Below is a list of non-profit organizations where you may complete your required community service hours as part of the Second Chance Program. This list is not exhaustive and you may choose to volunteer at a non-profit organization not listed below.
We provide services to seniors in Orange County, Florida … including, Meals on Wheels, Transportation, Homemaker and Personal Care Services and more.
There are thousands of children and families who struggle with food insecurity around the world. One person cannot solve this alone, but together we can see a hunger-free world in our lifetime. Our volunteer events provide a unique experience for communities to gather together and fight hunger.
We help by providing Job preparedness training, Resources, online Job Board, Job Fairs and Career Counseling. For those in our programs we also provide material needs such as food through our food pantry, and Spiritual needs through Prayer and Counseling.
HOPE addresses the issues facing individuals & families in crisis by networking with local agencies and organizations, partnering to become more effective, studying best and emerging practices, and developing innovative problem solving ideas in a comprehensive, coordinated and strategic fashion.
This site provides support to the Orlando metro area and the Orlando VA.
New Beginnings of Central Florida strives to empower the homeless and underemployed to live independently. We work with the homeless or underemployed to find the very basic needs, such as food and identification while also providing homeless rehabilitation programs to help those in need take the next step towards and independent life. We provide life skills, career training, work experience, counseling and much more. Ultimately we strive to end and prevent homelessness by assisting men, women and families establish permanent housing, education, employment, life and social skills to end the cycle of homelessness.
Our organization’s approach to ending hunger centers on mobilizing a global network of hunger champions. Rise Against Hunger meal packaging volunteers produce millions of nutritious meals annually that are then distributed to partners in countries around the world. Those partners are best able to address the causes and effects of hunger based on their local presence and expertise. Through our thorough monitoring and evaluation process, we ensure the meals distributed by those partners are used as a tool to change lives by promoting education, improving students’ health and nutrition, addressing gender inequalities, stimulating economic growth and fighting child labor.
Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida is a private, nonprofit organization that collects and distributes donated food to more than 500 nonprofit partner agencies in six Central Florida counties: Brevard, Lake, Orange, Osceola, Seminole and Volusia.
On December 31, 2009 Pastor Derrick L. McRae started The Experience Christian Center. In a short period of time God has proven himself though the ministry. The Experience Christian Center is one of Central Florida’s fastest growing ministries, with a focus on the family, outreach, youth development, performing arts and worship EXPERIENCES!
The Service Center is located adjacent to Pine Hills Community Church in West Orange County. ENC is a non-profit 501c3 organization. Programs and services are all free of charge and are designed to demonstrate faith in action.
Heart of Florida United Way is Central Florida’s largest supporter of local health and human service agencies. In 2010-11 we managed more than $27.3 million dollars in total resources, including $17,417,112 raised during an annual fundraising campaign that helps fund nearly 100 local health and human service programs.
Heart of Florida United Way believes in the value of bringing individuals and groups together in a community-wide effort to change lives. Visit www.hfuw.org to view special ‘Live United’ volunteer events, find volunteer opportunities throughout Central Florida, and volunteer at Heart of Florida United Way.
We are a Florida-based 501c3 dedicated to the freedom to grow your own food without government interference and providing the education to do so.
4Roots is dedicated to restoring the delicate balance between community and nature: a relationship forged in harmony to sustain life for all of God’s creation. With a focus on advanced regenerative farming, innovative science and technology, and an awakening to the symmetry between food and medicine, 4Roots is a place where thoughts are exchanged, innovation is inspired, and changes that transform the world come to life.
These efforts will ultimately improve the overall health of our community by advancing food and farming education, health and wellness, sustainability, economic opportunity and the arts.
Quarterly Events: Josie’s House of Help partners with other organizations to feed the homeless in the local surrounding communities in the Orlando area.
One Heart for Women and Children provides everyday necessities for families such as: food, clothing, personal hygiene items.
We have a food pantry open Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday where we give away fresh nutritious food to our neighbors. Volunteering is all outside in the sun and lifting/moving boxes of food into our neighbors cars.
Objectives and Description This organization designed to help children and youth who are orphans by either one or both parents to achieve their goal of education and sustainable life through the “Five Main Life Components.
Morgan Ministries was founded in 1996 by Elizabeth Morgan and her husband, Jay. The Morgan’s are dedicated to empowering individuals by helping them discover their own uniqueness and creative talents.
Currently (Compassion Outreach) is providing hot meals to an average of 400 men, women and children on a monthly basis in the Downtown Orlando area. Our feedings are the 1st and 3rd Wednesday of each month at St. George Greek Orthodox Church (parking lot). 24 N. Rosalind Avenue, Orlando FL.
Our Mentoring Program (Teen Academy) reaches girls from the age of 8-18 years of age. Our program focuses on teaching teen the dangers of drugs, alcohol and pre-marital sex. Life Skills, Problem Solving, Anger Management are just a few of the subjects taught to youth. Youth meet on a weekly basis and classes are taught by volunteers.
F.M.C. Outreach Ministries envisions a community where all citizens have access to an adequate and nutritious supply of food. We have a weekly Food Bank Pantry where we feed between 240-280 families (1,200-1,400 people).
HEBNI’S Nutrition consultants is a community-based not-for-profit agency formed in 1995 to educate high-risk culturally diverse populations about nutrition services to prevent diet-related diseases. HEBNI’s committed to reducing health discrepancies among high-risk minority populations by providing nutritionrelated strategies to decrease, manage, and delay chronic diseases such as diabetes, heart diseases, cancer, obesity, and hypertension.
The Orlando Union Rescue Mission is one of Central Florida’s oldest and largest homeless service providers. The Mission provides for immediate physical needs — including food, clothing and shelter — however, our programs are designed to lead the homeless to permanent independence built upon a personal relationship with Christ.
The Hispanic Federation provides grants to a broad network of Latino non-profit agencies serving the most vulnerable members of the Hispanic community and advocates nationally with respect to the vital issues of education, health, immigration, economic empowerment, civic engagement and the environment.
Shepherd Vision Missionary, Inc. goal is to teach and train individuals for personal growth, career development and education.
The Salvation Army of Orlando provides an immediate response to families and individuals in crisis without discrimination.
Motivated by compassion and love, we provide hot meals and shelter for men, women, and children whom are homeless and emergency food, clothing and assistance with utility and rent payments to prevent homelessness.
The Salvation Army also provides Emergency Disaster Services to families and individuals during times of tragedy.
The Sister-to-Sister Women’s Ministry is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization envisioned by women to address the many specific needs of women.
Our mission is to enhance, motivate women of all denominations and faith. And to encourage them to walk in there calling on their lives, feel free to let the Lord Jesus Christ use them to walk boldly in the Spirit.
We are dedicated to providing an awareness of diversity in areas of cultural, recreation, and education issues. We will continue to nurture and reach out to women to mend broken hearts and renew, refresh, and revive souls.
We strive to enhance the lives of people in our community. We have many programs and services in place to help women in need of nurturing, counseling, and realizing their positive self-worth.
Once a month we offer the following services: food giveaway, clothing giveaway, and senior luncheon. We also offer counseling and programs such as life skills, job readiness, tutoring, and after school care.
Jewish Family Services of Greater Orlando (JFS Orlando) is a human services organization founded on the principles of community building, kindness, compassion and concern for the betterment of our world. Since 1978, JFS Orlando has provided social and emergency assistance services to struggling individuals and families throughout the entire Central Florida community, regardless of race, gender, ability, or religion. Our goal is to alleviate hunger and provide assistance to those in need.
For more information on our programs, please visit our website: www.jfsorlando.org
The Christian Service Center for Central Florida, Inc., is a private nonprofit social service agency that assists hurting families in Central Florida with compassion through programs designed to meet physical, emotional and spiritual needs, regardless of race, religion or gender. The Christian Service Center hasserved millions of clients since its inception in 1971, and operates from three locations: downtown Orlando, West Orange County and Winter Park.
Coalition for the Homeless of Central Florida, a private nonprofit organization, is the largest provider of homeless services in Central Florida. The Coalition operates two campuses, both located in downtown Orlando. The main campus includes the Center for Women & Families (CWF) and the Men’s Service Center (MSC). A separate campus is home to the Women’s Residential and Counseling Center (WRCC).
Corporations, community groups, volunteers and other organizations can join together for a packing event. It is a great way to help create awareness about global hunger, but also to engage employees or community members.
Help us feed our senior citizens. If you have an hour of time between 9:00am and 11:00am, we can use you help. Become a Meals on Wheels volunteer one day a week[Monday-Friday]and give the gift of your time and nutrition to our greatest generation.
Fleet Farming is an urban agriculture program pedaled by bikes that teaches the community how to farm for free on lawns transformed into micro-farms.
As a catalyst of HELP and HOPE, CitiIMPACT Ministriesmobilizes collaborative partnerships between local churches, groups and individuals for greater effectiveness in meeting human needs.
SIGN UP VOLUNTEER Mission Team https://www.citiimpact.org/bring-a-team/
Building Hope is a geat way to postively affect your own community, those impacted by disasters around the USA, and across the world.
Read more here: https://citiimpact.org/building-hope/
Located in the heart of Colonialtown neighborhood
327 students, 41% African America, 27% white, 20% Hispanic
Around 200 students are bussed in from Parramore area (lowest economic area in Orange County)
The Coalition for the Homeless is in our attendance boundaries: 20-25% of our students are considered homeless
Title 1 school with 84% of our students on free/reduced lunch program
We are an “A” school and have been an “A” school for six of the past seven years
New York Times Article: https://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/02/education/02winerip.html?_r=1
Hands On Orlando identifies, plans, manages and leads volunteer projects. We’ve served over 135,000 volunteers, helped hundreds of thousands of people in-need and more than 300 non-profit organizations, public schools and parks.
The Society of St. Andrew Gleaning Network uses volunteers to glean (pick/gather after the harvest) farmers’ fields and groves after harvest for nutritious produce that would otherwise be plowed under or left to rot. After the fresh produce is gathered (gleaned), it is distributed throughout the community and state to food banks, pantries and shelters for the hungry and homeless.
Rock for Hunger is a local non-profit organization that exists to inspire individuals of all cultures to join together through music, education and peaceful solutions in order to end the cycle of hunger and poverty. Our vision is to end the cycle of hunger and poverty through education, life style design and career development solutions, beginning with our local community and expanding to reach those in need across the globe.
We share our mission and work toward achieving our vision through food-sharing events every Monday evening. During these weekly food-sharing events, we provide hot meals, clothing and hygiene products to approximately 150 of our homeless and underprivileged neighbors in the downtown Orlando area.
We also partner with New Image Youth Center, a local safe haven for at risk youth in our local community. The staff and volunteers at New Image inspire and motivate these children through positive learning experiences, character building, and the promotion of education and fun.
CBSU is a charitable organization located on the North Side of Orlando, Florida. With much Love, Blessings, and Gratitude, it has been placed in our Hearts to do more by providing Humanitarian needs for the Homeless, Hungry, Sick, and Less Fortunate.
Our Vision Communities where every family has access to basic needs, nutritional food, crisis care, education and employment training, and where everyone has the opportunity to achieve a future filled with hope and possibilities.
Charity Challenge was founded by State Senator Lee Constantine in 1987. Since our inception, we have raised nearly $5 million for hundreds of charities serving the Central Florida community. Last year, with the help of over 100 hospitality and apartment industry teams competing, we were able to award $220,000 to many different charities! This year’s event will be held on May 17, 2014 at the Florida Citrus Bowl in downtown Orlando. Come on out and face the Challenge!
Southeastern Food Bank serves as a food distribution center in the communities of Central Florida. We provide ongoing support to families in need throughout Central Florida in Lake, Orange, Osceola, Polk and Sumter Counties, which results in food distribution and spiritual counseling six days per week.
Volunteers from businesses, schools, churches and various other groups join together to package these nutritionally balanced meals (25 cents per meal) in a fun, community-building environment. CTW provides the raw ingredients (specific recipe), the assembly lines and facilitates the packaging process. Through partnership, CTW provides holistic care to the communities where the food is distributed. Change This World has facilitated the packaging of over 9 million meals and provided more than 13,000 children and families with a daily meal for an entire year. Change This World’s primary partnerships are in Honduras, Burundi and Haiti.
Our goal is to reach out to the most vulnerable communities, and provide assistance in healthcare, and Education. We’ve already conducted more than 6 free mobile Clinics ,and provided food supplies to more than a thousand families in Haiti. We know your presence will touch people’s heart. Therefore, we are asking you to join us in this journey.
We thank you for your support!
English Estates Elementary is a great place to volunteer if you are interested in helping children succeed! Let’s work together for a brighter future!
Dave’s House is Central Florida’s leading provider of affordable permanent support housing for individuals with serious mental illness (SMI) and co-occurring disabilities. Dave’s House and Aspire Health work together to help these individuals continue to live in recovery through affordable permanent supportive housing, which is our Dave’s House homes. Residents receive ongoing mental health care, life skills development training, access to community resources, and 24/7 crisis intervention and stabilization services if needed. Many of Dave’s House residents move on to independent living.
Lin and Ron Wilensky founded Dave’s House in 2008 after personally witnessing the positive impact permanent supportive housing made for Lin’s brother, Dave Jefferys, who lived with schizophrenia. Dave’s House has developed nine single site homes in Orlando and Ft. Lauderdale, Florida and Fairfax, Virginia, as well as multiple Dave’s Housing First homes, providing permanent supportive housing for over 100 individuals who are living productive lives in an atmosphere of mental wellness, safety and stability.
Our work focuses on the power of people helping people. Our principles are based on the value of people, relationships and innovation. Each home is a product of community cooperation, individual compassion and a commitment to make an enduring difference in the lives of others.
SkyBuilders 4 All was established in 2020 to address the community needs by assisting in the production and preservation of building infrastructure related to affordable housing, health facilities, education facilities, and other community needs. We work for economic development that benefits the community as a whole and those who are underserved. Currently we are establishing a food pantry to help end hunger locally.
All Orange County Children will be fully prepared to enter school ready to learn.
We are an inter-denominational group of Christians, from that came together via different social service websites for the benefit of those who are less fortunate than ourselves. We formed as a group on February 6th 2010 on a note in response to what became the glamour of giving for the hurricane Katrina disaster. We have homelessness, hopelessness, loss of faith, hunger, poverty, mental & physic … al disease right here at home. We do not stand against helping nations in need, we are just standing up for those in our nation in need. Charity begins at home. The voices that will not be heard because society has stereotyped homelessness as a self inflicted state of life. Homelessness affects people of all walks of life, nationalities, beliefs, and ages.
While some individuals are drug-addicts even the situation that led them to that phase in their lifes has a painful story attached. In today’s economic state worldwide many individuals who are now homeless are unemplyed professionals or veterans that served our country well. We are here to raise awareness, to change the attitude of many who bleieve “they did it to themselves.” Imagine if Christ had that attitude against us. I thank God, that He loved me enough to give me other changes. A relationship with God is a process. I invite you to the next level in which God calls us to love those we neither know nor care about.
We are seeking support to acquire a three building property: a 2 story building with elevator which will serve as an alchohol and drug rehab, offices, in-house employment agency and medical. The second building is a community center which will serve in the evening as a training facility for adults and in the afternoons as an after school math and reading center for children. The third building which requires much more work will be used as a transitional home to get individuals from the street into their own homes via the aforementioned programs.
On March 9th, 2011, CBS’s “60 Minutes” news show aired a segment right from the heart of our communtity. As the national spotlight was shone upon us, it highlighted the increasing number of hungry and homeless families within our community and the terrible effects that this has on our children’s social, emotional and academic growth. Many in our community were shocked that there was such a need in our neighborhoods, subdivisions, and schools and have felt a responsibility to do something about it. It has pulled at the collective heart of our community that, even tonight; there are children in our community who will go to bed with empty stomachs because their families, often through no fault of their own, are unable to provide for them. It is sad and tragic story.
But fortunately, we live in a community that cares and is not prepared to tolerate such need among us. Since that defining day on March 9th, around 30 organizations have partnered together to form the Casselberry Community Task Force (CCTF). This group is made up of action orientated businesses, civic groups, non-profits, churches and individuals who are committed to breaking the cycle of poverty that exists within our community.
Together with the local schools we have developed a school centric model of care that provides for the immediate, short term needs of families in our community as well as providing long term care that is helping families move through difficult times into heathly, self-sustainability. The CCTF is a wonderful and unique partnership that is not only meeting needs in our community, but also developing a model of care that is startng to be replicated in other communities as well.
We assist homeless and poverty stricken families with children with Emergency Crisis Assistance and Educational Resources to equip them in moving beyond their crisis and on to a path of self-sufficiency.
TABLE FOR TWO (TFT) partners with corporate cafeterias, university dining halls, restaurants and food manufacturing companies designating a healthy, slightly low calorie meal. The reduced calories are monetized and the equivalent of 25 cents per meal is donated and used to provide one school meal in Uganda, Rwanda, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania and our local community in the US.
Over 50 million healthy school meals have been served to date thanks to over 600 corporations, government offices, schools, restaurants, and convenience store chains implementing our program in their cafeterias and establishments. TFT partnering organizations can be found in Japan, Hong Kong, Korea, Vietnam, Taiwan, U.S.A., U.K., Norway, France, Italy, Switzerland, and Saudi Arabia.
IRD is part of Divine Redemptions church of Orlando. we started giving out food May 2016 and since then we have given out 22,385 lbs of food. we wan to continue to help those that are need and more people aware that we are available to help. We are also open to financial donations and food donations as well.
We feed hundreds of people a week. We also host different community events and classes.
We provide home-delivered meals, congregate meals, transportation, homemaker and chore services and emergency home repairs for the frail and needy elderly in Seminole County, FL. (Formerly known as Seminole County Better Living for Seniors, Inc.).
The Food for Thought Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization committed to ending food deserts. The Food for Thought Foundation conducts community programming not limited to food drives, family sponsorship programs, and research.
Recently, The Food for Thought Foundation has launched a new program, Farms for Thought. Farms for thought is an agricultural technology program intended to empower communities with resilient and reliable food resources in tandem with educational resources. The program places autonomous vertical farms in schools along with a curriculum in order to create food supply hubs in schools that act as decentralized grocery stores for the nearby community.
We piloted our first Farms for Thought site program last year, and are currently launching the newest version of our program in October. Our goal is to create an expansion model that would allow us to expand to five additional schools while providing funding for Title 1 schools to host our program.
Rose Run Series Inc. presents Orlando’s first Holiday themed running event. Dress in your best festive attire to be on Santa’s Naught or Nice List! Run or walk the 3 mile route through UCF. Finish the race with treats and music! This event benefits the Second Harvest Food Bank; dedicated to providing hunger relief to those in Central Florida. *BEST DRESSED AWARDS* for the most Jingly, Santa Clausy, Holiday themed outfit!
The Seminole State Volunteers program is dedicated to promoting volunteerism on the Seminole State campuses and throughout Seminole County.
The Seminole State Volunteers program provides Seminole State students the opportunity to develop, organized and/or sponsor a wide variety of special service programs.
The Seminole State Volunteers program provides students the opportunity to develop and enhance their leadership skills and abilities.
The Seminole State Volunteers program fosters an atmosphere that allows students an opportunity to develop life-long connections, while at the same time, helping students discover their passion in life.
Jewish Reform Congregation in East Orlando.
