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Volunteering can be just as powerful when we do it at home! Explore these opportunities to give back to your community from the comfort of your own home or in small groups.
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iNaturalist
Become involved in a community for Naturalists! Record your observations, share your findings, and discuss future change with global nature lovers.
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Litterati
Track your litter collection through the Litterati mobile app. You can even join challenges near you to become part of a community of changemakers. Click below to learn how to find a challenge near you. Download the app and start tracking your litter.
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Food Recovery Network - Power Hour
Join the FUN, virtual, communal, easy, and impactful power hour volunteer opportunity! You will partner with the Food Recovery Network and the Farmlink project to help recover 26,000 pounds of suplus food.
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Missing Maps
Help put the world’s vulnerable communities on the map, one map at a time. Join humanitarian organizations in this remote volunteer opportunity to save lives.
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Skills Based Volunteering: Partners in Food Solutions
Partners in Food Solutions is a nonprofit organization that works to improve food security in Africa by linking the expertise from General Mills employees with small-and-growing food companies in Africa. Employees remotely provide ~1 hour/week of pro-bono consulting services to help an African food company address some of their biggest challenges. Learn how you can get involved!
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Volunteer Guides
Access our volunteer playbooks which will guide you in creating high need items for our community. Each link will take you to instruction pages with everything you need to complete these activities including a purchase list, suggested types of nonprofit recipients and why these items are a priority in our communities.
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Hunger Free America
Join the movement to end food insecurity and become a Hunger Volunteer!
Hunger Free America needs your help creating the most current database of food resources. The crowd-sourced information will be freely available to all who might need assistance and will help the national USDA Hunger Hotline provide the most current information to callers.
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Connected for Sustainability
You are invited to the HandsOn Twin Cities virtual Connected for Sustainability day Friday, May 20, 2022 from 9am-3pm CST via Zoom. Come alongside a community of collaborators to build capacity for Nonprofits focused on environmental and social dimensions of sustainability.
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Points of Light Volunteer Database
Explore hundreds of volunteering opportunities through the Points of Light volunteer database. Nonprofits list their needs and connections, with YOU only a click away! There is volunteering option for everyone, just search for it! *Type in ‘at home’ in the Keywords section and your specific location to narrow your search.
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Habitat for Humanity
Come alongside volunteers to build strength, stability, and self-reliance through shelter in your community.
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Big Brothers Big Sisters of America
Every child has potential and the pandemic hasn’t stopped us from creating rewarding, life-changing relationships. Mentor youth in your city one conversation at a time.
Many communities are experiencing a high demand for mentors.
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Force for Good Nomination
Is there a nonprofit that you volunteer with that you would like to bring awareness to? Is there a colleague that you feel deserves a pat on the back? We want to recognize those that have made a meaningful impact on the communities where our employees live and work. Winners will be notified by the Global Impact Team and highlighted in a future Champions story.
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Board Member Connect & Training
Whether you are an employee interested in joining a nonprofit board or currently serving on one, our Nonprofit Board Governance Training and Board Member Connect Teams Channel are great opportunities to engage. Watch the training linked below, which will cover the fundamentals of nonprofit board governance. Or join Board Member Connect, a forum to ask questions, share best practices, sign up for training opportunities or find colleagues with similar interests by sending us an email.
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Get2Give
Shop to give back. Get2Give provides support through self-care boxes, believing in conscious consumerism and truly giving back to others!