Service Opportunities

Animals

City Animal Control

• Volunteers must be 16 or over.
• Contact June Mason at 387.8924, ext. 239

Jacksonville Humane Society

Jacksonville Humane Society on Beach Boulevard needs volunteers to help customers in the thrift store and ring up purchases as a cashier.

• Contact Lynn Williams at 725.8766
• 8464 Beach Boulevard

Jacksonville Zoo

Some programs allow 16 year olds to volunteer and others have an age requirement of 18. Explorer program meets monthly. Volunteers help with special events.

• Contact Matthew Lemonds at 757.4463, ext. 176
• 8605 Zoo Parkway

K&C Pet Rescue

K & C Pet Rescue (must 18 years of age or older) needs help caring for animals at this no-kill pet center. Spend time with animals (walking and playing), help take pets to visit past owners living in homes for the elderly, and help with cleaning, paperwork, etc.

• Contact Kelly Updike at 781.0936

Safe Animal Shelter

Safe Animal Shelter needs help cleaning and doing jobs around the shelter on Sunday mornings only.

• Contact Patty at 276.7233
• Middleburg
  

The Arts

Jacksonville Symphony

Jacksonville Symphony needs volunteers to help with special events and at concerts.

• Contact Kimmie Gustafson, house manager, 804.1003

Murray Hill Theatre

Murray Hill Theatre is looking for volunteers to help with Christian concerts, concessions, etc. every Friday and Saturday.

• Contact Tom Rossmanith at 388.3179 
• Located on Edgewood Avenue 

Nathan H. Wilson Center

Nathan H. Wilson Center for the Arts needs students age 17 or older to help usher at shows or lead tours in the art gallery. Training is provided. The art gallery is open Monday evenings only. Call for information.

• Contact Beth Harvey at 646.2349
• FCCJ South Campus

Children

Dr. Lordes Palamino-Pitocchi

Dr. Lordes Palamino-Pitocchi needs volunteers to read to children while they sit in her waiting room. 

• Contact Dr. Lordes Palamino-Pitocchi '81 at 727-6540 (office) or 731-9367 (home)     

Childrens’ Crisis Center

• Contact Megan Meisner at 244.4670
• 655 W. 11th Street

Angelwood, Inc.

Angelwood, Inc. needs volunteers to help staff assist children and teens with recreational activity.

• Contact Alexis Wood at 288.7259
• Mandarin

Gateway Nursery and Kindergarten, Inc.

• Contact Ms. Gwen Scott at 358.1651
• 641 W. 4th Street
• Monday-Friday, 6:30 a.m.-6:00 p.m.

Daniel

• Contact Stephanie Caine at 296.1055, ext. 1007

MaliVai Washington Kids Foundation

MaliVai Washington Kids Foundation provides tennis and educational programs for youth in grades two through five.  

• Contact Ashley Strickland at 301.3786, ext. 304
• 1093 W. 6th Street- Emmett Read Center (near Shands University Hospital)

Family Nurturing Center of Florida

Family Nurturing Center of Florida needs volunteers who might do a variety of things, including a fundraising project, coming to one of our centers and doing yard work and beautification projects, or holding a book drive.

• Contact Stella Johnson at 389.4244, ext. 204
• Five locations in the Jacksonville area

Girls Incorporated

• Contact Amy Defullers at 731.2880
• 1627 Rogero Rd.

Elderly

Urban Jacksonville, Inc.

Urban Jacksonville, Inc. (a community-service division of The Cathedral Foundation) needs volunteers to provide services to the elderly. Services offered include friendly visitor, meals on wheels, laundry, light housekeeping ,and errands. Volunteers will be trained and matched with an elderly person from their community. See Ms. Van Cleve-Miller for details, or:

• Contact Nikki Tubig at 807.1225

Cathedral Residences

• Contact Jean Selph at 798.5367

Environmental

Greenscape

Greenscape needs your help planting trees, etc.

• Contact Anna Dooley at 398.5757

St. Johns River Water Management District WAV (Watershed Action Volunteers)

Volunteers are needed to monitor water conditions, for river clean-ups, and stenciling storm drains. Training is available; this is a good project for groups.

• Contact Vicki Page at 730.6261

The Homeless

I.M. Sulzbacher Center for the Homeless

I.M. Sulzbacher Center for the Homeless needs volunteers to help with serving and preparing food, and to help with children.

• Call Sarah Dordee at 359.0457, ext. 228
• 611 E. Adams St.

Clara White Mission

• Call Merle Wright at 354.4162
• 613 W. Ashley St.

City Rescue Mission

• Contact Latonya Lockhart at 421.5157

MOSH

Museum of Science and History

Volunteers needed to help with all kinds of things at the Museum of Science and History.

• Contact Raymie Stradley, volunteer coordinator, at 396.7062, ext. 229.

Physically and Mentally Challenged

Camp I Am Special and Camp Promise

Camp I Am Special (ages 6-13) and CampPromise (ages 14+)need volunteers to be a buddy to challenged campers.

• Contact Tricia Key at 356.0810

Florida Easter Seal Society

• Contact Kathy at 246.6434
• Located in Atlantic Beach

Hope Haven Children's Clinic and Family Center

Hope Haven Children's Clinic and Family Center needs student volunteers.

• Contact Ann Wall at 346.5100
• 4600 Beach Blvd.

National Multiple Sclerosis Society

The North Florida chapter needs volunteers to help in the office. Call to find out how you can help.

• Contact Jessica Eichhorn at 332.6810
• More information is available online at http://www.volunteermatch.org/ or www.nationalmssociety.org/chapters/sln/index.aspx

New Heights of Northeast Florida

New Heights of Northeast Florida needs students to be buddies to adult patients, bake cookies, swing on swings, help with art projects, cooking, monthly outings to the park or the movies.

• Contact 396.1462
• 3311 Beach Blvd.
• 10:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m.

North Florida School of Special Education at Hope Haven

North Florida School of Special Education at Hope Haven needs students to help with tutoring. Students are also needed to be a buddy for a challenged person, and to help with summer camp.

• Contact Colleen Miller, principal, at 724.8323
• 4600 Beach Blvd.  

The Sick 

Children

The Ronald McDonald House needs your help.

Volunteers are needed to help with projects, answer phones, do light housekeeping and office work, read stories, bake cookies and visit children in the hospital. This is a real opportunity to make a difference.

• Call Donna Aringdale, at 798.2950
• 1440 Jefferson St. North

Adults

St. Vincent's Medical Center Teenage Volunteers

(TAV) program needs you to help with office work, transporting patients to different places within the center, and helping in the gift shop delivering flowers to patients.

• Contact Auxilliary Volunteer Services at 308.8305

Baptist Hospital Volunteer Program

• Contact Jeanie Dillan at 202.4900

Tutoring

Community Connections

Community Connections (formerly YWCA Davis Center) needs volunteers to interact with children, doing art projects, tutoring, and helping with special projects.

• Contact LaTwanda Smith at 354-.681, ext. 383
• 325 E. Duval Street
• Mon. - Fri. 3:30 - 5:30 p.m.

Community Connections (formerly Beach Boulevard YWCA)

• Contact Donna O’Steen at 727.6460

YMCA of Ponte Vedra/Palm Valley

• Contact Scott Barnhill, membership director, at 543.9622

The Sanctuary of Northeast Florida

The Sanctuary of Northeast Florida needs you for tutoring, mentoring, and playing with students from ages six to about 12 years of age. 

• Contacts Vicky Watkins or Helene Kamp-Stewart at 356.3588
• 120 E. 8th Street (downtown Springfield)
• Monday-Thursday, 3:30 - 5:00 p.m. during school year

The Bridge of Northeast Florida, Inc.

The Bridge of Northeast Florida, Inc. needs tutors for working with children, teaching and supervising games, reading stories, and helping with homework (provide paper and pencils).

• Contact Judith Brown at 354.7799, ext. 137
• 320 W. 8th Street
• 7 days a week, call to ask when they need volunteers

Project Upward & Beyond

• Contact: Ms. Van Cleve-Miller
• 3856 Grant Road (Pine Forest Community Center)
• Monday through Thursday, 3:30 - 5:00 p.m. (elementary); 4:30 - 6:00 p.m. (middle school)

Light House Learning Center

Work with preschoolers in classroom situations.

• Contact Cathy Grant at 264.7392
• 550 Kingsley Ave., Orange Park