ARC –Brevard
Program: Provides training and employment to individuals with developmental disabilities.
Phone: (321) 722-5350
Volunteer needs: Teens will assist instructors, group help.

American Red Cross
Program: Disaster Services. Location provides disaster support, offers training for disasters and is 24 hour service. Phone: (321) 890-1002 ext. 4
Volunteer needs: General office duties, disaster services, health and safety instruction, special projects, youth programs.

Animal Services and Enforcement
Program: Services for all types of companion animal safety and welfare issues. Public health and safety re: animal issues. Phone: (321) 253-6608
Volunteer needs: Animal care, kennel cleaning, dishes, laundry. Training available.

Animals from the Ark Humane Society
Program: Program for animal adoption.
Phone: (321) 723-9710
Volunteer needs: Assist in care of animals at adoption center. Assist in finding homes for the animals. Join building crews in refurbishing shelter, bake sales and fund raising.

Autumn House
Program: Assisted living facility for people with Alzheimer’s disease and other dementia. 24/hour daily supervision by licensed personnel.
Phone: (321) 242-1006
Volunteer needs: One on one with residents, assist activity staff with programs. Must be 16 years old.

B.R.A.V.E. Volunteer & Internship Program Program: Supports work of Brevard Co. Government to help better serve the citizens. This is a program designed to match needs of County Government offices.
Phone: (321) 633-2031

Boys & Girls Club of Central Florida
Program: After school and summer programs offered for youth ages 6-18.
Phone: (321) 635-9900
Volunteer needs: Program attempts to match volunteers with their strength/interests. Duties could include tutoring, computer help, arts and crafts projects, being a program advisor, painting, minor landscaping, beautification, etc.

Braille/Talking Books
Program: Provides Braille/talking books to the blind and visually impaired. Provided by the regional library of Florida.
Phone: 1-800-226-6075
Volunteer needs: Call for opportunities

Brevard Co. Library (various locations)
Phone: (321) 633-1848
Volunteer needs: reshelf books, stamping, helping customers with questions, other various tasks as assigned.

Brevard Community Kitchen
Program: Provides food to feed the hungry and prepares the food for the program “Meals on Wheels”
Phone: (321) 639-8770
Volunteer needs: Help with preparation of food trays for the meals on wheels program and for daily meals. Stock shelves, cook, clean up and serve food.

Brevard Cultural Alliance
Program: Implement artist residence in schools and sites serving at-risk youth.
Phone: (321) 690-6817
Volunteer needs: Assist with special events, office tasks.

Brevard Museum of Art & Science
Program: Visual arts and science exhibitions, programs, lectures, tours, art classes and workshops.
Phone: (321) 242-0737
Volunteer needs: Receptionist, gift shop, office work, help with summer camps and events.

Brevard Schools Foundation
Program: Take Stock in Children – drop out prevention/mentoring program. Provides college/vocational tuition to deserving low-income students.
Phone: (321) 633-1000 ext. 756
Volunteer needs: mentors, must be 14 + years

Brevard Youth Orchestra
Phone: (321) 254-9583
Volunteer needs: Student musicians, clerical and bulk mailing assistance.

Brevard Zoo
Phone: (321) 254-3002
Volunteer needs: Assist with educational classes and programs, conduct zoo tours, lead kayaking tours, assist gift shop, front office, bird feeding, and special events.

CCC Physical Therapy Center
Program: Provides social, physical, mental health rehabilitation to physically challenged individuals.
Phone: (321) 452-5446
Volunteer needs: Answer phones, filing, equipment cleaning and laundry.

Central Brevard Humane Society
Program: Animal shelter, Pet adoption, strays.
Phone: (321) 636-3343
Volunteer needs: Clean cages, walk dogs, stuff envelopes and do office work.

Chamber of Commerce
Program: Provides information on local area and businesses. Phone: (321) 724-5400
Volunteer needs: labeling, making copies, light office work, administrative support.

Child Care Association, Central
Program: Child Care Resource & referral, subsidized childcare. Head start, early head start, services for pregnant women.
Phone: (321) 634-3514
Volunteer needs: Read to children, supervise them and rock infants. File; make copies, data input, and word processing and stuff envelopes.

Cocoa Village Playhouse
Phone: (321) 636-5050
Volunteer needs: Actors, ushers and concession stand workers. Work as stage hand with lights, curtains, props, etc.

Daily Bread
Program: Hot meal served daily. Services for homeless also include showers, laundry, job and other counseling by appointment. Program provides weekly haircuts and meals on holidays.
Phone: (321) 723-9046
Volunteer needs: Teens; Preparing food, sorting cans, cleaning dishes.

First Baptist Church of Malabar
Program: Food closet for anyone in need of food.
Phone: (321) 723-1602
Volunteer needs: Volunteers to pack boxes of food. Take down information needed from recipients.

Friends at Home
Program: Assisted Living Facility. Specializing in Alzheimer’s and other dementia-related illnesses. Accepts respite residents; will accept crisis resident if space permits on short term basis. Nurses on duty 24 hours.
Phone: (321) 631-4005
Volunteer needs: Interaction with residents; reading to residents.

Habitat for Humanity, Space Coast
Program: Builds houses in partnership with low-income families’ houses that are decent and affordable through a zero-interest, non-profit mortgage. Uses volunteer labor and materials. Applicant families must have volunteered 400-500 hours and meet other criteria.
Phone: (321) 264-1549
Volunteer needs: Volunteer hours vary but are usually needed on weekends to help build houses and assist doing anything at the worksite. Volunteers also are needed at the annual “Strawberry Festival”.

Henegar Center for the Arts
Phone: (321) 723-8698
Volunteer needs: Volunteers needed for concession sales, work in theater, ticket-taking and ushering. Stage production.

Junior Achievement of East Central FL, Inc.
Program: Economic education.
Phone: (321) 636-1000
Volunteer needs: Volunteers would be working within Brevard Co. teaching k-12, business.

Keep Brevard Beautiful
Program: Mission is litter reduction, recycling programs in schools, urban beautification.
Phone: (321) 453-8767
Volunteer needs: There is a constant need for volunteers. Many different projects, collecting litter, after 4th of July cleanup, etc,

League of Women Voters
Program: Voter education and services
Phone: (321) 723-7101
Volunteer needs: Anything from boat work to encouraging people to vote, research, or making an audiovisual program.

Marine Resources
Phone: (321) 725-7775
Volunteer needs: Volunteers needed for water quality monitoring, and pepper busting planting. Shoreline restoration.

Literacy Program of Brevard County
Program: Teaches basic reading and writing skills to Brevard County residents. Teach English to non-speakers. Tutoring is done on a one-on-one basis.
Phone: (321) 633-1809
Volunteer needs: The volunteer program consists of tutoring one-on-one, once or twice a week. It’s normally done at a neutral site at a library or church.

March of Dimes-Prenatal Care
Program: To improve the health of babies by preventing birth defects and infant mortality through community services, advocacy, research and education. Provides education on prenatal care.
Phone: (321) 633-3047
Volunteer needs: General office, event planning, help during events. Need a teen advisor for award winning Chain Reaction Youth Leadership Council.

Brevard Museum of History and Science
Phone: (321) 632-1830
Volunteer needs: Volunteer as docents for school groups, clerical assistants, clean up, gift shop and for research.

Parks and Recreation
Program: Parks and recreation operations for the mainland of Central Brevard County.
Phone: (321) 633-1874
Volunteer needs: Assist with yearly “special events” “Teen Fest” or “Traveling Skate Park”.

Salvation Army, South
Program: Social services-provides emergency, short-term assistance with food, clothing, utility bills, rent, prescriptions, furniture and emergency transportation.
Phone: (321) 724-0494
Volunteer needs: Volunteers may bag and sort, work the thrift shop or clerical work.

Sea Turtle Preservation
Program: Provides educational awareness to the plight of the sea turtle.
Phone: (321) 676-1701
Volunteer needs: Distribute information about preservation efforts. Assist in office or on special projects. Public relations and educational awareness activities.

Sharing Center
Program: Financial assistance W/utilities and rent. Must have eviction notice to receive financial assistance with rent. Must have final notice to receive financial assistance with utilities. Food bank.
Phone: (321) 727-8581
Volunteer needs: Work in thrift shop, sort clothes.

Space Coast Sports Promotions
Phone: (321) 453-7765
Volunteer needs: Work with athletes with mental retardation. All volunteer organization. Become coach or assistant. Season begins in October.

Teen Mission International
Program: The primary purpose of the ministry is to challenge, train and disciple young people, exposing them to worldwide missions. Summer boot camp teams operate locally.
Phone: (321) 453-0350
Volunteer needs: Christian oriented volunteers needed to work with youth during boot camps and missions. Also need volunteers to work in food service, promotions and publications, finance/computers, etc.

Women’s Center of Melbourne
Program: Counseling, information & referrals of various women’s issues.
Phone: (321) 242-3110
Volunteer needs: Peer counseling, office help, filing.

World of Faith Food & Clothing
Program: Persons can receive grocery bags filled with food and grocery items and have access to a clothing pantry.
Phone: (321) 635-8844
Volunteer needs: Help bag/box food items. Help wash/hang clothing items. Unload vans when food shipments come in, administrative duties as assigned.

YMCA of Brevard County
Program: Youth sports facility.
Phone: (321) 267-8924
Volunteer needs: Volunteers needed to do office work, child care, sports and/or family program.

More Examples of Volunteering Opportunities:
Cita Mission
Sharing Center
Tutoring
Church Activities
Sports(working with a coach for little league)
Humane Society