Volunteer

Interested in Volunteering for ProjectME? Head all the way to the bottom of the page for our form to inquire about volunteer opportunities with us. Otherwise, check out these amazing organizations to dedicate your time and heart to.

Under the Hood Talk

Under the Hood Talk serves to encourage conversations around male social norms. To highlight the best of men, they’re reaching out to communities around the world.

Year Up

Year Up's job training program is tuition free, and offers access to today's best companies and a proven path to career success.

Foundation To Be Named Later

Foundation To Be Named Later is dedicated to improving lives through education, leadership and the healthy development of youth and families.

Teach For America

Teach For America is a nonprofit organization whose stated mission is to "enlist, develop, and mobilize as many as possible of our nation's most promising future leaders to grow and strengthen the movement for educational equity and excellence.

The Transformational Prison Project

To provide spaces where those who have been harmed and those who have done the harming can come together and engage in dialogue—to build understanding and empathy toward those who have been victims of violent crime. TPP is committed to understanding individual harms and the systemic harms that affect communities, more specifically communities of color.

City Year

At City Year, they believe that all students can succeed and that developing the skills and mindsets of children and young adults contributes to strong, vibrant communities—outcomes that benefit all of us.

City Year AmeriCorps members serve in schools all day, every day, preparing students with the social, emotional and academic skills and mindsets to succeed in school and in life.

Community Cooks

For more than three decades, Community Cooks has invested in building trusting partnerships that connect caring volunteers, the human services sector, businesses, civic groups, schools, and faith-based institutions to form a dynamic, growing community with a common goal: to feed our neighbors in need and increase their ability to thrive.

They identify human service agencies in need of food support for their clients, recruit and connect volunteers to meet those needs, and coordinate 150 cooking teams, each providing a monthly meal to an assigned local partner agency.

National Parks Service

The National Park Service preserves unimpaired the natural and cultural resources and values of the National Park System for the enjoyment, education, and inspiration of this and future generations. The Park Service cooperates with partners to extend the benefits of natural and cultural resource conservation and outdoor recreation throughout this country and the world.

African Heritage Food Co-op

The African Heritage Food Co-op vision is to create a world where inner city “neighborhoods” can become Communities. Where no one goes without healthy affordable food options. Most importantly a world in which they can create ownership and employment opportunities in and for their community.

Global Citizen Volunteer

Over 700 million people in our world currently live in extreme poverty. With collective action, we can change this.

The Steppingstone Foundation

Steppingstone envisions a more just and equitable world where all students can actualize the life-transforming benefits of a college degree. Steppingstone prepares students from historically marginalized communities to access, navigate, and graduate from college.

Project 351

Since their founding, 4,123 eighth-grade Ambassadors have embraced the responsibility to lead with kindness, compassion, humility, and gratitude. Recognized as unsung heroes and quiet leaders, they find their passion and purpose through service—creating transformative change that addresses the causes and consequences of poverty. And, by building a Commonwealth that is vibrant in diversity, abundant in generosity, and united by shared values.

Citizen Schools

For 25 years, Citizen Schools has been a pioneer in educational equity. Since opportunity, unlike talent, is not equally distributed, they have provided hands-on learning experiences that ignite curiosity, build confidence, and expand horizons. They engage students in hands-on learning with career mentors, sharing best practices from their direct service work with teachers and underserved communities to scale STEM mentorship and maker-centered learning.

The Base

The BASE combines exceptional athletic training and competition with education and career resources to empower student-athletes to achieve their full potential both on and off the field.

Boston Cares

Boston Cares mobilizes and trains individual and corporate volunteers who strengthen communities and improve the lives of people in need. We partner with schools and nonprofits with needs that can be filled by volunteer teams; then we recruit, train & lead reliable groups of volunteers who get the job done.

About Fresh

Fresh Truck operates retrofitted school buses as mobile markets bringing fresh food to neighborhoods across Boston. Fresh Truck’s Weekly Market stops at the same place, at the same time, every week, all year round.

In 2018, they expanded their efforts to address health disparities by developing Fresh Connect, a platform that makes it possible for health care providers to prescribe food as medicine.

Soccer Without Borders

The Soccer Without Borders mission is to use soccer as a vehicle for positive change, providing under-served youth with a toolkit to overcome obstacles to growth, inclusion, and personal success.

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One Tree Planted

One Tree Planted is a 501C3 non-profit with a focus on global reforestation.

As an environmental charity, they are dedicated to making it easier for individuals and businesses to give back to the environment, create a healthier climate, protect biodiversity, and help reforestation efforts around the world. All by planting trees!

Beacon Academy

Beacon Academy closes the opportunity gap for a cadre of Boston’s bright and determined students. Through education and social advocacy, they help their students create life-changing opportunities as they build lives of integrity, economic independence, and impact.

Tenacity

Tenacity programs meet a critical need for positive, enriching after-school, in-school and summer programs for Boston youth. Tennis and fitness activities are the magnets drawing interest from kids who might otherwise have few athletic outlets. These athletic activities are closely integrated with literacy, tutoring, and mentoring programs to help build academic motivation and achievement.

Share Our Strength

Share Our Strength's mission is to end hunger and poverty in the U.S. and abroad. Through their campaigns, like No Kid Hungry, which will end childhood hunger in the United States, and Cooking Matters, which helps low-income families learn to shop and cook healthier.

African Leadership Academy

African Leadership Academy seeks to transform Africa by developing a powerful network of young leaders who will work together to address Africa’s greatest challenges, achieve extraordinary social impact, and accelerate the continent’s growth trajectory.

The Food Project

The Food Project’s mission is to create a thoughtful and productive community of youth and adults from diverse backgrounds who work together to build a sustainable food system. Their community produces healthy food for residents of the city and suburbs, provides youth leadership opportunities, and inspires and supports others to create change in their own communities.

Artists For Humanity

Artists For Humanity (AFH) provides under-resourced teens the keys to self-sufficiency through paid employment in art and design.

AFH is built on the philosophy that engagement in the creative process is a powerful force for social change, and that creative entrepreneurship is a productive and life-changing opportunity for young people.

Bridging economic, racial, and social divisions, AFH enriches urban communities by introducing young people's creativity to the business community.​

Best Buddies

Best Buddies was formed to enrich the lives of youth and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) through their Friendship program, Jobs program, and Leadership Development program.