Volunteer Opportunities Listings

full-time, post-graduation

"Volunteer" usually doesn't mean "you pay your own way." Many of the volunteer agencies will provide free room and board and a monthly stipend to cover your personal expenses.

 
ONLINE DIRECTORIES OF POST-GRAD VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITES:

Search the BC database - full-time, post-graduation volunteer opportunities

  • Search the database of over 100 organizations based on the criteriea most important to you - length of service, geographic location, type of service.
  • Opportunities include teaching in inner-city schools, wilderness-based therapeutic programs for troubled teens, providing health training, working in homeless shelters and food banks, and even working at a Christian radio station in Alaska?
  • Opportunities in the U.S. and abroad
  • The Career Resource Library has literature from all these organizations.
  • Attend the BC Post-Graduate Volunteer Fair (Fall), and speak with representatives of many of these organizations.

Connections Directory

  • A directory of more than 100 volunteer programs, which need volunteers to work in education, community outreach, campus ministry, advocacy, construction, medicine, homeless ministry, ministry to the elderly, the sick and the poor.
  • These are faith-based programs ("90%" of which are Catholic), but they are not inappropriately proseletyzing.

VolunteerInternational.org

Includes many short- and long-term volunteer opportunities, including quite a few that are not found on other databases (some of these require that participants pay a fee up front).

Response Directory

  • Over 9,000 volunteer opportunities with over 230 Christian Member Programs.

Post-Graduate Service Programs

 

ADVICE AND CONSULTATIONS:

BC Career Center
Boston College students and alumni may meet with a member of our professional career advising staff at any time during the year. We are happy to assist you with your questions about full-time, post-graduate volunteer opportunities.

Volunteer and Service Learning Center
The new Boston College center for volunteer activities.

The Pallotti Center
Staff members of the Pallotti Centers (in Brighton, MA; Paterson, NJ; Sacramento, CA, St. Louis, MO) work with prospective volunteers to explore their personal strengths and weaknesses, talents, interests, personal and professional goals and objectives. Referrals to volunteer programs are made based on an individual's preference and the criteria of the programs.

 

VOLUNTEER ORGANIZATIONS: