Community Service

Learn about different kinds of volunteering, reasons why people volunteer, and organizations that you can join to get involved.

An unlikely and exceedingly reluctant hero just wants to be left alone. But when he is forced to volunteer at a local soup kitchen, he finds himself at the center of a struggle between the rich and the poor, the selfish and the selfless.

Dawn has found the perfect way to forget her cheating boyfriend. Leave town for the summer and do something very distracting, like volunteering to help rebuild storm torn New Orleans. But when she meets handsome, kind Brady, Dawn realizes she could be fixing more than a devastated house, she might also be able to repair her broken heart.

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Seattle fifteen-year-old Stevie Calhoun does not realize how bad her life is until her mother leaves and Stevie must move in with annoyingly perfect Aunt Mindy for a summer, filling her days with being tutored and volunteering at a bird rehabilitation center.

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Robyn agrees to spend her summer volunteering at an animal shelter and finds the experience way more eventful than she expected.

The summer after his absentee father is killed in a random shooting, Paul volunteers at a Harlem soup kitchen where he listens to lessons about "the social contract" from an elderly African American man, and mentors a seventeen-year-old unwed mother who wants to make it to college on a basketball scholarship.

Seventeen-year-old Harper Evans hopes to escape the effects of her father's divorce on her family and friendships by volunteering her summer to build a house in a small Tennessee town devastated by a tornado.