10 Online Volunteering Opportunities

Whether you’re out of work at the moment or looking for ways to gather extra credits for your college application, volunteering is a great way to gain new skills, and feel good about yourself!

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In our current climate, it can be increasingly challenging to find somewhere to volunteer in person, which is why we are going to discuss ways that you can volunteer from the comfort of your own home.

Here are 10 opportunities that can be completed in your spare time!

1. Be My Eyes

This incredible app launched in 2015, connecting visually impaired people with sighted volunteers who can assist with daily tasks

like reading an ingredients list or helping select an outfit. Once you sign up, you’ll be notified via video call when someone needs your assistance, but if you’re busy, you can just ignore the call, and another volunteer will pick up!

This is a great choice for people without set volunteering hours.

2. United Nations Volunteers

There are plenty of ways that you can volunteer through the online United Nations volunteering website.

Start by selecting a sector you’d like to work in, such as translation or teaching, and then navigate through the various opportunities that come up until you find something that suits you.

3. Translators without Borders

If you’re fluent in two or more languages, you can sign up to translators without borders and offer your services to translate medical texts or translate for crisis response.

You won’t need to devote a set number of hours per week; you simply can take on work when you’re available.

4. Crisis Text Line

Crisis Text Line is completely dependent on its remote volunteers, so if you have 4 hours to spare every week and you are over 18 years old, you can help keep their free 24/7 service running by answering texts from people in crisis.

Before you can start volunteering, you will first receive a 30-hour training in collaborative problem solving, reflective listening and crisis management that will help you navigate through crisis intervention.

5. Dorot

If you have a soft spot for the elderly, then Dorot is just right for you!

You can create cards, connect with elderly members on the phone or Zoom and have a friendly chat with them.

You will need to devote a few hours once or twice a week for four consecutive weeks to conduct your calls.

6. Catchafire

If you want to use your professional skills for good, Catchafire helps you connect with non-profits in need of your expertise and contribute to meaningful projects and initiatives.

Even if you’re short on time, you can still volunteer through their one-hour phone call option, where you can consult, offer vital advice and brainstorm with a non-profit.

7. TechSoup

This platform offers technical help to charities and foundations that need expert assistance.

As a volunteer, you can share tips and volunteer online by blogging, answering forum questions and any technical support that you can offer.

8. Learning Ally

If you’re passionate about e-learning, you can help Learning Ally support students with learning difficulties such as dyslexia and visual impairment.

You can help narrate audiobook recordings, offer feedback to pre-recorded books or work in quality assurance.

9. Bookshare

If you’re a self-proclaimed bookworm, you can help Bookshare by scanning in books you have that aren’t in their library and proofreading scanned files.

The platform allows users to read a book in a way that works for them by using audiobooks, text highlights and different visual settings.

10. Smithsonian Digital Volunteers

Are you passionate about history? The Smithsonian Transcription Center seeks digital volunteers to help them transcribe historic documents and collection records to make material more accessible to the public.

From field notes to diaries and ledgers to logbooks and photo albums to manuscripts, you’ll be able to choose from a myriad of available documents before beginning the transcription process.

As you can see, there are plenty of online organisations that you can join to make the world a bit of a better place!

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