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Volunteer with Will U Help

You do not have to go to the streets to help someone come home.

Some volunteers make phone calls. Some tell stories. Some provide leadership. Some help secure funding. Every role matters.

Every reconnection starts with someone who cares enough to help.

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Volunteer Opportunities

Every role helps us bring hope, connection, and a path home.

Serve From Anywhere

For outreach calls, research, social media, storytelling, grant writing, sharing the mission, and remote support.

  • National Outreach Volunteers

    Outreach Callers

    • Call shelters, recovery centers, rescue missions, and outreach programs across America.
    • Introduce Will U Help and explain our free reconnection service.
    • Encourage teams to ask one simple intake question: “Is there someone from your past we could help you reconnect with?”
    • Use our CRM to access contacts, record call notes, track progress, and manage follow-ups.

    This role requires comfort making phone calls, communicating professionally, staying organized, and learning new technology. CRM training is provided. Previous CRM experience is helpful, but not required.

  • Administrative Volunteer (Remote)

    • Help Will U Help grow across the country.
    • Work directly with our founder to support nationwide expansion.
    • Help with spreadsheets, CRM data, scheduling, communication, and project tracking.
    • Coordinate with shelters, recovery centers, volunteers, donors, and partners.

    Ideal for someone comfortable with technology, Google Docs, and spreadsheets; a strong communicator who enjoys working with people; organized, dependable, and detail-oriented; and able to work independently while managing multiple priorities. If you enjoy bringing order to moving parts and want to help expand a mission focused on ending isolation, we would love to hear from you.

  • Community Ambassador

    • Help bring Will U Help to your metropolitan community.
    • Build local relationships in major metropolitan areas across the eastern United States before we arrive.
    • Connect us with shelters, recovery centers, churches, community leaders, and volunteers.
    • Share local knowledge that helps us serve more effectively.
    • Identify potential host families, churches, or affordable lodging options for our outreach team during future visits.

    This role is ideal for someone who enjoys building relationships, connecting people, and helping expand a mission focused on ending isolation. Location: Your Metropolitan Community. Time Commitment: Flexible.

  • Social Media & Storytelling

    • Help share reconnection stories and grow awareness.
    • Create content for Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, and LinkedIn.
    • Help with captions, short videos, community engagement, and content planning.

    Help us tell stories that inspire hope while always protecting the dignity of the people we serve.

  • Grant Writers

    • Identify grant opportunities.
    • Write proposals and letters of interest.
    • Help build relationships with foundations and funding partners.

    Experienced nonprofit grant writers are especially helpful as Will U Help grows nationally.

  • Share the Mission

    • Share Will U Help with your church, workplace, neighborhood, recovery community, shelter contacts, and social media.

    Every connection creates more opportunities for reconnection.

Serve in Leadership

For board members, treasurer, volunteer executive director, and other leadership roles.

Leadership Volunteer Roles

  • Board Members

    • Guide mission growth and national expansion.
    • Help with fundraising, marketing, legal, finance, community outreach, or faith-community partnerships.
    • Open doors to trusted relationships, donors, and partner organizations.

    We are looking for mission-driven board members with a heart for the unsheltered and a belief in reconnection.

  • Treasurer

    • Provide financial review and board reporting.
    • Help with budget guidance and nonprofit financial oversight.
    • Support accountability as the organization grows.

    CPA, accounting, bookkeeping, or nonprofit finance experience is preferred.

  • Volunteer Executive Director

    • Work closely with the founder and board.
    • Help expand programs, partnerships, fundraising, volunteers, and organizational systems.
    • Turn a proven idea into a national movement around reconnection.

    Ideal for a retired executive, nonprofit leader, entrepreneur, ministry leader, or mission-driven professional.

Serve in the Field

For street outreach, filming, local events, backpack distribution, and in-person support.

  • Video Production Partners

    • Assist with street outreach filming when appropriate.
    • Help capture reconnection stories, donor storytelling, and social content.
    • Edit documentary-style clips and short videos for awareness.

    Our goal is to show the power of human connection without exploiting the people we serve.

Volunteer Application

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