#  Term-Time Volunteer Opportunities 

 



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There are numerous opportunities to volunteer at Harvard College through the [Phillips Brooks House Association](/pbha), the [Institute of Politics](/institute-politics), and student organizations officially recognized by the [Dean of Students Office](https://thehub.college.harvard.edu/organizations?categories=13570). Check out the links below to view a comprehensive guide to current public service opportunities.



 

##  Public Service Programs by Issue Area 

 



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###    Advocacy  expand\_more  

 

[PBHA’S Athena Program](http://pbha.org/programs/athena/), PBHA  
[PBHA’S Habitat for Humanity (HFH)](http://pbha.org/programs/habitat-for-humanity/), PBHA  
[Harvard Cancer Society](http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~cancer/) (HCS)  
[Harvard China Care ](http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~care/)(HCC)  
[Harvard College Code Orange](http://fas-mini-sites.fas.harvard.edu/osl/grouplist?rm=details&id=1223)  
[Harvard College Forum for International Development](http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~hfid/)  
[Harvard College Global Health and AIDS Coalition](http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/hac/)  
[Harvard Square Homeless Shelter](http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/hshs/) (HSHS), PBHA  
[Harvard Square Transitional Summer Homeless Shelter](http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~stjames/about.htm), PBHA  
[Harvard Undergraduate Legal Committee](http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/hulc/resources.php) (HULC), PBHA  
[Harvard UNICEF](https://www.facebook.com/harvardunicef/about/?ref=page_internal)  
[Health Leads](https://healthleadsusa.org/partner/harvard/)  
[Housing Opportunities Program](http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~hop/) (HOP), PBHA  
Harvard Undergraduates Love Animals (HULA)  
[LIFT - Cambridge](http://www.liftcommunities.org/)  
[Small Claims Advisory Service](http://www.masmallclaims.org/) (SCAS), PBHA  
SPARK  
[Student Labor Action Movement](http://pbha.org/programs/student-labor-action-movement/) (SLAM), PBHA  
[Students Taking on Poverty](http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/stop/) (STOP)  
[Students Against Malaria ](https://www.facebook.com/Harvard-College-Students-Against-Malaria-567932973328728/)



 

 

 



###    Arts  expand\_more  

 

[A Stitch In Time](http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/asit/contact.html)  
[CityStep](http://hu.citystep.org/)  
[HARMONY Mentoring and Afterschool](http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/harmony/), PBHA  
[Harvard College Stories for Orphans](https://www.facebook.com/Harvard-College-Stories-for-Orphans-365819080096000/)  
[Harvard Lowkeys](http://theharvardlowkeys.com/)  
[Harvard Story-Time Players](http://storytimeplayers.weebly.com/)  
[Harvard-Radcliffe MIHNUET](http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/mihnuet/)  
[Student Theatre Advancing Growth and Empowerment](http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~stage/Home.html) (STAGE)



 

 

 



###    College Prep  expand\_more  

 

[Advocating Success for Kids](http://www.childrenshospital.org/centers-and-services/advocating-success-for-kids-program)  
[Alberta V. Scott Leadership Academy ](https://www.facebook.com/albertav.scott)(AVS)  
[CHANCE](http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/chance/), PBHA



 

 

 



###    Construction Work  expand\_more  

 

[Alternative Spring Break](http://pbha.org/programs/alternative-spring-break/) (ASB), PBHA  
[Habitat for Humanity](http://pbha.org/programs/habitat-for-humanity/) (HFH), PBHA  
[Harvard University Engineers WIthout Borders](http://projects.iq.harvard.edu/ewb/home) (HUEWB)



 

 

 



###    Education: Adult  expand\_more  

 

[A Stitch In Time](http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/asit/contact.html)  
[Best Buddies](http://pbha.org/programs/best-buddies/), PBHA  
[Chinatown ESL](http://pbha.org/programs/chinatown-esl/), PBHA  
[Chinatown Citizenship Program](http://pbha.org/programs/chinatown-citizenship/), PBHA  
[Elderly 1-2-1](http://pbha.org/programs/elderly-1-2-1/), PBHA  
[LIFT-Cambridge](http://www.liftcommunities.org/)  
[Partners Empowering Neighborhoods](http://pbha.org/programs/partners-empowering-neighborhoods/) (PEN), PBHA  
[Pets as Therapy](http://pbha.org/programs/pets-as-therapy/), PBHA  
[Suffolk County House of Corrections Tutoring](http://pbha.org/programs/suffolk-prison-tutoring/), PBHA  
[Women's and Men’s Empowerment & Prison Education](http://pbha.org/programs/women-and-mens-empowerment-and-prison-education-program/), PBHA  
[Recent Immigrant Term Enrichment](http://pbha.org/programs/rite/) (RITE), PBHA



 

 

 



###    Education: Afterschool  expand\_more  

 

[Boston Refugee Youth Enrichment (BRYE) Extension](http://pbha.org/programs/brye-extension/), PBHA  
[Boston Refugee Youth Enrichment (BRYE) Tutoring](http://pbha.org/programs/boston-refugee-youth-enrichment/), PBHA  
[Chinatown Afterschool Program](http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~chtnasp/), PBHA  
CityServe  
[CityStep](http://citystep.org/)  
[CIVICS, PBHA](http://pbha.org/programs/civics/)  
[Cambridge Afterschool Program (CASP), PBHA](http://pbha.org/programs/cambridge-afterschool/)  
[EnviroEd, PBHA](http://pbha.org/programs/enviroed/)  
[ExperiMentors,](http://pbha.org/programs/experimentors/) PBHA (program website [here](http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~xmentors/))  
[Food Lab for Kids](http://thefoodlabharvard.wixsite.com/thefoodlab/contactus)  
[Franklin Afterschool Enrichment (FASE)](http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~fase/), PBHA  
[HARMONY](http://pbha.org/news/finding-harmony/), PBHA (program website [here](http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/harmony/))  
Mentoring and Afterschool Harvard College Friends of Scouting  
[Harvard College Science for Girls](http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/scfg/)  
[Harvard College Youth Leadership Initiative,](http://pbha.org/programs/harvard-college-youth-leadership-initiative/) PBHA  
[Harvard Emerging Literacy Program (HELP)](http://pbha.org/programs/harvard-emerging-literacy-project/), PBHA  
[House and Neighborhood Development (HAND)](http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~hand/)  
[Keylatch Afterschool Program (KASP)](http://pbha.org/programs/keylatch-afterschool/), PBHA  
[Mission Hill Afterschool Program (MHASP)](http://groupspaces.com/mhasp), PBHA  
[Peer Health Exchange (PHE)](http://www.peerhealthexchange.org/our-sites/boston/), PBHA  
[Roxbury Youth Initiative Term (RYIT)](http://pbha.org/programs/roxbury-youth-initiative-term/), PBHA (program website [here](http://ryit55.wixsite.com/ryit))  
[South Boston Afterschool (SAS)](http://fas-mini-sites.fas.harvard.edu/osl/grouplist?rm=details&id=969), PBHA  
[Student Theather Advancing Growth and Empowerment (STAGE) ](http://fas-mini-sites.fas.harvard.edu/osl/grouplist?rm=details&id=415)(program website [here](http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~stage/Home.html))



 

 

 



###    Education: Awareness/General  expand\_more  

 

[Advocating Success for Kids (ASK)](http://www.childrenshospital.org/centers-and-services/advocating-success-for-kids-program)  
[CHANCE,](http://pbha.org/programs/chance/) PBHA  
[Committee on Deaf Awareness (CODA)](https://www.facebook.com/HarvardDAC/), PBHA  
[Harvard China Care](http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~care/)  
[Harvard College Friends of the Red Cross](http://harvardredcross.weebly.com/)  
[Harvard Global Health and AIDS Coalition](http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/hac/)  
[Kidney Disease Screening and Awareness Program (KDSAP)](http://www.kdsap.org/)  
[Peer Health Exchange (PHE)](http://www.peerhealthexchange.org/), PBHA  
[Students for Education Reform (SFER)](https://www.studentsforedreform.org/)



 

 

 



###    Education: In-School  expand\_more  

 

[CityStep](http://citystep.org/)  
[CIVICS](http://pbha.org/programs/civics/), PBHA  
[Digital Literacy Project ](http://dlp.io/)- Computer science in Boston middle schools  
[EnviroEd](http://pbha.org/programs/enviroed/), PBHA  
[ExperiMentors](http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~xmentors/), PBHA  
[HARMONY Mentoring and Afterschool,](http://pbha.org/programs/harmony-afterschool/) PBHA  
[Harvard College Health Advocacy Program (HAP)](http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/hap/)  
[Harvard Emerging Literacy Project (HELP)](http://pbha.org/programs/harvard-emerging-literacy-project/), PBHA  
[Harvard Program for International Education (HPIE)](http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/hpie/home.htm)  
[Peer Health Exchange (PHE)](http://www.peerhealthexchange.org/), PBHA



 

 

 



###    Elderly  expand\_more  

 

[Elderly 1-2-1,](http://pbha.org/programs/elderly-1-2-1/) PBHA  
[Elderly Affairs Committee](https://wiser.directory/organization/pbhas-elderly-affairs-committee-harvard-university-hu/)  
[Harvard College Alzheimer’s Buddies](https://www.pbha.org/programs/alzheimersbuddies) (HCAB), PBHA  
[Harvard-Radcliffe MIHNUET](http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/mihnuet/)  
[Pets as Therapy](https://college.harvard.edu/admissions/hear-our-students/student-blogs/pets-therapy), PBHA



 

 

 



###    Environment  expand\_more  

 

[EnviroEd](https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjz0cmKj8XSAhVI6xQKHXESB9oQFggaMAA&url=http://pbha.org/programs/enviroed/&usg=AFQjCNH60QmVFesddZJEZlAEQZpokjWJIQ&bvm=bv.148747831,d.amc), PBHA  
[Harvard College Forum for International Development](http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~hfid/)  
[Harvard University Engineers Without Borders (HUEWB)](http://projects.iq.harvard.edu/ewb/home)  
[Green Medicine Initiative](http://hgmi.strikingly.com/)



 

 

 



###    Health  expand\_more  

 

Access Health  
[Advocating Success for Kids (ASK)](http://www.childrenshospital.org/centers-and-services/advocating-success-for-kids-program)  
[Best Buddies](http://pbha.org/programs/best-buddies/), PBHA  
[Committee on Deaf Awareness (CODA)](https://www.facebook.com/HarvardDAC/), PBHA  
[Foundation for International Medical Relief of Children](https://www.fimrc.org/)

[Friends of Project Sunshine](http://harvardprojectsunshine.weebly.com/)  
[Harvard Cancer Society](http://harvardprojectsunshine.weebly.com/) (HCS)  
[Harvard China Care (HCC)](http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~care/)  
[Harvard College Global Health and AIDS Coalition ](http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/hac/)

[Harvard College Friends of the Red Cross](http://harvardredcross.weebly.com/)  
[Harvard College VISION](https://college.harvard.edu/about/mission-and-vision)  
[Harvard Story-Time Players](http://storytimeplayers.weebly.com/)  
[Harvard-Radcliffe MIHNUET](http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/mihnuet/)  
Harvard Undergradaute Crimson Care Collaborative

[Harvard University Engineers Without Borders (HUEWB)](http://projects.iq.harvard.edu/ewb/home)  
[Health Advocacy Program (HAP)](http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/hap/)  
[Health Leads](https://healthleadsusa.org/)  
[Kidney Disease Screening and Awareness Program (KDSAP)](http://www.kdsap.org/)  
[King School Buddies](http://kingsschools.net/tag/buddies/), PBHA  
[Peer Health Exchange (PHE)](http://fas-mini-sites.fas.harvard.edu/osl/grouplist?rm=details&id=689), PBHA  
[STRIVE](http://pbha.org/programs/strive/), PBHA  
[Team HBV at Harvard College](http://teamhbv.org/harvard/)  
[Students Against Malaria](https://www.facebook.com/Harvard-College-Students-Against-Malaria-567932973328728/)

[Green Medicine Initiative ](http://hgmi.strikingly.com/)



 

 

 



###    Homelessness  expand\_more  

 

[A Stitch In Time](http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/asit/contact.html)  
[Harvard Square Homeless Shelter](http://pbha.org/programs/harvard-square-homeless-shelter/), PBHA (program website [here](http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/hshs/))  
Harvard Square Transitional Summer Homeless Shelter, PBHA  
[Housing Opportunities Program (HOP),](http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~hop/) PBHA  
[LIFT Cambridge-Somerville](http://www.liftcommunities.org/)  
[Student Taking on Poverty (STOP)](http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/stop/)  
[Y2Y Homeless Shelter,](http://y2yharvardsquare.org/) PBHA



 

 

 



###    International  expand\_more  

 

[Digital Literacy Project ](http://dlp.io/)- Computer science in Boston middle schools  
[Foundation for International Medical Relief for Children ](https://www.fimrc.org/)

[Habitat for Humanity,](http://pbha.org/programs/habitat-for-humanity/) PBHA  
[Harvard China Care (HCC)](http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~care/)  
[Harvard College Act on a Dream](http://www.actonadream.org/)  
[Harvard College Code Orange](http://fas-mini-sites.fas.harvard.edu/osl/grouplist?rm=details&id=1223)   
[Harvard College Global Health and AIDS Coalition](http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/hac/)  
[Harvard College Friends of the Red Cross](http://harvardredcross.weebly.com/)  
[Harvard College Stories for Orphans](http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/stories/Snowflakes/Home.html)  
[Harvard Program for International Education (HPIE)](http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/hpie/home.htm)  
[Harvard Project for Sustainable Development (HPSD)](https://lists.hcs.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/hpsdlist)  
[Harvard University Engineers Without Borders (HUEWB)](http://projects.iq.harvard.edu/ewb/home)



 

 

 



###    Mentoring  expand\_more  

 

[Advocating Success for Kids](http://www.childrenshospital.org/centers-and-services/advocating-success-for-kids-program)  
[Alberta V. Scott Leadership Academy (AVS)](http://blackharvardwomen.wixsite.com/abhw/initiatives)  
[Athena Program,](http://pbha.org/programs/athena/) PBHA  
[Boston Refugee Youth Enrichment (BRYE) 1-2-1](http://pbha.org/programs/brye-121/), PBHA  
[Boston Refugee Youth Enrichment (BRYE) Teen,](http://pbha.org/programs/brye-teen/) PBHA  
[CHANCE](http://pbha.org/programs/chance/), PBHA  
[Chinatown Big Sib](http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~chtn/programs/bigsib.html), PBHA  
[Chinatown Teen,](http://m.pbha.org/programs/chinatown-teen/) PBHA  
CityServe  
[CityStep](http://citystep.org/)  
[Committee on Deaf Awareness (CODA)](https://www.facebook.com/HarvardDAC/), PBHA  
[David Walker Scholars (DWS)](http://pbha.org/programs/david-walker-scholars/), PBHA  
[Harvard College DREAM](http://www.actonadream.org/)  
[Harvard College Science Club for Girls](http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/scfg/)  
[Harvard College Special Olympics](http://fas-mini-sites.fas.harvard.edu/osl/grouplist?rm=details&id=720)  
[House and Neighborhood Development (HAND)](http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~hand/)  
[Keylatch Mentoring,](http://pbha.org/programs/keylatch-afterschool/) PBHA  
[Kids with Special Needs Achievement Program (KSNAP)](http://pbha.org/programs/ksnap/), PBHA  
[LEADERS!](http://pbha.org/programs/leaders/), PBHA  
[Mission Mentor](http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/missionmentor/about_us.html), PBHA  
[Native American Youth Enrichment Program (NAYEP),](http://pbha.org/programs/native-american-youth-enrichment-program/) PBHA  
REACH  
[South Boston Big Sib](http://pbha.org/programs/south-boston-big-sibling/), PBHA  
[STRIVE](http://pbha.org/programs/strive/), PBHA  
[Strong Women Strong Girls (SWSG)](http://pbha.org/programs/strong-women-strong-girls/), PBHA



 

 

 



###    Social Enterprise  expand\_more  

 

[Harvard College Developers for Development](http://www.harvardd4d.com/)



 

 

 



###    Summer Programs  expand\_more  

 

[Boston Refugee Youth Enrichment (BRYE)](http://pbha.org/programs/boston-refugee-youth-enrichment/), PBHA  
[Cambridge Youth Enrichment Program (CYEP)](http://pbha.org/programs/cambridge-youth-enrichment-program/), PBHA  
[Chinatown Adventure (CHAD)](http://pbha.org/programs/chinatown-adventure/), PBHA  
[Franklin I-O Program (FIO)](http://pbha.org/programs/franklin-i-o/), PBHA  
[Summer HARMONY,](http://pbha.org/programs/summer-harmony/) PBHA  
[Summer CIVICS](http://pbha.org/programs/summer-civics/), PBHA  
[Harvard China Care (HCC)](http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~care/)  
[Harvard-Radcliffe MIHNUET](http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/mihnuet/)  
[Health Leads](https://healthleadsusa.org/partner/harvard/)  
Harvard Square Transitional Summer Homeless Shelter, PBHA  
[Housing Opportunities Program (HOP)](http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~hop/), PBHA  
[Keylatch Summer Program](http://pbha.org/programs/keylatch-summer-program/), PBHA  
[LIFT Cambridge-Somerville](http://www.liftcommunities.org/), PBHA  
[Mission Hill Summer Program (MHSP),](http://pbha.org/programs/mission-hill-summer-program/) PBHA  
[Native American Youth Enrichment Program (NAYEP)](http://pbha.org/programs/native-american-youth-enrichment-program/), PBHA  
[LEADERS! Summer,](http://pbha.org/programs/leaders/) PBHA  
[Refugee Youth Summer Enrichment (RYSE)](http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~ryse/), PBHA  
[Roxbury Youth Initiative (RYI)](http://pbha.org/programs/roxbury-youth-initiative/), PBHA  
[South Boston Outreach Summer (SBOS)](http://pbha.org/programs/south-boston-outreach-summer/), PBHA  
[Summer Science](http://pbha.org/programs/summer-science/), PBHA  
[Summer Urban Program (SUP)](http://pbha.org/programs/summer-urban-program/), PBHA



 

 

 



###    Youth/Teen  expand\_more  

 

[Advocating Success for Kids (ASK)](http://www.childrenshospital.org/centers-and-services/advocating-success-for-kids-program)  
[Alberta V. Scott Leadership Academy (AVS)](http://blackharvardwomen.wixsite.com/abhw/initiatives)  
[Athena Program, PBHA](http://pbha.org/programs/athena/)  
[Best Buddies](http://pbha.org/programs/best-buddies/), PBHA  
[Boston Refugee Youth Enrichment (BRYE) Teen](http://pbha.org/programs/boston-refugee-youth-enrichment/), PBHA  
[CHANCE](http://pbha.org/programs/chance/), PBHA  
[Chinatown Teen Program](http://m.pbha.org/programs/chinatown-teen/), PBHA  
[Digital Literacy Project](http://dlp.io/) - Computer science in Boston middle schools  
[Dreamporte](http://www.dreamporte.org/about-us.html)  
[Food Lab for Kids](http://thefoodlabharvard.wixsite.com/thefoodlab)  
[Friends of Project Sunhine](http://harvardprojectsunshine.weebly.com/)  
Harvard College Coaches  
[Harvard College Friends of Scouting](http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~scouting/)Harvard College Mentors for Urban Debate  
[Harvard Program for International Education (HPIE)](http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/hpie/home.htm)  
[Health Advocacy Program](http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/hap/)  
[Keylatch Mentoring](http://pbha.org/programs/keylatch-mentoring/), PBHA  
[LEADERS!,](http://pbha.org/programs/leaders/) PBHA  
[Mission Mentor,](http://pbha.org/community-tags/mission-hill/) PBHA  
[Peer Health Exchange (PHE)](http://fas-mini-sites.fas.harvard.edu/osl/grouplist?rm=details&id=689), PBHA  
[Refugee Youth Term Enrichment (RYTE) ](http://fas-mini-sites.fas.harvard.edu/osl/grouplist?rm=details&id=640)

[Youth in Focus](https://www.facebook.com/harvardyouthinfocus/), PBHA  
[Youth Prison Tutoring Program,](http://pbha.org/programs/youth-prison-tutoring/) PBHA