List of Volunteering Projects for Kids in the Bay Area

HandsOn Bay Area has a variety of volunteering projects for youth of all ages.

All Ages

• Happy Lot Farm and Garden (Richmond), 3rd Saturday

• Collective Roots (East Palo Alto), Third Thursday

Ages 5 and older

• The Gardens at Lake Merritt (Oakland), 3rd Saturday

• Almost Eden Garden (Palo Alto), 2nd Saturday

• MAGIC (Palo Alto), 1st and 3rd Saturday

Ages 6 and older

• The Asian Community Garden (San Francisco), 2nd Saturday

• Visitacion Valley Greenway (San Francisco), 2nd and 4th Tuesdays

• Boys and Girls Club of Alameda (Alameda), various days of the month

• Sunflower Hill (Livermore), 1st Saturday

Ages 8 and older

• Family Connections (Redwood City/East Palo Alto), 3rd Thursday

• Alemany Farms (San Francisco), 3rd Sunday, 1st Monday

Ages 9 and older

• Nature in the City (San Francisco), 3rd Sunday

Ages 10 and older

• Project Read: Story Hour (Redwood City), 2nd Tuesday and 3rd Wednesday

• Lytton Gardens Senior Communities (Palo Alto), 3rd Sunday

• Historic Orchard (San Jose), 1st Saturday

• Heritage Rose Garden (San Jose), 1st Saturday

• Half Moon Bay State Beach (Half Moon Bay), 2nd Saturday

• Oakland Zoo (Oakland), 3rd Saturday

• PREPARE FOOD: Tri-City Volunteers (Fremont), 3rd Thursday

• HELP Out: Tri-City Volunteers (Fremont), 2nd Tuesday

• Friends of Sausal Creek (Oakland), 2nd, 3rd, 4th Saturday, and Final Sunday

• SPAWNERS (El Sobrante), 3rd Saturday

• PREPARE FOOD: Loaves and Fishes (San Jose), 2nd Wednesdays

• Literacy For Environmental Justice (San Francisco), 1st Saturday

• Golden Gate Park Alvord Lake (San Francisco), 4th Saturday

• Ecocenter at Heron’s Head Park (San Francisco), 1st Saturday

• Nature in the City - Palou Phelps Hills (San Francisco), 1st Saturday

• Canon Kip Senior Center (San Francisco), 3rd Saturday

• San Francisco Zoo (San Francisco), Quarterly on Saturday

• Richmond District Neighborhood Center (San Francisco), 1st and 3rd Thursday

Ages 12 and older

• Chaparral House (Berkeley), 1st Saturday

• The AIDS Memorial Grove (San Francisco), 3rd Saturday

• Sacred Heart (San Jose), 2nd Saturday

• Sunday Friends (San Jose), 2nd and 4th Sunday

Ages 13 and older

• VIDA USA (Emeryville), 2nd and 4th Thursday

• Berkeley Food and Housing: Community Meal (Berkeley), 1st Thursday, 3rd Friday

• Junior Center of Art and Science (Oakland), Every other Saturday

• St. Anthony Foundation (San Francisco), Final Thursday

Ages 14 and older

• St. Vincent de Paul (San Mateo), 3rd Monday and Saturday

• Covenant Food Pantry (San Francisco), 1st, 3rd, and 5th Saturday

• San Francisco Botanical Garden (San Francisco), 3rd Saturday

• Sutro Stewards Nursery (San Francisco), 2nd Wednesday

• Sutro Stewards (San Francisco), 1st and 3rd Saturday

• Family Harvest Food Distribution (Redwood City), 2nd Friday

• Berkeley Food and Housing (Berkeley), 2nd and 4th Tuesday

• City Team Ministries (Oakland), 2nd Sunday

• Martin de Porres (San Francisco), 1st and 2nd Saturday

• Prisoners Literature Project (Berkeley), 2nd and 4th Wednesday, 3rd Saturdays

• Pacific Art League (Palo Alto), 1st Friday, Last Saturday and Sunday

Ages 15 and older

• Hamilton Families (San Francisco), Every Monday, Wednesday, Thursday

• San Bruno Mountain Watch ( South San Francisco), 4th Saturday

• Project Open Hand (San Francisco), 2nd and 4th Tuesday, 4th Saturday

• Wardrobe for Opportunity (Oakland), 2nd and 4th Saturday

• Bernal Heights Neighborhood Center (San Francisco), 1st and 3rd Saturday

• Loaves and Fishes (San Jose), 4th Fridays

Ages 16 and older

• Sanctuary Homeless Shelter (San Francisco), 1st, 3rd, and 5th Fridays

• St. Anthony’s Padula Dining Room (Menlo Park), 2nd Saturday

• San Francisco Center for the Book (San Francisco), 4th Thursday