The Child and Family Network Centers is a small local non-profit preschool that provides 139 low-income families with free preschool education.

Alexandria, VA

4/6/20 9:00 AM + more

Dates & Time: -Monday 6-8pm -Fall: September 23-December 16 -Winter: January 27-March 23 -Spring: April 6-May 18 *Dates subject to change. Details: YBA PLAY is a free instructional league that immerses youth in The Academy Way - a positive culture that cultivates excellence and performance mastery through an emphasis on teamwork, effort, continual learning, and a love of baseball/softball. We see this not as just a coaching job but an opportunity to make DC a better place. Join the movement! Grow the game of baseball in Washington DC! Help build community! The responsibility of the National Pastime in the Nation's Capital.

Washington, DC

4/6/20 6:00 PM + more

Breaks with Impact is a service-learning program in which middle school students learn more about issues facing their community and ways they can improve Alexandria, both today and in the future. We provide youth the opportunity to develop a sense of community ownership and responsibility, with a specific focus on increasing leadership skills.

Alexandria, VA

4/7/20 8:00 AM

ALIVE! Needs Grocery Bag Packers & Restockers Help ALIVE!’s mass bag packing operation by packing and restocking food for 5000 groceries bags/week, to be distributed to food-insecure Alexandrians. Volunteers are required to do some light to moderate lifting and bending over to pick up cases of food from ground level. Close-toed shoes are required; wear clothes you don’t mind getting dirty and bring bug spray or wear long sleeves if mosquitos like you. Each work station will be held 6ft apart to follow CDC guidelines and keep proper social distancing. Date/Time: 3 shifts M-F (8am – 11am, 12pm – 3pm, and 3pm - 6pm) *Work times can be flexible with advance notice, if you can work but not these exact shift hours. 2 Locations, depending on shift and number of volunteers: ALIVE! Warehouse 801 S. Payne St. or 116 S. Quaker Ln. (old Dash bus barn) People who are 65+ are not allowed to volunteer due to CDC and Alexandria City Guidance. Before you volunteer, please ensure:- That you have you NOT been at any places and therefore exposed where people have tested posted for COVID-19? If so, do not volunteer.- That you DO NOT exhibit any symptoms of a respiratory illness including fever, runny nose, sore throat, coughing or difficulty breathing now or in the past 24 hours? If so, do not volunteer.

Alexandria, VA

4/7/20 8:00 AM + more

Volunteer Alexandria is teaming up with area organizations to provide free - online service learning sessions. During the Spring Online Program Sessions, the students will virtually meet with nonprofit leaders and representatives from government agencies to learn what they do and how to get involved in their own community through a project. It's open to students, grade 6 through 12. To recieve service hours, students must register for each session interested, tune in on Zoom for the webinar, and submit a reflection on what he/she has learned and how he/she felt within a week after the program session is over.

Alexandria, VA

4/7/20 2:00 PM + more

Help people currently in need during the COVID-19 pandemic by creating care packages at home! Learn how to help and what the Salvation Army is doing right now to combat homelessness, help seniors and vulnerable populations, and what they are doing in the community. This webinar is exclusively online.

Alexandria, VA

4/9/20 2:00 PM

REQUIREMENTS Age Minimum (with Adult): 10+, Minimum Age:18+ Gardening with Children in Subsidized Housing Alexandria Redevelopment and Housing Authority (ARHA) | http://www.arha.us If you think you'd like to grow veggies with growing kids, come join a group of 5 to 10 year olds in Tancil Court's "I Can Shine Garden" -- part of the Alexandria Redevelopment and Housing Authority's Old Town project. We meet on Thursdays at 5 p.m. While the children grow their peas, potatoes, beans, tomatoes, squash, and lots more, they also learn how to eat healthy. Knowing how to grow good food and prepare it is a life skill with lots of benefits. Plus it helps build children's knowledge base, which in turn can make them better readers! Volunteers need not have any prior vegetable garden experience.

Alexandria, VA

4/9/20 5:00 PM + more

Are you interested in helping fight hunger in your community? Come join us at our monthly food distribution and pay it forward! The City of Alexandria and the 1st Agape Baptist Church are committed to keeping Alexandria Hunger Free. Each month (every second friday), we conduct a food distribution open to all. Here we provide low income families various produce, meats, and non pershiable items to take home. We need volunteers to help with bagging, distributing foods as families line up and assisting families with carrying produce. We value our volunteers so much, with out them we would not be able to conduct innitiatives such as this one. Sign up to volunteer today and make a difference! Volunteer Duties: Volunteers open and unload plastic wrap, boxes and other packaging. One or two volunteers will be assigned per pallet to unload the food and replenish the table as the supply runs out. Volunteers will be provided reusable plastic (food service type) gloves for food handling. Distribution of food to families As clients arrive, one volunteer will be assigned to hand one person from each household a number and record the number of people in each household on the provided data collection form.

Alexandria, VA

4/10/20 9:00 AM + more

Alexandria City Public School (ACPS) will provide two days worth of breakfast and lunch meals free for any enrolled ACPS student on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays between 8:00am and 12:00pm. For more information about these meals, please visit https://www.acps.k12.va.us/Page/2791. Please note, students are not allowed to volunteer at this time. Also, people who are 65+ due to CDC and City Guidance are not allowed to volunteer. Before you volunteer, please ensure: - That you have you NOT been at any places and therefore exposed where people have tested posted for COVID-19? If so, do not volunteer. - That you DO NOT exhibit any symptoms of a respiratory illness including fever, runny nose, sore throat, coughing or difficulty breathing now or in the past 24 hours? If so, do not volunteer. Volunteers will assist with verifying orders, counting food bags, bagging prepackaged food, and distributing meals to families. Volunteers are needed three times a week Monday, Wednesday, and Friday (8am -12:00pm).

Alexandria, VA

4/13/20 8:00 AM + more

Alexandria City Public School (ACPS) will provide two days worth of breakfast and lunch meals free for any enrolled ACPS student on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays between 8:00am and 12:00pm. For more information about these meals, please visit https://www.acps.k12.va.us/Page/2791. Please note, students are not allowed to volunteer at this time. Also, people who are 65+ due to CDC and City Guidance are not allowed to volunteer. Before you volunteer, please ensure: - That you have you NOT been at any places and therefore exposed where people have tested posted for COVID-19? If so, do not volunteer. - That you DO NOT exhibit any symptoms of a respiratory illness including fever, runny nose, sore throat, coughing or difficulty breathing now or in the past 24 hours? If so, do not volunteer. Volunteers will assist with verifying orders, counting food bags, bagging prepackaged food, and distributing meals to families. Volunteers are needed three times a week Monday, Wednesday, and Friday (8am -12:00pm).

Alexandria, VA

4/13/20 8:00 AM + more

Interested in helping individuals in need learn how to use a computer? Arlington County’s Department of Human Services is recruiting volunteer instructors to co-teach our intensive basic computers courses (basic computers, internet, e-mail, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel). Volunteers co-teach classes on Monday's, Tuesday's, Wednesday's, or Thursday's from 9am-12pm or 6-9pm. Curriculum, lesson plans, materials, and training are provided. Classes start on April 13, 2020 and end on May 26, 2020. We are currently looking for co-teachers for the following days/times: Monday’s from 9am-12pm OR 6pm-9pm Tuesday’s from 9am-12pm OR 6pm-9pm Wednesday’s from 9am-12pm OR 6pm-9pm Thursday’s from 9am-12pm OR 6pm-9pm This volunteer experience could also be used as an internship. If you are interested or would like more information, please email EIDVolunteer@arlingtonva.us.

Arlington, VA

4/13/20 9:00 AM + more

For any incident, from a car crash to an active shooter normal people play an important role in saving lives. It is imperative that we provide the knowledge and skills necessary to help our community save lives until our professional responders arrive. This class will teach you how to recognize violent activities, respond safely, provide immediate rescue tactics to the injured, and report them to 9-1-1 efficiently. The skills you will learn are transferable to countless situations involving traumatic injury, which include car accidents, household injuries, or an active shooter. Come and learn how you can be the help, Until Help Arrives. *** During the current COVID-19 event all UHA classes will be held remotely online to encourage social distancing. Once we can do in person classes again we will hold a skills only 1 hour training to give you the hands on training parts of the class. The webinar is expected to be shorter than the standard UHA class at only 3 hours. Once you sign up additional details will follow. Class times posted are the start time of the online learning.***

Alexandria, VA

4/14/20 6:00 PM + more

Alexandria City Public School (ACPS) will provide two days worth of breakfast and lunch meals free for any enrolled ACPS student on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays between 8:00am and 12:00pm. For more information about these meals, please visit https://www.acps.k12.va.us/Page/2791. Please note, students are not allowed to volunteer at this time. Also, people who are 65+ due to CDC and City Guidance are not allowed to volunteer. Before you volunteer, please ensure: - That you have you NOT been at any places and therefore exposed where people have tested posted for COVID-19? If so, do not volunteer. - That you DO NOT exhibit any symptoms of a respiratory illness including fever, runny nose, sore throat, coughing or difficulty breathing now or in the past 24 hours? If so, do not volunteer. Volunteers will assist with verifying orders, counting food bags, bagging prepackaged food, and distributing meals to families. Volunteers are needed three times a week Monday, Wednesday, and Friday (8am -12:00pm).

Alexandria, VA

4/15/20 8:00 AM + more

Do you want to make a difference in our community? Are you interested in learning new art, craft or business skills? Do you have a service learning requirement for your school or community group? UpCycle Creative Reuse Center is an Alexandria, Virginia based non-profit that connects creativity and conservation by providing a resource center for reuse materials and a creative making space for the community. At UpCycle, we rethink the traditional notion of waste by collecting cast-offs from our community to serve as creative materials. We are looking for a volunteer to help us sort donations from the community and restock our shop of recycled materials. No experience necessary; we'll provide instructions. If under 18 please email volunteer@upcyclecrc.org.

Alexandria, VA

4/15/20 12:30 PM + more

Do you want to make a difference in our community? Are you interested in learning new art, craft or business skills? Do you have a service learning requirement for your school or community group? UpCycle Creative Reuse Center is an Alexandria, Virginia based non-profit that connects creativity and conservation by providing a resource center for reuse materials and a creative making space for the community. At UpCycle, we rethink the traditional notion of waste by collecting cast-offs from our community to serve as creative materials. We are looking for a volunteer to help us sort donations from the community and restock our shop of recycled materials. No experience necessary; we'll provide instructions. If under 18 please email volunteer@upcyclecrc.org.

Alexandria, VA

4/15/20 3:00 PM + more

Do you want to make a difference in our community? Are you interested in learning new art, craft or business skills? Do you have a service learning requirement for your school or community group? UpCycle Creative Reuse Center is an Alexandria, Virginia based non-profit that connects creativity and conservation by providing a resource center for reuse materials and a creative making space for the community. At UpCycle, we rethink the traditional notion of waste by collecting cast-offs from our community to serve as creative materials. We are looking for a volunteer to help us sort donations from the community and restock our shop of recycled materials. No experience necessary; we'll provide instructions. If under 18 please email volunteer@upcyclecrc.org.

Alexandria, VA

4/16/20 10:30 AM + more

Do you want to make a difference in our community? Are you interested in learning new art, craft or business skills? Do you have a service learning requirement for your school or community group? UpCycle Creative Reuse Center is an Alexandria, Virginia based non-profit that connects creativity and conservation by providing a resource center for reuse materials and a creative making space for the community. At UpCycle, we rethink the traditional notion of waste by collecting cast-offs from our community to serve as creative materials. We are looking for a volunteer to help us sort donations from the community and restock our shop of recycled materials. No experience necessary; we'll provide instructions. If under 18 please email volunteer@upcyclecrc.org.

Alexandria, VA

4/16/20 1:00 PM + more

Alexandria City Public School (ACPS) will provide two days worth of breakfast and lunch meals free for any enrolled ACPS student on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays between 8:00am and 12:00pm. For more information about these meals, please visit https://www.acps.k12.va.us/Page/2791. Please note, students are not allowed to volunteer at this time. Also, people who are 65+ due to CDC and City Guidance are not allowed to volunteer. Before you volunteer, please ensure: - That you have you NOT been at any places and therefore exposed where people have tested posted for COVID-19? If so, do not volunteer. - That you DO NOT exhibit any symptoms of a respiratory illness including fever, runny nose, sore throat, coughing or difficulty breathing now or in the past 24 hours? If so, do not volunteer. Volunteers will assist with verifying orders, counting food bags, bagging prepackaged food, and distributing meals to families. Volunteers are needed three times a week Monday, Wednesday, and Friday (8am -12:00pm).

Alexandria, VA

4/17/20 8:00 AM + more