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These helpful information sheets list opportunities with organizations that are ongoing partners with the Civic Engagement Center. For more information, stop by our office to talk with student leaders in each area. Student coordinators are available from 8:30am-4:30pm Monday-Friday, during the academic year, to help you choose the right opportunity to fit your schedule, your interests, and your volunteer goals!
If you need further information or want someone to contact you regarding volunteer opportunities or events, please click here to submit a request to the Civic Engagement Center.
Ongoing Opportunities (pdf files):
One-Time Opportunities
Our office has many one-time opportunities for individuals or groups.
* Download PDF document of opportunities for groups
* Download PDF document of all opportunities
For more information or ideas, call Consuelo Gutierrez-Crosby at x6040.
Other Links
We also recommend the following online databases for all types of volunteer opportunities:
Idealist.orgBack to Top
Idealist.org is a project of Action Without Borders. The organization connects people, organizations, and resources to help build a world where all people can live free and dignified lives.
http://www.idealist.org/about/firsttime.html
 HandsOn Twin Cities
HandsOn Twin Cities is the central source for volunteerism. It connects individuals and groups with meaningful opportunities to effectively serve and learn, mobilize and manage volunteers, provide leadership development opportunities and facilitate education on social issues.
http://www.handsontwincities.org/
 VolunteerMatch
There are hundreds of ways to help out. With VolunteerMatch, it's never been easier to find a rewarding way to give back and make a difference.
http://www.volunteermatch.org/
Serve.gov 
Serve.gov is
a comprehensive clearinghouse of volunteer opportunities managed by the Corporation for National and Community Service. Americans who are interested in volunteering can use this tool to locate opportunities to serve across the country and around the world. This can be is your online resource for not only finding volunteer opportunities, but also creating your own service project. http://www.serve.gov
 Greater Good
This organization represents a new voice of compassion, hope, and inspiration. Four times a year, it highlights ground breaking scientific research into the roots of altruistic human relationships, and fuses this research with inspiring stories of compassion in action. In the process, it provides a bridge between social scientists and parents, educators, community leaders, and policy makers. Its underlying goal is to highlight the strides we’re making (and obstacles we’re encountering) toward becoming a more benevolent society.
http://greatergood.berkeley.edu/greatergood/
 Volunteer Abroad
NGOabroad
NGOabroad is a unique service that provides frugal, customized international volunteer options
and helps people enter international humanitarian work.
http://www.ngoabroad.com/
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AFS Intercultural Programs
 AFS is a leader in intercultural learning and offers international exchange programs in over 50 countries around the world through independent, not-for-profit AFS organizations, each with a network of volunteers, a professionally staffed office, and headed up by a volunteer board. AFS Intercultural Programs provides worldwide leadership, coordination, support, quality control and development of AFS organizations and programs. http://www.usa.afs.org/usa_en/focus_on/volunteer
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Catholic Network of Volunteer Service
 CNVS, established in 1963, is a non-profit membership organization of 200 domestic and international volunteer and lay mission programs. Currently, more than 10,000 volunteers and lay missioners serve in these programs throughout the U.S. and in 108 other countries. http://www.cnvs.org/volunteers/index.php
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Unite For Sight®
Unite for Sight® is a non-profit organization that empowers communities worldwide to improve eye health and eliminate preventable blindness. Unite For Sight is an international leader in both providing eye care worldwide and offering service and hands-on public health opportunities for volunteers.
http://www.uniteforsight.org/volunteer-abroad
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St. Vincent Palotti Center for Apostolic Development, Inc.
 The mission of the St. Vincent Pallotti Center is to inspire volunteer service, to strengthen the faith of those who are serving or have served, and to help volunteers build community. The volunteer opportunities are full-time positions for typically 1-2 years, with shorter-term options also available. Volunteers travel to locations throughout the U.S and over 60 countries abroad.
http://pallotticenter.org
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Cross-Cultural Solutions
Cross-Cultural Solutions operates volunteer programs around the world in partnership with sustainable community initiatives, bringing people together to work side-by-side while sharing perspectives, and fostering cultural understanding.
Cross-Cultural Solutions sends more than one thousand volunteers overseas every year to work in the areas of health, education and social services. They have 16 programs in 10 countries and are in Special Consultative Status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) and also maintain a partnership with CARE, one of the world’s largest international humanitarian organizations. Back to Top
The Civic Engagement Center is delighted to announce a partnership with Cross-Cultural Solutions (CCS), a leader in international volunteer and intern programs for students. Macalester students may be eligible for the International Ralph & Iris Salomon Scholarship - a partial scholarship of $455 applicable towards a CCS Volunteer Abroad Intern Abroad program.
Students interested in Cross-Cultural Solutions should contact
Karin Trail-Johnson, Civic Engagement Center Director at trailjohnson@macalester.edu or 651-696-6040. The CEC will collect your contact information and confirm eligibility for the scholarship with Cross-Cultural Solutions. CCS will contact each interested applicant to further discuss the details of the program.
http://www.crossculturalsolutions.org/
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