AmeriCorps
AmeriCorps programs do more than move communities forward; they serve their members by creating jobs and providing pathways to opportunity for young people entering the workforce. AmeriCorps places thousands of young adults into intensive service positions where they learn valuable work skills, earn money for education, and develop an appreciation for citizenship.

Big Brothers Big Sisters
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Harrisonburg and Rockingham County (BBBSHR) is a nonprofit agency serving at-risk youth in Virginia's beautiful Shenandoah Valley. Our mission is to make a positive, measurable difference in the lives of children by promoting self-esteem, expanding awareness of life's opportunities, and providing education, guidance, and support through professionally supported one-to-one mentoring relationships. We are seeking an Americorps*VISTA Volunteer to provide enrollment and match support for our Mentoring Children of Prisoners program, an initiative that pairs children of prisoners with caring adult mentors.

Boys Hope Girls Hope
Boys Hope Girls Hope is a privately funded, non-profit, non-denominational organization that quite literally "saves kids...one life at a time." The program provides at-risk, yet academically capable, children across the country with a stable home, positive parenting, high quality education, and support needed to reach their full potential.

Boy Scouts of America
The Boy Scouts of America is one of the nation's largest and most prominent values-based youth development organizations. The BSA provides a program for young people that builds character, trains them in the responsibilities of participating citizenship, and develops personal fitness.

Campus Compact
Campus Compact is a coalition of college and university presidents committed to helping students develop the values and skills of citizenship through participation in public and community service. It is the only national higher education organization whose primary purpose is to support campus-based public and community service.

Children's Defense Fund
Children's Defense Fund (CDF) is a national nonprofit organization that exists to provide a strong and effective voice for all children of America, who cannot vote, lobby, or speak for themselves.

Close-Up Foundation
The Close-up Foundation is a non-partisan citizenship organization providing weeklong civic education programs in Washington, D.C. 

Echoing Green
Echoing Green is a non-profit Foundation that offers full-time Fellowships to emerging social entrepreneurs. Our Foundation applies a venture capital approach to philanthropy by providing seed money and technical support to individuals creating innovative public service projects that seek to catalyze positive social change.

Girl Scouts of America
What is Girl Scouts of America? We are the world's largest organization for girls — just for girls. We serve over 2.7 million of them around the globe through a program of five levels that span ages 5 to 17.

Habitat for Humanity
Habitat for Humanity's vision is a world where everyone has a decent place to live. Our mission is to put God's love into action by bringing people together to build homes, communities and hope. As a nonprofit, ecumenical Christian ministry that builds with people in need regardless of race or religion, we welcome volunteers and supporters from all backgrounds. We have more than 1,400 local affiliates in the United States and more than 70 national organizations around the world. Together, we have helped 6.8 million people improve their living conditions since our founding in 1976.

Literacy Lab
The Literacy Lab is a non-profit organization providing low-income children individualized reading instruction in order to improve their literacy, leading to greater success in school and increased opportunities in life.

Make-A-Wish
The Make-A-Wish Foundation® grants the wishes of children with life-threatening illnesses to enrich the human experience with hope, strength, and joy. We are the largest wish-granting organization in the world, with 81 chapters in the United States and its territories, and 22 international affiliates on five continents.

National 4-H Council
National 4-H Council's mission is to advance the 4-H youth development movement to build a world in which youth and adults learn, grow, and work together as catalysts for positive change. Council partners with 4-H at all levels—national, state and local.

National Coalition for the Homeless
The National Coalition for the Homeless is a national advocacy network of homeless persons, activists, service providers, and others committed to ending homelessness through public education, policy advocacy, grassroots organizing, and technical assistance.

National Crime Prevention Council
National Crime Prevention Council's (NCPC) Mission is to enable people to create safer and more caring communities by addressing the causes of crime and violence and reducing the opportunities for crime to occur.

National Research Council
The National Research Council Fellowship Program was organized by the National Academy of Sciences in 1916 to associate the broad community of science and technology with the Academy's purposes of further knowledge and advising the federal government. Functioning in accordance with general policies determined by the Academy, the National Research Council has become the principal operating agency of both the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering in providing services to the government, the public, and the scientific and engineering communities. The National Research Council is administered jointly by both Academies and the Institute of Medicine. Dr. Bruce M. Alberts is the chairman of the National Research Council.

National Society for Experiential Education
The National Society for Experiential Education (NSEE) is a membership association committed to all forms of experiential learning -- whether they happen in the classroom, workplace, or community. NSEE is a strong advocate of partnerships that contribute to more dynamic classrooms, a stronger workforce, and thriving communities. We offer our members ongoing professional development which includes an annual conference; cutting-edge publications and research on all forms of experiential learning; and access to their colleagues from around the world.

National Wildlife Federation
For more than sixty years, the National Wildlife Federation has been a leader in environmental education, reaching out to the communities where children and adults live, work and play. Explore NWF's educational pathways to understanding, appreciating and safeguarding the natural world

Peace Corps
As the preeminent international service organization of the United States, the Peace Corps sends Americans abroad to tackle the most pressing needs of people around the world. Peace Corps Volunteers work at the grassroots level toward sustainable change that lives on long after their service; at the same time becoming global citizens and serving their country. When they return home, Volunteers bring their knowledge and experiences and a global outlook that enriches the lives of those around them

Public Interest Research Group
Each state Public Interest Research Group is independent and locally based. The State PIRGs work together nationally to share ideas and resources and cooperate on regional and national issues.

Red Cross
Be a Red Cross volunteer! Helping others feels good, and helps you feel good about yourself. Your local Red Cross can work with you to provide rewarding experiences, opportunities to utilize your talents, or provide training to help you serve your community.

Salvation Army
The Salvation Army operates 7,546 centers in communities across the United States. These include food distribution, disaster relief, rehabilitation centers, anti-human trafficking efforts, and a wealth of children's programs. Our work is funded through kettle donations, corporate contributions, and the sale of goods donated to our Salvation Army Family Stores. Eighty-two cents of every dollar we spend supports our various missions across the country. We are a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) organization, and contributions are deductible for Federal Income Tax Purposes to the extent permitted under Section 170(b)(2) for corporations.

"Doing The Most Good." In these four words, our mission—to feed, to clothe, to comfort, to care. To rebuild broken homes and broken lives. By walking with the addicted, we can lead them to recovery. In fighting hunger and poverty, we can feed and nurture the spirit. And, in living and sharing the Christian Gospel by meeting tangible needs, we give the world a lasting display of the love behind our beliefs.

Teach for America
Teach for America national corps of outstanding and diverse recent college graduates of all academic majors who commit two years to teach in urban and rural public schools. Since 1990, we have focused the leadership and passion of some of our nation's most talented graduating seniors on expanding educational opportunity for our nation's most disadvantaged students. During their two-year commitments, corps members have a powerful impact on their students' lives and on the schools in which they teach. After their two years, Teach For America alumni bring their unique perspective and experience to every sector of professional life, where they remain lifelong advocates for making an excellent education available to all children. This is a paid position and corps members receive full health benefits. For more information contact An Mina, an.mina@teachforamerica.org.

ACCESS
ACCESS—Your Non-Profit Employment Clearing House

Action without Borders
Action Without Borders is a global network of individuals and organizations working to build a world where all people can live free and dignified lives in a healthy environment.

Environmental Career Opportunities
Environmental Career Opportunities—browse the latest green environmental jobs.

Feminist Majority Foundation
The Feminist Majority Foundation (FMF), which was founded in 1987, is a cutting edge organization dedicated to women's equality, reproductive health, and non-violence. In all spheres, FMF utilizes research and action to empower women economically, socially, and politically. Our organization believes that feminists - both women and men, girls and boys - are the majority, but this majority must be empowered.

Monster
If you're ready for a new challenging job, browse jobs on Monster and take a look at their popular job locations and job titles.

National Research Council
The National Research Council Fellowship Program was organized by the National Academy of Sciences in 1916 to associate the broad community of science and technology with the Academy's purposes of further knowledge and advising the federal government. Functioning in accordance with general policies determined by the Academy, the National Research Council has become the principal operating agency of both the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering in providing services to the government, the public, and the scientific and engineering communities. The National Research Council is administered jointly by both Academies and the Institute of Medicine. Dr. Bruce M. Alberts is the chairman of the National Research Council.

Opportunity Knocks
Welcome to Opportunity Knocks, the Internet's leading source of nonprofit jobs and career opportunities. To find your perfect job, do a quick keyword search or use our Advanced Search to see job listings by city, state, organization or position type. 

San Francisco Bay Area Progress Directory
The San Francisco Bay Area Progress Directory is an index to about 1200 organizations in the San Francisco Bay Area that are related to progressive activism and/or helping out disadvantaged people, plus links to related web sites elsewhere.

Volunteer Match
Volunteer Match—Find a Volunteer Opportunity in your area for whatever you like doing.

American Cancer Society
The American Cancer Society (ACS) is a nationwide, community- based voluntary health organization. Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, the ACS has state divisions and more than 3,400 local offices (including one in Harrisonburg, VA).

AmeriCorps
Americorps members train volunteers, tutor and mentor at-risk youth, build housing, clean up rivers and streams, help seniors live independently, provide emergency and long-term assistance to victims of natural disasters, and meet other community needs.

Big Brothers Big Sisters
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Harrisonburg and Rockingham County (BBBSHR) is a nonprofit agency serving at-risk youth in Virginia’s beautiful Shenandoah Valley. Our mission is to make a positive, measurable difference in the lives of children by promoting self-esteem, expanding awareness of life’s opportunities, and providing education, guidance, and support through professionally supported one-to-one mentoring relationships. We are seeking an Americorps*VISTA Volunteer to provide enrollment and match support for our Mentoring Children of Prisoners program, an initiative that pairs children of prisoners with caring adult mentors.

Brethren Volunteer Service
Brethren Volunteer Service is persons giving their time and skills to help a world in need. It is a way for people to work at issues greater than themselves, recognizing that their efforts may not immediately solve deep-rooted problems, but can be part of on-going work for justice, peace, and the integrity of creation.

Catholic Network of Volunteer Service
Catholic Network of Volunteer Service (CNVS), challenged by the message of the Gospel, promotes and assists member programs serving in the United States and throughout the world. We are a resource for people who are discerning a call to volunteer service, are in service, or have returned from service.

Christian Appalachian Project
Christian Appalachian Project (CAP) is a non-profit, interdenominational service organization that seeks to help in need in Appalachia by providing physical, spiritual and emotional support.

Cross Cultural Solutions
Cross-Cultural Solutions is a not-for-profit international volunteer organization that operates volunteer programs in Brazil, China, Costa Rica, Ghana, Guatemala, India, Peru, Russia, Tanzania, and Thailand. Our programs offer a unique opportunity for participants to work side-by-side with local people, on locally designed and driven projects. Our volunteer programs are designed to facilitate hands-on service and cultural exchange in the aim of fostering cultural understanding. As an international volunteer, you will participate in meaningful community development and gain a whole new perspective of the world.

Diocese of Orlando
In 1983 the Diocese of Orlando, Florida and San Juan de La Maguana, Dominican Republic entered into a convenient relationship of sisterhood. This relationship calls forth a giving and receiving on behalf of both dioceses, and provides for its people who come from different cultures, church experiences and economic realities the opportunity to discover the riches of each other's worth, dignity and God-given potential. It is within this context that the Diocese of Orlando sends long-term lay missioners to share in the lives of the people of our Sister Diocese of San Juan de La Managua.

Heifer Project International
Heifer Project International offers hungry families around the world a way to feed themselves and become self-reliant.

I.A.E.S.T.E.
I.A.E.S.T.E provides students at institutions of higher education with technical experience abroad relative to their studies in the broadest sense.

Jesuit Volunteers
Jesuit Volunteers serve the homeless, the unemployed, refugees, people with AIDS, the elderly, street youth, abused women and children, the mentally ill and the developmentally disabled. JVC has become the largest Catholic lay volunteer program in the country.

Lutheran Volunteer Corps
Lutheran Volunteer Corps: Since 1979, more than 1,200 men and women have joined the Lutheran Volunteer Corps to work for justice, live in intentional community, and simplify their lifestyle, while exploring their spirituality. Grassroots, community-based agencies across the country count on Lutheran Volunteers to provide essential services in the areas of education, public safety, human needs, and the environment. Many programs offer the opportunity for hands-on direct service while others involve coordination, development and management of projects.

Mennonite Central Committee
Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) is a relief, service, and peace agency of the North American Mennonite and Brethren in Christ churches. MCC reflects the biblical call to care for the hungry and thirsty, the stranger, the sick and those in prison.

Mickey Leland—Bill Emerson Hunger Fellows Program
The Mickey Leland—Bill Emerson Hunger Fellows Program is a year-long fellowship that trains emerging leaders in the fight against hunger. The program provides twenty participants with a broad understanding of the problem of hunger, the skills necessary to contribute to a solution, and the personal experience that puts faces and names to these issues.

Peace Corps
Peace Corps was created to help the people of interested countries in meeting their need for trained men and women. To help promote a better understanding of Americans on the part of the peoples served. To help promote a better understanding of other peoples on the part of Americans.

Student Conservation Association
The Student Conservation Association (SCA) provides high school students, college students and others with meaningful conservation service internships and volunteer opportunities in our National Parks, Forests and other public lands. All SCA positions are expense-paid and tuition-free. Conservation internships range from three up to twelve months in over 50 disciplines.

Teach for America
The Teach for America national corps of outstanding and diverse recent college graduates of all academic majors who commit two years to teach in urban and rural public schools. Since 1990, we have focused the leadership and passion of some of our nation's most talented graduating seniors on expanding educational opportunity for our nation's most disadvantaged students. During their two-year commitments, corps members have a powerful impact on their students' lives and on the schools in which they teach. After their two years, Teach For America alumni bring their unique perspective and experience to every sector of professional life, where they remain lifelong advocates for making an excellent education available to all children. This is a paid position and corps members receive full health benefits. For more information contact An Mina, an.mina@teachforamerica.org

United Nations Volunteers
The United Nations Volunteers (UNV) program was created by the General Assembly of the United Nations in 1970 to serve as an operational partner in development cooperation at the request of UN member states. It is unique within the UN family and as an international volunteer undertaking. It reports to the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and works through UNDP's country offices around the world.

Vincentian Service Corps
The Vincentian Service Corps is for men and women who want to give one year of their lives to serve the poor, live in community with other Corps members, and experience a simple lifestyle.er and Community-Based Positions

AmeriCorps Literacy Lab
The Literacy Lab is a non-profit organization providing low-income children individualized reading instruction in order to improve their literacy, leading to greater success in school and increased opportunities in life.

American Cancer Society
The American Cancer Society (ACS) is a nationwide, community- based voluntary health organization. Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, the ACS has state divisions and more than 3,400 local offices (including one in Harrisonburg, VA).

Bread for the World
Celebrating more than 25 years of seeking justice for the world's hungry people, Bread for the World is a Christian voice for ending hunger in the new century.

Caring Institute
The Caring Institute is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization founded in 1985 to honor and promote the values of caring, integrity, and public service. Inspired by the example of Mother Teresa, the Institute believes that the solution to most problems is the caring of one human being for another. The Caring Institute celebrates those special individuals who, in transcending self, devote their lives in service to the disadvantaged, the poor, the disabled, and the dying. We honor those individuals who ennoble the human race with their long-standing commitments to caring.

Constitutional Rights Foundation
Constitutional Rights Foundation (CRF) is a non-profit, non-partisan, community-based organization dedicated to educating America's young people about the importance of civic participation in a democratic society.

KaBOOM!
KaBOOM! is a national nonprofit organization that fosters those networks and provides those spaces for kids to grow. We inspire individuals, organizations, and businesses to join together to build much-needed, safe and accessible playgrounds. Through this team effort, we help communities create a model of partnerships that achieve positive and sustainable changes in neighborhoods nationwide.

Make a Difference Day
The Make a Difference Day (Points of Life Foundation) is a nonpartisan nonprofit organization devoted to promoting volunteerism. The Foundation is based in Washington, DC, and works in communities throughout the United States through a network of over 500 Volunteer Centers. Its Board of Directors includes prominent and politically diverse national leaders from business, education, and the nonprofit communities. Former President George Bush serves as the Honorary Chairman of the Board.

Make-A-Wish
The Make-A-Wish Foundation® grants the wishes of children with life-threatening illnesses to enrich the human experience with hope, strength, and joy. We are the largest wish-granting organization in the world, with 81 chapters in the United States and its territories, and 22 international affiliates on five continents.

Nature Conservancy
The mission of The Nature Conservancy is to preserve the plants, animals and natural communities that represent the diversity of life on Earth by protecting the lands and waters they need to survive.

Northwest Direction—Federation of Community Organizations
Northwest Direction—Federation of Community Orgs (NWFCO) is a regional organization made up of 4 grassroots community-based orgs in the northwest. All 4 orgs work on a variety of legislative and non-legislative campaigns focusing on social and economic justice.

Red Cross
Be a Red Cross volunteer! Helping others feels good, and helps you feel good about yourself. Your local Red Cross can work with you to provide rewarding experiences, opportunities to utilize your talents, or provide training to help you serve your community.

Rotary Club International
Rotary Club International is an organization of business and professional leaders united worldwide, who provide humanitarian service, encourage high ethical standards in all vocations, and help build goodwill and peace in the world.

United Nations Volunteers
The United Nations Volunteers (UNV) program was created by the General Assembly of the United Nations in 1970 to serve as an operational partner in development cooperation at the request of UN member states. It is unique within the UN family and as an international volunteer undertaking. It reports to the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and works through UNDP's country offices around the world.

United Planet
United Planet mission is to unite the world and promote peace through enhancing cross-cultural understanding and friendship. We do this by providing volunteer programs called United Planet Quests. These are humanitarian and cross- cultural learning programs where participants can choose to focus on educational, environmental, construction, or healthcare projects for a period of 1-12 weeks (short-term projects) or 6 months to 1 year (long-term projects). Exciting volunteer quests are offered to over 50 countries. These quests provide a wonderful opportunity to learn and immerse in a foreign culture, while making a difference in important causes, such as education, healthcare, environmental conservation, housing, disabilities, and more.

Volunteer Match
Volunteer Match—Find a Volunteer Opportunity in your area for whatever you like doing