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Make a Difference: Give back at these events

Make a Difference: Give back at these events

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Live events have an immense power to drive positive change, make meaningful impact, and foster social connection. Eventbrite is home to thousands of events where you can volunteer your time, support a nonprofit organization’s mission, or help raise funds for a worthy cause. We’ve curated events in select cities across the US where you can do good for your community, for others, and even for yourself.

Make a Difference: Give back at these events
Make a Difference: Give back at these events
Make a Difference: Give back at these events

Make a Difference: Give back at these events

Sammlung von Eventbrite

Live events have an immense power to drive positive change, make meaningful impact, and foster social connection. Eventbrite is home to thousands of events where you can volunteer your time, support a nonprofit organization’s mission, or help raise funds for a worthy cause. We’ve curated events in select cities across the US where you can do good for your community, for others, and even for yourself.

Lend a hand at the Arcadia hilltop farm during this weekly volunteer session in Alexandria, Virginia.

Clean up the SF neighborhood of Miraloma by volunteering to pick up litter. Plus, volunteers will be treated to a free Starbucks coffee afterward.

Kick fast fashion to the curb by volunteering to sort through clothing donations with the NYC Fair Trade Coalition. You'll even get the opportunity to participate in a clothing swap.

Every week, volunteers come together on Randall's Island in New York City to pull weeds, pick up trash, and take care of the sprawling park.

Learn all about oysters by volunteering at the REAP Climate Center in Alameda, CA.

Address the stigma around mental healthcare by volunteering with CHH&MH, an organization that provides wellness resources like mindfulness classes, talk therapy, and holistic care.

Organize grocery donations and hand out food to families in need in Echo Park, Los Angeles. Your efforts with the Children's Institute and The Dream Center will feed up to 80 children weekly, reducing childhood hunger.

Beyond a Mammogram 5k, a breast cancer fundraising and awareness event, needs volunteers in Chicago to help with essential tasks like course marshaling, water distribution, greeting, and setup/clean-up.

Bring gloves and a water bottle to this weekly volunteer meet-up in Huntington Beach, where you'll help tend to native plants.

The Women's Board of the American Heart Association hosts this silent auction and door prize fundraiser at The Wharf in DC. Potential prizes include resort stays, free workout class packs, and giftcards. But the best prize is knowing all profits go to supporting lifesaving research.

Every Saturday, this farm just outside of Los Angeles welcomes volunteers who are interested in learning more about the tasks surrounding harvesting crops and caring for animals.

Find out how you can turn food scraps and other waste into fertilizer during this hands-on workshop presented by San Francisco organization Garden for the Environment.

Every Sunday, a group of volunteers throw on orange vests and clean up the streets are Nob Hill in San Francisco, followed by refreshments and snacks.

The Garbage Gals, a nonprofit dedicated to removing litter from the streets of the Windy City, are doing a one-hour cleanup in Bridgeport before heading to the home of the White Sox to catch a game for free.

Support a public library in the Richmond District of San Francisco by volunteering to clean up the area and get litter off the streets.

Come together to pack over 400,000 meals for food-insecure folks. This event honors first responders, survivors, and those who lost their lives in the tragedy through serving the local community.

Come together to pack over 500,000 meals for food-insecure folks. This event honors first responders, survivors, and those who lost their lives in the tragedy through serving the local community.

Come together to pack over 250,000 meals for food-insecure folks. This event honors first responders, survivors, and those who lost their lives in the tragedy through serving the local community.

Come together to pack over 400,000 meals for food-insecure folks. This event honors first responders, survivors, and those who lost their lives in the tragedy through serving the local community.

Come together to pack over two million meals for food-insecure folks. This event honors first responders, survivors, and those who lost their lives in the tragedy through serving the local community.

Assist with everything from composting to spreading mulch when you show up to volunteer at the Fountain Community Gardens in Los Angeles.

Learn more about the food you can grow in your garden and how to care for it during this workshop presented by San Francisco organization Garden for the Environment.

Enjoy a glamourous masquerade ball in Chicago to fundraise for Leave No Veteran Behind's mission of reintegrating former members of the armed service into civilian life.

Head to the far North Side of Chicago to volunteer your time planting, harvesting, watering, and caring for the Vedgewater community garden.

Help save the bees on New York's Governors Island by engaging in gardening activities that support local pollinators and native plants.

Clean out your closet for a good cause. Give-n-Receive Inc accepts donations in Chicago every Monday to help stock their free thrift pop-ups.

What's better than a night wining and dining at the Hidden Creek Country Club in Northern Virginia? Knowing that your night of luxury benefits Hope for the Warriors, a nonprofit that serves veterans.

Pass out essential supplies like clothing, blankets, and hygiene necessities to the unhoused community with Friends of the Street Homeless Outreach Chicago.

Help keep Haight Ashbury sparkling clean by joining this monthly volunteer clean-up, where you'll work alongside other San Francisco residents.

The LoveLA Foundation and NewLife LA are partnering to put on a charitable fashion show and gala to honor accomplished women in the community. Added bonus: The profits fund higher education scholarship programs.

Volunteer an hour of your time and help tend this community garden, located in New York's Alphabet City neighborhood.

San Francisco's Alemany Farm invites the community to learn about growing and caring for California native plants on the first Monday and third Saturday of each month.

Head to Broad Channel American Park in Queens for a charitable party. Meet adoptable dogs, pose your pup for professional pet portraits, hit the downward dog with actual dogs, and watch a canine costume contest. The best part? All proceeds benefit Zion's Mission Animal Rescue.

Head to Crush Bar in the heart of Washington DC for a night of good fun and good drinks for an even better organization. Proceeds go to the Wanda Alston Foundation, a housing program that supports homeless and at-risk LGBTQIA+ youth.

Millions of tons of textile waste end up in landfills every year, contributing to pollution. Help the environment by sorting fabric samples so they can be recycled instead of tossed out.

Help the folks at Family Connections Centers pack up more than 100 boxes of groceries and meals for families in San Francisco during this volunteer event.

Head to the West Chicago neighborhood of Austin to contribute your time and effort to reducing plastic waste. Volunteers will sort through plastic pieces so they can be recycled and turned into art instead of trash.

Assist with food distribution and setting up fun activities for predominantly low-income, People of Color communities at the Family Connections Center at Excelsior in San Francisco.

Show the local ecosystem some love by removing invasive species and helping tidy up the LA River in this hands-on volunteering sesh.

San Francisco Parks Alliance is looking for volunteers to help run the beloved park market in Crane Cove. Sample tasks include set-up and breakdown, helping visitors and vendors, and running crowd control.

The Dublin Arts Collective is an organization dedicated to supporting local artists. To help raise money for the cause, patrons of the arts are invited to enjoy a dinner, cash bar, and art show aboard the historic USS Hornet in Alameda.

Head to Nido's Backyard in Oakland for a day party benefitting Friends of Oakland Animal Services. Access to the vegan taco bar and plenty of helado is included in the ticket.

Grab your crew and compete for prizes in a trivia extravaganza with delicious tacos and tequila drinks. The best part? Proceeds will go to ScholarMatch, a San Francisco-based charity that helps students from underprivileged backgrounds access higher education.

Support the local ecosystem by volunteering with NYC's Lower East Side Ecology Center to care for the gardens and green spaces of Tompkins Square Park.

You don't have to be a master builder to help create a new playground in Chicago Village. Volunteers can paint murals or mix concrete instead. Either way, your efforts can help enrich a local community.

This visual art and spoken word showcase in San Fernando, CA aims to raise awareness about domestic violence while fundraising for Helping Hands Resource Center, which supports survivors.

The Petworth Community Market, one of the only community-run farmers markets in DC, invites folks to Cinder BBQ for an afternoon of drinks, appetizers, and raffles. Proceeds keep the local market up and running.

This monthly climb night in Bellevue, Washington, welcomes women and girls to meet new people and scale the walls, with help and support from experienced climbers.

Now in its 34th year, Make a Difference Day has continued to serve the community of Monrovia, CA. Volunteers will be assigned one of many local projects including trash pickup, landscaping and beautification work, and food distribution.

Keep Newport Beach beautiful by volunteering your time and energy to pick up trash. The cleanup is organized by the Coastal Corridor Alliance, a charity working to protect local wildlife by reducing pollution.

Caring for a loved one with dementia is no easy task, but Dementia Caregivers aims to support these heroes in the DMV through educational programs, financial assistance, and raising awareness. This fashion show, silent auction, and award ceremony helps fund the charity.