Artspace is a hub for students of all ages, young children to adults, who wish to develop, appreciate, and nurture a love for the arts.

Artspace is currently seeking volunteers who have time to give and experience with the following things:

• event set-up and take-down (gallery events, recitals, etc)
• art materials organization and caretaking

Click here for more information.

Dakin Humane Society is a community-supported animal welfare organization that provides shelter, medical care, spay/neuter services, and behavioral rehabilitation for more than 20,000 animals and people each year.

Click here for more information on volunteer opportunities.

DIAL/SELF is a community-based non-profit agency that has been serving the youth and communities of Western MA since 1977. They provide a wide array of services that foster youth empowerment and community service. Over the course of the last four decades, more than 40,000 area youth have been served by the agency in Franklin, Hampshire and Hampden Counties and the North Quabbin region.

They also help to mobilize people, agencies and resources to address diverse community needs through meaningful volunteer service. Click here to see their list of current needs. 

The Food Bank of Western Massachusetts is looking has various volunteer opportunities, listed here.

All new volunteers must complete a virtual Volunteer Orientation first: https://www.foodbankwma.org/virtual-orientation/

The Franklin County Community Meals Program operates four meal sites and three food pantries in Franklin County. Each week, volunteers assist in stocking the pantry shelves, distributing bags and boxes of fresh produce and household staples at  meal sites and pantries, and connecting them with food donations.

Click here to learn more about volunteer opportunities or email volunteer@fccmp.org.

Click here to learn more about volunteer opportunities through Friends of the Hampshire County Homeless. 
 

Manna Community Kitchen, serves over 1,000 meals per week between St. John’s kitchen and Edwards Church in Northampton. They provide high-quality food to hungry neighbors. Click here for more information on how to volunteer.

The Stone Soup Café is a pay-what-you-can gourmet hot luncheon served by volunteers every Saturday afternoon in the All Souls Church in downtown Greenfield.

They seek volunteers for a variety of shifts to prepare food, wash dishes, pack and deliver meals. 

Click-here to learn more about volunteering.
 

The Treehouse Foundation, an award-winning nonprofit, helps children and youth whose lives have been impacted by foster care find “forever families” and ensure that they’re rooted in family and community.  With 40% of the state’s young people in foster care living in western Massachusetts, Treehouse Foundation offers a solution.  The Intergenerational Treehouse Community in Easthampton, opened in 2006, is home to 120 people:  families adopting children from foster care and caring older adults who all live in a close-knit neighborhood and invest daily in each other’s lives.Children, youth and families receive support and services to address the educational and emotional challenges often caused by early neglect, abuse and trauma. Older adults (55+) become "honorary grandparents," sharing their talents, time, wisdom and love. The result: All lives are enhanced.

Click here to learn about ways to volunteer.

Click here to learn more about volunteer opportunities through the United Way of Franklin & Hampshire Region.