Boston Cares volunteers are making a difference. Boston Cares volunteers plant community gardens, serve meals to the homeless, clean parks, paint community centers, tutor, care for sheltered animals, usher at cultural performances, and much, much more.

Boston Cares organizes and leads more than 100 projects every month. We replace the traditional means of volunteering – an ongoing commitment – with a richly diverse and wholly flexible volunteer program that allows people to volunteer when they can and for what they care about. Boston Cares empowers people to make volunteering a regular part of their lives.

Boston Cares is the largest organization in New England dedicated to team oriented volunteering on a flexible basis. We welcome volunteers of all ages, including children. We build relationships with non-profits with needs that can be filled by flexibly scheduled teams of volunteers. Then we recruit, orient and deploy reliable and enthusiastic groups of volunteers who get the job done. Since our founding in 1991, thousands of people have volunteered through Boston Cares at over 300 Greater Boston schools and non-profits. We currently have a mailing list of more than 7,000 members. Additionally, we organize and lead corporate volunteer projects for companies of all sizes.

Boston Cares is a member of the Hands On Network, an alliance of volunteer organizations working to transform individuals and communities through service and civic engagement, with affiliates in 55 US and international locations.

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