Service as Action

No-contact service ideas 

Note that all service projects must be cleared ahead of time with your school's IB coordinator or service coordinator.

• Points of Light virtual service projects:  https://www.pointsoflight.org/virtual-volunteering-opportunities/

• Volunteer match:  https://www.volunteermatch.org/virtual-volunteering

• Zooniverse (science related projects):  https://www.zooniverse.org/

• Cause-related service projects:  https://www.dosomething.org/us/campaigns

• Smithsonian (transcribe historical documents, determine identity/location of historical pictures, etc.):  https://www.si.edu/volunteer/DigitalVolunteers

• International service opportunities (not all teen-oriented):  https://www.onlinevolunteering.org/en/opportunities

• Tag animals in images and videos:  https://instantwild.zsl.org/intro

• Transcribe scanned images of historical documents:  https://blogs.ancestry.com/worldarchivesproject/?page_id=1023

• Database of service opportunities (virtual and face to face). Searchable by location, opportunity type, etc.:  https://www.idealist.org/en/volunteer?actionType=VOLOP&q=&searchMode=true

• Make and send cards for kids who are in hospitals:  http://www.cardsforhospitalizedkids.com/ and https://www.worldpediatricproject.org/ways-to-help/send-message-of-hope-and-healing

• Decorate lunch bags, make cards, make blankets, etc.:  https://meals-on-wheels.com/volunteer/families/other-family-volunteer-opportunities/

• Write letters, make crafts, etc, for soldiers who are deployed:  https://www.operationgratitude.com/express-your-thanks-virtual/

• Apply to be a virtual tutor:  https://teensgive.org/virtual/ and https://www.learntobe.org/apply

• Virtual pen pals:  https://www.weareteachers.com/virtual-pen-pals/

• Transcribe documents:  https://www.archives.gov/citizen-archivist

• Observe and track birds:  https://ebird.org/home

• Online service opportunities shared by ImagineOn can be found here:  https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EE1qH9e9d2Q-Dt6eaI2ClG6GadxBFsUZ/view?ts=5f63b8b1

• Online volunteer suggestions from ShareCharlotte (can sort by age):  https://sharecharlotte.org/search/volunteer-opportunities

• More online volunteer suggestions from SignUpGenius:  https://www.signupgenius.com/home/places-to-volunteer-online.cfm?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=Article&fbclid=IwAR2LSwzDu6W3rdHivR-4JOSp2eO1Uw3_G2Mlth_klVeLpOKXF7OJWWHGbNc

• Letters of Love; find more information at https://lovefortheelderly.org/letters

• Creating homemade flash cards for elementary schools (check in with your favorite elementary school teacher or admin to see what they need).

• Transcribing handwritten documents for museums; find more information at https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/archives-to-browse-from-home

• Making fabric masks for health care workers; find more information at https://www.joann.com/make-to-give-response.

• Volunteer with the UN:  https://www.onlinevolunteering.org/en/opportunities

• Assist researchers with their projects: https://www.zooniverse.org/projects

• Help track bird populations: https://ebird.org/home

• Be the voice of an audio book: https://librivox.org/pages/volunteer-for-librivox/

• Contribute to the study of implicit bias being done at Harvard: https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/

• For those of you who are fluent in multiple languages: https://translatorswithoutborders.org/volunteer/

• More opportunities than I can describe: https://www.dosomething.org/us

• A second source that is collecting loads of opportunities: https://www.pointsoflight.org/virtual-volunteering-opportunities/

• Another "letters to the elderly": https://www.lettersagainstisolation.com/

• Be an advocate- contact a group that is near to your heart and find out what sort of advocacy (letter writing, phone calling, etc) that they need.

Have some other ideas to share?  Email them to ib@cms.k12.nc.us!