Cincinnati for Volunteers
Cincinnati is a city full of exciting volunteer opportunities for businesses and individuals to get involved and help with the community.
Cincinnati has always been a city that shows up for itself. From neighborhood cleanups to mentorship programs, food pantries to festival committees, the work of volunteers is woven into everything that makes this region thrive.
This page is your home for finding volunteer opportunities across Greater Cincinnati — whether you’re an individual looking to give back, a student building experience, or a company wanting to invest in the community you call home. Whatever your schedule, your skills, or your passion, there’s a place for you here. Because when more of us get involved, all of us benefit.
Volunteer Opportunities in Cincinnati
Annual Volunteer & Engagement Fair
This year marks 50 years of the Cincinnati Chamber Leadership Center developing leaders who serve our region—and we’re celebrating by bringing our community together for action.
Whether you’re looking to volunteer individually, engage your company in service, or simply learn more about the impactful work happening across the Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky region, this event offers a chance to connect with organizations making a difference and discover causes that resonate with you.
Join us on May 13 at CityLink Center for the first-ever Volunteer & Engagement Fair. More than 30 local organizations— with more joining every day—will be on-site to share meaningful opportunities for community involvement. Come new ways to give back, build connections, and make a lasting impact in our region.
Volunteer & Engagement Fair Organizations Involved
Adopt A Class
Adopt A Class empowers students from underserved communities through group mentorship to explore diverse career paths, develop employability skills, and build relationships that guide them toward pathways to success.
African Professionals Network (APNET)
While APNET celebrates African heritage and the contributions of the African diaspora, our membership, programs, and leadership are open to everyone. We welcome all individuals – regardless of race, gender, nationality, or background – who share our mission of connection, learning, and community advancement. Our purpose is to bring people together, foster collaboration, and create opportunities that strengthen communities and promote shared growth.
ArtsWave
With funding, services, and advocacy, ArtsWave fuels a more vibrant regional economy and connected community through the arts.
Asianati
We connect and celebrate Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) cultural heritage in Greater Cincinnati to build a community of belonging through education, engagement, and experiences.
Band in a Bus
Band In A Bus aims to bus the performing arts to communities in need. We find that music plays a big part inside, and outside of the band room. On average students who participate in music related programs score higher on standardized tests and develop positive social emotional skills that can point them towards a more creative future.
Beech Acres Parenting Center
We combine science and compassion to deliver innovative solutions that equip adults to meet children’s needs and cultivate their strengths.
Behringer-Crawford Museum
The regional history of Northern Kentucky as part of the Ohio Valley must be preserved for the benefit of present and future generations. Therefore, Behringer-Crawford Museum is a center for the collection, presentation, study and enjoyment of our natural, cultural and visual and performing arts heritage.
Big Brothers Big Sisters Greater Cincinnati
Create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth. Our vision is that all youth reach their full potential.
Black Art Speaks
To promote Black culture, social justice and expression through the uplifting of Black artist voices.
Blood Cancer United
Blood Cancer United’s mission is to support blood cancer patients and their families by providing financial assistance, resources, and compassionate community support throughout their treatment journey. The organization is dedicated to easing the burden of a diagnosis by funding critical needs, raising awareness, and fostering hope for those affected by leukemia, lymphoma, myeloma, and other blood cancers.
Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Cincinnati
To enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens.
Brighton Center
Our mission is to create opportunities for individuals and families to reach self-sufficiency through family support services, education, employment, and leadership. We will achieve this mission by creating an environment that rewards excellence and innovation, encourages mutual respect, and maximizes resources.
Brothas Inc Youth Initiative
To share life experiences and build meaningful relationships with youth by showing love, offering guidance, and providing safe productive alternatives to violence and street life.
Cancer Family Care
Cancer Family Care's mission is to improve the well-being and eliminate the suffering of any child, adult or family coping with cancer.
CancerFree KIDS
Our mission at CancerFree KIDS is to eradicate cancer as a life-threatening disease in children by funding promising research that might otherwise go unfunded.
Center for Healing The Hurt
To transform trauma into healing and hope.
Cincinnati Animal CARE
We meet the immediate needs of animals in our community through individualized care, life-saving solutions, and temporary shelter, en route to a safe, compatible home.
Cincinnati Arts Association
As the region’s premier promoter of the arts and entertainment, our mission is to use our expertise as a manager, presenter, and educator to: - Offer a broad range of high-quality performing and visual arts programs - Develop diverse audiences - Foster an appreciation of the arts and understanding of their forms - Encourage the use of our facilities by local and regional arts organizations
Cincinnati Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired (CABVI)
Empowering people who are blind or visually impaired with opportunities to seek independence.
Cincinnati Museum Center
Cincinnati Museum Center inspires people of all ages to learn more about the world through science; regional history; and educational, engaging and meaningful experiences.
Cincinnati Parks
The mission of the Cincinnati Board of Park Commissioners is “to conserve, manage, sustain, and enhance parks’ natural and cultural resources and public greenspace for the enjoyment, enlightenment and enrichment of the Cincinnati community.“
Cincinnati Recreation Commission
Embrace the spirit of the Cincinnati community by creating a culture of lifelong personal growth supported through reliable and sustainable funding sources that will move us from good to great.
Cincinnati Shakespeare Company
Cincinnati Shakespeare Company is a resident ensemble theatre company bringing Shakespeare and the Classics to life for all.
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra
MISSION To seek and share inspiration VISION To be the most relevant orchestra in America
City Gospel Mission-Youth
Breaking the cycle of poverty and despair...one life at a time.
CityLink
Our mission is to show God’s love to those in need by providing an integrated path to holistic life-change.
Dan Beard Council, Scouting America
The mission of the Dan Beard Council is to prepare youths and adults in the Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky area to make ethical and moral choices over their lifetimes by instilling in them the values of the Scout Oath and Law.
DAV
We are dedicated to a single purpose: empowering veterans to lead high-quality lives with respect and dignity. We accomplish this by ensuring that veterans and their families can access the full range of benefits available to them; fighting for the interests of America’s injured heroes on Capitol Hill; and educating the public about the great sacrifices and needs of veterans transitioning back to civilian life.
Easterseals Redwood
At Easterseals Redwood, we believe in the power of purpose and the power of work. We empower children and adults with disabilities, military veterans, and people facing disadvantages to live full and meaningful lives.
Echelon - Salvation Army
Echelon seeks to mobilize the next generation for The Salvation Army by providing opportunities for young adults to engage with the organization through fellowship and networking, donations and fundraising, and service and volunteering.
Emergency Shelter of Northern Kentucky
The Emergency Shelter of Northern Kentucky provides Life Saving, Life Changing low barrier shelter and services for adults experiencing homelessness or housing instability.
EquaSion
Living our mission every day through compassion and collective action, we engage people of all faiths to discover their shared humanity and spirituality, building faith and friendships that foster unity, belonging, and a more connected community.
Findlay Market
We honor the history of Findlay Market, expand access to fresh food and support a broad range of small business owners in order to steward a vibrant public market for current and future generations.
Freestore Foodbank
Our mission is to improve lives by eliminating hunger in partnership with the community.
From Fatherless to Fearless
From Fatherless to Fearless' mission is to empower and equip girls who have an absent or strained relationship with their father on their journey to healing and wholeness.
Girl Scouts of Western Ohio
The Girl Scout mission is to build girls of courage, confidence, and character, who make the world a better place. Founded by Juliette Gordon Low in 1912, the organization focuses on empowering girls to discover their strengths, rise to new challenges, and become leaders through community service, skill-building, and environmental stewardship.
Girls on the Run Greater Cincinnati
Girls on the Run (GOTR) Greater Cincinnati inspires girls to be joyful, healthy, and confident using fun, experience-based curricula that creatively integrates running and walking.
Great Parks
To protect nature and inspire communities to explore, learn and care for the outdoors.
Guiding Light Mentoring
Our mission is empowering young people to become the next generation of leaders by equipping them with skills and resources to make a positive and lasting impact in their lives.
Habitat for Humanity of Greater Cincinnati
Seeking to put God's love into action, Habitat for Humanity brings people together to build homes, communities, and hope.
Karen Wellington Foundation
Our mission is simple. We put FUN back on the calendars of women and families LIVING with breast cancer by sending them on special vacations, relaxing spa days, concerts and other FUN-ONLY activities. Since 2007 our recipients have traded in chemo chairs and canceled plans for sunrise hikes and hot air balloon rides.
Keep Cincinnati Beautiful
We cultivate people, passion, and place to keep Cincinnati Beautiful.
Kentucky Refugee Ministries
Kentucky Refugee Ministries, Inc. (KRM), a non-profit organization, is dedicated to providing resettlement services to refugees through faith- and agency-based co-sponsorship in order to promote self-sufficiency and successful integration into our community. KRM is committed to offering access to community resources and opportunities and to promoting awareness of diversity for the benefit of the whole community.
Know Theatre & Cincy Fringe Festival
The Know Theatre: Build belonging through bold Theatre Cincy Fringe: Cincinnati's Summer Theatre Party
La Soupe
La Soupe bridges the gap between food waste and hunger by transforming surplus ingredients into nutritious meals for those in need through the power of chefs.
Ladies of Leadership
Mission: Ladies of Leadership exists to empower girls and young women to rise above challenges, discover their purpose, and lead with confidence—equipping them with the tools, mentorship, and opportunities needed to break cycles and change the trajectory of their lives. Vision: We envision a world where every girl, regardless of her circumstances, has the confidence, support, and opportunity to lead a life of purpose, impact her community, and become a catalyst for generational change.
Last Mile Food Rescue
Our mission is to save desirable food and get it to those who need it most. We envision a city without food insecurity, where all our neighbors have enough to eat.
Lighthouse Youth & Family Services
Empower young people and families to succeed through a continuum of care that promotes healing and growth.
NAMI SOUTHWEST OHIO
NAMI Southwest Ohio provides advocacy, education, support and public awareness so that all individuals and families affected by mental illness can build better lives.
Ohio Economic Development Association Young Professionals
The mission of the Ohio Economic Development Association is to advance the practice of economic development to foster economic growth, prosperity, and opportunity for all residents of the State of Ohio.
OneSource Center for Nonprofit Excellence
We are a resource center providing services, products, and connections to strengthen the impact of nonprofits serving the Greater Cincinnati community.
Partners For Change
We strengthen the environments where children live and learn by working hand-in-hand with educators, families, and communities to champion the whole child—emotionally, socially, and academically.
Pig Works
Pig Works creates fun participatory sporting events for individuals and groups of all ages, abilities, and backgrounds that contribute to charitable causes that support the growth and development of our community here in Cincinnati and beyond. We promote a lifestyle that weaves movement and health into the fiber of our community that extends beyond the bounds of our event days
Ronald McDonald House: Red Shoe Crew
Cincinnati’s Ronald McDonald House is one of the largest Ronald McDonald Houses in the world! We offer a community of compassion, support and the comforts of home to families with critically ill children, steps away from the medical care they need.
Saturday Hoops
Saturday Hoops is a volunteer led group mentoring program of the Cincinnati Youth Collaborative, providing mentorship every Saturday morning, through positive and engaging activities such as basketball, art, reading, yoga, soccer, and social & emotional growth. Our program runs on the foundation of our 4 Themes: Cheerful Givers, Hard Workers, Overcomer and Good Stewards. We ask our volunteers to show up for any amount of time they can, engage with the kids and pour into them with love, confidence, and positivity.
SPCA Cincinnati
To be a driving force in promoting animal welfare, strengthening the human-animal bond, providing humane education, and eliminating pet overpopulation.
St. Vincent de Paul - Cincinnati
A network of neighbors, inspired by Gospel values, growing in holiness and building a more just world through personal relationships with and service to people in need.
StartupCincy
StartupCincy is a community and coalition of entrepreneurial support organizations that inspires entrepreneurship at all stages and works to expand the pipeline of startups launching and scaling in the region.
SuperSeeds
Our mission is to be a catalyst for transformation for youth disrupting the pipeline to prison.
Talbert House
We are committed to empowering children, adults, and families to live healthy, safe and productive lives.
The Bridge Adaptive Sports and Recreation
Our mission is to increase awareness and promote opportunities for individuals with disabilities to participate in adaptive sports and recreation, thereby improving their quality of life.
The Healing Center
The Healing Center exists to Inspire Hope, Foster Growth, Meet Needs, Build Relationships, and Reflect God's Love in all we do.
United Way of Greater Cincinnati
We empower everyone in our region to achieve economic well-being so our entire community can thrive — now and in the future.
We Mentor Cincy
Elevate youth mentoring in Greater Cincinnati by expanding capacity for mentors and mentoring organizations.
YMCA of Greater Cincinnati
To put Christian principles into practice through programs that build healthy spirit, mind and body FOR ALL.
Community Event Volunteers
The Cincinnati Regional Chamber provides fundraising opportunities for non-profit groups at Asian Food Fest (April 25-26), Taste of Cincinnati (May 23-25), and Oktoberfest Zinzinnati (September 17-20). The primary responsibilities will be serving beverages at our beer booths and general area upkeep at the events. In 2025, local organizations raised a total of $235,000 at the Chamber’s events.