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Volunteer Opportunity Websites

For the San Antonio, TX area, here are websites that list volunteer opportunities and connect volunteers with local organizations.
Service Clubs

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

  • Rotary Club of San Antonio

    The Rotary Club of San Antonio a vibrant community of local leaders committed to supporting initiatives like student scholarships, projects benefitting local citizens, and international aid. Members engage in service projects and social events, fostering fellowship and community impact.

  • Alamo Kiwanis club

    Alamo Kiwanis club is a local branch of the global service organization, Kiwanis International, whose members are volunteers dedicated to improving their communities by supporting children and families.
Major Events

  • Basura Bash

    Basura Bash is an annual citywide event in which volunteers gather to help collect trash and clean the city's river! Volunteers can register as individuals or with groups!
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.

  • Mootual Aid

    Mootual Aid is a flat autonomous grassroots collective based on the principles of direct action, cooperation, solidarity, & harm reduction

  • Houseless Mutual Aid Program

    Houseless Mutual Aid Program is organized by the San Antonio Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) to help to build relationships of trust with unhoused individuals and help them organize and demand both humane treatment from the city and more affordable housing.
Local Organizations

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

  • 1HOPE for Kids

    1HOPE for Kids is the largest foster care agency in San Antonio and the support that our community provides to children in care and foster families goes above and beyond. Until every child has a home is not just our battle cry, but our vision for the future of foster children in our community. Three areas that make up the 1HOPE difference include: Our Volunteers, Our Partnerships, The Foster Closet.

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  • Animal Defense League

    Make a Difference — Become an ADL Volunteer Your time is one of the most powerful gifts you can give. By joining our incredible team of ADL volunteers, you’re helping us expand our reach, save more lives, and create brighter futures for the pets in our care. Volunteering at ADL is more than just lending a hand — it’s about building lasting connections with fellow volunteers, our community, and of course, the pets whose lives you help change. With your passion and commitment, we can continue finding loving forever homes for the amazing pets who need us most.

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  • Any Baby Can

    For over 40 years, ABC of Southwest Texas has been a cornerstone of hope in our community, designed by and for our neighbors to empower families of children with special healthcare needs. We understand that every family's journey is unique, which is why our community-led organization focuses on providing the knowledge, resources, and support parents need to navigate their child's healthcare journey with confidence. Our evidence-based programs serve families with children 17 years or younger across Bexar County and 16 surrounding counties, ensuring expert guidance is always within reach. We're proud to walk alongside parents, helping them build the skills and access the resources they need to advocate effectively for their children.

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  • Arms of Hope

    Arms of Hope is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit Christian care organization that assists children and single-mother families in need. Arms of Hope’s facilities include Medina Children’s Home (60 miles northwest of San Antonio) and Boles Children’s Home (40 miles northeast of Dallas) and the Refuge Campus (33 miles southeast of Austin). The facilities have over 175 years combined experience in comprehensive residential care programs for children. Arms of Hope also reaches disadvantaged children in their own neighborhoods in various communities with its Outreach Ministry programs. Through its Residential Child Care, Together, College and Career, Right Start, and Outreach Ministry programs, Arms of Hope is committed to providing a safe haven and Christian environment for children and single-mother families by helping them avoid homelessness, poverty, abuse and neglect and by leading them to lives of sustaining and productive citizenship. Our residents attend public school, nearby universities or trade schools and participate in school, church and campus activities. Arms of Hope does not receive federal or state grants. Instead, Arms of Hope relies on caring individuals, businesses, civic groups, churches and foundations for funding and volunteer support.

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  • Ascension DePaul Services

    Formed in 1958 as Daughters of Charity, Ascension DePaul Services of San Antonio has been dedicated to increasing the economic stability of the southside of San Antonio by providing basic needs to those who need them most. Ascension believes in serving the whole person wherever they are in their life journey. Through parenting classes, affordable, high-quality childcare, comprehensive healthcare, and a number of other life-changing services, we strive to encourage growth, provide opportunities, and break they cycle of generational poverty. We operate five neighborhood-based centers: DePaul Family Center, DePaul Children’s Center, DePaul-Wesley Children’s Center, La Mision Family Healthcare Clinic, and El Carmen Wellness Center. We are here to help you and your family overcome hardships and succeed.

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  • Bexar County Animal Care

    Bexar County Animal Care is the county’s only shelter to house animals for Bexar County Animal Control. Created in late 2013, the department helps constituents of the unincorporated areas of Bexar County with loose animals that cause a threat to health and human life. Our facility is located at 5510 Duffek Drive in Kirby, TX 78219. At that location, we house 60 kennels for stray, abandoned, and abused dogs of unincorporated Bexar County. If you suspect your animal has been picked up, please call the Intake at 210-209-5687. To report stray dogs, residents of unincorporated Bexar County should call our Animal Control Dispatch at 210-335-9000. Animal cruelty is handled by the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office. If you suspect animal cruelty, please contact the Sheriff’s Office at 210-335-6000; press option 1.

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  • Big Brothers Big Sister of South Texas

    Youth today are growing up without the support and guidance they need to be successful. Without access to positive role models, they too often fall prey to the dysfunctional cycles of poverty, delinquency, teen pregnancy, substance abuse, failure and incarceration that characterize their neighborhoods and schools. Boys of color, particularly Hispanic and African American boys, face overwhelming obstacles that limit their potential. Mentoring is an evidence-based approach to addressing positive youth outcomes. Youth in our mentoring programs experience a wide range of factors that limit their ability to achieve their full potential. These interrelated stressors have a cumulative effect of making youth more vulnerable to negative behaviors and delinquency. BBBS serves youth who are struggling academically, who lack self-esteem, who have been abused, who have family members in prison, who are living in single parent homes or with grandparents, and who are living in poverty. Having access to a caring, positive role model who inspires the potential of these youth has been proven effective

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  • Blackbox International

    +7 Based in Joplin, Missouri, Blackbox International is a faith-based non-profit that provides holistic aftercare to boys and young men rescued from sex trafficking. While their operational care facilities are located internationally (such as in the Dominican Republic and Haiti), the Joplin headquarters handles the global administration and volunteer/support coordination.Volunteer & Support OpportunitiesBecause the actual care centers are located overseas, volunteer opportunities in Joplin are generally focused on administrative support, event coordination, and global awareness rather than direct in-country care. You can get involved in the following ways:Administrative & Support Roles: Assisting the Joplin office with day-to-day operations, fundraising, and communication.Awareness & Advocacy: Raising local awareness about male victims of human trafficking.Event Participation: Joining or supporting local and virtual events (such as the Team Blackbox Run).How to Apply & ContactYou can learn more about their active outreach or inquire about joining their team directly through the Blackbox International Contact Page.Joplin Office Details:Headquarters: PO Box 188, Joplin, MO 64802Phone: 417-208-9380 (or 417-624-6915)Website: Blackbox International

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  • Boysville of San Antonio

    Our commitment to excellence stems from the true passion behind the work done at Boysville. The more we better ourselves, the more we can help children and their families. For that very reason, we continue to develop, evaluate and improve our performance. When we operate as the very best, we can give the children we care for the very best.

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  • Brighton Center San Antonio

    Brighton is the largest non-profit providing direct services to children with disabilities and developmental delays in San Antonio. For over 50 years, Brighton has been a cornerstone of early intervention services for children with disabilities in San Antonio. Through therapy, specialized skills training, early childhood education, parent workshops, and educational advocacy, Brighton offers the perfect combination of services at the right time to provide children with every opportunity they need to reach their full potential now and in the future. At Brighton, we seek individuals who share our vision and core values, and who are like-minded in their pursuit of helping children reach their full potential. We then provide our team members with the best work environment possible by providing our industry’s best benefits. Here are the benefits we currently offer our team members.If you are interested in learning more about volunteer opportunities, joining our Board of Directors, or have questions about making an unrestricted donation, please contact us at [email protected] or (210) 826-4492!

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  • CAMP (Children's Association for Maximum Potential)

    Children’s Association for Maximum Potential (CAMP) began in 1979 when a group of U.S. Air Force pediatricians along with other health professionals brought 32 children with special needs together for a weekend camp. These campers were not accepted to other camps due to the severity of their medical conditions or disabilities. Today, CAMP’s main purpose remains to help campers reach their maximum potential, and the organization has grown to serve well over 1,000 individuals with special needs every year. CAMP offers many volunteer opportunities throughout the school year and summer months. All program volunteer opportunities begin at age 14. In order to be eligible to volunteer for a CAMP program, you must meet basic qualifications. For more information about volunteer opportunities, email Sarah Coulombe at [email protected].

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  • Catholic Charities Archdiocese of San Antonio

    The mission of Catholic Charities is to provide for the needs of our community through selfless service under the sign of love. Our Values - Stewardship: Catholic Charities, Archdiocese of San Antonio, Inc. is faithful to the purpose for which resources are given to manage them in a manner which allows for maximum benefit to the community and the individuals we serve… Service: Catholic Charities, Archdiocese of San Antonio, Inc. focuses on the needs of individuals and families, emphasizing social justice, social teaching and community service. Excellence: The excellence of Catholic Charities, Archdiocese of San Antonio, Inc. is measured by the ability to make significant and lasting contributions to the Archdiocesan community with the goal of moving individuals we serve towards self-sufficiency. Advocacy: Catholic Charities, Archdiocese of San Antonio, Inc. is committed to being a voice for the most vulnerable in our community striving to provide appropriate and timely services to assist families and individuals when they need us most.

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  • Child Advocates San Antonio / CASA

    Speak up for childrean in Bexar County Foster Care

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  • Children Matter Family Life Center

    We are a nonprofit that exists to support children and families through the process of supervised visitation. We offer a homelike and safe visitation center for families to come together in a neutral setting. Our visitation experience includes toys and games for all ages, kitchen tables for family dinners, and one on one individualized parent coaching for accountability and growth (upon request). We are passionate about maintaining strong and healthy family bonds through the visitation process!

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  • Children's Bereavement Center of South Texas

    Children’s Bereavement Center of South Texas was founded as a 501 (c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to serving children affected by the loss of a loved one. Our story began with one free peer support group serving 19 families.Today we serve thousands of children, caregivers, and community members every year through ongoing support groups, individual and family counseling, and professional education and training programs. As the demand for our services has continued to grow we have responded by adding, adapting, and enhancing our programs to fully meet the needs of children and families living with grief. In a culture that does not talk about grief and bereavement and in a world that might not understand, we do. As the sole provider of grief support programs for children through young adulthood in South Texas, we wholeheartedly devote ourselves to addressing the bereavement needs of children from every culture and social circumstance to help them heal and move forward. We believe that each person’s journey through grief is unique and therefore deserving of a distinctive approach. Our goal is to help children and their caregivers understand the depth of their grief, stabilize and preserve family relationships, and develop healthy coping skills after the death of a loved one.

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  • Children's Hunger Fund

    Our mission is to deliver hope to suffering children by equipping local churches for gospel-centered mercy ministry. We partner with local churches to deliver food and share the hope of the gospel—turning compassion into action, one box at a time. We are guided by faithful leaders and gospel-centered beliefs that shape every partnership, program, and act of mercy. Since 1991, Children’s Hunger Fund has delivered food and the hope of the gospel—one box at a time—through trusted church partners around the world. We provide hands-on tools and experiences to strengthen churches, build partnerships, and deepen your understanding of poverty.

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  • Childsafe San Antonio

    Our mission is to restore dignity, hope, and trust to children traumatized by abuse and neglect. As a Children’s Advocacy Center, we are the only nonprofit in Bexar County that coordinates the efforts of child protection staff, law enforcement professionals, family advocates, medical experts, and mental health clinicians for children and adolescents traumatized by sexual abuse, severe physical abuse, neglect, or exploitation.

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  • Contractors Helping Kids

    Contractors Helping Kids is building better futures for our children by providing the opportunity for a better life. Our focus is on the individual needs of children, whether social, emotional, physical, financial, or educational development. We assist with educational needs, health and wellness, or smaller things needed for everyday life such as providing school lunches, school supplies, and new shoes or clothes — Contractors Helping Kids is building better futures for our children of Texas.

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  • Family Service

    A nonprofit organization dedicated to serving the residents of San Antonio and nearby areas through targeted programs that address the social determinants of health.

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  • Footbridge Foundation

    We are a nonprofit 501c3 based in San Antonio, Texas. Formed in 2017, our mission is to rescue and find loving homes for adoptable cats and dogs. To fund our charitable animal rescue efforts we rely solely on the much-needed donations of our generous supporters. We can't do it without you! We rehabilitate and then adopt our cats and dogs to amazing pet owners not only in San Antonio but throughout the country. We work with many local shelters, rescues, and individuals to save as many lives as we can.

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  • God's Dogs Rescue

    Serving all over South Texas, we rescue and foster abused, abandoned, and neglected dogs until they can find their “furever” homes, whether in Texas or another part of the country – even Canada! We have been “Rescuing God’s Lost Dogs” since 1995. We are a team of incredible individuals with a passion for animal… doing the work it takes to save so many dogs who had no other chance!

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  • Grayson's Rescue

    Grayson’s Rescue was born out of love, heartbreak, and a promise. Grayson was our first rescue, the one who changed everything. He showed us what patience, compassion, and second chances can do, and he became the reason we could no longer look away when animals needed help. Through Grayson, we learned that rescue isn’t just about saving an animal in the moment, it’s about committing to them for life. Living where we do, we see the reality of the stray and abandoned animal crisis up close. Animals are regularly dumped on our road.. scared, injured, hungry, and left behind. Each one tells the same story: they were once someone’s responsibility, and then suddenly they weren’t. Watching this happen again and again made it clear that doing we needed to do more. Grayson’s Rescue exists to give those animals what they were denied: safety, medical care, stability, and the chance to be truly loved. We are a small, foster-based rescue focused on dogs and cats in need. Every animal that comes into our care is treated as family, given the time they need to heal, and placed into a home where they are valued for life. Our mission is simple but deeply rooted: to take animals from stray to safe, to prevent cruelty through compassionate action, and to ensure that every life we touch has a future filled with care and dignity. We may be small, but our commitment is lifelong; to Grayson, to every animal we rescue, and to the belief that no animal deserves to be discarded or forgotten.

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  • Great Hearts Texas (San Antonio Locations)

    Great Hearts Texas is a network of state-chartered public schools providing an honors-level liberal arts curriculum in the tradition of the finest independent private schools. As such, we offer an outstanding opportunity for families seeking the very best in a college-preparatory institution. Together, the Great Hearts Academies are setting a new standard and purpose for public secondary education. Our schools believe in each student’s innate potential to comprehend the rich tradition of Western Civilization to which he/she is heir and to grow in the virtues that mark a profound, philosophical life summarized by the triad of our Latin motto: verum, pulchrum, bonum – truth, beauty, and goodness.

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  • Habitat for Humanity

    A nonprofit organization focused on providing affordable homes for those who have unmet housing needs.

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  • Haven for Hope

    Offers individual or group volunteer activities like sorting donations, washing mats, playing games with residents; open to many ages.

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  • House of Neighborly Service

    Our Mission is to provide opportunities that encourage, educate, and empower the families of our Westside community. We are a community where basic needs are met, where dreams and hopes are nurtured, and where neighborly support is a way of life. Our Core Values are: DIGNITY | ACCOMPANIMENT | RESPECT

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  • New Beginnings Children's Home

    New Beginnings Children’s Home (NBCH) is San Antonio’s newest General Residential Operation. Opened in 2010, our facility consists of two eight-bedroom dorms. Our mission is to provide a safe and therapeutic living environment for abused, neglected, and displaced children ages 5 to 17. The care we provide will promote emotional growth and recovery and prepare the children for family reunification. NBCH was created in response to San Antonio’s rising child abuse problem. Last year, the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services reported nearly 6,000 confirmed cases of child abuse and neglect in our community with a number of those cases resulting in death. Collectively, we can diminish the impact of this statistic by creating an atmosphere of love, hope and restoration so that each neglected child can face the unexpected with a new perspective and reverse a life of despair. New Beginnings Children's Home offers a therapeutic and confidential place for healing in it's serene environment. New Beginnings Children's Home is a non-profit agency providing valuable support and guidance through quality services to youth in Texas.

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  • Paws Ranch Rescue & Animal Sanctuary

    Paws Ranch Rescue and Animal sanctuary 501(c)(3) non-profit organization (PRRAS for short) that got its start in 2010 thanks to a publicly voted grant from Pepsi. We exist solely on grants, donations, and the help of our dedicated volunteers. Our goal is to rescue, rehabilitate, and re-home or provide sanctuary to as many pets as possible. Over a thousand abused, abandoned, and neglected animals have already been saved by PRRAS. We at PRRAS along with the Alamo Area partnership for animal welfare (AAPAW) and other local rescues are striving to make San Antonio a truly NO KILL city. You can help by getting involved. Adopt a less adoptable pet, foster a pet, sponsor a special needs animal, become a volunteer, donate funds, pet supplies, or food, educate friends and neighbors about the stray pet problem, spay and neutering, and encourage them to adopt instead of breeding or buying. Together we can reach our goal of a Real No Kill City!

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  • Petri's Place

    At Petri's Place, our mission is to provide rehabilitation and education programs dedicated to the support of helping native wildlife thrive. A community where native wildlife is respected, protected and valued as a necessary part of the ecosystem. We promote the security, safety and support of native wildlife and their return to the wild or long term care. We encourage public awareness and education of wildlife's important role in the ecological community.

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  • Project Prom Dress

    An organization dedicated to providing formal wear to teens in need at zero cost.

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  • Respite Care of San Antonio (RCSA)

    Children with disabilities are nearly four times more likely to experience abuse and neglect than their non-disabled peers (JAMA Network, 2024). Without proper care, they face greater dependency, diminished quality of life, and reduced life expectancy. Children with complex medical conditions often need daily treatments that prevent them from enrolling in traditional childcare programs. Without access to childcare, they fall behind developmentally, and parents (often single parents) may be forced to stay home, increasing the risk of financial distress. For nearly four decades, Respite Care of San Antonio (RCSA) has been here to change that.

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  • Ronald McDonald House San Antonio

    Ronald McDonald House Charities of San Antonio provides a safe and caring home away from home for the families of children receiving essential medical services in San Antonio, Texas. We believe that families are stronger when they are together, and this is never more important than when a child is sick or injured. When a family is focused on the health of their child, nothing else should matter—not where they can afford to stay, where they will get their next meal or where they will lay their head at night.

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  • SNIPSA - Spay-Neuter-Inject-Protect San Antonio

    SNIPSA is an organization formed by a group of veterinarians and caring individuals dedicated to helping homeless and unwanted animals in San Antonio and the surrounding area. SNIPSA does not have a standing shelter and depends on a core group of volunteers to foster and rehabilitate animals in their homes. This provides us with the opportunity to learn first hand about the animal’s needs and behavior in order to facilitate an appropriate adoption. SNIPSA was incorporated in 2006 and has re-homed more than 24,000 animals. The majority of the animals we help originate from kill shelters. In 2023, Animal Care Services impounded more than 30,000 animals, with roughly 4,800 facing euthanasia. They also picked up 21,969 carcasses on city streets. Every year, these numbers increase, further emphasizing the need for rescue and sterilization. SNIPSA makes weekly trips to area shelters to remove animals whose “time is up”. Many of these animals suffer from heartworm infection, fractures, mange, neglect, and have been used to breed year after year. SNIPSA provides necessary medical care to get the rescues back on their feet again. This can often be a lengthy process of rehabilitation. We are committed to going the extra mile to ensure an animal’s health. While we know we can’t adopt our way out of this problem, SNIPSA has set out to address the overpopulation problem in San Antonio too. By offering free spay/neuter services to underserved areas of this city, we’re able to target neighborhoods where we’ll have a definite impact. Several times a year, SNIPSA holds Big Fix clinics. These MASH style operations provide sterilization, vaccinations, and microchipping 520+ cats and dogs in a single day.

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  • SaMMinisties

    SAMMinistries is an interfaith ministry whose mission is to help the homeless and those at risk of becoming homeless attain self-sufficiency by offering, with dignity and compassion, shelter, housing, and services. SAMMinistries also provides volunteers opportunities to be renewed and fulfilled as they serve.

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  • San Antonio Feral Cat Coalition

    Our Mission To reduce the overpopulation of cats in the San Antonio area through public education, Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR), rescue, and empowering the community to care for outside cats. Our vision is to have a community where no kittens are born wild on the street, no cat capable of living in a home is lacking one, and no feral cats are wanting for food, water, and appropriate care and concern. San Antonio Feral Cat Coalition is a 501(c)(3) Nonprofit Corporation that depends entirely on donations to sustain its operations. We appreciate every donation, no matter the amount. Every penny donated is used in some capacity to help feral and stray cats. All donations are fully tax-deductible.

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  • San Antonio Food Bank

    Join us in the flight against hunger. Donate your time as an individual, group, or company.

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  • San Antonio Humane Society

    Volunteers can help with cleaning, dog-walking, socializing pets, adoption events, and youth service-programs.

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  • San Antonio Pets Alive!

    San Antonio Pets Alive! is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization. Due to alarming euthanasia rates, San Antonio Pets Alive! (SAPA!) was founded in 2011. SAPA! is unique—it is the only high-paced, high-volume rescue in San Antonio, saving 5,500 at-risk cats and dogs from euthanasia annually. Since its inception, SAPA! has saved more than 75,000+ dogs and cats. SAPA! provides safety nets for the dogs and cats that fall through the cracks of all other lifesaving options and end up on the euthanasia list at the city shelter, often with just hours to be saved. SAPA! promotes the availability of these dogs and cats to other rescues, adopters, and fosters.

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  • San Antonio Public Library

    The San Antonio Public Library system has volunteer opportunities for both teens and adults. The opportunities available to teens and adults differ, with it being recommended that adults apply to volunteer at their selected location.

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  • San Antonio River Authority (River Warrior Volunteer Program)

    This unique volunteer program aims to build a volunteer community that supports and strives toward healthy waterways benefitting the community, flora and fauna in the San Antonio River Watershed.

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  • San Antonio Threads

    We are a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization providing NEW and accessories for referred and at-risk teens in the San Antonio area. Teens who qualify choose complete outfits, new socks, underwear, bras, toiletries, shoes, and seasonal items, when available. Our Mission is to provide a safe and nurturing shopping experience for teenagers in need. Our target age group is 12-21 years of age; to include teens in foster care, teens that have aged out of foster care, homeless teens, or other teens in need of support. We project that we will serve over 5,000 referred teens this year providing them complete outfits and accessories FOR FREE.

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  • San Antonio Zoo

    San Antonio Zoo®, operated by San Antonio Zoological Society, is a non-profit organization committed to securing a future for wildlife. Through its passion and expertise in animal care, conservation, and education, the zoo’s mission is to inspire its community to love, engage with, act for and protect animals and the places they live. San Antonio Zoo is accredited by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums, the Zoological Association of America, and Humane Certified by American Humane.

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  • Shelter Paws Program

    Our Shelter Paws program lets you take a dog for the day - or even a few hours - in the hopes of making that dog more friendly and adoptable, and giving the dog a break from the shelter! Take a walk in the park, go for a hike or a run, watch a movie at home, or get a puppuccino!

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  • Shields for Kids

    Shields for kids is a 501(c)(3) local nonprofit made up of officers from the San Antonio Police Department, Bexar County Sheriff’s Office and surrounding law enforcement agencies. These officers, along with community volunteers, provide a wide variety of assistance to kids in need that they normally cannot give while “on duty”. Our organization allows these officers, in their “off duty” status, the ability to provide assistance to underprivileged children in the community in which they serve and protect. This includes hand delivering presents during the holidays, teddy bears for children at the children’s shelter, gifts for sick children staying at the Ronald McDonald House or hosting outdoor activities for children with disabilities, all without the worries of the dangers involved with being “on duty” or “on a call”.

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  • St. PJ's Children's Home

    St. PJ’s Children’s Home strives to transform each child from recovery to healing to hope. Our loving team of professionals welcome a child with open arms and an open heart, so that a child experiences and learns a happy, healthy, and loving relationship on their path to healing.The mission of St. PJ’s Children’s Home is to be a safe and loving refuge for children in crisis and to accompany them on their journey to healing and wholeness, breaking the cycle of abuse and neglect one child at a time.

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  • Stand Up for Kids

    StandUp for Kids is a national non-profit organization dedicated to ending the cycle of youth homelessness in local communities coast to coast. Since 1990, we have served unaccompanied homeless and at-risk youth – and young parents with children of their own – up to their 25th birthday. All of them have lived through trauma. Many have survived abuse. Often they’re just victims of immense neglect. When we first meet them, they are disconnected and uncertain about what steps to take next. Through our four core programs – Youth Outreach, Housing Support, School Mentoring, and Food Access – we help move them quickly from crisis to connection, giving them a sense of safety, hope, and belonging. We appreciate partners like Kia Motors of America, for recognizing us as leaders in the fight against youth homelessness. We are honored to be recipients of their fundraising efforts through #YardsAgainstHomelessness and #GiveItEverything campaigns.

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  • The Children's Shelter

    Children are a precious gift, and a wonderful challenge. We want to give each child and every parent the security, empathy, and skills they need to discover the joy of being a family. Healthy, happy kids grow from strong families. We provide training and support for parents/guardians learning to become their best selves, for their sake and for their children.

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  • They Have the Right to Live Rescue

    They Have the Right to Live Rescue was founded by President Geraldine Smart in 2012. Geraldine has spent her entire life with animals--they were always her best friends growing up and have been a constant in her life. Never without them, she has loved dogs, cats, horses, birds, hamsters...there isn't an animal she doesn't love out there and will gladly take in. With 4 dogs (currently) of her own, her love for dogs runs deep and her desire to protect them all meant that she needed to make a difference in this world and thus The Right To Live Rescue was born. ​Having seen the horrific situation with high-kill shelters in San Antonio, Geraldine made it her mission to bring awareness to the reality these dogs face and to rescue as many as possible from their certain death. When she first started TRTLR, by herself, she was still unable to pull dogs, and so was asking other people with the ability to pull, to go in and get the dogs, which she then arranged fosters for, all funded with her own money. Over time, while working so much with SAPA, they allowed her to be able to pull dogs herself. This was when things really took off. TRTLR became a registered 501c3 rescue, which gave her the ability to pull dogs from any shelter and adopt out dogs once they are healthy both mentally and physically. Geraldine was now working in collaboration with SAPA and TRTLR was truly up and running. Fast forward from those early days of working by herself to today: Working with a great team of people down in San Antonio, and with a huge network of fosters, rescues, vets and transports etc., Geraldine and TRTLR has saved close to 1,000 dogs' lives. This is a huge feat for a rescue that started with one woman's love of animals, on her computer, funding it herself to where we are today. Our name is spreading, the tireless work the team does is spreading, and both Geraldine's and TRTLR name proceeds them with connections across the US and in Canada. ​ ​Geraldine dreams and works towards a day where there are NO KILL SHELTERS, there are NO ANIMALS SUFFERING, and all animals know what it's like to be loved and be safe with soothing voices and gentle hands.

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  • Thru Project

    THRU Project was co-founded in 2011 by a foster mother, Elaine Hartle, and a local business owner, Steve O’Donnell, who had grown up in the foster care system. Both were intimately familiar with the challenges that exist for youth in foster care. The San Antonio community rallied around the plight of youth aging out of foster care and the shortage of social workers available to assist them. It became apparent that there was a critical need for a permanent organization to provide volunteers who could serve as a connection between former foster youth and the services provided by local nonprofit agencies that could help them achieve healthy, independent lives and successfully bridge the gap between foster care and adulthood.

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  • University Health Foundation (via University Health)

    Hospital-based volunteering: patient-floor support, NICU helpers, information desk, etc.

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  • Vertical Kids

    Our mission is to provide a safe, nurturing, and educationally stimulating environment that is dedicated to training up the next generation to live a life of purpose and integrity, rooted in the biblical principle found in Proverbs 22:6, “Start children off on the way they should go, and even when they are old, they will not turn from it.” Our goal is to help each child reach their full potential, both academically and spiritually, so that they will not depart from the values and morals we impart, now and in the years to come. This will be accomplished through a STREAM (Science, Technology, Reading, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics) emphasis, individual assessment, and by delivering a holistic and high-quality early learning experience that produces well-rounded, school-ready, young leaders equipped with the skills, knowledge, and confidence to succeed in their academic and personal pursuits regardless of their cultural or socioeconomic backgrounds.

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Last updated: 05/08/2026

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