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Volunteer

Volunteer Center

Volunteerism has long been the backbone of United Way of Greater St. Louis. Our Volunteer Center has been connecting people to meaningful volunteer opportunities in our region for 90 years.  

The Volunteer Center offers thousands of opportunities for people to help our community through the issues they care about, including one-time, ongoing, individual, group, or virtual opportunities. New opportunities are frequently added to stlvolunteer.org based on community needs. Create an account to sign up for opportunities and follow your favorite agencies to stay updated on their latest opportunities. 

“We really want to cultivate the next generation of philanthropists and volunteer leaders, and having United Way’s Volunteer Center as a tool can pave the way to help make that happen.”

– Rick Skinner, VP, Volunteer Center
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Volunteer With Us

Individuals across the St. Louis region are giving their time and talents, making an impact to help our neighbors in need. Join them today!

Why Your Support Matters

56,000+

Service2Go kits built to benefit local nonprofits

$4,100,000+

Put back into the community

40,000+

Volunteers recruited through STLVolunteer.org

volunteer helping handing a bag of supplies

EarthDance Farm Shift Volunteers

EarthDance provides a unique volunteer environment for schools, community and corporate groups, and individuals. On Tuesday and Friday mornings volunteer opportunities range from planting and harvesting fresh vegetables, to campus construction projects, to general farm maintenance. Join us as we grow the local food movement!

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Group Engagement Opportunities

A key facet of our Volunteer Center is our team engagement opportunities, two main offerings Service2Go program and coordinated projects.  

Coordinated projects are perfect for small teams: the Volunteer Center will play matchmaker with one of our trusted nonprofit partners to find groups an impactful half or full day of service in the community. 

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Partner With Us

Our Volunteer Center offers a quick and easy-to-navigate site to post, manage and track volunteer opportunities. Simply become an approved community organization and provide volunteers with a simple and flexible tool that allows searching for opportunities by time, date, location, zip code and project type.

We are here to serve as a resource in the community for all things volunteerism. We provide a variety of volunteer management resources to local nonprofits, such as volunteer management training, best practices and the tools needed to best engage volunteers. 

Want to stay in touch?

Our Volunteers In Action

World Wide Technology volunteers
World Wide Technology
Back-to-school supplies project
Unite With Us Day 2024
Panera Bread employees participating in MLK week of service
Panera Bread employees participating in MLK week of service
Reinsurance Group of America assemble Service2Go Emergency Preparedness Kits
Reinsurance Group of America assemble Service2Go Emergency Preparedness Kits
Luxco employees spend the day volunteering around the community
Luxco employees spend the day volunteering around the community
DHL employee shakes hand with Rick Skinner of  United Way infront of a yellow DHL truck
DHL employees back to school backpack collection

Interested in learning more?

For questions about individual or group opportunities, contact Rick Skinner at rick.skinner@stl.unitedway.org or 314-539-4284.