Are there any volunteer opportunities in Houston where I can stay at home?

Question

I know it sounds funny.... but i always have a problem of gettinga ride and i need volunteer hours fast. I was thinking of opportunities of making pillows, blankets, or greeting cards and things like that.... things i can do at home.

Answer 1

You can do any of those things, but you will need to call various nonprofit organizations in your area and see if they really need pillows, blankets or greeting cards. Try hospitals, retirement centers and homeless shelters. Activities like this may be posted at VolunteerMatch (http://www.volunteermatch.org), Idealist (http://www.idealist.org), Change.org (http://www.change.org) and CraigsList (http://www.craigslist.com) all list volunteering opportunities with thousands of organizations. Also, contact your local volunteer center; you can find this via the Points of Light Foundation web site (http://www.pointsoflight.org/centers/).

Project Gutenberg is always looking for online volunteers to proofread texts which are made freely available to the world. Volunteering for Project Gutenberg is something you can do from your home.

http://www.gutenberg.org/

LibriVox is a nonprofit effort that mobilizes volunteers to record chapters of books in the public domain. LibriVox then publishes the audio files on the Internet, via its web site. The goal is to record al books in the public domain! Volunteering for LibriVox is something you can do from your home. You can listen to free audiobooks recorded by volunteers, or volunteer to record yourself reading a chapter of a book in the public domain to share with everyone, by going to the LibriVox web site:

http://librivox.org/