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The USA Freedom Corps Volunteer Network is the most comprehensive clearinghouse of volunteer opportunities ever available. For the first time in history, Americans can enter geographic information about where they want to get involved, such as state or zip code, and areas of interest ranging from education to the environment, to access volunteer opportunities offered by a range of partner organizations across the country or around the world.

If you are an individual nonprofit organization or a local, state or federal agency and would like your volunteer opportunities to appear on the USA Freedom Corps Volunteer Network, you can post them with one of the partner service organizations below. Click here to find out how to register your volunteer opportunities online.

The following is a current list of partner volunteer organizations:

America's Promise America's Promise The Alliance for Youth is working to mobilize people from every sector of American life to build the character and competence of our nation's youth by fulfilling Five Promises: *Caring Adults *Safe Places *Healthy Start *Marketable Skills *Opportunities to Serve.

AmeriCorps AmeriCorps is a national grant program that supports national service by helping more than 75,000 Americans each year participate in intensive service to meet critical needs in education, public safety, health, and the environment. AmeriCorps members serve through more than 2,100 nonprofit organizations, public agencies, and faith-based organizations. They tutor and mentor youth, build affordable housing, teach computer skills, clean parks and streams, run after-school programs, and help communities respond to disasters on a full-time or part-time basis. Created in 1993, AmeriCorps is part of the Corporation for National and Community Service.

Citizen Corps The President's new Citizen Corps initiative supports volunteer service by engaging individuals in promoting the safety of our communities. Through Citizen Corps Councils, the program brings together leaders from law enforcement, fire, emergency medical and other emergency management, volunteer organizations, local elected officials, and the private sector to help them coordinate and engage citizens in homeland security and for promoting community and family safety. Citizen Corps includes new and existing federally-sponsored programs and other activities that share the common goal of helping communities prevent, prepare for and respond to crime, disasters, pressing public health needs and emergencies of all kinds. Through Citizen Corps, Americans can take an active role in building safer, stronger and better-prepared communities one neighborhood at a time!

Hands On Network (formerly CityCares) is a growing, innovative alliance of volunteer mobilization and management organizations providing best practices, leading-edge programs, influence in national service policy, technology support and leadership development. Hands On Network organizations around the world are transforming people and communities through volunteer service and civic engagement.

Idealist.org Idealist.org is a project of Action Without Borders, a nonprofit organization that works to connect people, organizations and resources to help build a world where all people can live free and dignified lives. Organizations in 153 countries around the world use Idealist.org to promote their programs and volunteer opportunities.

Learn and Serve America Learn and Serve America is at the forefront of the service learning movement, linking classroom instruction with community service. Find out more about Learn and Serve America at http://www.learnandserve.gov.

The National Mentoring Partnership The National Mentoring Partnership exists for 15.7 million reasons -– each one for a young person with the potential to offer great things. Mentoring can unleash that potential by pairing young people with caring adults to guide and encourage them. We see evidence of that every day in thousands of communities across the country. The National Mentoring Partnership provides resources and tools mentoring organizations need to effectively serve young people in their communities, and brings thousands of mentoring opportunities to the USA Freedom Corps Volunteer Network.

Network for Good Network for Good is an independent 501(c)3 working to advance e-philanthropy and nonprofit adoption of the Internet as a tool for fundraising, volunteer recruitment and management, and civic engagement. Network for Good was founded by a consortium of leading nonprofits and three leading Internet companies, including the AOL Time Warner Foundation and AOL, Inc.; the Cisco Foundation and Cisco Systems, Inc.; and Yahoo! Network for Good is the place to donate, volunteer, and speak out on the issues you care about.

Peace Corps The Peace Corps engages men and women 18 years and older to serve internationally for two years working in business development, health and HIV/AIDS, the environment, education, agriculture, and information technology. Peace Corps volunteers share their skills with people at the grass-roots level to help solve some of the most important challenges that face communities in the developing world.

Points of Light The Points of Light Foundation works to engage more people more effectively in volunteer community service to help solve serious social problems. It is a nonpartisan nonprofit organization that works in communities throughout the United States through a network of over 500 Volunteer Centers.

More than 350 American communities have Points of Light Member Volunteer Centers. These Volunteer Centers provide essential, locally-based infrastructure to support volunteering. Their work is focused in four core areas: connecting people with opportunities to serve, building capacity for effective local volunteering, promoting volunteering, and participating in strategic initiatives to mobilize volunteers. To find a Volunteer Center in your area, click here.


Senior Corps Senior Corps helps more than half a million volunteers ages 55 and older to serve through its Foster Grandparent, RSVP and Senior Companion programs. It is a national service program of the Corporation for National and Community Service and it enables volunteers to use their experience and skills to assist local organizations and meet a wide range of community needs.

Youth Service America Youth Service America works through an alliance of more than 300 organizations committed to increasing opportunities for young Americans to serve. Youth Service America's SERVEnet is an online service and resource center that links volunteers of all ages to causes in their communities. Users enter their zip code, city, skills, interests, and availability and are matched with organizations that need help from young people.

United Way of America United Way of America is the national organization dedicated to leading the United Way movement in making measurable impact in every community across America. The United Way movement includes approximately 1,400 community-based United Way organizations. Each is independent, separately incorporated, and governed by local volunteers. United Way Volunteer Solutions helps people who want to make an impact in their community find meaningful volunteer opportunities.

Volunteer.Gov/Gov Volunteer.Gov/Gov consolidates volunteer opportunities available in the public sector, including: the U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Department of Agriculture, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the State of New York Division of Veterans Affairs. This online service lets prospective volunteers match their interests and abilities with available opportunities nationwide through searches based on volunteer activity, location of opportunity, effective date of the opportunity, the sponsoring partner and by keyword search. In the future, Volunteer.Gov/Gov will expand to include other channels for volunteer service to all levels of government.

VolunteerMatch VolunteerMatch is an online service that matches prospective volunteers with service opportunities in their communities. People enter them with zip code, area of interest, and distance they're willing to travel, VolunteerMatch presents an extensive list of opportunities to get involved. The site also contains direct links to service opportunities at large national organizations such as the American Red Cross, United Way, Salvation Army, and Goodwill Industries.