VOLUNTEER
Eagan Nonprofits with Volunteer Opportunities
Are you looking for volunteer opportunities in or around Eagan? Here are links to the volunteer pages for some of our community grants partners and other nonprofit friends serving Eagan. If you’d like to share your organization’s volunteer needs, email jamie.hopkins@eaganfoundation.org
360 Communities: provides hope and support to more than 16,000 individuals each year with 9 programs in over 40 locations, including a network of five food shelves, two domestic violence shelters, two resource centers, and two programs that support school success from birth through high school graduation. About 1,200 volunteers donate their time, energy and talent in support of 360 Communities annually. | Volunteer Information
Art Works: enhance the local arts community by connecting working artists, arts organizations, and the community in creative gathering spaces. | Volunteer Information
BrainPower in a BackPack: Volunteer Hunger Relief Project through ISD 191 Community Education and Burnsville High School benefitting all students, staff and families in District 191. Our high school students and community volunteers assemble hungry relief packages via three programs. | Volunteer Information
Caponi Art Park: Restoring and Nurturing the Human Spirit through Art, Nature and Community. The Park is composed of 60 acres of rolling wooded hills and trails that enlighten and delight all who visit. | Volunteer Information
Dakota Woodlands: a pathway to sustainable and independent housing for homeless women and families by providing a continuum of supportive services. | Volunteer Information
DARTS: provides transportation and home services to seniors, caregiver support, and intergenerational volunteer opportunities | Volunteer Information
Eagan Art Festival: a community-based organization whose purpose is to develop, promote, and encourage participation in and appreciation of the arts. general support for Eagan Art Festival. | Volunteer Information
Eagan Community Foundation: (yes, that’s us) Investing together in Eagan’s future with community connections, grants & scholarships. | Volunteer Information
Eagan Core Greenway: a non-profit citizens' organization dedicated to the preservation of Eagan's expansive and environmentally sensitive green space. | Volunteer Information
Eagan Funfest: To benefit our community through sponsorship, organization and promotion of Eagan’s July 4th Funfest, an annual community celebration. | Volunteer Information
Eagan Men’s Chorus: bringing the joys of music to the community.
Eagan parkrun: A free, fun, and friendly weekly 5k community event. Walk, jog, run, volunteer or spectate – it's up to you! | Volunteer Information
Eagan Theater Company: ignite imaginations and encourage participation by producing high quality theatrical performances; provide educational and performance opportunities; and heighten the awareness of cultural arts in the Eagan community. | Volunteer Information
Eagan YMCA: We’re for youth development, healthy living and social responsibility. | Volunteer Information
Every Meal (formerly Sheridan’s Story) Fight child hunger through community and school partnerships. Vision: Every child. Every meal. | Volunteer Information
Green Ribbon Initiatives: founded in the spring of 2013 for the purpose of identifying and celebrating significant Eagan community engagement initiatives and partnerships. | Volunteer Information
Kaitlyn’s Kloset: providing families with the items they need to raise their children, while also decreasing the stigma that often comes with needing and receiving help. Clients are able to “shop” in a resource center full of no-cost items that they can take home to their children. | Volunteer Information
Kids N Kinship: provides community and school-based mentoring to children and youth ages 5-16 who are in need of an additional supportive relationship with an adult. | Volunteer Information
Lincoln Place/Wilder Foundation: support for youth shelter staff & youth personal needs (clothing and groceries)
The Link: work with youth and families to overcome the impacts of poverty and social injustice. | Volunteer Information
Loaves and Fishes: A volunteer-driven organization that provides healthy meals to Minnesotans in areas where need is greatest | Volunteer Information
Meals on Wheels in NW Dakota County: delivers warm, nutritional meals each day to your homebound friends, family and neighbors. | Volunteer Information
Midwest Special Services: support people with disabilities as vital and contributing members of our community. | Volunteer Information
Open Door: A fresh approach to ending local hunger through access to healthy food. | Volunteer Information
PeaceMaker Minnesota: help schools to be safer places, free from bullying and harassment, and to help youth learn positive relational skills like empathy, respect, cooperation and how to resolve conflicts peacefully. | Volunteer Information
ProAct: provide person-centered services that enhance the quality of life for people with disabilities in the areas of employment, life skills, and community inclusion.
Reaching Up: Four days a week, over students in grades 2 through 12 receive individual and small-group tutoring, literacy and math intervention, mentoring, service opportunities, and physical activity. | Volunteer Information
Sleep in Heavenly Peace: All children deserve a safe, comfortable place to lay their heads - too many boys and girls go without a bed—or even a pillow—to sleep on. These children end up sleeping on couches, blankets, and even floors. This can affect their happiness and health. Sleep in Heavenly Peace builds, assembles and delivers top-notch bunk beds to children and families in need. | Volunteer Information
The Free Book Buggie: provide books to children and ignite a passion for reading that empowers each child to explore a world of opportunity. | Volunteer Information
TreeHouse: TreeHouse has been serving teens since 1979, helping them build relationships and resiliency rooted in living hope. | Volunteer Information
YMCA of the North - Eagan: We’re for youth development, healthy living and social responsibility. | Volunteer Information
Young Builders and Designers: hosts activities in the Twin Cities introducing youth to the Design and Building Trades (this is a Social Entrepreneurship - not a nonprofit/501c3; they take in-kind donations and welcome volunteers)
School Groups that have received grant funding and can likely use your support:
Eagan High School AVID: (Advancement Via Individual Determination) is an elective course where students learn organizational and study skills, work on critical thinking and ask probing questions, get academic help from peers and tutors, and participate in enrichment and motivational activities that make college seem attainable.
Eagan High School Team 2200 Blue Twilight First Robotics: Underclassmen will have a basic understanding of all team skills and a niche understanding of a certain set of skills in order to pass on knowledge to future members and build a consistent and effective robot that can participate in multiple stages of competitions and outreach.
Eagan High School Forensics Boosters: The Eagan High School Forensics Boosters is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Donations are tax-exempt to the extent allowable by law. Team Fees, tournament payments, etc., are not donations and are not tax-deductible.
City/County Volunteer Opportunities
National/International Opportunities
Feed My Starving Children: As a Christian nonprofit organization, Feed My Starving Children is called to feed God’s starving children hungry in body and spirit. | Volunteer Information
Don’t see an opportunity for you?
Please contact us and let us know how you’d like to help out in the community - we might have some more ideas! Thank you for your interest in making Eagan a better place to live, learn, work, and play for all residents!