Looking for a way to engage with and give back to the local community while in Baltimore for a conference, meeting or special event? The Visit Baltimore Charm City Cares program makes it easy to connect with area nonprofits committed to addressing citywide issues, from water pollution to food insecurity and job growth.
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Art with a Heart
Art with a Heart provides hands-on, interactive and educational visual arts classes in schools, community centers, group homes, shelters, permanent housing facilities, veteran’s facilities, hospitals, senior facilities and more. Art with a Heart works to harness the benefits of arts education to cultivate positive, long-lasting changes in the lives of its students and participants, who range in age from four to 104 years old. An ESSA-approved provider, Art with a Heart provides the teachers, assistants, all necessary materials, and innovative and culturally responsive curricula to engage participants in consistent and comprehensive visual art programming. Female Founded. Female Led.
Volunteer Capacity Onsite: 50
Types of Activities: Visual Art Engagements, Public Art, Art Programming Prep, Community/Team Building
Volunteer Activity Contacts: Madison Krchnavy ([email protected]), Tyler Dubois ([email protected])
Baltimore Corps
Baltimore Corps envisions a city empowered to develop, retain, and connect its leaders to achieve an equitable future for all of its residents. Baltimore Corps works to connect people to opportunities that can support their livelihood and help them make a positive difference in their communities. The organization works to enlist talent to accelerate social innovation in Baltimore and advance a citywide agenda for equity and racial justice. Female Led. BIPOC Led. BIPOC Founded. BIPOC Benefitting.
Blue Water Baltimore
Blue Water Baltimore’s mission is to restore the quality of Baltimore’s rivers, streams and harbor to foster a healthy environment, a strong economy and thriving communities. For too long, Baltimore’s waterways have been plagued by trash, toxins, sewage, and polluted stormwater. These problems do more than harm our environment; they threaten the health and well-being of our residents, communities and local businesses. Blue Water Baltimore takes a holistic approach to making safe, clean water a reality in Baltimore. Female Founded. Female Led. BIPOC Led.
Volunteer Capacity Onsite: Event Dependent. 150 Max for Trash Clean Ups
Types of Activities: Tree Plantings and Trash Clean-Ups
Volunteer Activity Contact: Lauren Stranahan ([email protected])
Helping Up Mission
Helping Up Mission provides hope to men fighting addiction and homelessness through Christ-centered, scientifically sound recovery programs and services. These comprehensively address physical, psychological, social and spiritual needs over a period of at least one year. Female Led.
Volunteer Capacity Onsite: Men’s Center can accommodate a group of 5-6 people. The Center for Women & Children is on a case-by-case basis, but typically very small groups are preferred.
Types of Activities: Recreational, Educational, Mentorship and Off-site
Volunteer Activity Contacts: Brian Murphy – Men’s Center ([email protected]), Andrea “Andi” O’Connor – Center for Women and Children ([email protected])
House of Ruth Maryland
House of Ruth Maryland leads the fight to end violence against women and their children by confronting the attitudes, behaviors and systems that perpetuate it, and by providing victims with the services necessary to rebuild their lives safely and free of fear. Female Founded. Female Led.
Volunteer Capacity Onsite: Event Dependent. Groups around 10 preferred, max of 15-20 guests. All small group activities, typically less than 10 individuals, must complete a volunteer application and conflict check, sign a liability and confidentiality waiver due to the sensitive nature of our work.
Types of Activities: Donations Organizing, Cooking Meals, Maintenance Projects, Fun Activities and Programming for Shelter Residents, Educational Opportunities.
Volunteer Activity Contact: Maggie Bridge ([email protected])
Living Classrooms
Living Classrooms provides access to more equitable education, workforce development, community safety, and health and wellness opportunities that enable individuals to achieve their aspirations and build safer, stronger and healthier communities for all. For over three decades, Living Classrooms has collaborated with community members in Baltimore and Washington, DC to create diverse programs that are community-driven, research-based, and ultimately designed to disrupt the ecosystem of poverty that can be directly traced to historic and contemporary racial, social and economic disparities. Our programs and best practices value the priorities and aspirations of community members and deliver both opportunity and results. Female Led. BIPOC Led.
Volunteer Capacity Onsite: 100
Types of Activities: Educational, Workforce Development, Health and Wellness, Mentorship, After School and Summer Programming, Tutoring
Volunteer Activity Contact: Amber Briggs ([email protected]), Erin Myers ([email protected])
Maryland LGBTQ+ Foundation
The Maryland LGBTQ+ Foundation generates resources and works in partnership with the Maryland LGBTQ+ Chamber of Commerce to activate, educate, and mobilize the LGBTQ+ community to access opportunity and wealth generation. The Maryland LGBTQ+ Foundation believes in the economic empowerment of all LGBTQ+ people within our state.
Paul’s Place
Paul’s Place began as a soup kitchen in the basement of a Southwest Baltimore church nearly 40 years ago. It has expanded into a community outreach center that serves more than 75,000 hot lunches a year and offers more than 20 programs, including: job training, case management services, employment and housing assistance, and nursing and recovery support. Their mission is to improve the quality of life in Southwest Baltimore by remaining a steady presence that residents know they can rely on day after day. Female Founded.
Project Play Baltimore
Project Play develops, applies and shares knowledge that helps stakeholders build healthy communities through sports. They produce exclusive reports that take measure of the state of play from the national to community levels. They create research, insights and tools that sport providers use to improve the delivery of youth programs. Then each year, Project Play pumps new ideas into the bloodstream and push the movement forward at the Project Play Summit, the nation’s premier annual event for leaders at the intersection of youth, sport and health.
Social Offset
Social Offset is a nonprofit organization that provides socially conscious alternatives to event and destination boycotts. Create offset spending in your destination where laws don’t align with your core values by donating to local charities.
United Way
United Way brings people together to build strong, resilient and equitable communities, in 37 countries and territories. Through United Way, communities tackle tough challenges and work with private, public, and nonprofit partners to boost education, economic mobility, and health resources.
Types of Activities: Help the local community with tailored volunteer opportunities for your group. Read to Baltimore City Elementary classrooms, assist with food pantries, speak to a classroom to teach students about different professions, and more.
Volunteer Activity Contact: Beth Littrell ([email protected])
