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The holistic betterment of our community; reversing the effects of racism one person and cause at a time.

- Education Advocate: Our in-school program is modeled after the Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) program which pairs Student Advocates with elementary students ranging from K-5th grade at the request of school administrators. Student Advocates provide one-on-one and small group behavioral, emotional, and educational support for students identified as by their school counselor. Currently, we are scheduled to support Ferguson-Florissant School District.

- Days/times are flexible and up to schedule of volunteer

- Application

- Background Check

- Orientation

Ashrei exists to empower and activate the St. Louis community and partners throughout the state of Missouri to promote economic justice, to relieve suffering, and interrupt cycles of poverty.

- Photo ID Clinic Volunteer: These volunteers work one-on-one with program guests to provide financial and logistical assistance for photo IDs and birth certificates during our Thursday clinics.

- Application Support Volunteers: These volunteers work one-on-one with program guests to provide financial and logistical assistance for photo IDs and birth certificates during upcoming weekend and evening hours.

- ID Delivery Team: Volunteers will work in pairs to coordinate meeting program guests in public locations to deliver IDs received at the Ashrei Foundation.

- ID Pick-Up Team: Volunteers will coordinate meeting program guests at the Ashrei Foundation’s Office at the Hub so they can pick-up their ID that received at the Ashrei Foundation (dates and times flexible).

- Data Entry: Support this effort remotely by volunteering to enter data into digital spreadsheets/forms; familiarity with Google Suite Apps (Docs, Sheets, Drive) is required.

- Photo ID Clinic Volunteer: Thursdays, 10am-2pm

- Application Support Volunteers: Weekends & Evenings

- ID Delivery Team: Dates and times flexible.

- ID Pick-Up Team: Dates and times flexible. .

- Data Entry: Dates and times flexible.

- Training

Serving all whom God puts in our midst.

Maintenance Volunteers: Perfect for individuals or groups, our space needs painting work, cleaning/light maintenance, and landscaping. All tools provided.

Days and times up to the schedule of the volunteer!

- None

Our mission is to bring people together to talk and resolve differences through mediation, education, and training.

- Meditation Assistant: The assistant works directly with the program coordinator in scheduling and assist with setting up and supporting virtual mediation meetings. Can be done in-person or remotely.

Mediations are usually weekday evenings.

- Application

Empower people impacted by crime to move from crisis to resiliency.

- Victim Advocate: Provide crisis intervention, case management, safety planning, and referrals to victims of crime.

- Volunteer Counselor: Providing individual trauma focused counseling for victims of crime.

- Community Engagement Volunteer: Provided flyers, brochures, and awareness of CVC to neighborhoods and communities highly effected by crime.

- Victim Advocate: Mondays - Fridays, anytime 9 a.m. - 5 p.m..

- Volunteer Counselor: Mondays - Saturdays, anytime 9 a.m. - 7 p.m..

- Community Engagement Volunteer: Days and times up to schedule of volunteer.

- Application

- Criminal background check (at no cost)

- Training Session

CJM’s mission is to improve our communities by supporting and empowering those impacted by incarceration. We envision a future for those impacted by incarceration where their relationships and communities are safe and supportive, incarceration is minimized, and recidivism is eliminated.

- Direct Service: Assist the FIRST Services department of CJM with organizing and distributing resources to returning citizens.

- Child Tutor: Tutor kids ages 5-16 who need homework help while their mothers are in a support group.

- Research Project: Contact CJM to learn more about new or ongoing research needs.

Most opportunities are flexible and up the schedule of the volunteer; tutoring takes place on Tuesdays at 6:30 p.m. at St. Vincent de Paul Church, 1408 S. 10th St.

- Application

Equal Justice USA is a national organization that works to transform the justice system by promoting responses to violence that break cycles of trauma. We work at the intersection of criminal justice, public health, and racial justice to elevate healing over retribution, meet the needs of survivors, advance racial equity, and build community safety.

Data entry and analysis; policy research and analysis.

Days and times up to volunteer.

None

The Freedom Community Center’s mission is to build a movement of survivors that will meaningfully address violence in St. Louis City and collectively design alternatives to state systems of punishment. Our community will fight to end mass incarceration and advocate for transformative justice approaches to reducing harm.

- CourtWatch Data Entry and Analysis: Provide support to Freedom Community Center's Courtwatch program through remote data entry. Our CourtWatch program witnesses the injustices in the 22nd Judicial Circuit (St. Louis City). We are seeking volunteers who would like to assist with data entry and analysis as part of our monthly data analysis and publication efforts.

- CourtWatch Volunteer: We aim to interrupt the violence of the pre-trial justice system by attending and collecting data at bail hearings in St. Louis, analyzing and publishing that data, and organizing to hold system actors accountable to the injustices we witness. We are looking for volunteers to watch court at the 22nd Judicial Circuit Court in downtown St. Louis.

- CourtWatch Data Entry and Analysis: Anytime - up to schedule of volunteer.

- CourtWatch Volunteer: Any day M-F between the hours of 12-3pm.

Orientation/Training Session

Empowered by the compassion of Christ, HealthVisions seeks to empower the people of East St. Louis to live healthier lives, This will be accomplished through faith-based collaborative services. HealthVisions has two ministries: Faith in Action to Serve and Transform (FAST) and Faith Health Ministries (FHM) FAST promotes healthy living and independence by providing interfaith, volunteer-based non-medical support and caregiver services to individuals who are homebound, frail, elderly, disabled or afflicted with chronic illnesses in the greater East St. Louis community. FAST seeks to ease isolation and loneliness. Faith Health Ministries promotes health and wellness within the faith community using disciplines of worship, service and education. Faith Health Ministries seeks to strengthen the role of churches in promoting health and wellness for the faith community.

- Volunteer Caregiver: Provide case management services for seniors to access services. Home visits, telephone reassurance calls, friendly visits to reduce isolation and loneliness for senior and promote independence. Make referrals to resources.

- Health Educator Volunteer: Provide education to local congregations on safety, health and nutrition, exercise, etc to help churches enhance health ministries for members.

- Transportation Volunteer: Provide transportation to seniors for shopping, medical appointments and errands. Provide companionship for seniors during transportation. Ensure Seniors get to destination safely. Mileage reimbursement provided.

Remote Opportunity: Call seniors in our program for reassurance, follow up and confirmations.

- Volunteer Caregiver: Monday-Fridays anytime 9 a.m.-4 p.m., and Saturdays, 9 a.m.-Noon

- Health Educator Volunteer: Mondays-Saturdays, anytime 9 a.m.-4 p.m.

- Transportation Volunteer: Monday-Fridays anytime 9 a.m.-4 p.m., and Saturdays, 9 a.m.-Noon

- Background Check (no cost)

- Application

- 1 hr. training session

The Institute for Peace and Justice is an independent, interfaith, not-for-profit organization that creates resources, provides learning experiences, and advocates publicly for alternatives to violence and injustice at the individual, family, community, institutional and global levels.

- Facilitator Volunteer: Assist staff member with the facilitation of a problem-solving classes for ex-offender women, as well as the teen-aged children and young children of the women.

- Teen Street Theatre Volunteer: Work with teens on non-violent street theatre project.

- Office Volunteer: This would include updating the website, doing research on peace and justice and creating brochures.

- Facilitator Volunteer: Wednesday 6-8 p.m., Sunday 4-6 p.m.

- Teen Street Theatre Volunteer: Tuesdays 6-8 p.m.

- Office Volunteer: Mondays-Fridays, 9 a.m.-4 p.m.

- Interview

People of faith creating just systems through political change.

COVID-19 and remote opportunities include:

- New Northside Family Life Center: Help package and/or deliver food and other supplies to neighbors in need

- Follow-Up Callers: Check in with seniors and shut-ins via phone; check on how they are doing, if they need anything, etc.

- No-contact Canvassers: Tie resource flyers on door knobs of neighbors

- Voter engagement via phone banking

- Event planning and execution

Days and times flexible.

- Orientation/Training Session

The MICA Project works with immigrant communities to address the issues affecting people's lives. We work with community members and leaders to determine what these issues are and to decide how to address them.

Legal and Administrative Assistance: Help office staff with immigration and citizenship cases, including assembling evidence, drafting documents, legal research, and preparing for cases. Also assist with various clerical tasks at the office.

Any day Mondays-Fridays, anytime 7:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.

- Application

- Interview

Missionaries of Charity, a programs sponsored by the Sisters of Blessed Teresa, provide support and outreach to women and children who are experiencing homelessness and poverty.

- After-School Program: Volunteers help assist the sisters with the after-school program for young children. Once children are dropped off from their school, they stay from 3:30 p.m. until around 6 p.m.. We prepare food for the kids, provide activities for the kids to play, provide Catechesis for them, and pray with them.

- Sunday Mass Program: Volunteers help assist and drive kids, several of whom are refugees, from the apartment housing on Hodiamont Ave. to Mass at various Catholic Churches in the city. Volunteers meet the sisters and the children at the housing on Hodiamont Ave. and will drive several kids to Mass at nearby Catholic Churches. Volunteers will help feed the children before or after Mass.

- Tutors: Mondays through Fridays, 3:30 - 6:30 p.m.

- Sunday Sundays from 9 a.m. - Noon.

- Protecting God's Children Training (includes Background Check)

Missouri Jobs with Justice is a solidarity network of labor, community, faith, and students that work for worker's rights and economic justice.

- Missourians for Healthy Families and Fair Wages Campaign: Help with this statewide campiagn to raise the minimum wage up to $15 by 2026 and to allow workers to earn paid sick leave to take care of themselves or family.

- Canvasser: Jobs with Justice runs campaigns that focus on public policy that supports working families. Examples include increasing the minimum wage, protecting collective bargaining rights, and limiting the influence of money in politics. Volunteers would help talk to voters about how to support these issues.

- Mobilizer: Jobs with Justice often mobilizes volunteers for direct actions in support of workers seeking justice at the job. This includes mobilization for rallies, strikes or pickets. We often need volunteers to help call our supporters and turn them out in support of workers.

Days and times vary.

None

"Missourians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty (MADP) is a statewide organization working to repeal the death penalty in Missouri by educating citizens and legislators regarding the costs and consequences of capital punishment. We seek to empower murder victim family members, exonerees, communities, racial justice advocates, various faith and conscience traditions, as well as individuals, to collaborate in creating new opportunities for abolition. With coalition partners, we address root causes of capital punishment by soliciting direct advocacy to oppose individual executions and the systemic conditions which permit them. Through alerts to our members, media placements, and educational events, we work to stop executions and to make lasting change to the criminal legal system."

- MADP Pen Pal Program: Connects with someone living with a death sentence in Missouri. Email and written mail opportunities available.

- Monthly Meetups: Participate in virtual monthly meet ups - join MADP on the 4th Wednesday of each month, at 7 p.m. to learn about the death penalty system in MO and actions you can take to stop executions.

Days and times vary.

None

Moms Demand Action supports the 2nd Amendment, but we believe common-sense solutions can help decrease the escalating epidemic of gun violence that kills too many of our children and loved ones every day. Whether the gun violence happens in urban Chicago, suburban Virginia, or rural Texas, we must act now on new and stronger gun laws and policies to protect our children.

- Educational Outreach Assistant: Learn about the work of Moms Demand Action and be an ambassador to students and student groups about our work so we can increase our number of supporters and be a greater instrument of legislative change on gun violence prevention.

- Advocacy Assistant: Go with Moms Demand Action to meetings with elected officials and to our state capitol to make your voice heard on bills related to gun violence in Missouri.

- Phone Call Assistant: Learn more about Moms Demand Action and become part of our welcome call team to welcome new members and encourage them to become more involved in the gun violence prevention issue.

Flexible - we will train you and will work around your schedule.

Training session

Our vision is to infuse God-given dignity and value into all people and neighborhoods, and see them transformed by the love of Jesus Christ.

- Jays for As After School Program Volunteer: Jays for As is an afterschool program that gives students the opportunity to earn a pair of Jordans by improving their grades and working towards individualized goals. We are looking for college students to help tutor and mentor middle school and high schoolers after school twice a week.

Any day Monday-Thursday, from 3 - 5:30pm

- Application

- Background Check

St. Frances Cabrini Academy (SFCA) is a Catholic elementary school that educates by nurturing the growth of each child’s mind, body, and spirit. We celebrate our diversity while acting together to proclaim the Gospel. We commit ourselves to justice, the value of a quality education for all, and the vibrancy of St. Louis.

- Tutors: Work with small groups & individual students for academic support.

- Supervision: Supervise lunch and recess periods

Generally Mondays thru Fridays, anytime 8:30am-3:30pm

- Background Check

- Training

We, the members of St. Francis Xavier College Church, form a welcoming Jesuit parish community. As followers of Jesus Christ, we praise God, love our neighbors as ourselves, celebrate liturgy and the sacraments, engage in lifelong formation and proclaim God’s reign of justice, mercy and peace.

- ID Progam: Provide support to Tuesday morning guests seeking identification documents and provide support as they navigate the process of applying for U.S. birth certificates and Missouri state IDs. Generally, volunteers assist with the intake process, document services, and hospitality.

Remote opportunities include:

- Appointment Setting Volunteer: Respond to Google Voice Messages and set appointments with potential guests for Tuesday Morning program.

Tuesdays any 2 hr. block from 8:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.

- Training

The Society of St. Vincent de Paul is a lay organization which leads women and men to join together spiritually by offering person-to-person service to those who are in need. Assistance is done through a parish conference to visit people in their homes to give assistance for utilities, rent, medicine, etc.

- Conference Volunteer: Opportunities to work with a local Parish Conference of SVDP, at food pantries, doing home visits and other projects.

- Thrift Store Volunteer: Various responsibilities include; assisting donors with their donations, shoppers with their purchases, stocking/organizing the sales floor.

- General Office Volunteer: Workers with various skill sets (accounting, data entry, etc. needed for general office assistance.

- Conference Volunteer: Days and times vary and are up to schedule of the volunteer.

- Thrift Store Volunteer: 7 days per week, anytime 9 a.m. to 8 p.m.

- General Office Volunteer: Monday thru Friday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

- Application

Vision for Children at Risk (VCR) promotes the well-being of children, youth, and their families, with a primary focus on those impacted by socioeconomic risk and racial inequity.

- Data and research coordination and analysis

- Administrative assistance

Flexible and up to schedule of volunteer - can also be done remotely.

- Orientation