Best Buddies
Create friendships with students with intellectual disabilities at Berkshire Hills Music Academy. more details

Connections
Holyoke High School CONNECTIONS After School Program consists in a homework help session and recreational workshops where you can be a tutor and role model for the students. more details

Everywoman's Center
Work at this center which promotes educational access and equity for women. Includes a crisis hotline. more details

Food Bank Farm
Help harvest organic vegetables at this cooperative to donate to neighboring food banks. more details

Girl Scouts
Planning, organizing, and executing fun, education activities for the age group of your choice (kindergarten to grade 12). more details

Habitat for Humanity
Work with families to build new homes and support affordable housing. more details

Holyoke Soldiers' Home
Be companion to MA's honorably discharged wartime veterans or their spouses while doing activities such as bowling, crafts, singing, and various field trips. more details

Holyoke Tax Project
This project offers free tax preparation to low income residents in the Holyoke area. There is no experience necessary, it's a great learning opportunity, training is available on-line and at your convenience.  Spanish speakers would be a great addition. Volunteer Jan-April, Thursdays 4-8 pm and Saturdays 9a,-1pm! more details

Homework House
Tutor and mentor at risk, school age children in Holyoke twice a week. more details

Hospice Life Care
Hospice volunteers are membes of a very important team of people who care for the physical, emotional and spiritual needs of persons in our community who are at the very end of their journey through life. more details

Hussein Family Tutoring
Get paired up to tutor and establish a cross-cultural relationship with a Somali child in this seventeen-member family in West Springfield. more details

Jarvis Heights:
Be a mentor and tutor to middle school students in the Jarvis Heights apartment complexes or at one of the other Jarvis locations.. more details

NEFWC School Based Mentoring Program
Become a mentor for children living in Holyoke, MA. more details

NOLA: Keeping the Hope
Campaign to educate, raise awareness and recruit volunteers to aid New Orleans. more details

Purling for a Purpose
Join this charity knitting circle and create garments and blankets to warm the less fortunate. more details

River Valley Academy
Become a tutor at an alternative public school in Holyoke for children with special needs. more details

Safe Passage
Work at a shelter which cares for the needs of women and children involved in domestic violence. more details

Student Global AIDS Campaign
Become a part of the national movement to educate others and raise awareness about HIV/AIDS. more details

Tapestry Health Holyoke
Help provide reproductive health care to the area’s most neglected residents. more details

Westfield Detention Center Book Club
Meet in small groups with young male residents (age 14-21) to discuss books and how they relate to personal experiences. more details

ORGANIZATIONS

We also have relationships with the following organizations. You can contact them directly to find out about opportunities.

FIRST CALL FOR HELP
Agency Contact: Karen Hakala, khakala@hcac.org
Phone #: 413-582-4200 ext. 178
Location : Northampton, MA

KATE’S KITCHEN (PROVIDENCE MINISTRIES FOR THE NEEDY, INC.)
Agency Contact: Pat Merrill
Phone #: 413-536-9109
Location: Holyoke, MA

MARGARET’S PANTRY (Part of Providence Ministries for the Needy, Inc.)
Agency Contact: Pat Merrill
Phone #: inactive
Location: Holyoke MA

WOMANSHELTER COMPANERAS
Be a volunteer at a Holyoke shelter for women who have experienced domestic violence by caring for and spending time with their children, among other activities.
Phone #: 413-538-9717
Location: Holyoke, MA

THE INTERNATIONAL LANGUAGE INSTITUTE
Agency Contact: Rosa Mendez
Phone #: 413-586-7569 x100
Location: Northampton, MA

EASTHAMPTON SCHOOLS
Agency Contact: Barbara Craig, bcraig2@charter.net
Location: Easthampton, MA

NOT BREAD ALONE
Cook, serve and eat with guests, and clean up at this weekend Amherst soup kitchen.
Contact: Anita Magovern, amagover@mtholyoke.edu

TAPESTRY HEALTH HOLYOKE
Help provide reproductive health care to the area's most neglected residents.
Contact: Amy Short, (413) 536-8777, (413) 586-2016 x116

OXFAM
An organization that works nationally and globally to address social injustice through advocacy, education, and emergency assistance programs.
Agency Contact: Stephanie Demmons, sdemmons@oxfamamerica.org

JUST LIFE WORKSHOPS
Educate teens on poverty, workers' rights, and refugees. Join one or several workshops over the course of the year (1 workshop = 45 minutes).
Contact: Jessica Dupont, jmdupont@mtholyoke.edu

ARISE FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE
Work for low-income rights in this anti-oppression organization in Springfield.
Agency Contact: (413) 734-4948
94 Rifle St, Springfield, MA 01105
MHC Contact: Suzanne Bowles, smbowles@mtholyoke.edu

WISTERIAHURST MUSEUM
Help promote an appreciation for history and culture through educational programs, exhibits and special events.
Agency Contact: Melissa Boisselle, (413) 322-5660, boissellem@ci.holyoke.ma.us
238 Cabot Street, Holyoke, MA 01040