The Office of Student Life and Engagement endorses volunteerism as a leisure activity and social movement. Please consider volunteering for gaining positive personal experiences and creating community impact. Local partners are listed below by locality.
Volunteering has several benefits. A few things participants can expect to gain include:
- Work experience/ skills
- Increased social network
- Improved community wellness
- Sense of accomplishment
- Job resume/ university application content
- Involvement in fun learning opportunities
Greater Service Area
Girls on the Run Shenandoah Valley
Mission: We inspire girls to be joyful, healthy and confident using a fun, experience-based curriculum which creatively integrates running.
Frederick County/ Winchester
Selah Theatre
Mission: To encourage all people to embrace the arts as an adventure of daily living. We make arts education and experiences affordable, accessible, and available to every member of our community.
https://www.selahtheatreproject.org/about-selah
Winchester SPCA
Mission: Protecting animals and enriching the lives of their humans.
https://winchesterspca.org/volunteer/
The Laurel Center
Mission: Empowering those affected by domestic and sexual violence by providing emergency housing, advocacy, outreach, support services, education and awareness.
https://thelaurelcenter.org/volunteer-opportunities/
Blue Ridge Habitat for Humanity
Mission: Seeking to put God’s love into action, Habitat for Humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope.
https://blueridgehabitat.org/volunteer/
United Way of Northern Shenandoah Valley
Mission: To increase the organized capacity of people to care for one another.
https://www.unitedwaynsv.org/volunteer-0
Blue Ridge Hospice
Mission: Brightening life’s journey with quality and compassionate care for all whom we are privileged to serve.
https://humanesocietywarrencounty.com/adult-volunteers/
Esther Boyd Animal Shelter
Mission: To provide humane care for the dogs and cats at the shelter, reunite lost pets with their owners, place dogs and cats in new homes, and to educate the public on responsible pet ownership.
Piggins and Banks: Pig and Animal Sanctuary
Mission: To provide a loving, peaceful sanctuary for unwanted pigs and surrendered animals. We Meet our mission by offering a forever haven to pigs and animals, providing education about them to the public, and offering visitation/ volunteer experiences to individuals and small groups.
Clarke County
Serenity Farm
Mission: to provide a safe haven for farm animals where they live out their lives in a natural, chemical free environment; to be a place of peace and solace for visitors; and to provide green living education to promote the health of our planet.
State Arboretum of Virginia
Mission: to increase understanding of the natural environment through research and education.
https://blandy.virginia.edu/content/volunteer-us-2
Blue Ridge Center for Therapeutic Horsemanship
Mission: provides life-enhancing, equine assisted activities for individuals with disabling conditions, including those who are “at risk”, in the northern Shenandoah Valley of Virginia and contingent counties in WV.
Blue Ridge Wildlife Center
Mission: to care for native wildlife by integrating veterinary medicine, rehabilitation, education, and research.
https://www.blueridgewildlifectr.org/volunteer
Blue Ridge Hospice
Mission: Brightening life’s journey with quality and compassionate care for all whom we are privileged to serve.
Shenandoah County
Blue Ridge Habitat for Humanity
Mission: Seeking to put God’s love into action, Habitat for Humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope.
https://blueridgehabitat.org/volunteer/
United Way of Northern Shenandoah Valley
Mission: To increase the organized capacity of people to care for one another.
https://www.unitedwaynsv.org/volunteer-0
Blue Ridge Hospice
Mission: Brightening life’s journey with quality and compassionate care for all whom we are privileged to serve.
https://brhospice.org/how-to-help/volunteer/
Lydia’s Clothes Closet
Mission: To provide goods to those in need and partner with other community organizations to meet the needs of individuals.
https://www.lydiasclothescloset.com/blank-page-1
Response
Mission: Preventing and helping people overcome the problems of sexual and domestic violence and other forms of abuse through outreach, advocacy, education and supportive services.
https://www.responseva.org/volunteer-your-time
Shenandoah County Animal Shelter
https://shenandoahcountyva.us/animal-shelter/volunteer/
Friends of Seven Bends State Park
Mission: to support and advocate for the educational and recreational use of the park for all.
Warren County
Phoenix Project
Mission: Ensuring freedom from all forms of domestic violence through empowerment, education, and community.
https://phoenix-project.org/volunteer/
C-CAP
Mission: is to provide “safety net” services for those in our community who need food, clothing, limited financial assistance and help with finding other social services in Warren County.
https://ourccap.org/volunteer/
Friends of Shenandoah River State Park
Mission: Assist the park in achieving its
goals of serving visitors and protecting
park resources.
Warren County Habitat for Humanity
Mission: Helping families build strength, stability
and self-reliance through shelter.
http://warrencountyhabitat.org/volunteer/
Warren County Humane Society
Mission: providing compassionate care to abandoned, abused, homeless and neglected animals in our community. We aim to educate pet owners on the importance of vaccinations and population control and to place adoptable pets in loving homes.
https://humanesocietywarrencounty.com/adult-volunteers/
Special Love, Inc.
Special Love, Inc. is a private, nonprofit who for 40 years has provided a strong, nurturing environment for children with cancer and their families through its free camps and get-away weekends run throughout the year, as well as emergency financial assistance, educational scholarships, and virtual programs. Children who benefit from Special Love’s programs range in age from 7-17, and young survivors from ages 18-25, from the Washington metropolitan area, and Mid-Atlantic area hospitals.
Week-long camps: Camp Fantastic welcomes more than 100 pediatric cancer patients each year, allowing them to “just be kids” and not a patient, and BRASS Camp offers a retreat for the siblings of patients, (as well as bereaved siblings), for desperately needed “me time.” Throughout the year, Special Love hosts a variety of weekend camps and day programs, which provide both respite and adventure experiences to patients, survivors, siblings, and parents.
Our VOICE (Virtual Online In-home Camp Experiences) expands our mission by reaching children across the country and the Atlantic Ocean, and the isolation of hospital rooms.
Additionally, Special Love offers emergency financial assistance for families in need of help by paying utility bills, mortgage and/or rent, car payments or repairs, and sadly, to assist in laying a child to rest. Educational Scholarships to young cancer survivors and siblings allow them to move past their cancer journey, and on with their hopes and dreams.
Page County
The Page Free Clinic
Mission: To provide quality medical services to those who do not have access to affordable healthcare.
https://pagefreeclinic.org/volunteers/
United Way of Northern Shenandoah Valley
Mission: To increase the organized capacity of people to care for one another.
https://www.unitedwaynsv.org/volunteer-0
Page One
Mission: To provide family assistance to those in our community who find themselves unemployed, sick or for some unforeseen situation, unable to feed their family or meet their financial needs.
https://www.vapageone.org/volunteer
Choices of Page County
Mission: To prevent intergenerational violence and provide trauma informed services to persons experiencing domestic and sexual violence.
https://choicesofpagecounty.org/
Page County Habitat for Humanity
Mission: To develop communities with people in need by building and renovating houses, so that there are decent houses in decent communities in which every person can experience God’s love and can live and grow into all that God intends.
https://pagecountyhabitat.webs.com/getinvolved.htm
Fauquier County
Fauquier Habitat for Humanity
Mission: Seeking to put God’s love into action, Fauquier Habitat for Humanity brings people together to build homes, community, and hope.
https://www.fauquierhabitat.org/how-to-help/volunteer.html
Fauquier SPCA
Mission: To inspire a deeper understanding and appreciation of nature, to study the ecology of our region, to restore habitat, and to conserve native biodiversity.
https://www.fauquierspca.com/how-to-help/volunteer/
Highland Food Pantry
Mission: Provide food and other assistance to those in need and engage our community in the fight to end hunger.
https://www.highlandpantrywinc.org/volunteer
Fauquier Community Food Bank and Thrift Store
https://www.fauquierfoodbank.org/copy-of-events
Path Foundation
Mission: The PATH Foundation strengthens the health and vitality of our community.
Rappahannock County
Path Foundation
Mission: The PATH Foundation strengthens the health and vitality of our community.
https://www.letsvolunteer.org/
Rappahannock Food Pantry
Mission: Assist Rappahannock residents who are in need of food or other related services.
https://www.rappahannockpantry.org/support-the-pantry/
Rappahannock Animal Welfare League
Mission: To rescue unwanted, abandoned or neglected dogs in Rappahannock County, to relieve suffering, and to help each animal become healthy and happily re-homed.
https://www.rawldogs.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/RAWL-2017-Volunteer-Insert-Color.pdf