Volunteering is a great way to help animals. Community shelters often need volunteers to help them with everything from animal handling to stuffing envelopes.

Alley Pond Environmental Center is a private, non-profit corporation dedicated to establishing awareness, understanding and appreciation of the environment and the responsibilities associated with preserving the environment in an urban setting.

AJWS provides unique opportunities to learn, work, serve and travel in Africa, Asia and the Americas. By partnering with grassroots community-based organizations, volunteers experience firsthand the power of local people effecting change.

AJWS volunteer service programs focus on building collaborative relationships between Jewish volunteers and NGOs in developing countries, either through individual or group service experiences. All AJWS service programs draw on Judaism’s religious and cultural traditions to provide guidance regarding the responsibility to pursue global justice. By integrating service with text study and dialogue about the Jewish values that inform this work, participants return committed and passionate about their role as global citizens in creating a more just world.

The American Museum of Natural History utilizes more than one thousand volunteers. The volunteer program is administered by the Department of Volunteer Services.

More than 50% of the volunteers work directly with the public. They staff the information desks, teach school children, conduct tours of the Museum, and act as explainers in the fossil halls and in the earth and space exhibit area. The volunteers behind the scenes provide a wide range of essential services. They assist in the production of the Natural History magazine, provide special clerical and computer support services, work with the collections of the science departments, catalog and handle new and rare books in the library, and accept a myriad of other assignments in both the administrative and science departments of the Museum.

The American Red Cross has been a part of the Greater New York area for more than a century, providing a mix of programs and services designed to meet the needs of an ever-changing population in New York City, Orange, Putnam, Rockland and Sullivan counties. Dedicated Red Cross volunteers touch the lives of 370,000 local residents each year through disaster relief, health and safety education, services to the military and much, much more. At the American Red Cross in Greater New York... we feed, shelter, and clothe disaster victims; we house and relocate homeless families; we provide care to the elderly; we assist families of military service members; we transport people to and from health-related appointments; and we help ordinary people learn to save lives and prevent disasters with emergency first aid, CPR, and other valuable programs.