Virtual Volunteer Opportunities (While Social Distancing)

Virtual Volunteer Opportunities (While Social Distancing)

Volunteering not only allows you the unique opportunity to give your time and talents to your community but also to learn more about the world in which you live.  Even if you just take a few hours out of your week to volunteer, it can make an impact not only in your life but also in the lives of others.  Plus it feels good and looks great on a resume! 

You can always find more volunteer opportunities and track your service at FSCJ Serves, but here is a list of virtual volunteer opportunities you can take advantage of while social distancing.  For more information, please contact FSCJVolunteers@fscj.edu.

Virtual Volunteer Opportunities:

Amnesty Decoders
Amnesty Decoders is an innovative platform for volunteers around the world to use their computers or phones to help our researchers sift through pictures, information, and documents. Join a global network of digital volunteers helping us research and expose human rights violations.

Be My Eyes
Be My Eyes  is a free mobile app with one main goal: to make the world more accessible for blind and low-vision people. The app connects blind and low-vision individuals with sighted volunteers from all over the world through a live video call.

BookShare.Org
Book Share (Links to an external site.) offers thousands of books to people with reading disabilities. As an online volunteer, you can either scan books to be added to the collection or edit books that have been scanned.

Career Village
Career Village (Links to an external site.) is an online platform where students ask career questions that are answered by people working, or that have worked, in that field. All you need is a LinkedIn account to start helping students become better informed about the career decisions they are facing.

Catchafire
Catchafire (Links to an external site.) uses its website to match professionals with nonprofits based on their skills, cause interest and time availability. You’ll find tons of skills-based volunteering opportunities, many of which can be completed virtually.

Community In Schools

https://cisjax.org/virtual-volunteering/ (Links to an external site.)

Try this book reading virtual volunteer opportunity! Help build literacy and engagement by picking up a children's book. Read to the camera as if you're reading to a child in the classroom!

Sit and face the camera as you introduce the book, share the author, and read page by page. Check out the link below for more information and instructions!

Crisis Text Line
Crisis Text Line (Links to an external site.) is a free 24/7 national crisis-intervention and counseling service conducted exclusively through SMS text. Volunteers use the nonprofit’s web-based platform to provide emotional support to texters who are dealing with a wide range of issues– bullying, self-harm, suicidal thoughts, and more. Prospective volunteers go through a screening and lengthy self-paced training. Once completed, volunteers sign-up to take one four-hour shift each week for a year.

Hope at Hand 

https://uwnefl.galaxydigital.com/agency/detail/?agency_id=95153 (Links to an external site.)

Don't recycle those newspapers and magazines just yet!

Hope at Hand instructors need words and images cut out for upcoming lessons...and it's an indoor activity that's fun for the whole family!

• Cut positive or neutral words from magazines or newspapers (i.e. handle, building, relieve, fresh, better, solving, etc.) Please no words describing physical characteristics.
• Cut negative or challenge words from magazines or newspapers (i.e. fake, unsettled, roughest, control, enemy, regret, etc.) No words like rape or murder.
• Cut out from magazines faces without hair (men and women), living room items (tables, pictures, pillows, sofas, etc.), house pets (dogs, cats, birds, fish, etc.) flowers, eyes, noses, ears, and mouths.
• Cut girls, women, boys, and men doing everyday things (no celebrities - no words)
• Cut bodies and heads - cartoons are okay, too.

Please use regular-edge scissors and sort images and words in their respective categories. Keep images and words flat, no folds or creases. Please see the examples below.

Mail your handiwork to:

Hope at Hand

3886 Atlantic Blvd.

Jacksonville, FL 32207

Or drop them off in our mail slot.

*Within 2-3 days following your registration you will receive a welcome email from a Hope At Hand staff person; please check your Spam mailbox.  If an email is not received please contact Hope At Hand office. 

Contact Hope At Hand Office if you have any questions.  (904) 619-3778

Send a virtual card or letter (Links to an external site.) to those in quarantine and isolation to brighten their day. 

Provide positive encouragement to children 

Support children by joining the Granny Cloud (Links to an external site.), an online learning environment that helps children living below the poverty line in India learn basic English. You are there to help develop the student’s skills in English and give them the opportunity to grow and collaborate with their peers. Meet with the students via Skype and moderate their lessons by providing positive encouragement. 

Smithsonian Digital Volunteer program
The Smithsonian Digital Volunteer program (Links to an external site.) engages the public in making its collections more accessible. Digital volunteers transcribe historic documents and collection records to facilitate research and preserve these valuable assets for future generations.

Translators Without Borders
Translators Without Borders (Links to an external site.) recruits volunteers who want to translate texts into different languages for NGOs and nonprofits.

Tutor.com (Links to an external site.)

If you have experience as a teacher or a professor or industry professional, use your expertise to teach young students. It can be very rewarding to see a student you helped succeed and achieve their goals.

Again, you can always find volunteer opportunities and track your service at FSCJ Serves.For more information, please contact FSCJVolunteers@fscj.edu.