HuffPost Readers' Favorite Volunteer Experiences In NYC (PHOTOS)

New York is a big town, and for a non-profit organization that needs help, it's easy to fall through the cracks.

That's why we want to hear from you -- have you had any good experiences recently with volunteering? Whether it be a mentorship program, clothing donation, animal shelter or food co-op, we want to hear about it! Tell us which New York organizations are doing great work and could use more help doing it, and why.

 

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Our mission is to save lives by recruiting bone marrow donors and provide support services do children and adults with leukemia and other diseases treatable by a bone marrow transplant.

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Airam da Silva:
Our mission is to save lives by recruiting bone marrow donors and provide support services do children and adults with leukemia and other diseases treatable by a bone marrow transplant.

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[cpaddock]

03:08 PM on 01/31/2011

I love volunteering at God's Love We Deliver! Either working in the kitchen helping pack up nutritious meals or do prep work or helping make "blizzard bags" so that no client is left without food, I am always delighted to help out.

[Amanda Hambrick Ashcraft]

06:50 PM on 01/30/2011

Rauschenbusch Metro Ministries is the best non-profit in NYC! RMM seeks to uplift and empower the neighborhood of Hell's Kitchen by offering direct services and educational opportunities which encourage adn enable both personal and community growth. RMM intends to offer hope and renewal to those who feel trapped by an uncaring system. RMM offers 12 ongoing programs: Page Turners (free after school literacy program for elementary school children), Teen Center, Food Pantry, English for Speaker of Other Languages, Clothes Closet, HIV/Aids support, CLUE (Children Living the Urban Experience) Summer Day Camp, Tolietry Distribution, Holiday Toy Store, Community School Supply Store, Holiday meals, and Seasonal "Family Fridays." Each year, 1300 people are served through educational opportunities, direct services, and community outreach. RMM serves 600 individuals each month in the food pantry and has provided ESOL classes for over 500 people since 1998. RMM has over 30 children involved in Page Turners, 30 in Teen Center, and 80 in CLUE camp. RMM provides such services with 4 full-time staff, 6 part-time staff, over 500 volunteers and many community partnerships. RMM is excited about a recent $30,000 grant from United Way for an Urban Farm Collaboration with several other organizations in the Hells Kitchen neighborhood. The roof of RMM will be the site of a farm that will provide food and education for the community. We'd love for you to visit www.RMMnyc.org to learn more about RMM and how you can be involved!

[MikeyJaii]

01:51 PM on 01/28/2011

Still not enough to feel the homeless.

[Tiara De Roth]

01:35 PM on 01/28/2011

Per Scholas:

http://www.perscholas.org

[Elisa Zazzera]

12:17 PM on 01/28/2011

Feel The Music!- helping those affected by trauma through music. www.feelthemusic.org

[Elisa Zazzera]

12:15 PM on 01/28/2011

The Septmeber Concert - peace through music. coming together with your neighborhood in celebration of our common humanity & our shared hope for a peaceful world! music is our common language.

[kdelaigle]

11:37 AM on 01/28/2011

Animal Care and Control of NYC is a great animal shelter to volunteer for! Their budget has been drastically slashed by the City, so they are in desperate need of volunteers and donations to help out at their shelters. They receive over 42,000 wonderful animals each year, who desperately need care and rescue. Please consider New York's neediest animals and volunteer at the AC&C!

[shthar]

02:33 AM on 01/28/2011

51st State Militia

[Carol Martzinek]

04:22 PM on 01/25/2011

The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society's Team in Training is my favorite! They made a marathoner out of me last January at the age of 46. The people involved are all firmly committed to the cause of blood cancer research and patient support. It's an AMAZING organization and I can't say enough good things about them! They've become my second family:-)

[Brooklyn North]

08:24 PM on 01/24/2011

The work of the Children's Aid Society is wonderful! I am incredibly impressed with the quality of services and the caliber of people who work for the organization.

[Linda Blacken]

05:37 PM on 01/24/2011

New York Cares is my favorite organization. I am a Team Leader as well as a volunteer on other people's projects. New York Cares trains leaders who then manage volunteers on upwards of 1000 projects per month, every day of the year, in many different interest areas, and in all 5 boroughs. When other nonprofits are not able to perform a service for their clients because of staffing, budgetary, or some other concern, they can always turn to New York Cares. Then, in most cases, New York Cares can send a team of volunteers managed by a trained Team Leader to perform the community service, be it tutoring youth in preparation for SATs, walking shelter dogs, providing company to seniors, preparing and serving food to the hungry, taking underserved children on exciting adventures, or any of thousands of other types of projects. All one has to do to be able to join the roster of 53,000 -- and growing! -- volunteers is to attend a 1-hour orientation. Then volunteer as much or as little as fits in one's schedule. Take a look at http://newyorkcares.org/volunteer/volunteer_opportunities/search_projects/ and click the SEARCH button to see what types of projects are available over the next 4 weeks. Then sign up for an orientation and get started on a path of community service! :-)

[mcguirejb1]

04:40 PM on 01/24/2011

AIDS Walk New York is a fantastic organization. It is the WORLD's largest AIDS fundraising event and last year raised close to 6 million dollars to benefit GMHC, which is the nation's oldest and one of the largest AIDS service organizations. In addition to GMHC AIDS Walk also benefits close to 40 tri-state area AIDS service organizations. It is an inspiring event and it is truly the dedicated volunteers that make it possible. I invite everyone and anyone to find out more and volunteer with us! http://www.aidswalk.net/newyork/ We would love to have you as a part of this incredible team.

[Sailbill]

12:43 PM on 01/24/2011

I've been a volunteer for Gods Love We Deliver here in the NYC area for several years. Every year I am more impressed with the quality of services they deliver! More importantly, I know they show the recipients genuine concern and love...from Gods Love, AND the volunteers. In addition, they offer so many ways for people to give and paricipate. I cannot say enough about them. However, the smiles and thanks from all the people who receive their help say it all. BRAVO!

[Beth Lehmann]

11:44 AM on 01/24/2011

I volunteer and team lead with New York Cares. It is flexible to work with your schedule. You can find just about any venue to volunteer in so there is something for everyone.You can volunteer around the clock 7 days a week. Mentor a child, walk a dog, help with taxes. help a child learn to read, climb mountains (urban adventures), feed homeless, paint a school, visit a senior, plant a garden and much much more.

New York Cares is a great organization that runs programs at 1,000 nonprofits helping 400,000 New Yorkers in need; 53,000 New Yorkers volunteers.

[toyisfabulous]

11:36 AM on 01/24/2011

I really love New York Cares. It allows me to fit a different array of volunteer experiences into my busy schedule.