Our 365 days of service initiative is a push to get people volunteering all year round. We have put together a list of organizations that we have volunteered with and absolutely loved. Hopefully one of them is the perfect fit for your ongoing service. Feel free to contact any of these organizations on your own and if you have an problems please let us know through our contact form.
The following volunteer opportunities are divided into sub categories according to service type. Please use the icons to guide you through different opportunity types.
Arts / Media
Serve the City Baltimore
Description
Serve the City Baltimore is the Service Plunge aspect of Serve Greater Baltimore. These service plunges generally occur one weekend in the spring and fall with a four day plunge in the summer. These large group service opportunities are great ways for people to get connected with other non-profits and ministries in Baltimore.
You can visit the serve the city website to find out more imformation.
Abbott Center for the Arts
Description
Abbott Center for the Arts is a non-profit organization intent on bringing the arts back into the Highlandtown community. We offer classes at low cost so that students of any age with a range of interests will not be hindered by money while they pursue what they love. We believe in offering excellent, age and interest appropriate instruction so that students can learn at their own pace while making progress toward their goals.
Abbott is looking for qualified music teachers of all musical variety who would be willing to teach classes.
www.abbottchurch.org/ministries/center-for-the-arts
Address: 3426 Bank Street Baltimore, MD 21224
Community Development
Faith Urban Works
Description
Faith Urban Works are the community development enterprises of Faith Christian Fellowship which seek to holistically address the economic, social, cultural and spiritual needs of the urban community. These ministries include Baltimore Christian School, presently a pre-K through 5th grade private Christian school targeting the under resourced community of Pen Lucy and surrounding neighborhoods and Pen Lucy Action Network (with Pen Lucy Youth Partnership and Community Development & Revitalizing Programs) which works to correct other economic, social and cultural injustices.
www.baltimorechristianschool.org
www.fcfchurch.org/plan
Sandtown Habitat for Humanity
Description
Sandtown Habitat is dedicated to rebuilding the vacant housing in Sandtown, increasing homeownership by providing affordable housing to low income families and seeking to improve the health of the community. Each house is worked on in partnership with homeowners, using mostly volunteer labor and private funding.
www.sandtownhabitat.org
Phone: 410-669-3309
Address: 1300 N. Fulton Avenue Baltimore, MD 21217
Construction / Painting
The Samaritan Women
Description
The Samaritan Women provides a Christ-centered environment for individual women who are ready to make positive changes in their lives. They offer a transitional residence, academic and vocational training, spiritual development, and communal support to women who are rebuilding their lives from hurtful choices of unfortunate circumstances.
The Samaritan Women Gardens is a ministry to the whole community, growing fresh produce to support local shelters, recovery houses and neighbors in need, and providing a garden oasis in the heart of the City. Our vision is to expand the Garden to engage individuals and families in learning about horticulture, ecology, and urban gardening, and to provide a healthy alternative for their own tables.
Contact: Jeanne L. Allert, Board Executive ( jallert@thesamaritanwomen.org )
Address: 526 S. Chapel Gate Lane, Baltimore, MD 21229
Sandtown Habitat for Humanity
Description
Sandtown Habitat is dedicated to rebuilding the vacant housing in Sandtown, increasing homeownership by providing affordable housing to low income families and seeking to improve the health of the community. Each house is worked on in partnership with homeowners, using mostly volunteer labor and private funding.
www.sandtownhabitat.org
Phone: 410-669-3309
Address: 1300 N. Fulton Avenue Baltimore, MD 21217
Environmental
The Samaritan Women
Description
The Samaritan Women provides a Christ-centered environment for individual women who are ready to make positive changes in their lives. They offer a transitional residence, academic and vocational training, spiritual development, and communal support to women who are rebuilding their lives from hurtful choices of unfortunate circumstances.
The Samaritan Women Gardens is a ministry to the whole community, growing fresh produce to support local shelters, recovery houses and neighbors in need, and providing a garden oasis in the heart of the City. Our vision is to expand the Garden to engage individuals and families in learning about horticulture, ecology, and urban gardening, and to provide a healthy alternative for their own tables.
Contact: Jeanne L. Allert, Board Executive ( jallert@thesamaritanwomen.org )
Address: 526 S. Chapel Gate Lane, Baltimore, MD 21229
Food / Shelter
Helping Up Mission
Description
Helping Up Mission has been dedicated to serving the poor and homeless of Baltimore since 1885 and is the largest residential recovery program in the Baltimore metro area. It is a non-denominational Christian organization offering permanent solutions to life’s problems, as it helps men to overcome homelessness, alcoholism, drug addiction and mental illness.
www.helpingupmission.org
Helping Up Mission does not accommodate volunteer walk-ins. You must contact them either by phone (for groups) or through their volunteer application on-line (for individuals).
For Group Volunteer Participation:
Phone Kris Sharrar at 410-675-7500 x130
For Individual Participation:
Phone: 410-675-7500
Grassroots Crisis Intervention
Description
Grassroots is a homeless shelter in Howard County. They have recently renovated and can house up to 51 men, women, and children and have a commercial kitchen. They are completely dependent on the community for food for these residents.
www.grassrootscrisis.org
Contact: Doug Carl
Phone: 410-531-6006
Address: 6700 Freetown Rd. Columbia, MD. 21044
Open Door Baltimore
Description
Open Door is a non-profit organization in East Baltimore that provides life skills and mentoring for young adults, food for hungry people, and dress-for-success clothes for job seekers. They believe that positive change is not only possible, it is inevitable and sustainable. Open Door Baltimore’s approach is stunningly basic and commonsensical: change the climate and future of an impoverished neighborhood by focusing attention on young adults with children over an extended period of time.
Ways to Volunteer
-Become a mentor, assisting in the office, organizing food or clothing drive, developing job leads for our clients, or using your unique skills and talents to help those less fortunate.
-Join hands with hundreds of other concerned citizens who have come to understand that just $10 a month can change a neighborhood.
-Use your influence to connect Open Door Baltimore with businesses, congregations, foundations, and other potential donors and volunteers.
Simply fill out Open Door’s volunteer contact form
Mentoring / Youth
Acts4Youth
Description
Acts 4 Youth was created to intervene on behalf of at-risk boys in Baltimore. Through partnerships with churches, businesses and schools, we can provide programs that are extensive and proactive that connect character to competence resulting in healthy masculine maturity, improved school performance, entreprenurial skills and employability.
Contact: Kevin Good
Phone: 443-527-9982
E-mail: Kevin@acts4youth.com
Faith Urban Works
Description
Faith Urban Works are the community development enterprises of Faith Christian Fellowship which seek to holistically address the economic, social, cultural and spiritual needs of the urban community. These ministries include Baltimore Christian School, presently a pre-K through 5th grade private Christian school targeting the under resourced community of Pen Lucy and surrounding neighborhoods and Pen Lucy Action Network (with Pen Lucy Youth Partnership and Community Development & Revitalizing Programs) which works to correct other economic, social and cultural injustices.
www.baltimorechristianschool.org
www.fcfchurch.org/plan
Open Door Baltimore
Description
Open Door is a non-profit organization in East Baltimore that provides life skills and mentoring for young adults, food for hungry people, and dress-for-success clothes for job seekers. They believe that positive change is not only possible, it is inevitable and sustainable. Open Door Baltimore’s approach is stunningly basic and commonsensical: change the climate and future of an impoverished neighborhood by focusing attention on young adults with children over an extended period of time.
Ways to Volunteer
-Become a mentor, assisting in the office, organizing food or clothing drive, developing job leads for our clients, or using your unique skills and talents to help those less fortunate.
-Join hands with hundreds of other concerned citizens who have come to understand that just $10 a month can change a neighborhood.
-Use your influence to connect Open Door Baltimore with businesses, congregations, foundations, and other potential donors and volunteers.
Simply fill out Open Door’s volunteer contact form