Randall Elementary Garden

Volunteer to help Randall elementary clean and maintain their community garden. Home to 20 fruit trees, a berry patch and hundreds of different plants! Volunteer days usually fall on Saturdays and Sundays. Use the link above to sign up!

Resource Area For Teachers

Help support RAFT by volunteering. RAFT uses donated materials and upcycles in a variety of resources that focuses on hands-on learning, STEAM principles and sustainability. Volunteers help us prepare a variety of resources for our RAFT Store and educational programs, including helping to prepare and package STEAM Project Kits. Tasks include anything from counting and bundling certain materials to cutting other items. In some cases volunteers will be using minor power tools. No prior experience is needed.

General volunteer guidelines:

• Individuals must be able to count to 100 (multiple times)

• Must be able to sit for a minimum of 2 hours

• Need to have dexterity with hands (for sorting, counting, separating, etc)

• Need to be able to follow instructions (written and verbal)

• Volunteers must be 12 years old and older to volunteer. 

• Volunteers under the age of 18 will need to sign a youth permission form (which is emailed once you sign up). 

• Volunteers who are 12-13 years old will need to be accompanied by an adult.

• For your safety, you will be required to wear closed toe shoes. 

• We also ask that if you are sick or not feeling well, please stay home.

• Volunteers who arrive over 15 minutes late to their shift will not be able to volunteer. 

• Volunteering all day? There will be a mandatory lunch break from 12pm-1pm that all day volunteers will take. No volunteer work can take place during that hour.

• Please note: groups are limited to signing up once per month.

City of Milpitas

• Photography Volunteers

  • • Take photos during events, activities, facilities, and parks - ALL photographers are welcome!

    • If you have any questions, please contact rgeneral@milpitas.gov

• Milpitas Community Theatre Set Shop Assistants

  • • Put your creative skills to use building sets and props for upcoming productions - our master set builder and master painter can help train you

    • Interest or background in theater, woodworking skills or painting is a plus

    • Must be age 18+ and six-month commitment is required

    • For more information contact Rebecca Huang at mhuang@milpitas.gov

• Public Art Selection Committee Members

  • • Volunteers ages 14+ who like art are invited to apply to serve on public art selection committees

    • Public art selection committees review artist portfolios and select a small number of artists to be invited to submit designs for specific projects, ranging from small utility boxes to large projects on public property. Then, when designs are received, the committee reconvenes to rank the submissions and make a recommendation on which design they would choose for the site. 

    • These are short-term volunteer projects, usually consisting of two evening meetings of 2-3 hours each. Apply online if interested!

• Volunteer Translators are still needed to help translate and proofread documents. We have an immediate need for volunteers who can read and write Vietnamese and Spanish. This can be done through email. Contact tmclane@ci.milpitas.ca.gov.

Ivy Park at Milpitas, Assisted Living

Ivy Park is a senior living facility, in need of volunteers to work with their memory care residents. The residents that students would be working with have been diagnosed with either dementia or Alzheimer’s and live at their facility full-time. Ivy Parks main focus for the volunteers would be one-on-one interaction through reading or playing board games. With the goal being to foster relationships with youth, as many of them don’t have young family members come to visit often. This is also a great opportunity for students who have special talents, such as playing an instrument, to perform for a friendly and welcoming audience. If students are interested in volunteering they can reach out to:

Audrey Rubio

Email: arubio@ivyliving.com

Phone: 669 322 7350 Extn: 0150

Or use one of the volunteer forms below:

Milpitas Food Pantry

• Email: volunteer@milpitasfoodpantry.org with desired date and time of when you'd like to volunteer.

Second Harvest of Silicon Valley

• Home delivery volunteers will be a part of a fun, physical, outdoor activity while making a difference in Santa Clara county

• Ages 14+ for food loaders and 18+ for home delivery drivers

• For more information visit shfb.org/homedelivery

Our City Forest

• Learn about the care stewardship of trees that thrive locally in our valley. 

• No experience necessary, just a willingness to work with others while enjoying the outside. Great opportunity to gain hands-on nursery and landscape experience while supporting a good cause! 

Vitas Healthcare Milpitas

• MHS students can become hospice volunteers

  • • help administrative staff with paperwork

    • assemble admission/orientation packets

    • prepare patient care supplies

    • other clerical tasks as needed

• Link to flyer

Sacred Heart

• Distribute food to families

  • • Tuesdays | 3:30pm - 6pm

    • Wednesdays & Thursdays | 11:30am - 2:30pm

• Volunteers

  • • NEW volunteers, please fill out an application: bit.ly/SHCSNewVolunteers

    • Returning volunteers, sign up for a shift here: bit.ly/SHCSwelcomeback

HOPE 4 the Unhoused (based in Milpitas)

• Pack Meals from Loaves & Fishes

  • • Meals are received on Mondays (12:30pm), Fridays (12:30pm), & Every Other Saturday (10:30am)

    • At a volunteer's home, we receive meals, PACK them (into bag with utensil packet, water bottle), then pack them into delivery bags.  

    • With at least 2 packers, it takes about 30-40mins to pack meals.

    • Student volunteers to pack on Saturday mornings during school year and Mon/Fri during Summer (or holidays).

• Drivers/meal delivery

  • • Monday/Friday 1:00pm - 3:00pm and Saturday 11:00am -1:30pm (Saturdays - students would not have to do full delivery time)

    • Students would be able to 'shadow'/ride along with Drivers if they wanted.  

• Sunday Showers 11am-2pm 

  • • City of Milpitas has paid for Dignity On Wheels (DoW) shower & laundry unit to come on Sundays, 11am-3pm

    • H4U are there every Sunday, 11am-2pm to provide hygiene bags, food, snacks, water, new underwear, new socks, clothes, blankets, shoes and a charging station.  Volunteers can stay as long as they can!

    • Location is on Winsor St, behind Milpitas Library.

• For more information/sign up, please contact Yolie Garcia at yolie913@yahoo.com.

SAPP (Students Against Period Poverty)

• Help the menstruators in impoverished communities, going through domestic violence or been victims of human trafficking in the bay area and beyond with basic hygiene and sanitation products.

• SAPP Milpitas Linktree: linktr.ee/sappmilpitas

• Volunteer sign up: tinyurl.com/sappvolunteersignup