Community Alliance with Family Farmers and Smith Mackie
Smith Mackie’s 60 hour project resulted in $10K saved for CAFF.
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volunteer project experience
“I like to know that beyond my full-time job, I can use and improve my professional skills while helping others. The donation of my time and skills is more meaningful and rewarding than giving money. The Catchafire projects have truly been mutually beneficial. I am able to provide organizations with the services they need while giving back and enhancing my skills.”
“I love the fact that the organizations are vetted. I also appreciate the good balance Catchafire maintains between managing the volunteer-organization relationships and letting us handle the details of the project on our own.”
Catchafire ensures that your volunteer experience will be meaningful, enjoyable, and impactful.
All of our organizations are vetted and prepared, our projects are well-scoped and flexible, and you are supported throughout your experience should any issues arise.
Why volunteer?
Professionals volunteer with Catchafire for a variety of reasons. Whether you’re interested in leading on a project you care about, building up your resume or portfolio, or exercising a skill or passion you aren’t able to capitalize on daily, our opportunities are rewarding and meaningful. Professionals have worked on Catchafire projects to sharpen their skills or develop new ones for their current jobs, keep their skills fresh between jobs, or relaunch their careers after a hiatus. Many of our professionals go on to become lifelong advocates for the organization they volunteer for and are often asked to stay on in advisory roles.
What Catchafire offers
Vetted & Trained Organizations
All of the nonprofits and social enterprises Catchafire works with have a social mission, demonstrable impact and commitment to you as a skilled volunteer. Catchafire advises all of our partner organizations to ensure they are prepared to take on a skills-based volunteer, and that the work you produce will be valued and utilized. It’s important that your experience is positive so we work hard to find the best organizations possible.
Short-Term, Flexible and Discrete Projects
All of our project listings are pre-scoped. They have clear deliverables, project steps, prerequisites and estimated time requirements. This lets you know what to expect upfront. They are all short-term (average length is 1 month) and flexible (nearly all can be done remotely). Our partner organizations choose from over 70 different projects that draw on a diverse range of skillsets including branding, communications, writing, strategy consulting, graphic design, web development, coaching, and photography to name a few. We're constantly adding to this to this list based on organization and volunteer demand.
Customized Suggestions
Filter by the specific skills and cause areas you care about on our Open Projects page to see the opportunities that suit you best. We will also send you customized suggestions to your Dashboard and via email when new opportunities are posted.
Application & Interview
Applying for a project is fast and easy through Catchafire. If your application is accepted by the organization, we coordinate a two-way interview so you and the Volunteer Manager can ask additional questions about project details, work style, etc. and get to know each other before getting started.
Project Support
While we wish all projects were smooth sailing, we realize that there may be rough patches. No need to worry. Catchafire Account Managers are facilitators, coaches, and psychologists all wrapped into one. They’re experts at getting projects back on track so your time and work will be valued.
Community of Like-Minded Individuals
Through our Dashboard, we encourage professionals to interact with each other and our partner organizations. Post your project deliverables, updates, and inspirational messages to the other purpose-minded individuals volunteering their skills.
Catchafire partner guarantee.
We stand by every match we make. We will rematch you
if you are not satisfied with your volunteer experience.
Browse our available projects or sign up to be a Catchafire volunteer here.
High Quality Professionals
Jane Koltsova
Revenue Manager, Salesforce, 5 projects completed
“I can’t build a house and am not great at tutoring kids to do well on the SATs, but I know how to put together a lean and mean budget. I continue to sign up for Catchafire projects because they empower me to use my talents in the best possible way.”
Niki Bivona
Freelance Designer & Production Artist,
5 projects completed
“I get as much out of working on these projects as the organizations do. Adding to a designer's portfolio is always a wonderful thing. Plus every organization I've worked with so far has been outstanding. It's really been my pleasure to work with them.”
Francis Minien
Project Manager, Capco,
2 projects completed
“I have worked in Finance for 12 years, on the other side I am a Masters degree holder in photography and focus a great deal of time on personal projects and exhibitions. Catchafire fuels my desire to help.”
Case studies
Resilience Advocacy Project and William Chu
Will’s 50-hour project resulted in $8K saved for Resilience Advocacy Project.
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VISIONS, Inc. and Colette Lane
Colette dedicated 25 hours to the logo design, resulting in $2K saved for VISIONS.
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