Welcome to the Volunteer Center for Anne Arundel County

Attention Donors!

The Volunteer Center is listed with GuideStar/JustGive Charities. To go to our GuideStar page, (Click Here). Your donation will help us continue to send willing individuals and groups to volunteer with more than 290 agencies to meet the community needs.

The start of this holiday season reminds us of the many local families in need of support and services just at the time when the nonprofits who can help meet those needs are facing their own struggles. Yet, we are also seeing volunteers reaching out to assist those in need – offering food, special care and compassion.

Here are a few examples of how the Volunteer Center has been connecting people with opportunities to serve others in Anne Arundel County:

We help children in danger of dropping out of school by recruiting tutors and mentors for more than 40 local programs.
By Recruiting over 300 volunteers and joining forces with 60 agencies for County Executive Leopold’s Annual Homeless Resource Days which provided each year more than 400 local homeless individuals and families, or those at risk of being homeless, with medical care, substance abuse resources, mental health counseling, housing and job assistance, and much more.
We send volunteers to community assistance programs, food banks and shelters because financial stress and unemployment can lead to psychological despair and homelessness.

The Volunteer Center invites you to share your giving heart with your neighbors and your community by supporting volunteering. In these challenging times when our community is more dependent than ever on volunteers, the role of the Volunteer Center For Anne Arundel County in mobilizing volunteers is more crucial than ever!

Since the Volunteer Center opened in 2001, we have referred more than 15,000 volunteers to over 340 nonprofit, governmental and faith-based agencies creating nearly $2 Million of added value to our County in volunteer time per year. The bottom line is volunteering isn’t just nice, it’s necessary to solving some of our toughest local challenges. In this time of goodwill, the Volunteer Center needs your support to recruit, train and deploy people who want to play a part in meeting our community’s critical needs. You can make a secure donation from this website by clicking on the “Donate Now” button below.

Another easy way to help support the Volunteer Center or any other cause you care about is through a new search engine powered by Yahoo! called GoodSearch. GoodSearch will make a donation to your favorite charity or school with every search. It doesn't cost you a thing — the money comes from the advertisers. We are asking you to support the Volunteer Center by using GoodSearch. Every time you do a search you contribute about a penny to The Volunteer Center! We need all the pennies we can generate because we are no longer supported by Anne Arundel County funding.

The Volunteer Center For Anne Arundel County is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization-donations to which are tax deductible to the fullest extent allowed by law.