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L.A. Works Offers Safe Volunteering Opportunities

Los Angeles, CA. Social distancing requirements due to the Covid-19 pandemic are making it difficult for volunteers to do their typical hands-on work. Now an organization called L.A. Works is helping both nonprofits and volunteers find ways to help the community. Through a program called “Make Room For Caring in Social Distancing,” L.A. Works shares five ways volunteers can make an impact. Those options include the following: volunteer at a COVID-19 testing site, volunteer for in-person hunger relief, volunteer from home, join the Red Cross, or make a donation. For those who are healthy and able to do so, important programs such as COVID-19 testing and hunger relief are desperate for hands-on volunteer workers.

Volunteer working at COVID-19 drive-thru testing site

For those who would prefer to volunteer from home, L.A. Works offers hundreds of engaging virtual volunteering opportunities such as doing a Zoomba class with special needs youth, virtual tutoring with underprivileged children, and fitness class fundraisers. L.A. Works has also started the #MillionMaskChallengeLA which is a volunteer project challenging Los Angeles residents to sew as many masks as they can and donate them to those in need. Program administrators write, “At L.A. Works, we are proud to see our community at its best, working together while staying apart. We know, now more than ever, we are in this together and we must respond together.”

BLM protesters participate in June protest

In addition to promoting safe volunteering options, L.A. Works also dedicates part of its volunteer efforts toward the Black Lives Matter movement. L.A. Works makes it easy for volunteers to become involved in the movement, whether this means becoming educated on systemic racism or volunteering to help close the education gap. This goal is stated on the nonprofit’s website: “Creating volunteer programs and experiences infused with discussions, learning, and advocacy to advance social change is at the very core of our mission.”  To achieve this goal L.A. works offers volunteers the opportunity to join an advocacy program on racial justice, volunteer to tutor disadvantaged children, and feed the homeless.

From L.A. Works:

Founded in 1991, our mission consists of three principal pillars: INCREASE volunteer participation in community service projects; PROVIDE our nonprofit partners with access to volunteer labor and other RESOURCES; and EDUCATE and encourage people to engage in the broader social issues affecting the greater Los Angeles Community.

Julia Rajkovic

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