Creating PROGRAMS To Help Others

The Volunteer Center of North Texas offers a wide array of innovative programs and resources designed to help you determine how you can make a difference in the community. 

To find the appropriate programs to suit your needs, review the lists below, then make your selection from the menu on the left to learn more.

VOLUNTEERS Will Find These Programs Helpful:

• Community Service Restitution (CSR) - Find out what you need to know if you've been assigned community service hours by the courts.
• Hands On North Texas - will revolutionize volunteering by providing a wide variety of meaningful service activities throughout the North Texas area. Every day, Hands On North Texas volunteers will make our community a better place to live and work. They will feed the homeless, provide companionship to the elderly, build low-income housing, restore the natural environment, tutor at-risk children, read to children in shelters and even care for homeless pets.
• ServiceWorks! - a collaboration of the Volunteer Center of North Texas and the City of Dallas that places volunteers as support team members in all city departments. 
• SkillBank - Match your special skills and talents with an agency in need.
• Student Programs - Join other students making a difference in their communities.

NONPROFITS Will Benefit From These Programs:

• Community Service Restitution (CSR) - Tap into this versatile and constant source of volunteers.
• Need & Deed Center (NDC) - Discover huge savings when you make your agency purchases here.
• SkillBank - Find volunteers with specialized skills to help you with everything from accounting to yard maintenance.
• Student Programs - Take advantage of this growing segment of energetic volunteers.
• veriFYI - Protect your vulnerable clientele by utilizing the most complete criminal background check screening system available.

COMPANIES Will Connect With the Community Through These Programs:

• Corporate Partners - Offers a multi-tiered approach to good corporate citizenship that allows companies to support the work of the Volunteer Center while enhancing their efforts and position in the community.
• Need & Deed Center (NDC) - Eliminate excess warehousing costs by donating surplus and gently used items to agencies in need.
• SkillBank - Grab your associates and put your professional skills to work.