Volunteer in Detroit, MI

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Overview

There are multiple ways to find volunteer opportunities in Detroit, MI. Some well-established organizations may expect prospective volunteers to visit their websites directly, while others—especially smaller organizations—may rely on community or national volunteer recruitment platforms.

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Prominent Organizations · Service Clubs · Mutual Aid & Grassroots
Volunteering Websites

For the Detroit, MI area, here are websites that list volunteer opportunities and connect volunteers with local organizations.
Prominent Organizations

Often prominent organzations rely on their widespread recognition rather than posting on volunteer recruiting websites.

  • Detroit Heals Detroit
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  • Habitat for Humanity-Detroit
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  • Metro Detroit Salvation Army
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  • Michigan Humane-Detroit
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Service Clubs

Many communities have local service clubs that offer community engagement opportunities, such as Rotary Clubs.

  • Rotary Club of Detroit

    The Rotary Club of Detroit offers you the higher purpose you are looking for in the form of many volunteer opportunities to make a positive impact on your community.
Mutual Aid & Grassroots Networks

Many communities rely on grassroots and informal networks to meet urgent needs. There may be opportunities to get involved through mutual aid networks, food distribution efforts, neighborhood action teams, or other groups that aren’t often listed on volunteer platforms.

  • Detroiters Working For Enviornmental Justice

    This Detroit grassroots network offers you many volunteering opportunities to make your community healthier.

  • FORCE Detroit

    This grassroots network provides you with the volunteering opportunities to make your neighborhoods the safest they can be.

  • Hey Y'all Detroit

    A grassroots organization providing the resources & tools needed to stimulate & influence residents of the disenfranchised communities of Detroit.

  • Metro Detroit Mutual Aid

    The Metro Detroit Mutual Aid is a capacity-building organization geared toward training, aiding, and supporting mutual aid organizations across Detroit, the state of Michigan, and the larger region. This means we hope to create tables for our organizations to share resources, collaborate, and help build a larger strategic plan across the region. We started as a direct aid program and moved toward capacity-building in 2020. We hope to be able to train organizational staff and community, provide no-return or low-interest microgrants, and build a larger strategic plan and theory of change across like-minded organizations to make all of our partner organizations more effective and sustainable.

  • Eastside Mutual Aid

    Eastside Mutual Aid was started in 2020 to build solidarity amongst Eastside Detroit neighbors and residents. We want to liberate ourselves by building a self-sustaining community built on mutual aid and radical love. EMA operates food and clothing distributions, organizes actions and happenings to connect each other and build stronger ties.

  • SW Detroit Community care

    SW provides mutual aid to immigrants, along with creating lifelines of resources to people hardest hit by the COVID crisis in SW Detroit. Resources will go directly to families in hardship for rent, utilities or medical bills

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Last updated: 12/20/2025

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