Volunteer with the Red Cross at Walter Reed Medical Center

Are you looking to volunteer in the medical field over the summer? High school students are welcome to volunteer with the Red Cross at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. 

To get started, call (301) 295-1538, and ask for the high school student volunteer application. The volunteer will take your name, email, and phone number and send you an application. 

You'll need to write an essay and get a letter of recommendation from a teacher or supervisor. 

Questions? Stop by the Programs Office!

Sign up to Volunteer with Easter Seals

Creating solutions and changing lives is what we do at Easter Seals. Join us and you, too, can make a difference and help people with disabilities achieve their goals. Volunteer your time to share your talents, whether performing office work, volunteering at events and camps, or another way you can help.

Need more convincing? In the words of Edgar "Daddy" Allen, founder of Easter Seals, "We have but one life. We get nothing out of that life except by putting something into it. To relieve suffering, to help the unfortunate, to do kind acts and deeds is, after all, the one sure way to secure happiness or to achieve real success. Your life and mine shall be valued not by what we take...but by what we give."

Sign up to volunteer here, or call 800-886-3771 or 301-931-8700.

Volunteer with Martha's Table

Beginning with humble roots in 1980, Martha’s Table was originally a place for children to receive free sandwiches and food after school.  We gradually grew to address the additional needs of the community by finding solutions to poverty in the short and long term.  We address emergency needs with food and clothing programs and break the long cycle of poverty with education and family support services.

As availability in our schedule allows, Martha's Table is able to accommodate those completing school or court mandated community service. Prior to your arrival, you must schedule an appointment with the Volunteer Program Assistant to receive approval to volunteer at Martha's Table, complete our Community Service Orientation, and discuss necessary paperwork and tracking of hours.

Contact our Volunteer Assistant at 202.328.6608 x 212 or volunteer@marthastable.org to schedule a COURT or SCHOOL Community Service appointment and Orientation.

Earn your hours at Capital Area Food Bank

The mission of the Capital Area Food Bank is to feed those who suffer from hunger in the Washington metro area by acquiring food and distributing it through its network of partner agencies; and educating, empowering and enlightening the community about the issues of hunger and nutrition. CAFB is a member of Feeding America, a national network of 200 food banks.

CAFB by the Numbers

The Capital Area Food Bank:

• Distributes 30 million pounds of food annually, half of which is fresh produce; 84,000 pounds of food daily and 500,000 pounds each week.
• Serves 478,100 people in the region struggling with hunger.
• Delivers 70 fresh produce drops each month to 40 sites in low-income neighborhoods.
• Spends 92 cents of each dollar raised for food distribution, transportation and programs.
• Provides nutrition and education training to more than 1,000 adults and children annually through CAFB programs.

To sign up, go to: https://capitalareafoodbank.volunteermatrix.com/

Get Crafty: Volunteer with SCRAP DC

If you're looking for an interesting way to volunteer, check out SCRAP DC, a local non-profit that runs a thrift craft store. Sign up to volunteer here: Volunteer Form. You can volunteer at one of their events, or get retail experience while you earn community service hours!

Find a Volunteer Opportunity for the MLK Day of Service!

DC has many volunteer opportunities over the Inaugural/MLK Day weekend (January 19th-21st)--Register for one today to make sure you can get your community service hours!

Here are a couple of links to register for community service opportunities:

• Unite America in Service Event at Stadium Armory, January 19th. 
• Volunteer for Inauguration Weekend on the National Mall. 
• Look up a service event in your neighborhood for MLK day. 

Community Service Opportunities Over Winter Break

If you're one of the many students looking for how to get some community service hours over the break, check out these six opportunities: 

*Remember to pick up your community service form BEFORE you leave for break! You can get a form from Ms. Hutchinson in the Main Office. 




1. Food and Friends is in Fort Totten and has holiday volunteer opportunities: http://www.foodandfriends.org/site/pp.asp?c=ckLSI8NNIdJ2G&b=7968713

2. Neighborhood Farm Initiative  is a farm right near the Ft. Totten metro station, and students can email Kristen Georger to see if they need any help over the break:

http://www.neighborhoodfarminitiative.org/volunteer/volunteer/

3. You can also email wangarigardens@gmail.com and ask Josh Singer or Sarah McLaughlin if they have any volunteer opportunities at Wangari Gardens, a community garden in NE DC, near the Washington Hospital Center. 

4. We Are Family DC has the following volunteer opportunities over Winter Break. To sign up, go to: www.wearefamilydc.org/calendar and click on the “Volunteer” button next to the date you want to volunteer.

Holiday Gift Wrapping Party

Tuesday, December 18 – 5pm-8pm

See Volunteer Spot sign up for location details

North Capitol Grocery Delivery

Saturday, December 22 – 10am-1pm

Meet at the Metro Community Church, 474 Ridge Street NW

2.5 blocks from the Convention Center metro, near 5th & M Sts NW

Holiday Gift Wrapping Party

Tuesday, December 23 – 3pm-6pm

See Volunteer Spot sign up for location details

Holiday Gift Delivery

Tuesday, December 25, 10 am – 1 pm

Meet at the Metro Community Church, 474 Ridge Street NW, 

2.5 blocks from the Convention Center metro, near 5th & M Sts NW

5. Books to Prisons: Information is Hope!

Location: Foundry Methodist Church

Address: 1500 16th ST NW, Washington, DC 20036

Date: Wed, January 2^nd  5:30 PM to 7:30 PM

Description: Come spend an evening reading letters from prisoners and answering their book requests, some of which are very interesting! We will select books according to these requests from prisoners around the country and package them for sending.

Other Info: Please bring any paper grocery bags that you have at home and don't need. They use them to pack the books and have a tough time getting enough. The books we most need right now are African American books (about or by), Westerns, Spanish learning books, Native Americans, dictionaries, GED, math, basic literacy, drawing, and science paperbacks - donations are welcome!

Since 1999, a concerned all-volunteer group of individuals has been responding to requests from prisoners around the country for books. They also develop and support local prison libraries. Unlike many programs, they do not limit requests to a particular geographic area or, for example, to women. Thus they receive a tremendous amount of requests from prisoners around the country and are truly swamped. In the past twelve months, they have sent out close to 4,000 packages containing over 10,000 books. These packages have gone to prisoners in 150 different prisons in all 50 states. The U.S. has one of the highest incarceration levels in the world (1 in 37 adults), but many prisoners have little access to books or educational material. Many face substantial barriers and are cut off from family and friends on the outside. While some prisons have libraries, many do not. Of those that do, access and selection can be extremely limited. Often, prisoners are not allowed to receive books from friends or family.

Transit: Located 2.5 blocks east of Dupont Circle. To get there via metro, one can either take the red line to Dupont Circle, leave via the south entrance, walk partially around the circle to P St. and go east 2.5 blocks. To get there via the blue/orange line, one can go to McPherson Square, leave via the White House exit, walk one block west on I St. Once you get to 16th St., wait for buses heading north (come about every 5 minutes or so, before 7:30). When the bus goes through the tunnel, pull the "stop requested" wire and get off at the next stop which is the intersection of P St and 16th St.

Please Note: Once you get to the church (door on 16th St.) ring the doorbell to be let in, then go downstairs to the basement. Turn left, go to end of hall, then turn right, and we are the last door on the right after the bathrooms (B2). There is not a parking lot, but it is generally not too difficult to find street parking if you look around a bit.

1500 16th ST NW, Washington, DC 20036

6. 2011 Holiday Gift Wrapping Fundraiser Arms Outstretched Ministry

GIFT WRAPPING SERVICE FUNDRAISER..VOLUNTEERS NEEDED!!

Event to be held at the following time, date, and location:

Dec 7 through 24

Mon-Sat: 12:00-9:00 p.m.

Sundays: 10:00 am-6;00 p.m.

Dec 24th: 8:00 am-6:00 p.m. To sign up, email:

armsoutstretchedministry@yahoo.com

Fashion Center At Pentagon City
100 South Haynes Street
Arlington, VA

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We hope you can make it!

All proceeds benefit our wounded warrior and Adopt a Soldier programs, along with other programs to the community through ARMS OUTSTRETCHED MINISTRY, INC. Learn more about our cause and programs at www.armsoutstretchedministry.com armsoutstretchedministry@yahoo.com