Our volunteers are vital to our day-to-day operations and help us with…

    Volunteer With Us

  • Administrative Tasks

    Like working behind the scenes? Help us out with administrative tasks like data entry, mailings, or documentation. Or take a shift managing our front desk at lunch.

  • Caring For Children

    As a weekly neighborhood volunteer, you can join our community and participate in activities like reading, art projects, outdoor play, holding and feeding infants, preparing meals, and doing light household chores.
    Minimum 6-month commitment. Must be 21+.

  • Meal Delivery

    If food is your love language, you can prepare a home-cooked meal, purchase a meal, or pick up donated meals from area restaurants to deliver to our children and caregivers.

  • Sorting Donations

    We’re so grateful for all the basic needs donations we receive every day… but we need help sorting through them! Join us in our warehouse or pantry to help us get our donations to the children who need them.

  • Special Events

    Our annual Gala and Chili Cook-Off require a lot of help from our friends. Volunteers like your help with with planning, invitations, registration, decorations, entertainment, live and silent auctions, set-up, and clean-up.

  • Professional Services

    Volunteer your time and expertise to help us with medical care, finance, IT, and professional facilities maintenance.

We have volunteer opportunities for everyone.

  • Group

    Perfect for corporate, community, faith-based, or university groups! Your group can help with maintenance projects, meal prep, food drives, hosting a playdate with the children, or seasonal projects. Please contact our Volunteer Manager at volunteer@casahope.org for upcoming group volunteering opportunities. 

  • Individual

    Become part of our team by volunteering to help with day-to-day things like meal prep, administrative assistance, donation sorting, childcare, and so much more. Whatever your skills, we have a way for you to partner with us.

  • Young Professionals Group

    HOPE Leaders is a group of emerging leaders from various professions dedicated to strengthening the heart of philanthropy and community action throughout the Greater Houston area.

Your path to volunteering:

Submit an interest form.

Tell us about yourself, your availability, your interests and skills, and why you want to volunteer. We’ll review your interest form and invite you to attend an information session.

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Submit an application.

After the information session, we will send you an application. References and background check are required for individual volunteers.

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We’ll contact you with opportunities.

Once your application is approved, we’ll get back to you with some available volunteer opportunities that might be a good fit for you or your group.

3

Attend a volunteer orientation session.

Orientations for individual volunteers are held quarterly.

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Choose a date and show up.

Choose which volunteer opportunities you want to do, let us know, and show up!

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Matching Gift & Volunteer Grant

Volunteer grant programs, also known as “Dollars for Doers” programs, are charitable giving programs set up by companies to recognize employees for giving back to their communities. Hundreds of companies offer volunteer grant programs with donations to Casa de Esperanza generally ranging from $10-15 per hour volunteered. Please take a few minutes to check if your employer (or your spouse’s employer) offers volunteer grants.

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Submit a volunteer interest form.

Whatever volunteer opportunities you’re interested in, start by submitting this form and we’ll get back to you with next steps.

Ways-to-support - Submit a volunteer interest form.