Volunteering is a great way to help. We invite you to share the power of a wish® whether you can give a few hours each month or a few days each year.

The mission of the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve Toys for Tots Program is to collect new, unwrapped toys during October, November and December each year, and distribute those toys as Christmas gifts to needy children in the community in which the campaign is conducted.

Marty Lyons was a professional football player in the National Football League, where he served for twelve years as a premiere defensive lineman for the New York Jets.  Early in his career, Marty befriended and became a surrogate father to a three-year-old boy suffering from an advanced illness.  Three years later, in the spring of 1982, the youngster’s death coincided with the sudden death of Marty’s father and the birth of his first child, a healthy son.  These experiences profoundly affected Marty’s attitude toward life, fame and his fellow human beings.  With the encouragement and assistance of family and friends, Marty Lyons became determined to establish a foundation dedicated to granting wishes of seriously ill children.

The Marty Lyons Foundation has kept hope alive in the hearts of children with a terminal or life threatening illness by making their special wish come true!  A fulfilled special wish has the ability to sweep the children and their family away from the daily heartache of illness.  It is a joyous time that creates a wonderful memory and a better quality of life.  Every child has a dream, and although we can’t promise a lifetime of happiness to these seriously ill children, we can make one dream a reality!

We have granted wishes for a special trip to Disney, meet a celebrity, a computer system, a swimming pool filled with spring water, a shopping spree, and special renovations to allow a child to live at home with family, swim with dolphins, a Cinderella-like “Sweet 16” birthday party and so many more.

Volunteer Opportunities - Throughout the year, the Mayor's Beautification Program offers numerous volunteer opportunities. We can accomodate any size group, date/time. We can also tailor any project to suit your needs. Typical projects include everything from shoreline restoration projects and tree plantings to litter cleanups and invasive plant removal projects. We offer opportunities throughout the year, as well as on-going park, median, shoreline and neighborhood adoption projects. All of our volunteer opportunities build a sense of community as neighborhood residents invest their time back into their community. The Mayor's Beautification Program provides all necessary supplies, tools, gloves and water for its Environmental Service Projects. Please contact us at 813-221-8733 for more information about volunteer opportunities.

Take Action - End Senior Hunger. There are many ways to end Senior Hunger in your area. Below are suggestions of some ways you can help end Senior Hunger. Visit our website to learn more.

The Pinellas County Medical Reserve Corp. is a volunteer group of medically licensed individuals trained and ready to help in time of emergencies and disasters.  It is run out of the Health Department.  To register, go to www.servfl.com.

We are parents and caregivers in the bay area of children affected by congenital heart defects / heart disease who have formed a support group to exchange experiences and ideas. We have seen our children go through numerous open-heart surgeries, catheterizations, and other types of invasive surgeries.

We try to secure the best future for our children by raising awareness, raising monies and giving to research in hopes that they will benefit through future developments in technology and procedures.

Miles for Hope is dedicated to raising awareness and funding for brain tumor treatments that provide a better quality of life for patients diagnosed with a brain tumor.  We also provide travel assistance to qualified patients.  Currently, over 200,000 people are diagnosed with brain tumors in the United States each year, and we need help from volunteers in all aspects of the organization.

Currently, we need volunteers to help in the office with administrative tasks, marketing, and event planning and management. Your commitment and contribution to Miles for Hope will help us in our mission of finding a cure for brain tumors.

Morton Plant Caring Partners and the Auxiliary of Mease Health Care provide unparalleled support to the hospitals of Morton Plant Mease Health Care. These volunteer groups participate in everything from routing phone calls to operating gift shops to visiting patients.

Neighborly Care Network is currently looking for volunteers. Our volunteer program welcomes all ages and groups are encouraged to volunteer together. Time commitments and locations are dependent upon volunteer work performed, and all volunteers are fully trained, free of charge. Knowing you can make a difference in someone’s life is a wonderful feeling! For more information call 727-456-0222, ext. 291, or please email phazell@neighborly.org.

The Ocean Conservancy of Florida is seeking volunteers to work with our Pier Walker program and to assist in marine debris removal! We have several opportunities for you to be involved: We hold a beach clean up every third Saturday of the month as well as work with local anglers to promote the monofilament line recycling program in the bay area.

For more information on the up and coming International Coastal Clean up, as well as other opportunities to join us please contact intern-fla@oceanconservancy.org

Join us in our efforts to \"Start a Sea Change\" on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Ocean-Conservancy-Florida/80186947028?ref=mf.

Our Mission is to provide opportunities for individuals with disabilities to exercise their independence, enjoy an enhanced quality of life and experience life to the fullest. More than ever, Americans are connecting to their communities through volunteer service. PARC is no exception. More than 500 volunteers help to support PARC’s day-to-day operations and special events throughout the year.

Waterway cleanup events are held each April and October, usually on Saturday from 8:00am until 12:30pm.  Sign up for the opportunity to have fun while cleaning up our waterways with the Cross Bayou Canal and Joe’s Creek Cleanup.  Lunch and raffle giveaways add to the fun.  This cleanup is a part of the Keep Pinellas Beautiful program. Click here to visit the website.  For information on upcoming cleanup events, contact Anamarie Rivera by email arivera@pinellascounty.org.

Pinellas Village is a not-for-profit apartment community and self-sufficiency program for single parents. We can use volunteers to assist in our boutique, paint apartments, or provide administrative assistance. Individuals and organizations can also organize drives to collect personal hygiene and cleaning items or gift cards for our residents.

Volunteers are the backbone of Ronald McDonald House Charities. More than 30,000 volunteers from around the world spend millions of hours each year preparing meals for families, hosting movie and pizza nights, cleaning and organizing kitchen and play areas and maintaining gardens and landscaping.

We are looking for people of all skill levels to assist with a wide variety of tasks; such as event setup, breakdown, food prep, food servers, greeters, security, parking, and etc. We try to spread out the task load so everyone has the opportunity to experience and enjoy some of the event for themselves. The more volunteers for each event the better. Also a need for people with clerical and computer skills to assist with such tasks as typing, printing, copying, etc. Sacred Lands is a 501(c) 3 nonprofit and in a position to apply for grants and could use assistance in this area as well.

Speaking from personal experience this is a great opportunity to be a part of an incredible organization, meet a lot of interesting people, and participate in a wide variety of experiences, and have a lot of fun doing it.

Your faith in our efforts and your commitment to your community make it possible for us to achieve our mission. Your gifts of prayer and financial support are an investment-an investment that will be repaid many times over by the thousands of lives changed each day.

The FL Area Command in St. Petersburg offers a wide variety of volunteer opportunities. Click here to visit the local website to learn about our volunteer opportunities.

You and your group or organization can play an important role in the lives of children by volunteering at The Science Center! We have a wide variety of opportunities available to suit your interests, skills and time availability. You don\'t have to have a science background, or any specific skills for that matter! You just have to be willing to have fun and make friends!

The Siberian Husky Rescue of Florida rescues stray, abused, surrendered and unwanted Huskies. We make sure they are up to date on vaccinations and heartworm preventative, are spayed or neutered, and microchiped. We are in DESPERATE need of Foster homes for these dogs. We also could use volunteers to help us with fundraising.

Sarasota Manatee Association for Riding Therapy is dedicated to enhancing the physical, emotional and cognitive growth of individuals with special needs through a quality education and recreational therapeutic horseback riding and carriage driving program.

Volunteers are the heart and soul of SMART. Everyone works together at SMART to form a vital team that is essential to the success of our program. Being a mostly Volunteer organization, our need for Volunteers is always great.

The SPCA\'s goal has always been to provide food, shelter and medical attention and to find new homes for the many companion animals we take in each year. We are proud of the programs that we offer and hope that you will choose to be a part of our organization, knowing that you can make a difference for our four-legged friends who cannot speak for themselves.

If you are a loving, caring, energetic person, why not become a valuable resource and an important part of the St. Joseph's-Baptist Health Care family? Whether you give our patients and families a little extra "TLC" or help our hospital team members behind the scenes, YOU , volunteers, from teens through seniors, make a big difference.

Provide support to hospice patients, their families and hospice staff in many ways. It's as simple as providing a supportive presence to a patient feeling alone or providing a welcoming greeting to those in Pinellas county who visit our community service centers. There is a place for virtually everyone and training is provided at no cost.

You can enrich your life and the lives of animals by volunteering your help at the Sanctuary. No one is too old or too young. We have volunteers from 8 to 80+ years young.

Here is what one of our volunteers had to say: "For a half a day each week I set the rest of my busy life aside and enjoy the presence of all of these VERY interesting animals. While cleaning the cages and feeding them, I interact with them without usually touching them, but nonetheless quite closely. These animals, from the smallest monkey, Gidget, to the positively endearing Spider monkeys, Blue and Candy, to the large (VERY LARGE) gorilla, Otto, are happy, curious and very communicative animals. (This is very different from many animals I have seen in zoos, who are so bored or depressed that one cannot even get their attention.) Many welcome me as a host or hostess would. Most have something to say. Some even flirt. They know they are safe and well cared for and it is my weekly pleasure to see that they are doing so well and to share their special world.

We are a non-profit, all volunteer organization providing reading tutors to adults who need help learning to read. We train our tutors 3-4 times per year in the use of the Laubach Method of teaching adults to read.

We are always interested in new volunteers and always open to donations and of course any suggestions.

It is the mission of the Upper Pinellas Association for Retarded Citizens, Inc., to enhance the dignity and independence of persons who are developmentally disabled in the Upper Pinellas area. UPARC is dedicated to enabling individuals with mental retardation and other developmental disabilities to choose and realize their goals of where and how to live, learn, work, and play and is further committed to supporting the families of individuals served, realizing that the family is the central unit of society.

At UPARC, we are always looking for volunteers for different needs. High on the list, are people willing to befriend one of our consumers. Someone to go for a walk, bike ride or any short outing with one consumer. There are many other needs for volunteers at UPARC also. At our Ribbon Tree Gift Shop, at Largo Medical Center is another top of the list need, there are many evening and weekend hour we need to have filled.

At the YMCA, your time and talent go a long way. Every hour you spend as a YMCA volunteer translates into the caring attention a child or teen needs to grow up healthy and resilient. It translates into support for families so they can be successful and strong. Into healthier lives for people of all ages, backgrounds, abilities and incomes. Into a safer, more viable community that's a good place to live and work.

The YWCA strives to empowwer women, eliminate racism and promote peace, justice, freedom and dignity for all. We operate a homeless shelter & day care centers and we help pregnant teens and we provide mentoring for young girls. We need adult mentors, help with special events, office assistance and Board members. We also accept donations at our thrift store.