Volunteer Opportunities for Kids in Metro Detroit

Arts & Scraps centers the community by providing reused materials and educational resources to promote sustainability and creativity in Detroit. There are a few ways to volunteer at Arts & Scraps. You can volunteer with a group like your coworkers, a school, a troop, or a community group. These volunteer groups usually prep and package materials for their STEM programming kits and assist with projects around the store and warehouse. People can volunteer 'remotely' at home by arranging to pick up materials that they need to have prepped for their kits.

The Capuchin Soup Kitchen serves Metro Detroit by providing food, clothing, and human development programs to the people of the community. Volunteers provide the extra pair of hands, the warm smile and caring attitude that make the Capuchin Soup Kitchen what it is. The minimum volunteer age is 12 (7 for the Earthworks program).

Hey there, birthday enthusiast! The Birthday Party Project needs your help to make birthday celebrations happen. Birthdays are for everyone – and so are opportunities to make magic! The Birthday Party Project seeks volunteers at their agency celebrations as well as wrapping gifts and helping prepare for parties at Party HQ.

Cass Community Social Services provides food services, housing, health services and job assistance. They rely on volunteers to help accomplish their mission. People – adults, youth, and children – assist them in a variety of ways. 

Focus HOPE is an organization that focuses on overcoming racism, poverty, and injustice in Southeast Michigan. Families can volunteer by packing food boxes, assisting with homebound food delivery, and assisting senior shoppers.

Gleaners' mission is to provide households with access to sufficient, nutritious food and related resources. Gleaners distribution centers process a tremendous volume of donated and purchased food to serve neighbors in need. Volunteer tasks include sorting and packing food, picking orders for shipments, preparing supplies for food drives, and more.

Greening of Detroit has been making Detroit beautiful by planting trees, providing job training, and getting kids involved in conservation. They need volunteers for planting trees, cleaning up the area parks, and gardening.

The Detroit Black Community Food Sovereignty Network (DBCFSN) was established to ensure that Detroit's African American population plays a significant role in the local food movement. Food sovereignty is a holistic, healthy, and sustainable approach for communities to address chronic food insecurity. Volunteers welcome!

Humble Design helps people furnish their homes who are transitioning out of poverty. They get furniture and other home decor through donations, make any needed repairs and then give it to people exiting homeless shelters and into homes of their own. For volunteering, your family can either work in the warehouse to organize the furnishings or help the designers decorate a home.