Volunteer Opportunity Websites

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

  • Logo for United Way for Southeastern Michigan

    United Way for Southeastern Michigan

    A local/regional directory provided by United Way for Southeastern Michigan.

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  • Logo for Share Detroit

    Share Detroit

    A local/regional directory provided by Share Detroit.

  • Logo for Serve Detroit

    Serve Detroit

    Serve Detroit connects meaningful service opportunities with willing and dedicated volunteers. Through civic engagement, our mission is to build stronger neighborhoods and more active communities. From joining or starting a neighborhood block club, participating in a local park cleanup and/or volunteering with the youth, we know that by working together, we can achieve a greater impact and help build an even greater Detroit

  • Idealist City Hub - Detroit

    This website lists over 2,700 volunteer opportunities in Detroit, Michigan.

  • Visit Detroit

    Visiting Detroit? Here are a number of opportunities great for voluntourism.

  • Logo for Michigan Volunteers

    Michigan Volunteers

    A comprehensive guide to over 2000 organizations.  This platform also matches skills-based volunteers and potential board members to nonprofit organizations

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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.

  • Kiwanis Club of Detroit

    Welcome to Kiwanis Club of Detroit! We are an eclectic mix of ages, genders, occupations, backgrounds and interests. We are all passionate about making our community and the world a better place for children so they can thrive. We are devoted to serving the children in our local community and also children all across the country and worldwide through unique and innovative service projects and fundraising initiatives.

  • Greater Metro Detroit Lions Club

    Our mission is to empower  club members volunteers and partners to improve health and wellbeing, strengthen communities, and support those in need through humanitarian service and grants that impact lives globally, and encourage peace and international understanding.

  • Junior League of Detroit

    The Junior League of Detroit is an organization of women committed to advancing women’s leadership for meaningful community impact through volunteer action, collaboration, and training.

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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Prominent Organizations

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

  • Detroit Heals Detroit

    Guided by the leadership and experiences of those most impacted by systemic harm, we mobilize Detroit BIPOC youth aged 14 to 24 to lead in the dismantlement of oppressive structures through innovative youth-led strategies that address the impacts of intergenerational trauma, systemic oppression, and violence within their communities. With the goal of building collective healing and resilience, we deliver culturally rooted, trauma-informed engagement programs integrated with healing-centered restorative practices that equip young people with the skills, support, and empowerment needed to counter systemic, racial, and carceral harm while actively disrupting the systems that perpetuate it.

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  • Habitat for Humanity-Detroit

    Help build affordable housing solutions for families through volunteering with a Habitat for Humanity Detroit Program

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  • Metro Detroit Salvation Army

    Make a difference for the people in your community by volunteering for the Metro Detroit Salvation Army.

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  • Metro Detroit Youth Club

    The mission of the Club is to empower youth to reach their full potential through safe, accessible, and inclusive experiences that open doors to a bright future, enabling every Club member to graduate from high school with a plan for college or career, contribute to their community and live a healthy life.

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  • Michigan Humane-Detroit

    This organization will give you the opportunity to improve animals' lives in their Detroit center.

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