DOSOMETHING FOR OTHERS
Volunteer and help build more sustainable communities.
Taking action can be easier than you might think.
Want to build a better world but not sure where to begin? We've got your back! We'll help you cut through the noise and take that first step toward making a difference.
Join the DoSomething For Others program, where powerful young people like YOU come together to take action and build connected, healthy, and sustainable communities nationwide!
By getting started in any of the featured volunteer opportunities and social change actions below, you will earn volunteer credit hours and a signed certificate—to fulfill volunteer or service learning requirements for school. Bonus: you’ll also join a community of over 1 million active youth taking action to change the world.
FEATURED ACTIONS
You have the power to make your community even better!
Donate or recycle unwanted clothes and textiles to support vulnerable populations and protect the planet.
Earn Volunteer Credits
Collect unopened packages of period products and donate them to a local homeless shelter.
Earn Volunteer Credits
Collect and Recycle 5 Aluminum Cans Today!
Earn Volunteer Credits
Be creative, build community.
Earn Volunteer Credits
Collect and donate food items to your local food bank.
Earn Volunteer Credits
Clean up cigarette butt litter to improve communities and protect the planet.
Earn Volunteer Credits
Find your unique way to give back to your community and earn volunteer credit hours!
MEMBERS COLLECTIVE IMPACT
Your commitment and collective efforts to build a safer, kinder, and fairer world has already created lasting change, and begun to shape the future. Together with other DoSomething members like you, you have made an extraordinary impact in your communities, including:
have volunteered over 95,500 hours of service to their communities (since 2012).
in vulnerable populations (since 2012).
to homeless shelters, providing 180,600 people with a week of hygiene products (since 2016).
preventing 130,600 pounds of collective community waste from reaching landfills (since 2014).
to uplifting and revitalizing communities (since 2021).
to local food banks, providing at least one meal to 263,600 of those in need (since 2012).
removing over 2,140 pounds of toxic chemicals from the environment (since 2015).
to their communities in unique, personal ways (since 2024).
Read the personal stories behind what sparked some of your peers to volunteer in service to their communities, and discover all the ways how you too, can join the next generation of changemakers!
ACTION PACKED GALLERY
Check out how some of your peers have channeled their passion for social change into action.
Comeback Clothes
Tackle Hunger
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Power to The Period
Get The Filter Out
Make a difference in your community and add your vision to the future of our democracy