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Learn more about volunteer opportunities in Round Rock, Pflugerville, Hutto and the surrounding areas.
For specific volunteer requirements, contact the organization directly. This list is not comprehensive.
Central Texas Tortoise Rescue
The nonprofit works like a shelter, taking in tortoises and box turtles who need a helping hand and finding them new adoptive families. With locations in Pflugerville and Bertram, the organization’s facilities are private residences.
Sample activities: gardening, sanitizing and cleaning enclosures, removing waste, maintaining habitats
Donations accepted: monetary gifts
Friends of the Pflugerville Animal Shelter
The nonprofit was created to support the Pflugerville Animal Shelter and enrich animals’ lives.
Sample activities: assisting with event planning and social media, attending adoption events
Donations accepted: Amazon wishlist items, monetary gifts
1600 Waterbrook Drive, Pflugerville
Jack Jack’s Pack Street Dog Rescue
The organization rehabilitates lost, abandoned and abused dogs in Central Texas, and either reunites or finds new homes for them.
Sample activities: taking dogs to the vet, walking dogs, fostering dogs, helping at adoption events
Donations accepted: H-E-B Heritage Ranch dog food, dog beds, enrichment toys, bully sticks, martingale collars, monetary gifts
PAWliska Rescue and Reunite
The nonprofit dog rescue works to reunite missing dogs with their families and find homes for street dogs.
Sample activities: assisting with adoption events, walking dogs, providing social media services
Donations accepted: Tractor Supply gift cards, H-E-B Heritage Ranch dog food, monetary gifts
Pflugerville Animal Welfare Services
The city shelter works to provide a place for stray and homeless dogs, cats and pets in Pflugerville. It also provides animal services and pet resources.
Sample activities: walking dogs, playing with cats, cleaning and enriching animal enclosures
Donations accepted: pet supplies, monetary gifts
1600 Waterbrook Drive, Pflugerville
Shadow Cats
The organization cares for medically difficult, terminally ill and otherwise difficult-to-place cats.
Sample activities: providing socialization, grooming and enrichment for cats; planning events; offering transportation; fundraising and community outreach
Donations accepted: monetary gifts
Simple Sparrow Care Farm
The nonprofit provides veterans, foster and adoption families, survivors of sex-trafficking, and other vulnerable populations with trauma-informed therapeutic and educational services.
Sample activities: cleaning cages, brushing rabbits, weeding gardens, watering plants, feeding chickens, cleaning homes, providing administrative assistance
Donations accepted: Amazon wishlist items, monetary gifts
1615 CR 107, Hutto
Circle of Hope Community Center
The nonprofit provides food donations and connection to community resources to those who need them.
Sample activities: distributing and organizing food donations
Donations accepted: food items, monetary gifts
2900 W. Pecan St., Pflugerville
Giving Christmas Spirit
The nonprofit provides Christmas trees, ornaments and lights to families who cannot afford them.
Sample activities: setting up for events, picking up donated Christmas decorations and ornaments, crafting decorations
Donations accepted: Christmas trees, lights, ornaments, decorations, monetary gifts
Goodwill of Central Texas
The organization uses the revenue from its 37 area retail locations to support opportunities for education, career training, job placement and more.
Sample activities: organizing and sorting donations, providing customer service in retail locations, teaching classes and workshops
Donations accepted: clothes, shoes, jewelry, household items, monetary gifts
1015 Norwood Park Blvd., Ste. 310, Austin (corporate office)
Hope Alliance
The nonprofit provides a range of services and counseling for victims of family and sexual violence.
Sample activities: sorting donations, answering hotlines, organizing the shelter, staffing events
Donations accepted: gift cards, towels, full-size hygiene items
1011 Gattis School Road, Ste. 110, Round Rock
Hutto Resource Center
The organization provides resources to improve well-being and increase independence and financial self-sufficiency. The center has a community food pantry and partners with Austin Diaper Bank to provide free diapers to families.
Sample activities: helping at the center, picking up food donations, becoming a sponsor
Donations accepted: nonperishable food, hygiene items, monetary gifts
204 E. Live Oak St., Hutto
Opportunities for Williamson and Burnet Counties
The nonprofit’s mission is to care for children, families and seniors by partnering with local organizations to provide education, nutrition and community support.
Sample activities: rocking babies, delivering meals to seniors through Meals on Wheels
Donations accepted: Ensure, adult pullups, socks, knitted caps, hygiene kits, monetary gifts
604 High Tech Drive, Georgetown
Round Rock Area Serving Center
The center provides financial assistance for necessities, such as rent, utilities and transportation. RRASC also operates a food pantry and a thrift store, and offers social work case management.
Sample activities: picking up and sorting donations, restocking the pantry, unloading trucks, completing data entry, answering phones, repairing and testing donated appliances, working as a cashier at the thrift store, greeting clients
Donations accepted: food, clothing, furniture, appliances, electronics, monetary gifts
1099 E. Main St., Round Rock
United Way for Greater Austin
The organization focuses on fighting poverty and building opportunities for Central Texas residents.
Sample activities: stocking the food pantry, sorting donations, delivering diapers
Donations accepted: monetary gifts
5930 Middle Fiskville Road, Fifth Floor, Austin
Backpack Friends
The nonprofit provides food for K-12 students who receive free and reduced meal programs.
Sample activities: packing lunches, delivering to campuses, helping with fundraising events
Donations accepted: some packaged food items, monetary gifts
700 W. Pecan St., Pflugerville
CASA of Williamson County
The organization works to advocate for children in the child protective system.
Sample activities: serving as a court-appointed special advocate
Donations accepted: monetary gifts
2100 Scenic Drive, Ste. 110, Georgetown
CHASCO Family YMCA
The organization offers childcare, youth sports, arts and crafts, and health and wellness programs.
Sample activities: coaching youth sports teams; helping young athletes develop skills, build confidence, and learn the importance of teamwork and sportsmanship
Donations accepted: monetary gifts
1810 N. I-35, Round Rock
Hutto Education Foundation
Independent from Hutto ISD, the foundation provides funding, scholarships and resources to the district.
Sample activities: assisting at events, including its annual gala
Donations accepted: gala sponsorships, donations to the Luminary Circle of Giving, employer donation matches, monetary gifts
200 College St., Hutto
Hutto Family YMCA
The organization offers fitness, childcare, a youth activity center, an indoor aquatic center, and a gym for basketball and volleyball.
Sample activities: supporting activities and programs
Donations accepted: children’s books and toys, crafting supplies, monetary gifts
200 Alliance Blvd., Hutto
Pflugerville Education Foundation
Since 2006, the foundation has awarded more than $2.6 million in teacher grants and student scholarships to fund classroom innovation and close resource gaps.
Sample activities: reading to students through the home library initiative; reviewing grant and scholarship requests; helping with annual events, such as Tailgate on the Tees, Bloom Women’s Luncheon and State of the District
Donations accepted: in-kind donations, donations to the Luminary Circle of Giving, monetary gifts
1401 W. Pecan St., Pflugerville
Round Rock ISD Partners in Education Foundation
Founded in 1985, the organization connects local businesses and community organizations to education programs. It has given back over $10.5 million in support of teachers, students and staff.
Sample activities: assisting with school supply drives and back-to-school celebrations, assembling gift bags, reviewing scholarship and grant applications
Donations accepted: school supplies, hygiene items, monetary gifts
595 Round Rock West Drive, Ste. 404, Round Rock
The Sandbox at Madeline’s Place
The organization works to provide a space to empower teenagers through education, offering recreational activities, mentorship, relationship building opportunities and skills training.
Sample activities: assisting with fundraising opportunities, facilitating recreational activities, tutoring students
Donations accepted: monetary gifts
10700 FM 1660, Hutto
Texas Baptist Children’s Home
The nonprofit offers residential and wrap-around services to children, single moms and young adults in need to empower and equip them for the future.
Sample activities: helping with yard work, cleaning, preparing meals, supporting holiday efforts, working special events, volunteering at food and hygiene drives
Donations accepted: clothing, household goods, vehicles, monetary gifts
1101 N. Mays St., Round Rock
Agape Women’s Clinic
The faith-based nonprofit provides free pregnancy-related medical care and support services.
Sample activities: light cleaning, pricing baby items for boutique, parent coaching
Donations accepted: new baby items, monetary gifts
104 E. Main St., Round Rock
We Are Blood
The blood bank serves more than 50 hospitals and medical facilities in a 10-county area.
Sample activities: staffing donor locations, providing transportation for blood from satellite locations, performing outreach, helping with administrative tasks
Donations accepted: blood, monetary gifts
4300 N. Lamar Blvd., Austin
AGE of Central Texas
The organization helps older adults and their caregivers by providing outreach, social support and medical equipment.
Sample activities: socializing with seniors, helping with memory activities, cleaning, distributing donated medical equipment
Donations accepted: new or gently used medical equipment, monetary gifts
7640 Guadalupe St., Austin
Drive a Senior ATX
The group provides transportation, support and socialization for elderly adults.
Sample activities: driving seniors to their destination, providing regular social check-ups, helping with small household tasks
Donations accepted: monetary gifts
2601 Exposition Blvd., Austin
