Transforming Lives through Volunteers

Since 1971, VolunteerNow® has served as the hub of volunteerism in North Texas. In a typical year, VolunteerNow mobilizes over 300,000 volunteers who contribute 1.6 million hours to their communities. As a national thought leader in volunteerism and one of the largest volunteer centers in the country, VolunteerNow provides a wide range of programs and services that build capacity for nonprofits and community organizations. In the last decade, we have generated $330 million in financial impact for our nonprofit partners. 

Mission-driven technology

VolunteerNow’s innovative community engagement platform, VOLY.org, supports 3,500 organizations, a network of 860 schools, 300,000 volunteers - and counting!

Dallas ISD chose a hometown solution when they chose VOLY.org. Since our partnership began in 2017, they’ve grown from a volunteer base of 5,000 to over 19,000. DISD volunteers have logged over 1.3 million hours, contributing more than $38 million in financial impact for the school district.

Learn more about our partnership here.

TRANSFORMATIVE PARTNERSHIPS

None of us can change the world alone, but together so much good becomes possible.

During Armanino LLP’s Annual Great Give, twenty Dallas-based employees took a break from their office to join us at the VolunteerNow headquarters for a project made possible by the generosity of Neiman Marcus. Together we prepared and filled over 1,500 purses with high-quality beauty and makeup products that went to 15 beneficiaries including, We Are Her Leadership Academy, Mommies in Need, and Housing Forward. 

donated goods

Our redistribution center, Donated Goods, has been operating for 34 years.

JCPenney has been a retail partner from the beginning and they just keep giving. This Summer they gifted VolunteerNow with 20,000 Summer dresses. In a Goods Giveaway, we distributed these to over 80 nonprofit partners across DFW.

We are grateful to the 50 local volunteers that sorted and boxed these goods and to The Salvation Army of North Texas for donating warehouse space.

VOLY.org, Powered by VolunteerNow

VolunteerNow is a national provider of volunteer recruitment and management software through our proprietary technology, VOLY.org. The easy-to-use system pairs VolunteerNow's volunteer engagement expertise with state-of-the-art technology that engages, tracks, and manages volunteers in service to their communities. VOLY.org has expanded as a software-as-a-service across the United States for the growth of volunteerism and mobilization of volunteer efforts in school districts, banks, companies, court systems, and governments and municipalities, as well as the continued support of nonprofits and volunteer centers.

Our Impact

Volunteer interest since the pandemic is on the rise. VOLY partners saw a collective increase of 99,557 hours logged by volunteers in 2022 over 2021. Overall, we saw VOLY.org customer needs increase by 288% post pandemic.

Powered by the generosity by supporters like you, we met the increased need and continued our heritage of excellence in service to our community.

Donated Goods

VolunteerNow’s Donated Goods program takes new and needed goods and redistributes them to Low Moderate Income (LMI) communities and nonprofits serving that sector.

It started in 1989 with one partner and has grown to 18 retail partners, including eight Fortune 500 companies. Today Donated Goods provides three essential services; Discount Depot stores, Goods Giveaways, and Goods Grants.