Opportunities

Our organization aims to provide high quality services to Bay Area children whose parents or guardians have been affected by cancer. In a week-long sleep-away camp setting in Northern California, we aim to provide children with the ability to just be children again, through a series of fun activities, with...

ImpactZ is a non-profit organization that aims to spread environmental awareness and stewardship to the youth in our community through education and engagement. We aim to invite all who are passionate about the environment to share their interest through engaging and teaching young students. We do so by planting gardens...

Stanford Vaccine Crew provides vaccinations to local communities, especially communities that are historically underserved and have limited access to vaccines otherwise. We partner with organizations like the United Farm Workers and the Salvation Army to deliver both flu and COVID vaccines. Our undergraduate volunteers play a critical role in making...

The Stanford Housing Equity Project seeks to connect resources of Silicon Valley and higher academia to community initiatives supporting low-income and unsheltered residents to housing and social support through establishing high-quality programming and long-term organizational capacity.

Lambda Theta Nu Sorority Inc. is Stanford's only Latina sorority. Our primary focuses are meeting the needs of Latina women in higher education and serving our communities. We aim to show both our members and members in the community how to be engaged with the communities around Stanford.

The Farmlink Project connects farms with surplus to food banks to feed people in need, reduce carbon emissions & empower the next generation of changemakers. Our team is comprised of passionate students from diverse backgrounds united by the cause to create a more equitable and sustainable food system. This fellowship...

We are a coalition of Stanford students, scientists, and alumni invested in ensuring the Doerr School of Sustainability achieve its full potential as a beacon of research excellence that accelerates the energy transition, with the speed and scale necessary to avert catastrophe. We are calling on school leadership to decline...

Students for Workers' Rights is an activist group that organizes the Stanford student body around the issue of labor at Stanford. We recruit Stanford students to our organization, educate them on the labor issues occurring at Stanford, and organize them to do something about it. We develop close relationships with...

Systole is committed to empowering individuals to care for themselves and others in medical emergencies. We teach first-aid classes at local homeless shelters and help ensure individuals know how to access professional medical help when needed.

At SERIO, graduate students are committed to introducing the idea of graduate school and research to first and second-year undergraduate students from underrepresented communities in STEM and to teaching those undergraduates how to build a strong resume to achieve their graduate school goals. SERIO is dedicated to connecting graduate students...

Founded in 2003, Stanford Engineers for a Sustainable World (ESW) aims to address the challenges of global poverty and sustainability by harnessing the energy and creativity of student engineers, members may be from any major in any school. We partner with organizations locally and internationally to approach engineering-based challenges through...

Challah for Hunger holds weekly events, at which members of the Stanford community bake challah bread together. The loaves are then sold to the Stanford community and the proceeds from these sales go to both local and international humanitarian aid-based charities. In addition to weekly bakes, Challah for Hunger holds...

The Frosh Service Liaisons Program is a leadership development and outreach program for first-year Stanford undergraduates. Liaisons meet weekly to learn about service opportunities, participate in leadership-building workshops, plan service events (you'll get support!), and engage in critical discussions about service. By the end of the program, participants will be...

The Stanford Women in Computer Science (WiCS) Outreach Team runs an educational computer science outreach program called Stanford WiCS Outreach Workshop (WOW). The purpose of this program is to serve low-income, historically underrepresented high school students in the communities surrounding Stanford. As a volunteer with Stanford WOW, you will teach...

The Public Service Leadership Program (PSLP) is a guided path on which students complete courses and a practicum related to a particular public service focus area. The goal of the program is to develop thoughtful, skilled, and reflective practitioners equipped to effect social change. PSLP members have competitive priority for...

At the YMCA, there are many ways volunteers can engage with youth in our afterschool programs, both in person and online. Program Assistants help YMCA staff with curriculum focused on art, games, social emotional learning, and academic enrichment. No experience is needed to volunteer for this in-person opportunity. Volunteers will...

The Brain Development & Education Lab at the Stanford Graduate School of Education is developing the Rapid Online Assessment of Reading (ROAR), an open-access tool to help educators and clinicians rapidly screen children for reading difficulties. Stanford students are invited to contribute to our research partnerships with...

The Little Libraries aims to reduce socioeconomic inequities in early education  by promoting school readiness and literacy in pediatrics clinics around the Mid-Peninsula region. Founded by Dr. Lisa Chamberlain and the Stanford Pediatrics Advocacy Group, the Little Libraries provides a platform for students to meaningfully address disparities in school readiness. We have established...

StanfordVotes, which is a committee within Stanford in Government, works to increase the number of Stanford students registering to vote and participating in elections. Stanford students, faculty, and staff work together to build a stronger campus community around voter registration and engagement. The many volunteer opportunities include: staffing voter registration...

Cardinal Commitment supports and honors students’ individual sustained public service. "Making a Cardinal Commitment" means engaging with a community to address a problem or need for at least three quarters while you’re at Stanford. You’ll develop a personal mission statement describing your commitment, receive advice and guidance from a mentor...

The CS Bridge program is a collaboration between Stanford University and host universities around the world. CS Bridge offers intensive two-week residential courses in the summer for high school students at different universities. Each course is hosted by a well-known university in the host country and is free for the...

In the Bay Area, as throughout the world, under-resourced communities are disproportionately vulnerable to climate change impacts. Working with the frontline communities of East Palo Alto, North Fair Oaks, and Belle Haven (Menlo Park), CRC’s outreach seeks to cultivate environmental awareness, give local residents a voice in resilience planning and...

The Rubenstein-Bing Student-Athlete Civic Engagement (ACE) Program provides one-time funding for accepted Duke and Stanford student-athletes to participate in three-week, immersive summer service experiences with an international community partner. Each summer, 40 Duke and Stanford ACE student-athletes — approximately 20 Blue Devils and 20 Cardinal — will participate in one...

Girls Who Venture is a non-profit that explores and expands our knowledge of women entrepreneurship and the venture capital segment through education, research, knowledge dissemination, and facilitated collaboration. Specifically, the Girls Who Venture Initiative aims to: Bring access to Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital Education for high school girls in the developing...

The mission of Fresh Lifelines for Youth (FLY) is to prevent juvenile crime and incarceration through legal education, leadership training, and one-on-one mentoring. We believe that all our children deserve a chance to become more than their past mistakes. At FLY, we interrupt the pipeline to prison and support youth on...

The Immigration Institute of the Bay Area (IIBA) provides immigration legal services, education, and civic engagement opportunities to immigrants, refugees, and their families. With its eight offices throughout the Bay Area, as well as through its collaborative efforts with local and regional service providers, IIBA provides crucial assistance for immigrants facing...

Music Enriching the Lives of Developing Youth is a service organization that strives to bring the world of music to underprivileged elementary school students in the local community. On Saturday mornings, we give volunteer private piano lessons on the Stanford campus for one hour. The individual instruction we provide would...

California JusticeCorps is an AmeriCorps program employing an innovative approach to solving one of the more pressing issues faced by courts around the country today: providing equal access to justice. JusticeCorps recruits and trains university students annually to serve in overburdened legal self-help centers throughout California. JusticeCorps members receive intensive...

Community Engaged Learning Coordinators (CELCs) are undergraduate and graduate students who are employed to support faculty teaching Cardinal Courses. They are often students who have previously taken the course or have an existing relationship with the community partner. CELCs gain valuable experience in community engaged learning pedagogy, program management, and...

Our mission is to engage a child’s curiosity in science and nature.   We would like to elicit the help of volunteers to provide drop-in programming for visitors on the public floor of the museum. Examples of such programming include animal encounters, tinkering and building activities, science experiments, and artistic...