Volunteer Opportunities in Ashtabula
Make a difference in Ashtabula County! Volunteer with local nonprofits, and help strengthen lives and communities.
About RSVP
RSVP is one of the largest volunteer networks in the nation for people 55 and over. You can use the skills and talents you’ve learned over the years or develop new ones while serving in a variety of volunteer activities within your community.
Contact Steph to Learn More
Contact Stephanie Blessing, who is the Volunteer Coordinator for RSVP Ashtabula. She lives in Jefferson with her husband. They have a vegetable and herb farm where they teach classes and sell plants. Stephanie has worked and volunteered in the non-profit sector for 25 years in food and housing organizations.
Steph recruits RSVP volunteers age 55+ and matches them to organizations in need. She talks to volunteers about their interests and where they live to find opportunities close to them. She also re-matches existing RSVP volunteers who want to try something different.
Current Volunteer Opportunities in Ashtabula
The Dragon Empowerment Center provides support services to students, families, and the community so that all can be successful in school and in life.
Volunteer Opportunities
- Tutoring/Mentoring students
- Assisting staff with escorting students to on-campus dental appointments
Head Start is a federally funded school readiness program primarily serving children ages 0-5.
Volunteer Opportunities
- Classroom assistance
- Reading to students/leading groups
- Kitchen assistance
- Administrative assistance
Our friendly drivers deliver hot, nutritious meals to the homes of qualifying seniors. No need to prepare anything. Our food is hot and ready to enjoy. Our home cooked meals are delicious and approved by a licensed dietitian to ensure they provide the recommended daily nutritional requirements.
Volunteer Opportunities
- Deliver meals to homebound seniors. Mileage reimbursement is available. Routes take 2-4 hours and involve 20-30 stops per route. You must hear or see the client before leaving. It requires a drug test and background check. You can ride along first to see if you want to commit.
- Serve meals and clean up at congregate meal sites: Ashtabula, Jefferson, and Conneaut, serving 20-25 people.
ACMC provides quality healthcare that makes a positive impact on the community.
Volunteer Opportunities
- Gift shop attendant
- Central registration
- Greeter
- Administrative support
Providing for the homeless and abandoned animals of Ashtabula County. Standards of animal care are provided by staff. Volunteers offer enrichment for animals.
Volunteer Opportunities
- Welcoming shelter guests and providing directions around the shelter
- Cat cuddler
- Consolidated commercial laundry room attendant– folding laundry
Volunteer Opportunities
- Ushering
- Concessions
- Box office
- Costume sewing
- Class & shop assistant
Volunteer Opportunities
- Transportation
- Do you have a special talent to share? Lead a group and share your wisdom with the seniors in Ashtabula!
ACHS needs volunteers like YOU! Whether you’d like to pitch in at Log Cabin Days, spend some time giving tours at Jennie Munger, mow lawns and maintain flower beds, or many more options – we need your effort and support. Join our growing community of history and nature lovers! We are an all-volunteer organization, and we need you.
Volunteer Opportunities
- Greet visitors, give tours.
- Inventory collections.
- Groundskeeping (mowing, flower bed maintenance, stick removal). Repairs needed by a skilled handy person.
- Marketing and communications help – social media, emails, website.
- Serve on the board of trustees.
- Filming, archiving, and digitizing archival historical documents.
- Help at special events, such as Log Cabin Days – cooking, serving food, parking, set-up and take-down.
Locations
- Ashtabula Public Library
- Geneva Public Library
Volunteer Opportunities
- Do you have a special talent to share? Lead a group and share your wisdom with the seniors in Ashtabula!
- Visit the homebound and deliver books while you chat!
Volunteer Opportunities
- Greet visitors, give tours, clean, inventory collections, staff the gift shop. Mostly need help staffing the museum during the open season.
- Help at special events.
- Need volunteers for History On Tap programs during the closed season October – May. They are on the 2nd Tuesday of each month at 6pm. Locations and topics announced on Facebook and Instagram.
Serving as Nature Allies, volunteers are helping to restore the earth with a shared vision to build healthy, more resilient and equitable lands, waters, and communities. Everyone has a role to play, join us and give back to nature.
Volunteer Opportunities
- Sit with the Nature Center one Saturday or Sunday each month. We always have 2 volunteers on duty. You don't need to be an expert to greet visitors, but the more time you spend, the more you will get to know each of the exhibits. Sit in rocking chairs and watch the bird feeders while waiting for visitors.
- Options to help host special events for monthly programs, or help during school field trips or private tours.
- Check the bluebird boxes once a month. Maintain the Native Plant Garden and Nature Play Area gardens. Offer a nature program on any topic you’d like to teach.
Become a volunteer guardian to persons over the age of 60.
Volunteer Opportunities
- Ensure the best living conditions for the ward
- Ensure the best medical decisions for the ward
- Please contact the program coordinator for additional responsibilities
Committed to enhancing the cultural identity of the community by providing a venue and programming for all ages to recognize and experience creative expression and the fundamental value of the arts, culture, and local history.
Volunteer Opportunities
- Administrative support
- Building maintenance
- Grounds maintenance
Volunteer Opportunities
- Volunteer at the David Cummins Octagon House or the Conneaut Railroad Museum. Give tours, greet visitors, staff the museums while open (Fri, Sat, Sun, 12-5pm)
- Take inventory, organize the archives, repair scrapbooks, and make posterboard exhibits.
- Help maintain the Cummins Pumpkin Patch, the Tasty Tomato Patch, and other gardening chores.
- Tell local history at our monthly programs, help create new programs sharing Conneaut history.
CHRC houses programs, which include the Conneaut Food Pantry and Emergency Assistance Program, Seniors Together Program, and the Right Track After School Program. Other agencies available in the “one-stop” setting include: Conneaut Health Department, GED Classes, WIC, Veterans Counseling, HEAP/PIPP, HALO, Salvation Army, Civil Service Commission, Signature Health, Senior Lunch Site, Senior Homemaker Services, and more.
Volunteer Opportunities
- Help sort and distribute food 1x per month at the monthly food distribution from the Cleveland Food Bank
- Help run BINGO! On Tuesday nights
- Help with the community garden or with activities/crafts/meals for seniors
- Clean and mop floors after food distributions
Volunteer Opportunities
- Teach senior programs (crafting, cooking, anything you want to teach).
- 1x per month help distribute food for Senior CSFP, 35lbs of food
- Help with data entry and administrative tasks
- Help with Thanksgiving and Christmas baked goods sales for fundraising
Join us to create a Community Food Forest in Dorset, Ohio. A Food Forest is a forest garden that mimics nature. It includes companion plantings of fruit and nut trees, perennial vegetables, and other edible plants.
Volunteer Opportunities
- Planting, harvesting, watering, weeding, and mulching a garden of largely woody species and perennial plants (fruit trees, berry bushes, medicinal herbs, native plants).
- Cemetery cleanup
Faith Lutheran food pantry provides food for those in need in Ashtabula.
Volunteer Opportunities
- Become an alternate to help in the pantry. The pantry is currently staffed; however, alternates are needed in case of volunteer absence.
Geneva food pantry provides food for those in need in Geneva, Ohio.
Volunteer Opportunities
- Main Pantry: Food pantry service.
- Geneva Mobile Food Pantry: Produce distribution (2nd Saturday of the month during the spring and summer).
We are committed to providing food, clothing, household items, and other essential humanitarian assistance to people in the City of Ashtabula and throughout Ashtabula County.
Volunteer Opportunities
- Food pantry – sorting food and carrying it to cars.
- Kitchen – cooking and serving.
- Clothing, coats, and housewares – sorters.
- Women, kids clothing, and toys, baby room – sorters.
- Cleaning help for the building (an old school).
- Able-bodied help needed most for heavy lifting.
Helping Others, Healing Ourselves. No cost home repair for disadvantaged residents throughout Ashtabula County.
Volunteer Opportunities
- Carpentry
- Landscaping
- HVAC
- General handyman
To reach H2O Missions, please call: (440) 624-0337
Hospice of the Western Reserve provides palliative and end-of-life care, caregiver support, and bereavement services throughout Northern Ohio.
Volunteer Opportunities
- Companionship
- Transportation
- Attorney services
- Licensed hairdresser services
- Notary services
Jefferson Senior Center is not only a place to socialize, but to take part in classes, events, and programs.
Volunteer Opportunities
- Leading craft groups, book clubs, etc.
- Administrative assistance
Kingsville Public Library serves as a welcoming community resource center that seeks to nurture the quest for lifelong learning and to engage the community through dynamic services for all ages.
Volunteer Opportunities
- Companionship and friendly visitation/book delivery
- Fundraising/Capacity building
- Special events
Volunteer-run organization in Ashtabula providing clothing, food pantry, and soup kitchen services.
Volunteer Opportunities
- Soup kitchen help
- Clothing distribution assistance
- Food pantry support
To reach Lighthouse Harvest, please call: (440) 998-7803
A 1.5 acre community garden that helps to feed the neighborhood!
Volunteer Opportunities
- Community gardening
- Administrative help
- Nutrition education
Providing transportation, companionship, event support, and food distributions throughout Ashtabula County.
Volunteer Opportunities
- Volunteer drivers needed to transport seniors to essential services.
- Mileage reimbursement is provided at .25/mile
- Supplemental insurance provided
Signature Health is a non-profit, Federally Qualified Health Center providing mental health, addiction recovery, primary care, and infectious disease services to patients across Northeast Ohio.
Volunteer Opportunities
- Greet people coming in the door.
- Direct them, help navigate from the lobby, and help with kiosk sign-in.
- Wipe down chairs and tables.
We need friendly, warm, and familiar faces to put folks at ease. Volunteers should be sensitive to diversity and mental health. You will receive support from a very friendly security officer and 2 staff within reach – will not have to deal with anything difficult.
Help to foster the development of youth to reach their highest potential as responsible, adaptable and caring adults.
Volunteer Opportunities
- Community-based traditional mentoring
- After school mentoring
- COUL Club mentoring
Volunteer at the YMCA – an exclusive organization of men, women, and children joined together by a shared commitment to nurturing the potential of kids, promoting healthy living, and fostering a sense of social responsibility.
Volunteer Opportunities
- General office
- Swim lesson assistant
- Youth sport assistant
- Childcare assistant
- Live Strong instructor
- Community education