Needs From: South Serves

Time Commitment: as requested by the Administrator

The volunteers have to meet and maintain the performance standards of the Alabama Department of Human Resources. To volunteer please contact Phillip Johnson at (251) 470-1700 or pjohnson@nazaree.org

Time Commitment: about 5-10 hours

The volunteers have to meet and maintain the performance standards of the Alabama Department of Human Resources. To volunteer please contact Phillip Johnson at (251) 470-1700 or pjohnson@nazaree.org

At the end of life, comfort is one of Hospice's main goals. If you are great at crafts, sewing, knitting, or crocheting, you can help provide comfort to patients and families who need it greatly!   

Items like lap blankets, fidget blankets, cards, room decorations, scrap booking, and more are needed. Your imagination can run wild because these items can go straight to patients and families to let them know someone cares.   

At the end of life, comfort  is one of our top goals in our Hospice organization. If you enjoy creating art work, painting, sewing, knitting, crocheting, etc. you can help provide comfort to our patients and families! Any items like blankets (or fidget blankets), paintings, any art work or arts & crafts, cards, home/room decor, etc. are needed! Let your unique skills and imagination run wild as your work becomes comfort to our patients and families when they need it most.        

Hospice volunteers are some of the most special people in the world! They always have the biggest hearts!    

Administrative volunteers are great to be able to help the office staff with clerical tasks such as answering phones, mailings, helping to make marketing goodies, filing and organizing in the office, writing cards and letters to our patients and bereaved families.  We are looking for volunteers in the area for Mobile County. Administrative volunteers can make their own schedule and volunteer as often or as little as possible. This is an ongoing volunteer position, and we can use folks all year helping with tasks.    

The Road To Recovery Volunteer Driver provides people with transportation to and from their cancer-related medical appointments. Drivers donate their time to help people with cancer get the lifesaving treatments they need.

Volunteers choose the rides that work best for their schedule. Most rides are scheduled during the weekday between 7am and 7pm. The American Cancer Society asks volunteers to commit to a minimum of 2 rides per month.

As a Road to Recovery driver, you can serve your community and help local people, provide support and encouragement, have rewarding one to one interactions with cancer patients, build relationships and save lives. Road to Recovery offers flexible scheduling, you drive as much or as little as you want when you want.

Help Behind the Scenes – Volunteer Shelter Helper Needed!
Not every hero wears a cape — some carry laundry baskets and dish soap!
At Mobile County Animal Shelter, keeping things clean and organized is essential for the health and comfort of our animals. We’re looking for dependable volunteers to help keep our shelter running smoothly.

What’s a Shelter Helper?
Stop by anytime you have 2 hours to spare, just say you're here to be a shelter helper! Shelter Helpers are the backbone of our daily operations. By tackling tasks like laundry, dishes, and general tidying, you free up staff to focus on animal care — and you make the shelter a cleaner, more comfortable place for our furry friends.

What You’ll Do:

Wash and dry animal bedding, fold and organizing towels, and blankets

Wash and sanitize food/water bowls and toys

Sweep, mop, and tidy common areas as needed

Restock supplies and keep workspaces organized

Pitch in wherever a helping hand is needed

Qualifications:

Comfortable working around dogs and cats but not necessarily with them (if you don't want to)

Willing to get a little messy (laundry and dishes can be a splash zone!)

Able to lift light to moderate loads of laundry and supplies

Reliable, self-motivated, and able to work independently or with a team

Flexible with tasks — needs can change daily

Why It Matters:
Clean bedding, fresh bowls, and tidy spaces help our animals stay healthy, happy, and ready to meet their forever families. Every load of laundry or washed dish is a step toward adoption day!

Join Us Today!
Mobile County Animal Shelter

Monday thru Friday 8am to 4pm and Weekends 7am to 2pm
Helping hands make happy paws!

Be an Advocate for the Animals – Even Without Volunteering at the Shelter!

Even if you don’t have much time to spend at the shelter, you can still make a big difference in the lives of the animals here. Every small action adds up, and there are many ways to support our mission from wherever you are:

Help Spread the Word: Stop by the shelter to pick up flyers and materials to distribute in your neighborhood, workplace, or at local businesses. Just a few minutes of your time can help us reach new potential volunteers and fosters.

Share on Social Media: Follow us online and share our posts about adoptable animals, events, and volunteer opportunities. A simple share can connect a pet with their forever home!

Attend and Promote Events: Join us at community events or help promote them by inviting friends, sharing event info, or posting flyers in local hot spots. 

Be a Voice in the Community: Talk to friends, coworkers, or local groups about our Volunteer and Foster programs. Word of mouth is powerful!

No Orientation required, counts for volunteer hours!

Arkhaios Film Festival Volunteers Needed

Monday, Oct. 13 - Thursday, Oct. 16

Celebrate Alabama Archaeology Month at the Arkhaios Film Festival at the Archaeology Museum watching new, not yet released archaeology and cultural heritage documentaries.

Light snacks will be provided and you are encouraged to bring your own!

Needs: Student volunteers are needed to watch films and participate in the audience, help keep things tidy by picking up trash, refilling popcorn, and helping to extend hospitality to the Museum's guests and your fellow students.

FREE & Welcome to all!

National Schedule & Competition Winners: https://arkhaiosfilmfestival.org/

Volunteer sign-in sheets on site. 

Where:

USA Archaeology Museum

Alfred & Lucille Archaeology Building

6050 USA Drive South  

USA Archaeology Museum Archaeology Film Fest Schedule

Mon. Oct. 13

12:15 PM, Chauvet Cave: The World's First Artists

Tues. Oct. 14

12:30 PM The Stones Are Speaking

5 PM The Rise and Fall of the Incas

Wed. Oct. 15

3 PM The Rise & Fall of the Incas

Thurs. Oct. 16

3:45 PM Neanderthals vs Sapiens: Two of a Kind

5 PM Hunt for the Oldest DNA

Volunteers are needed to assist with school-age children in Dumas Wesley Community Center's After School Achievement Program. Volunteers will be responsible for, but not limited to: watching over the children, homework assistance, helping with daily activities, special events, and light organizing/cleaning. The program operates on the calendar year of the Mobile County Public School System. This volunteer need may also qualify for course credit or a student internship.

Volunteers can choose a day(s) Monday through Friday, from 3:30-5:30 p.m. Volunteers may commit to one day a week or several days a week. All volunteers have to complete a background check and attend orientation before volunteering. Volunteers are needed throughout the school year, except June and July

Learn more about the After School Achievement Program here.

*The Dumas Wesley Community Center’s no solicitation policy outlines our restrictions for distributing materials and soliciting funds, donations, and signatures in activities or groups, either held on our campus, or in connection with activities sponsored by Dumas Wesley and held elsewhere. This policy applies to all employees, external visitors, partners and volunteers or interns that may be on site during business hours.

At our after school program locations, students receive help with homework, reading and math intervention, a snack or meal, a Bible study, and enjoy games, music and other activities. After school volunteers help with homework, play with kids, and help us provide a loving, nurturing environment.

Camp Peace meets on MONDAYS ONLY at 658 DONALD ST., MOBILE 36617.

PLEASE CONTACT US AT 334-406-0221 BEFORE COMING SO WE WILL KNOW TO EXPECT YOU! PLEASE DO NOT COME WITHOUT SCHEDULING YOUR VISIT! THANK YOU!

At our after school program locations, students receive help with homework, reading and math intervention, a snack or meal, a Bible study, and enjoy games, music and other activities. After school volunteers help with homework, play with kids, and help us provide a loving, nurturing environment.

NO LOV AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAM ON MONDAYS, WEDNESDAYS OR FRIDAYS.

PLEASE CONTACT US AT 334-406-0221 BEFORE COMING SO WE WILL KNOW TO EXPECT YOU! PLEASE DO NOT COME WITHOUT SCHEDULING YOUR VISIT! THANK YOU!

5th Annual Halloween at the Museum

9 am - 3:30 pm (partial hours and teams welcome)

Sat., Oct 18

Volunteers are needed for the 5th annual Halloween at the Museum for a variety of activities including help with the pumpkin painting station, other activity/crafting stations, museum monitors, and to pass out candy on the Trick or Treat Trail. Costumes that are not scary or gory are welcome! 

Set Up is 9-10 am

Clean Up is 3-3:30 pm

Pizza for lunch will be provided available around 11:30 am.

At the end of life, comfort  is one of our top goals in our Hospice organization. If you enjoy creating art work, painting, sewing, knitting, crocheting, etc. you can help provide comfort to our patients and families! Join us as we come together and create arts and crafts projects together, share fellowship, and hand out these projects once complete to our patients and families. Any items like blankets (or fidget blankets), paintings, any art work or arts & crafts, cards, home/room decor, etc. can be made as we share time together and let our skills and imagination turn into beautiful gifts for our patients! Contact taylor.ready@springhillhomecare.com for more information!

Would you like to bring a smile to our patients and families on hospice and provide a lasting impact? Please consider joining our flower arranging group to make flower bouquets and hand them out to our patients and families when complete. Snacks / meal provided! Just a small gesture like this can really go a long way especially in times like this when they need it most. Lets be a light in this world together!

Help Tell Their Story – Volunteer Dog Bio Writer Needed! **Be sure to have done Orientation**
At Mobile County Animal Shelter, every dog has a story — and we need caring, creative volunteers to help tell it!

What’s a Dog Bio Writer?
As a Bio Writer, you’ll visit the shelter, meet our adoptable dogs, and get to know their personalities. From silly quirks to heartwarming habits, you’ll turn your observations into engaging bios that showcase each dog’s unique charm and help potential adopters fall in love and get to know them.

What You’ll Do:

Visit the shelter regularly to meet and interact with dogs in adoption

Learn about each dog’s personality, likes, and needs

Take or gather photos that match your bio

Write clear, engaging, and accurate bios for our website, Facebook, and Adoptables 

Update bios when needed (e.g., new skills learned, behavior changes, or milestones)

Qualifications:

Comfortable interacting with dogs of all sizes and energy levels **Will do Dog walker training**

Good writing and storytelling skills

Reliable and detail-oriented

Willing to commit to complete bios promptly

Able to work independently and follow guidelines for accuracy and tone

Why It Matters:
A well-written bio can be the difference between a dog being overlooked and a dog finding a forever family. Your words can open hearts and change lives.

Join Us Today!
Mobile County Animal Shelter

Because the right words can lead to the right home.

Participate in our pop tab program by collecting pull tabs from aluminum cans and donating to Ronald McDonald House. The program raises approximately $3 – $4 thousand dollars each year and goes toward the operating costs of Ronald McDonald House of Mobile. Large and small Houses are available to collect your pop tabs. Call 251-694-6873 for more details.

RMHC of Mobile relies upon donations of household items and supplies to provide the comforts of home to our families in our 38 guestroom Home and our two Family Rooms located inside USA Children’s & Women’s Hospital. Your donations help make their stay more comfortable so they can care for their hospitalized child.

Next time you are out shopping for items for your own home, we would be grateful if you picked up a few things for us, too. You can also host a donation drive for “The House That Love Built” and collect wish list items at your office, church, school or with a community group. Go to www.rmhcmobile.org for an updated list. 

You can receive 2 volunteer hours  for ever 20 items collected.  

Coming home from the hospital for a freshly prepared meal, made by people who care is a real gift to our families. 

This program is for groups with a maximum of 12 volunteers.  The time commitment is usually 3–4 hours. Please consider breaking large groups into several smaller groups.  Plan to cook for 45-50 people and prepare the meal in our RMHC House kitchen. Food prepared in commercial cooking establishments such as restaurants, catering services or cafeterias and then brought in or delivered is acceptable as well. Go to our website www.rmhcmobie.org to reserve a date yourself or contact Tamara to book a meal tamara@rmhcmobile.org or 251-694-6873.

Hunger is a real problem; you can work to end it by volunteering as a Food Sorting Volunteer with Feeding the Gulf Coast! 

Feeding the Gulf Coast seeks Food Sorting Volunteers to help inspect and sort food donations, preparing them for distribution to those in need. This includes checking expiration dates, making sure cans are not rusty or missing labels, and boxing similar items together to put on our shelves for our partner organizations to stock their pantries. This project requires you to engage in light to moderate physical activity. 

What: Food Sorting

Where: Feeding the Gulf Coast warehouse and office, 5248 Mobile South Street, Theodore, AL

When: Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, 8:30 AM-11:0 AM and Monday and Tuesday, 12:00-2:30 PM  (please check the website for availability) 

Requirements: Ages 14+ with an adult, closed-toed shoes

Note: We are taking precautionary measures to ensure your safety during this time. 

If you have further questions or wish to speak with a human, call Missy Busby at (251) 653-1617 ext. 127 or email at mbusby@feedingthegulfcoast.org.

The girls of Chi Omega helped serve for Make-A-Wish and on the courts! Collecting balls, refereeing the games and cheering on the teams! 

The girls of Chi Omega will be tabling in the student center. Fellow students can come and put on a star to support MAW

The past two weeks, Chi Omega has been participating in Sigma Chi's annual Derby Days. All five sororities participate in a dance competition where all profits will be donated towards USA Children's and Women's, John Wesley Holt Scholarship, and the Huntsman Cancer Institute. 

We are seeking young men who wish to mentor and help guide middle school students within the frame of our military-styled leadership program.

We manage a program that assists all 14 Mobile County Public Middle Schools with their Leadership Officers Training Corps. The costs of this program are carried by the Mobile County Public Schools System and TAPS Drill.

We provide student uniforms, instructors, trophies (for competitions), teacher's aids in robotics, physical fitness and drone flight and other equipment.

We also welcome cash donations which are tax deductible for the giver.

Friendly callers needed to check on our local communities homebound and shut-in seniors.  With Circle of Friends, volunteers provide companionship and social contact to local seniors through weekly phone calls.  A simple call can make the difference in the life of a lonely senior!  Orientation and training provided.  Great opportunity for service, small group and church group projects.  Excellent soft skill experience for anyone!   

Mobile Japanese Garden is a public place with 16 acres of natural gardens and trails, and we need your help beautifying the space during the week and on the weekend. Help us get the garden ready for pictures and school field trips.

Schedule anytime around your studies and work schedules. You pick your volunteer hours. Then contact us with particular dates and times that work with your schedule. Don is here almost every day to assist, and we'll work together as a team. 

For your volunteer service hours, we are a 501c3 charitable education, all-volunteer organization.

Thanks for Volunteering at the Japanese Garden!

Friendly Callers Needed!  

Through our Circle of Friends program, volunteers will provide companionship and social contact to older adults via weekly phone calls.  Our goal is to make sure that isolated seniors have someone to talk to so that no senior is alone!  These once per week calls are impactful to our area seniors and we need you!  This is a great small group or student service project.  This program is also a way of reinforcing your soft skills to prepare for any career or public service opportunity.  Call today to find out more about Circle of Friends!

At First Light Community of Mobile, we have six houses for our core members to live in. Because we put so much time into taking care of our core members and providing them the best life possible, we don't always have time to take care of the exterior of our houses. We are looking for volunteers to help with gardening and landscaping at our different properties to help maintain the integrity of our homes. 

You can help local children get FREE books to read in their homes!  

Goodwill Gulf Coast has hundreds of books at 7431 Airport Blvd, Mobile, AL 36617, (in the Community Center) and they need to be sorted for quality so children can take them home to read and enjoy!  You, your children, co-workers or community group can make a big difference in just 2 hours of time.  

NOTE:  Parents MUST accompany children under 16; this is a weekday opportunity (M-F, 9 am to 4 pm).  You can volunteer for a short amount of time (an hour) if you like.

Self Quarantine if sick, report exposure, positive test results

To schedule a time, call Dottie at 251-300-6170 or email dsellars@goodwillgc.org.

You can help adults with disabilities have creative FUN every weekday!  

Goodwill Gulf Coast has an Adult Day Program at 2440 Gordon Smith Drive, Mobile, AL 36617 (Ladd Learning Center), and participants love doing activities there that they enjoy!  You can help the fun keep rolling!  

NOTE:  Parents MUST accompany children under 16; this is a weekday opportunity (M-F, 9 am to 3 pm).  You can volunteer for just a couple of hours at a time if you like.

To schedule a time, call Lydia at 251-380-7150 or Lgaudet@goodwillgc.org.

7 AM TO 5:30 PM MONDAY-SAT and 10 am to 5:00 pm SUNDAY

Help us keep tons of materials out of the landfill!  The Mobile County Recycling Center at 7450 Hitt Road needs your help. Help us sort materials inside the building to ready them for baling.  Must be 18 or older to work inside (volunteer outside if you are under 18!). Two hours can make a BIG difference for our rivers, streams and a healthy environment--your youth will see the environmental impact, too!  Contact Lgaudet@goodwillgc.org to schedule a time to come help.  

Got a group (Scout troop, class, youth group)?  Schedule a tour--learning about the environment can be a first step to taking good care of it.

Report exposure, pending test results; do not volunteer if sick.

Help us keep tons of materials out of the landfill!  The Mobile County Recycling Center at 7450 Hitt Road needs your help!  Come help customers get their cans and bottles out of their cars, or sort paper and cardboard before baling.

Under 18 requires parent signature; under 16 requires a chaperone. 

Rather do an environmental tour with your group? recycling drive, landscaping or special projects like painting?  We need that help, too!  You can make our environment 3 MILLION pounds lighter!

Open 7 am to 5:30 pm, Mon-Sat, 10-5:00 Sundays.

It's a lot of work keeping 3 MILLION pounds of stuff out of our environment! Help us go GREEN by doing some recycling or campus cleanup! Great for families and youth, really ANYONE can help sort, spruce up, clean up, trim up, and more! Must be at least 11 years old, and youth under 16 should come with a chaperone. It's OUR WORLD, let's keep it GREEN!!! 

For updates check out www.facebook.com/MobileRecycles or contact Lydia at 251-380-7150 or lgaudet@goodwillgc.org. 

We are open Monday through Saturday, 7 am to 5:30 pm, and Sundays 10 am to 5 pm.  Youth groups please bring adult chaperones.