Cait Mokros

Looking for volunteer opportunities near campus? There are many places looking for your help!

Volunteering has many benefits, such as opportunities to build your resume and advance your career and opportunities to build connections and help your community.

Whether you’re looking for volunteer opportunities to help your community, an activity to do in your free time, or an opportunity to build your resume. There are many places to volunteer right near the PSU Abington Campus!

Benefits of volunteering

1. Building your resume and advancing your career

Volunteering can help you build your resume and help with future employment. Adding volunteer experience to your resume can help put you ahead of the competition for a job. According to Jeanne Segal and Lawrence Robinson from HelpGuide, “Volunteering gives you the opportunity to practice important skills used in the workplace, such as teamwork, communication, problem solving, project planning, task management, and organization.” 

2. Building connections and community

Volunteering can help you to build connections with friends that you already have and help to make new friends along the way. It can help to make your community stronger and help those in need within the community. “One of the best ways to make friends and strengthen existing relationships is to commit to a shared activity together,” Segal and Robinson state. “Volunteering gives you the opportunity to practice and develop your social skills, since you are meeting regularly with a group of people with common interests.”

Places to volunteer near campus

1. Briar Bush Nature Center

Briar Bush Nature Center is looking for volunteers 18+ to lead guided hikes, maintain the facilities and grounds, and organize archives. Longterm volunteers can also join the Animal Care Volunteer Program to help various domesticated animals with preparing their diets, cleaning their enclosures, and providing them with other care. 

Located at 1212 Edge Hill Road in Abington, PA 19001

2. Abington Township Public Library

The Abington Township Public Library advises those who would like to volunteer to stop by or call to determine if there are volunteer spots available and then they will be required to fill out a volunteer application. Volunteers at the library could help out with straightening shelfs, tutoring, helping with children/young adult/adult programs, data entry, etc. 

Located at 1030 Old York Road in Abington, PA 19001

3. Eastern Montgomery Meals on Wheels

Meals on Wheels offers home delivered meals to individuals in Eastern Montgomery County who are home-bound. Meals on Wheels is always looking for volunteers who are able to deliver meals in their own vehicles one day per week from about 10:30 to noon but the schedules are flexible. If you are not able to drive or do not have a vehicle, the coordinators will pair you with a volunteer driver or you could help in administrative support in their office.

Located at 1177 Old York Road in Abington, PA 19001

4. Family Promise Food Pantry

Family Promise helps to address homelessness and hunger. They are looking for volunteers to help in their food pantry and they are also accepting nonperishable food donations. Volunteers at Family Promise Food Pantry would sort and weigh donations, pack food bags, transport food, and assist clients. 

Located at 2801 Woodland Road in Roslyn, PA (on the campus of Salem Baptist Church)