Volunteer Position | Organization | Role Summary | Link | Type | Corporate Program Offer | Mobile+Desktop | Skills-based | Open to anyone | Free or Fee-required? | Onboarding Difficulty | Typical Session Duration |
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Advisor | CareerVillage.org | Answer students' questions and give advice pertaining to college and careers | Digital Volunteering | Easy | 15 minutes | ||||||
Academic Coach | UPchieve | Help students who need academic assistance | Digital Volunteering | Medium | 1 hour | ||||||
Crisis Counselor | Crisis Text Line | Train to become an online crisis counselor | Tele-volunteering | Difficult | 1 hour | ||||||
Wikipedia Editor | Wikipedia | Become a Wikipedia editor, join or plan an edit-a-thon, contribute code | Digital Volunteering | Medium | 30 minutes | ||||||
Translator | Tarjimly | Connect with a refugee to translate important information over FB Messenger | Digital Volunteering | Easy | 30 minutes | ||||||
Galaxy Classifier | Galaxy Zoo | Classify astronomical objects to help scientists compare how the shape of a galaxy affects the light spectra we see | Research Support | Easy | 15 minutes | ||||||
Citizen Scientist | Citizen Science | Join the movement of public participation in scientific data collection | Research Support | Easy | Variable | ||||||
Video Mentor | Infinite Family | Train to become a mentor for teen and pre-teen students in Africa | Tele-volunteering | Difficult | 1 hour | ||||||
Mapper | Missing Maps | Learn how to trace satellite imagery onto OpenStreetMap to map areas where humanitarian organizations are trying to meet the needs of vulnerable people | Digital Volunteering | Easy | 15 minutes | ||||||
E-mediator/Grannie | School in the Cloud | Their role is not just to inspire curiosity, but also to help in developing language fluency and search skills that will allow children to begin answering Big Questions | Tele-volunteering | Difficult | 1 hour | ||||||
Professional | Catchafire | Contribute your professional skills to a mission-driven organization and/or project that fits your values and expertise | Tele-volunteering | Easy | Many Hours | ||||||
Online Correspondant | Red Cross | Monitor online conversations to locate areas that need Red Cross help, share important disaster updates, lend a compassionate voice to those affected | Digital Volunteering | Medium | Variable | ||||||
Online Coach | MindRight | Become a volunteer coach to at-risk youth experiencing trauma | Tele-volunteering | Difficult | 1 hour | ||||||
Professional | Nepris | Offer your perspective as a professional over video call in a classroom environment | Tele-volunteering | Easy | 1 hour | ||||||
Ambassador | Objective Zero | Provide mental health support in an effort to decrease the suicide rate among veterans | Digital Volunteering | Medium | 1 hour | ||||||
Mentor | iMentor | iMentor matches every student in our high schools with a committed college-educated mentor, equipped to guide that young person on their journey to college graduation | Digital Volunteering | Medium | 1 hour | ||||||
Peer Counselor | Empower Work | Live chat with people in tough work moments and help them find a next step. | Digital Volunteering | Medium | Variable | ||||||
Contributor | Crowd4U | Crowd4U is a nonprofit open microvolunteering and crowdsourcing platform for academic and public purposes. | Digital Volunteering | Easy | 30 minutes | ||||||
Mentor | Micromentor | Mentor and support a global community of entrepreneurs by volunteering as a business mentor | Digital Volunteering | Medium | Variable | ||||||
Recording contributor | Librivox | Help record free public domain audiobooks for access to all, in all languages. Readers are free to choose the books they wish to record. | Digital Volunteering | Easy | Variable | ||||||
Mapper | OpenStreetMap | Map out places in the world that are not on the map to help humanitarian organizations do their life-saving work. | Research Support | Medium | |||||||
Mapper | AXS Map | Help map the acessiblity of locations for those who are disables | Digital Volunteering | Easy | |||||||
Amnesty Decoder | Amnesty International | Help research and expose human rights violations | Digital Volunteering | Easy | |||||||
Translator | Be My Eyes | Be a sighted volunteer for blind and low-vision people and make the world more accessible for them by helping them with tasks through live video call | Digital Volunteering | Easy | |||||||
Volunteer Researcher | Zooniverse | Assist professional researchers with research projects online | Digital Volunteering | Easy | 30 minutes |
Want to add a new volunteer activity to the directory? Send us the information for each of the columns in the directory above to hello@careervillage.org