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Get Involved

Check out various ways to get involved in your community through opportunities from area nonprofits and other service organizations around Grounds, in Charlottesville, and beyond.

Want to go further and connect to public service as a personal commitment, a lifelong practice, and even a career? Check out Public Service Pathways.

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Submit a Service Opportunity

Want to submit a call for volunteers? Have a service event you'd like to promote? Submit your opportunity here and we'll promote it to University students.
First Tech Challenge Logo with BioBuzz
799 Faulconer Drive Charlottesville VA 22903 (St. Anne's Belfield School)

St. Anne's-Belfield will be hosting two FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC) Qualifying Tournaments on Saturday, December 12th, and Sunday, December 13th, 2026, and we are looking for volunteers!

First Lego League Logo with Bioglow Theme
799 Faulconer Drive

St. Anne's-Belfield will be hosting the FIRST LEGO League (FLL) Qualifying Tournament on Saturday, December 5th, 2026, and we are looking for volunteers! The tournament will be held in the school gym at 799 Faulconer Drive on our Learning Village campus.

A flyer shares photos of collge students and older adults who build connections online
Online

Join us for weekly hour-long workshops that bring together older adults and college students to reduce social isolation, build strong connections, and have fun!

C2R Flyer
Pine Brook New Jersey

Our virtual visit volunteers are young adults, ages 17-25, who participate in video visits with older adults every week on our online platform. Each week, they return to meet with the same older adult to share stories about what is going on in their lives.

Sign your group up for Rake-a-thon 2026!
Multiple locations around Charlottesville

Sign your group up to volunteer with Habitat for Humanity on November 14th raking lawns to raise money for affordable housing in Charlottesville!

C2R Flyer
Pine Brook New Jersey

Conversations to Remember is a nonprofit organization that helps reduce loneliness and social isolation among older adults by connecting them with young adult college students for weekly virtual visits.

Barrett Early Learning Center Logo
Cville 10-Miler Course

UVA volunteers would support the Charlottesville Ten Miler on behalf of Barrett Early Learning Center across race week and race day (Saturday, March 27, 2027).

Cville Litter Pickers

Cville Litter Pickers is a community volunteer group that runs cleanups every Saturday, 2:00–4:00 PM, at sites across Charlottesville and Albemarle County — city streets, parking lots, culverts, parks, and trails.

Gift of Life Tabling Event!

The Gift of Life Campus Ambassador Internship Program is a selective leadership opportunity for passionate, motivated college students who want to make a real impact on their campus and in the world.

Innisfree volunteer photo
Crozet, Virginia

Spend a year living and working in an intentional community on a 500-acre farm in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Central Virginia.

Step Up’s CEO, Sam Olivieri, meets with students to demonstrate what virtual tutoring looks like in action.
Virtual

Volunteer Tutor/Mentor Opportunity

Join Us on Saturdays!
Spring Reins of Life at Rolling Hills Farm. 353 Union Mills Road, Troy Virginia 22974

SPRING REINS of LIFE 501c3 relies upon public & private funding to offer equine-assisted therapy services to Veterans, At Risk Youth, and other trauma survivors in New Jersey who are suffering.  Moderate/severe trauma survivors generally either do not want to or simply cannot “talk about