Resources

Links to volunteer organizations

This page contains links to organizations or groups offering volunteer opportunities throughout the state. If you don’t find a place to help out on our Find Opportunities page, check these sources to find projects that may interest you.

www.idealist.org (worldwide volunteer opportunities in all sorts of categories)

California Academy of Sciences, Naturalist Center volunteer opportunities. Great site, with lots of links and volunteer opportunities for the San Francisco Bay Area
http://www.calacademy.org/academy/exhibits/naturalist_center/nnotebook/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/enviro_volunteer_opps.pdf

Environmental Volunteers, also bay area, involves teaching classes for kids http://www.evols.org/

Natural Resource Conservation Service National Volunteer Program http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/feature/volunteers/

California’s branch of the above
http://www.ca.nrcs.usda.gov/features/volunteers.html (CA branch NRCS)

State of California volunteer website
http://www.californiavolunteers.org/index.php

California State Parks Volunteers page
http://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=886

Oil spill wildlife cleanup volunteer page
http://www.owcn.org/volunteer-info

National Parks volunteer page, searchable by state and zip code
http://www.nps.gov/getinvolved/volunteer.htm

The Nature Conservancy volunteer site, searchable by state
http://www.nature.org/volunteer/

California’s page for the Bureau of Land Managment volunteer site- organized by date, location and contact person. Great site!
http://www.blm.gov/ca/st/en/res/volunteers.html