Volunteer Centers

VOLUNTEER CENTERS across the state serve as a focal point for volunteers in local communities. These Centers give citizens access to volunteer opportunities in their local areas. Volunteer Florida partners with these Centers and provides extensive training for AmeriCorps and national service participants, community volunteers, and volunteer program staff and directors.

Florida Association for Volunteer Resource Management

FAVRM is a vital association that provides a network of support and professional development to volunteer management professionals throughout Florida and the Southeast. FAVRM, formerly the Florida Association of Volunteers Centers, is focused on engaging and supporting organizational leaders and volunteer resource management professionals who inspire, equip and mobilize others to take action.

Through quarterly Forums, FAVRM members discuss new opportunities for volunteers, professional development and grant opportunities for volunteer leaders, as well as share best practices to ensure that volunteers have the best possible experience.

Hands On Network

Hands On Network brings people together to strengthen communities through meaningful volunteer action. We are a growing network of more than 1 million volunteers changing communities inside and outside the United States. Hands On Network creates and manages nearly 50,000 projects a year, from building wheelchair ramps in San Francisco to teaching reading in Atlanta to rebuilding homes and lives in the Gulf coast communities.

Hands On Network is currently made up of 55 national and international volunteer organizations that act as entrepreneurial civic action centers. Together, we help people be the change they want to see in their communities. Join Us. Raise your hands.

Points of Light Institute

Points of Light Institute embraces service and civic engagement as fundamental to a purposeful life and essential to a healthy world.

We have the history, the scale and reach, the leadership and the strategy to mobilize millions of people to tackle concrete, significant challenges.

With more than 20 years of history, a bi-partisan presidential legacy, the largest national volunteer footprint in the nation, Points of Light has the vision and strategy to create a quantum leap for the service movement through 2012.