2021
Contact: Our Website
This is a group volunteer project only (minimum of 4 applicants). There is a one-time 2-hour commitment, though volunteers can set up as many sessions as desired.
If you are interested in individual volunteer projects, please fill out a separate application at the same link.
Abbington Murray
We are in need of responsible volunteers to help with activities during the weekend or evening hours. Hours would be Saturday from 1-3pm and Weeknights from 6-8pm.
Location: Abbington at Murray
Date(s): Saturdays from 1-3pm and Weeknights from 6-8pm
Date Updated: 10/10/22
Contact: Brianna Bennett
activities@abbingtonmurray.com
We are in need of responsible volunteers to help with activities during the weekend or evening hours. Hours would be Saturday from 1-3pm and Weeknights from 6-8pm. Activities would include starting a movie or simple games to keep our residents engaged during non-business hours. Contact Brianna Bennett for more information. activities@abbingtonmurray.com
Youth City Teen Program Specialist - Part-Time
Responsible for program design and implementation of the Youth City Teen Programs.
Location: Salt Lake City, UT
Contact: Click here to view online job posting
Date Posted: 9/8/2022
Duties include, but not limited to: outreach, program development, communication with Community Programs Managers, data collection, and developing effective strategies to meet and exceed all organizational outreach goals and objectives.
Race Swami - Swim Lesson Instructor
Race Swami is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit swim club that provides opportunities in swimming and enrichment to economically disadvantaged youth in the west-side neighborhoods of SLC.
Location: West Valley City, UT
Contact: Please text Hunter McKenzie @ 801-502-9632 or email him at swimschool@raceswami.org.
Date Posted: 1/30/2023
We are looking for motivated individuals to serve as swim lesson instructors in our program. We teach water safety, comfort, and technique to kids ages 3-18. Prior experience with kids or swimming is preferred. This position is also available as a volunteer opportunity depending on your goals.
$17/hr for 6 weeks
SLC School District After-School Program Positions
Salt Lake City School District is Looking for after-school personnel to supervise students in the Community Education After-School Programs.
Location: Salt Lake City, UT
Contact: Elisa Bridge
Date Posted: 9/8/2022
United Way Salt Lake: Grassroots Organizer Fellowship
We are looking for passionate members of our community to join our Grassroots Leadership team and help ensure that families and community voices lead the way in transforming our communities. To do this, we engage community members to start conversations on what matters the most to them and elevate their experiences to impact decision making processes.
Location: Salt Lake City, UT
Contact: Anahy Salcedo
Date Posted: 7/15/2022
Date(s): September 2022 to May 2023
This is a paid fellowship—a training and practice program lasting from September 2022 - May 2023. We aim to find those interested in growing in community organizing and who intimately know the neighborhoods of the larger Salt Lake area. If you are committed to your community and are willing to go the extra mile to drive social change, this is the opportunity for you!
Learn more about this role here.
Utah STEM Volunteer Mentors
The Utah STEM Action Center, a division of the Department of Cultural and Community Engagement, is Utah’s partner in promoting Science, Technology, Engineering and Math education. The STEM AC is seeking AmeriCorps Math Mentors to support elementary and secondary students to build confidence and improve math skills in targeted areas of Utah.
Location: Salt Lake City, UT
Contact: Jana Alexander
Date Posted: 7/15/2022
Math Mentor responsibilities include:
- Lead small math group academic mentoring and help with software-focused math activities.
- Respect and affirm the diversity of student backgrounds and experiences in your mentoring efforts.
- Connect students and families with community resources focused on food, housing, clothing, mental health, and other concerns that may be affecting the student’s ability to do well in school.
Mentors receive a modest living stipend and earn a scholarship upon completion of 100, 450, or 900 hour commitments. Apply!
Refugee Youth Services VISTA @ CCSU
VISTA opportunity offered by the Catholic Community Services of Utah
Location: Utah
Contact: Natalie Peterson
Date Posted: 7/22/2022
- Develop a comprehensive outreach strategy for staff to educate refugee families about the importance of early childhood education.
- Track and compile data to gauge the effectiveness of this outreach strategy.
- Communicate the benefits of high-quality early learning programs to refugee families and lead to enrolling the refugee children in those high-quality preschool programs.
- Create and share information with the CCS Early Childhood Navigator about early childhood education in a culturally relevant and appropriate way.
Learn more here.