Interested in volunteering? There are many agencies in Baton Rouge and around the parish looking for people willing to donate their time to help others.
Check the list below to find programs that interest you.
Phone: (225) 383-1090
Fax: (225) 387-5999
Volunteer opportunity: Volunteers provide instruction in adult basic education to those reading below a sixth grade level. Instruction includes reading, writing, math, communications, and problem solving.
Baton Rouge General Medical Center - Mid-City and Bluebonnet locations
Phone: (225)763-4131
Contact: Kathleen Miller
Volunteer opportunity: Volunteer in hospital gift shop, information desk, surgery and intensive care waiting rooms; radiation oncology, medical oncology, emergency room, same day surgery waiting room and patient family services. Flexible times.
Phone: (225)752-5801
Email: caawsmail@yahoo.com
Website: http://www.caaws.org/
Volunteer opportunity: Helps abandoned and homeless animals find new, permanent homes. Provides pet therapy visits to nursing homes, psychiatric facilities, children's homes and other institutions. Visits local schools, libraries, and daycare facilities with educational presentations regarding responsible pet ownership and spaying and neutering.
Phone: (225)636-2680
Email: bcitrullo@cathaven.org
Website: http://www.cathaven.org/
Volunteer opportunity: Help abused, abandoned, or neglected, cats and kittens find forever homes. Provide socialization, cleaning, feeding
and adoptions at our shelter and offsite adoption areas. Become a foster parent. Volunteer by helping to rehabilitate our special need
felines by giving those needed medications or socialization from your home. Foster healthy cats and kittens while waiting for space to become
available at our shelter. Participate in special events. These are just a few of the volunteer opportunities available with Cat Haven.
Phone: (225) 346-4311
Contact Person: Teresa Kalivoda or Becky Prejean
Email: teresakalivoda@aol.com
Website: http://www.dreamscometrue.org/
Volunteer opportunity: Volunteers involved in making "dreams come true" for children with life-threatening illnesses. Different committees carry out visiting the child and making financial arrangements.
Catholic Community Services
Phone: (225) 346-8712
Fax: (225) 346-0020
Website: http://www.ccsbr.org/
Volunteer opportunity: Work as volunteers on a one-to-one basis with exceptional/special needs children, birth to twenty-one. Grandparents serve five hours a day, four days a week and receive a small stipend, meals and transportation.
East Baton Rouge Parish Juvenile Court
Phone: (225) 354-1250
Fax: (225) 357-7876
Contact Person: Henrietta Jackson
Email: hjackson@brgov.com
Volunteer opportunity: Adult volunteers develop relationships devoted to personal, academic and social growth with local youth.
Habitat for Humanity of Greater Baton Rouge
Phone: (225) 927-6651
Fax: (225) 927-6347
Email: info@habitatbr.org
Website: http://www.habitatbr.org/volunteer/index.php
Volunteer opportunity: Volunteers build homes for low-income families who meet income guidelines.
Phone: (225) 928-4808
Fax: (225) 389-3029
Contact Person: Sergeant Marc Tabor
Volunteer opportunity: Volunteers recruited to provide set-up, service and clean-up for "Thanksgiving Together" dinner. Sponsors two other events for children, "Christmas for Kids" and "Easter for Kids," held at elementary schools.
Louisiana State University
Phone: (225) 578-3015
Contact Person: Virginia Grenier, Executive Director
Email: ihf@lsu.edu
Website: http://www.lsu.edu/ihf/
Volunteer opportunity: Provides the community an opportunity to encounter people of other nations through monthly intercultural exchanges with international students representing more than 100 countries. Has monthly Host Program (families serve as hosts to these LSU students).
East Baton Rouge Council on Aging
Phone: (225) 923-8000, extension 237
Fax: (225) 923-8030
Contact Person: Maeshell Goins
Email: mgoins@ebrcoa.org
Website: http://www.ebrcoa.org
Volunteer opportunity: Recruits, trains and places persons fifty-five and older as volunteers in non-profit organizations.
American Cancer Society
Phone: (225) 927-0782
Fax: (225) 767-1374
Contact Person: Amy Stuckey
Website: http://www.cancer.org
Volunteer opportunity: Trained volunteer survivors call or visit (home or hospital) patients who have just had a diagnosis of breast cancer. Area served is East Baton Rouge, West Baton Rouge, Iberville, Pointe Coupee, Ascension, East Feliciana, West Feliciana, Livingston and St. Helena parishes.
BREC
Phone: (225) 343-4955
Fax: (225) 343-6739
Email: information@magnoliamound.org
Website: http://www.brec.org/index.cfm?md=pagebuilder&tmp=home&nid=659&cpid=387&cfmid=0&catid=0
Volunteer opportunity: Authentically costumed docents conduct tours of the restored plantation home. Site includes main house, kitchen & crop gardens, pigeonnier, overseer's house and slave cabin.
Volunteer Baton Rouge
Phone: (225) 343-8270
Fax: (225) 343-3070
Email: vbr@volunteerbatonrouge.org
Website: http://www.volunteerbatonrouge.org/
Volunteer opportunity: VBR refers Baton Rouge area volunteers to local nonprofit organizations for inspiring community service opportunities.
East Baton Rouge Parish School System
Phone: (225) 226-4700
Fax: (225) 226-4710
Email: vips@ebrschools.org
Website: http://vips.ebrschools.org/
Volunteer opportunity: Volunteer opportunities include reading tutor, answering the phone, buddy program, gardening, maintenance, special events.
Volunteers of America
Phone: (225) 387-0061
Fax: (225) 381-7963
Website: http://www.voa-br.org/
Volunteer Opportunities: VoA offers many opportunities for committed volunteers. Check our Community Information Database for a complete list of programs.
Woman's Hospital
Phone: (225) 924-8156
Fax: (225) 924-8467
Contact Person: Pam Parker
Email: pams.parker@womans.org
Volunteer opportunity: Volunteer opportunities include information, directions, transport of patients and papers, delivery of flowers and mail, discharge of patients, answering phones, liaison between patients and families, gift shop orders and sales display, gift wrapping, cashiering, and greeter at outpatient registration.
This list represents a small number of the many volunteer opportunities in and around the Greater Baton Rouge area. For more options, please use the Community Information quick search located on our homepage.