Lead ~ Serve ~ Learn
Mason's Resource For:
Groups Opportunities
AIDS
Food and Friends
This organization provides a nutritious meal for homebound people with AIDS and
offers support and a friendly visit as well. Volunteers are needed to deliver
meals to peoples’ homes and to prepare and cook food.
Phone: (202) 488-8278
Website: www.foodandfriends.org
Whitman Walker Clinic
This organization is the primary, community-based provider of AIDS services
in the D.C. area. These services include on-site medical and dental assistance;
housing, including an interim care; financial and legal assistance; public
education programs; and food bank services, including maintenance with housing
facilities.
Phone: (202) 797-3500
Website: www.wwc.org/
Damien Ministries
Damien Ministries operates Damien House, a residence for homeless men and women
with AIDS who are released from the prison system. The ministry also coordinates
a food bank for people with HIV/AIDS, and pastoral care and spiritual counseling.
Volunteers can help with the food bank and provide home maintenance and repair.
Phone: (202) 526-3020
Website: http://www.damienministries.org/
Seniors
The Washington Home
This is a long-term care facility that provides rehabilitative services to
senior citizens with disabilities, chronic illnesses, and terminal illnesses.
Volunteers are needed to help out with recreational activities.
Phone: (202) 966-3720
Website: www.thewashingtonhome.org/
Washington Center for Aging Services
This eighty-bed unit aims to provide residents with the greatest independence
that their physical, emotional, and social capabilities will permit them.
Volunteers offer companionship and conversation to the residents of the center.
Phone: (202-541-6134)
Environment
Anacostia Watershed Society
This organization coordinates volunteers to help with stream clean-ups and
tree plantings along with tributaries and other areas of the Anacostia. Volunteers
are needed to help out with recreational activities.
Phone: (301) 699-6204
Website: www.anacostiaws.org
Fairfax ReLEAF
This is an all-volunteer run nonprofit organization which is dedicated to planting
trees, restoring habitat, and improving landscaping on public lands in Northern
Virginia. The organization also works to increase public awareness of the
benefit of trees to the environment. Volunteers will participate in projects
to improve the community’s appearance, restore habitats, lessen air
and water pollution, and mitigate soil erosion and siltation.
Phone: (703) 324-1409
Website: www.geocities.com/RainForest/5663
Potomac Appalachian Trail Club (PATC)
PATC maintains the Appalachian Trail from the southern end of the Shenandoah
National Park to Michaux Park in Pennsylvania. Volunteers maintain selected
trails in Rock Creek Park.
Phone: (703) 242-0315
Website: http://www.patc.net/index.htm
Housing
D.C. Habitat for Humanity
This organization works to make housing a matter of conscience. Habitat builds
and renovates homes in partnership with low-income families. The homes are
then sold to those families at no interest and no profit (the mortgage payments
are used to build more homes). Volunteers are needed to help build and renovate
the homes.
Phone: (202) 882-4600
Website: www.dchabitat.org
Manna
This is a non-profit redevelopment agency striving to increase the supply of
low-income housing in D.C., and make home ownership a possibility for low
and moderate-income families. Volunteers are needed to help renovate houses.
Phone: (202) 832-1845
Website: www.mannadc.org
Christian Communities Group Homes
The Homes provide low-income elderly persons with permanent, safe and affordable
housing and a variety of social services. The three group homes included
a home for the frail elderly, a home for the well elderly and an intergenerational
home that works to break down the barriers of age and promote respect between
young and old. Volunteers are needed to help with gardening, house repair
and maintenance.
Phone: (202) 832-1149
Website: www.esm.org/ccgh.htm
Iona Senior Services
Iona operates a social services information and resource center that helps
seniors in northwest DC maintain independent living and avoid unnecessary
institutionalization. Volunteers can help with landscaping and home repair.
Phone: (202) 966-1055
Website: www.iona.org/
Christmas in April
A volunteer home repair program established in 1987 through RPJ Housing. Christmas
in April repairs and rehabilitates houses of low-income homeowners, particularly
the elderly and the disabled. Volunteer projects are held the last Saturday
every April, rain or shine.
Phone: (202) 438-9083
Website: www.rebuildingtogether.org/
Homelessness and Hunger
Arlington Food Assistance Center
The Center provides supplemental groceries to Arlington County residents who
are unable to meet their basic needs and who fall short in providing enough
food for themselves. Volunteers bag groceries on Wednesday and Friday evenings
and distribute groceries on Thursday evenings and Saturday mornings.
Phone: (703) 845-8486
Website: www.afacinfo.org
Calvary Shelter for Women
This is a safe shelter for homeless women that offers breakfast, beds and shower
facilities, as well as a variety of social services. Volunteers are needed
to cook dinner at an off-site location and serve it at the shelter on Friday
and Saturday nights.
Phone: (202) 783-6651
Website: www.calvaryservices.org/
So Others Might Eat (SOME)
This organization works to provide services to homeless people, low-income
people, and elderly persons in D.C. SOME provides 1,000 daily meals to homeless
and hungry individuals in a clean and pleasant atmosphere. Volunteers can
socialize with clients, serve food, and help in the kitchen and with dining
room chores.
Phone: (202) 797-7562
Website: www.some.org/
Capital Area Community Food Bank
This organization operates a 48,000 square foot warehouse that collects and
organizes food donations (mostly canned and dried goods) from wholesalers,
retailers, restaurants, and the general public. The food bank then distributes
the food to over 500 local shelters, emergency bag programs, soup kitchens,
and other providers. Volunteers are needed to help distribute food.
Phone: (202) 526-5344
Website: http://www.capitalareafoodbank.org/site/PageServer
D.C. Central Kitchen
This organization collects food that would otherwise go to waste and distributes
it to shelters, soup kitchens, and many other agencies serving the hungry.
Volunteers are needed to help with kitchen work and food preparations.
Phone: (202) 234-0707
Website: http://ww2.dccentralkitchen.org/
Miriam’s Kitchen
Is a breakfast program that has been in operation since October 1983. The kitchen,
located at Western Presbyterian Church in Northwest Washington, feeds an
average of 200 people per day. The kitchen also provides clothing, legal
assistance, and personal counseling. Volunteers prepare, serve and clean
up.
Phone: (202) 452-8927
Website: www.miriamskitchen.org/
Dinner Program for Homeless Women
Based at First Congregational Church in downtown DC, the Dinner Program for
Homeless Women serves approximately 75 women and their children nightly.
Volunteers prepare, serve and clean up after dinner each Monday evening.
Phone: (202) 737-9311
From the Ground Up (FGU)
FGU is a community farm project sponsored by the Capital Area Community Food
Bank. The Chesapeake Bay Foundation provides access to fresh produce in low-income
communities in the metropolitan area. FGU organically farms on 15 acres in
Upper Marlborough, MD and several other sites in the Metropolitan Area.
Phone: (202) 526-5344 ext. 24
Website: http://www.independentsector.org/pathfinder/
innovations/environ/csa.html
George Mason University and the Center for Leadership & Community Engagement offers this Volunteer Opportunities List solely as a public service to the members of the university community. The University and the Center for Leadership & Community Engagement makes NO REPRESENTATIONS OR RECOMMENDATIONS REGARDING THE AGENCIES AND ORGANIZATIONS LISTED. Unless expressly noted, the organizations listed are fully independent of the university. Further, George Mason University and the Center for Leadership & Community Engagement ASSUME NO RESPONSIBILITY OR LIABILITY, for personal or property injuries resulting to the student, or for damages caused by the student, resulting from the student's participation in the activities of these organizations. The student should check with the agency to find out if it provides any insurance or liability coverage for its volunteers. 8/24/2006
