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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    Share Detroit

    A local/regional directory provided by Share Detroit.

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    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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Local Organizations

Below is a list of a few nonprofit organizations serving popular causes.

Volunteer to Help Animals & WildlifeSee all 30 organizations
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  • Bottle Babies Rescue

    To specialize in the care and rehabilitation of neonates and orphan animals.

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    Logo for Last Day Dog Rescue
  • Last Day Dog Rescue

    To reduce the number of homeless and euthanized pets by rescuing dogs and cats whose lives and/or well-being are at risk. We provide them with basic needs and care and place them with loving families.

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    Logo for ​Paws for Life Rescue
  • ​Paws for Life Rescue

    PFL rescues homeless, neglected, abused and abandoned dogs, cats, puppies and kittens from overflowing shelters in southeast Michigan.

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Volunteer to Help Arts & CultureSee all 97 organizations
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  • Birmingham Village Players

    To produce plays, to study drama, play direction, costuming and scenery design, to encourage the writing of plays and to promote interest in the drama, which shall include voluntary involvement within the community through outreach programs.

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    Logo for Downriver Actors Guild
  • Downriver Actors Guild

    To provide the communities we serve with a space to experience the performing arts, dance, music, and visual arts.

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    Logo for Northville Historical Society & Mill Race Village
  • Northville Historical Society & Mill Race Village

    To preserve and advance history through engaging programs and events, and the stewardship of Mill Race Village, its historic structures, grounds, artifacts and archive collection.

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Volunteer to Help Children & YouthSee all 253 organizations
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  • Free Bikes 4 Kidz Detroit

    Free Bikes 4 Kidz Detroit is a non-profit organization geared toward helping all kids ride into a happier, healthier childhood by providing bikes to those most in need.

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  • Hearts Of Humanity

    To provide a hand up not a hand out, in efforts to restore a sense of community based humanity and dignity in the areas/individuals that are often overlooked.

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    Logo for Maggie’s Wigs 4 Kids of Michigan
  • Maggie’s Wigs 4 Kids of Michigan

    Maggie’s Wigs 4 Kids of Michigan is a local, grassroots 501(c)3 nonprofit organization that provides wigs and support services to children ages 3 to 18 at no charge throughout the state of Michigan.

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Volunteer to Help Environment & ConservationSee all 51 organizations
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  • Belle Isle Conservancy

    The mission of the Belle Isle Conservancy is to protect, preserve, restore and enhance the natural environment, historic structures and unique character of Belle Isle as a public park for the enjoyment of all – now and forever.

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  • Grand 7 Detroit

    Be a catalyst for creating a vibrant, thriving community near the intersection of Grand River and Seven Mile in Detroit, Ml.

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    Logo for Taylor Conservatory & Botanical Gardens
  • Taylor Conservatory & Botanical Gardens

    To create beautiful public spaces, promote the arts and sciences and preserve our natural environment.

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Volunteer to Help Hunger & Food AccessSee all 79 organizations
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  • Forgotten Harvest

    We are dedicated to relieving hunger and preventing nutritious food waste.

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    Logo for Gleaners Community Food Bank
  • Gleaners Community Food Bank

    We exist to provide households with access to sufficient, nutritious food, and related resources.

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    Logo for Open Hands Food Pantry & Garden
  • Open Hands Food Pantry & Garden

    Open Hands is a community-based non-profit food pantry and garden that provides assistance to and elevates the dignity of our neighbors.

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