Free Remote and Virtual Volunteer Opportunities

Goal: Help a school, library, senior program, neighborhood group, Community Emergency Response Team, or community organization share accurate emergency preparedness information or collect requested preparedness supplies.

Choose one service route

• Digital route: Ask a community organization what preparedness information its audience needs. Create an approved one-page guide, translated resource, accessible checklist, or social graphic using official sources.
• Outreach route: Help an organization distribute its existing emergency preparedness materials online or in the community.
• Group route: Coordinate a small preparedness-supply drive using a list confirmed by the receiving organization.

How to participate

1. Identify and contact a real organization or community group before creating materials or collecting supplies.
2. Ask what it needs, who the intended audience is, and how the finished work will be used.
3. Use current information from National Preparedness Month resources, Ready.gov community involvement guidance, or the receiving organization's official materials.
4. Submit the work for approval before distributing it.
5. Save the organization's request or approval, the completed material, screenshots or photographs, and a record of active service time.

Goal: Support animal welfare, wildlife research, or an approved shelter need through a digital, at-home, or community-based project.

Choose one service route

• Wildlife research: Choose an active animal or wildlife project from Zooniverse's current project directory and complete classifications.
• Remote shelter support: Contact a shelter or rescue and offer to create an adoption profile, approved flyer, social media graphic, translation, or other digital item it confirms it needs.
• Community support: Coordinate a supply drive using the shelter's current wish list, or complete an approved on-site volunteer activity.

How to participate

1. Select an established research platform, shelter, rescue, or animal welfare organization.
2. Complete its training or receive approval for the specific task before beginning.
3. Complete meaningful active work and follow all privacy, safety, animal-handling, and content rules.
4. Save platform contribution records, screenshots, photographs, or written confirmation from the organization.
5. Record only active service time. Do not count time spent waiting for a task or purchasing donated items.

Goal: Help a food bank, pantry, meal program, or community organization respond to hunger through an approved volunteer task.

Choose one service route

• Remote route: Ask a food bank or pantry whether it needs help with a flyer, translation, resource list, donor thank-you messages, data entry, or another task that can be completed remotely.
• Drive route: Coordinate a food or essential-item drive using the receiving organization's current needs list.
• In-person route: Sort, pack, distribute, deliver, garden, or serve through an approved food bank or meal program.

How to participate

1. Use the Feeding America food bank finder or identify another established hunger-relief organization in your country or community.
2. Review its current opportunities or contact it to confirm what help is needed.
3. Complete an approved task. Do not assume that an organization can accept food, supplies, or independently created materials.
4. Save confirmation emails, shift records, photographs, completed digital work, delivery receipts, or other proof provided by the organization.
5. Record the date, active hours, organization, task, and result.

Goal: Create meaningful expressions of appreciation for deployed service members, veterans, first responders, and their families through an established volunteer program.

How to participate

1. Review the current Operation Gratitude volunteer-from-home opportunities.
2. Choose a currently accepted activity, such as letter writing, a listed handmade item, or another at-home project.
3. Follow the current content, material, packaging, mailing, and deadline instructions exactly.
4. Individuals may complete the project independently. Families, schools, businesses, pageant groups, and community organizations may coordinate a group project.
5. Save photographs of completed work, a record of active service time, and mailing or delivery confirmation.

International alternative: Volunteers outside the United States may complete a similar project for an established veterans, emergency services, peacekeeping, humanitarian, elder-care, or community organization in their country. Confirm the recipient's instructions before creating or mailing items.

Create cards, letters, or encouragement materials for a nonprofit, hospital, school, senior program, military-support organization, or other confirmed recipient. Related badges may include Kindness, Creative Service, and Service Explorer.

Support an established organization's approved public-awareness campaign using accurate sources and authorized materials. Related badges may include Awareness Advocate, Digital Volunteer, and Service Explorer.

Tutor, mentor, read, transcribe, or create an approved literacy resource through a school, library, youth program, or literacy organization. Related badges may include Education Advocate, Creative Service, and Digital Volunteer.

Complete an approved cleanup, conservation, citizen-science, or environmental education project. Related badges may include Earth Advocate, Local Impact, Digital Volunteer, and Project Planner.

Support an established mental health or wellness organization through an approved awareness, resource, outreach, or encouragement task. Related badges may include Mental Health Champion, Health Supporter, Awareness Advocate, and Digital Volunteer.

Help a nonprofit, school, public agency, or volunteer program recognize and retain its volunteers through approved thank-you letters, graphics, certificates, or an appreciation activity. Related badges may include Kindness, Creative Service, Local Impact, and Project Planner.