Americorps
Comprehensive index of various service opportunities.

American Red Cross
Make a yearly commitment. All are welcome. Training is provided if necessary.

Benedictine Appalachian Volunteer Program
Provides lay men and women an opportunity to answer the call to serve in South Dakota.*

Boys Hope Girls Hope
Help children who are at risk, yet academically capable realize their potential by providing value-centered, family-like homes, and quality education through college.*

Casa de Esperanza 
Volunteers from all parts of the world with different backgrounds devote their time to live and work with the children in the Houston area.    

Christian Appalachian Project
An interdenominational service organization founded to assist people in the Kentucky Appalachian Region.

Christ House
A medical facility for the homeless based in Washington D.C. that seeks year-long committments for such positions as staff nurses, patient activities coordinators, administrative aides.

City Year
Unites young adults from diverse backgrounds for a demanding year of full-time community service.

CORAL
Volunteers and volunteer divers perform reef ecosystem research projects, reef clean-ups and monitoring, install mooring buoys, emergency transfer for threatened reefs, public education, and more. You don't have to be a SCUBA diver to be a volunteer!

Covenant House
Offers protection and safeguards for children of the street. Locations served include Alaska, California, Florida, Michigan, Missouri, Louisiana, New Jersey, New York, Texas, Washington, D.C., and locations in Canada.

Eckard Youth Alternatives
A leader in early intervention, wilderness camp, and juvenile justice programs for troubled and at-risk children. Volunteers commit themselves as Americorps participants who engage in conflict-resolution skills training, after school activities, and family outreach initiatives.

Good Shepherd Volunteers
Christian volunteers work in direct service with the poor, particularly with adolescents and families. Opportunities are available in major north eastern cities.*

Habitat for Humanitiy
Through Americorps, Habitat for Humanity volunteers can work on low income housing construction projects in any of the 50 U.S. states while receiving living stipends and educational grants.

Human Service Alliance
Volunteers are from around the world and every background. They perform round-the-clock, hands-on care for the terminally ill, developmentally disabled children, support/therapy for persons with chronic pain or illness, and dispute resolution (mediation) programs.

Jesuit Volunteer Corps
The largest Catholic lay volunteer program in the country, Jesuit volunteers serve the homeless, unemployed, refugees, people with aids, elderly, street youth, abused women and children, mentally ill, and developmentally disabled. Placements available across the nation and around the globe.

Lasallian Volunteers
Volunteers serve in areas of education and related human development services. Limited international opportunities available.*

New Orleans Volunteer Service Community
Young male volunteers provide ministry to needy young people through the following roles: tutors, youth ministers, teachers, coaches, camp counselors, recovery care-givers, and retreat staff members. Area of service is primarily Southern U.S.

Peace Corps
Official home page. Numerous opportunities exist in a variety of service positions around the globe.

RESPONCE /CNVS
Directory of Catholic volunteer service opportunities.

Side by Side
International program gives lay volunteers the opportunity to live and work in a community with the Canossian Sisters aiding in medical assistance and therapy, teaching, social work, pastoral ministry, retreat directors, and volunteer coordinators.

U.S. Department of the Interior
Numerous volunteer opportunities include: Indian affairs, land management, reclamation, minerals management, national park service, fish and wildlife, and geological survey.

Vess
Volunteers respond to the economic, educational, and spiritual need of people throughout Texas, by offering positions in teaching, human services, refugee/immigration services, residential youth services, nursing/health care, and parish/youth ministries.