Service Opportunities 

• Check out Just Serve in Austin or Volunteer Match to get some ideas of local opportunities or Community Impact's website of local Austin volunteer opportunities. 

• Create the Good

• Do Something. org has some ideas as well as College Transitions. 

• Yelp has a page for volunteer opportunities for teens in Austin. 

• Austin Top 50 --ideas for volunteering for teens.

Look for local or national organizations for service opportunities.

• Round Rock Serving Center (assist in store, garden, sorting) https://www.rrasc.org/

• Round Rock Library: https://www.roundrocktexas.gov/city-departments/library-home/get-involved/volunteer/ 

• Georgetown Library: https://library.georgetown.org/volunteer-at-the-library/ 

• The Central Texas Food Bank (kitchen preparing meals): https://www.centraltexasfoodbank.org/get-involved/volunteer 

• Generation Serve (environment, animals, seniors, individuals, and families in need)  http://generationserve.org/ 

• Keep Austin Beautiful (volunteering cleaning your local parks, creeks, or lakes) https://keepausitnbeautiful.org

• Green Corn Projects (organic food gardens), http://www.greencornproject.org

• Partnerships for Children  (sort, tag, and wrap gifts for children during holiday season), https://www.timeout.com/austin/things-to-do/partnerships-for-children 

• Youth 2Seniors (partner up youth with seniors living in assisted living facilities), http://www.youth2seniors.org/

• Austin Parks Foundation, environment-friendly outreach program clean local parks,  http://www.austinparks.org/

• Meals on Wheels, http://www.mealsonwheelsandmore.org/programs/meal-delivery/

• Big Hearted Family (feeding the hungry, caring for animals, or cleaning the community) http://www.bigheartedfamilies.org/

• Urban Roots (volunteer with an adult at this 3.5-acre sustainable farm in East Austin, 50% of food donated to shelters and food banks) https://www.timeout.com/austin/things-to-do/urban-roots

• Williamson County Regional Animal Shelter, https://pets.wilco.org/ 

• Georgetown Animal Services, https://pets.georgetown.org/volunteers/ 

• Pet Therapy

• Austin Animal Center

• Special Olympics

• Projects Abroad 

• Global Volunteers

• Global Volunteers

• Habitat for Humanity

• TED Talk Translators (for bilingual students)

• Student Environmental Action Coalition

• Reading is Fundamental

• Bookshare

• Literacy First

• TeensGive.org

• YMCA of Greater Williamson County Volunteer Page

• Camp for All (disabilities camp)

• United Way,