Volunteer Opportunities at the University of Washington

Campaign Volunteer

The University of Washington relies on the commitment and passion of its volunteers. With your help, Campaign UW: Creating Futures continues to be a tremendous success. We invite you to become involved today, sharing your time and talent with the UW. Please explore the opportunities and join us!

• Become a Campaign volunteer
• Frequently asked campaign questions
• Campaign volunteer guide

For Alumni, Friends and Students

• Huskies For Higher Ed
  Be a political voice for the University of Washington. Speak up!
• The Burke Museum of Natural History
• The DO-IT Program
  The UW's Disabilities Opportunities Internetworking and Technology (DO-IT) program, enlists volunteer mentors to help students with disabilities pursue careers in science, engineering and math.
• KUOW
• Harborview Medical Center
• The Rare Plant Care & Conservation Program
  Rare Care has volunteer opportunities to suit people with a wide range of interests and botanical knowledge. Volunteers are involved in all aspects of plant propagation, plant care, and record-keeping.
• University of Washington Health Sciences Research Studies
  The schools within the Warren G. Magnuson Health Sciences Center at the University of Washington (UW) have large and diverse research programs that include studies on specific diseases, new treatments, prevention methods, and other research to understand human health and behavior. Some of these studies require volunteer participants. This website lists studies registered by researchers who are currently seeking volunteer participants.
• University of Washington Herbarium
  The University of Washington is an international resource for botanical research. It contains over half a million dried specimens of plants, mosses, liverworts, algae, lichens, and fungi. The Herbarium relies on volunteers for help with specimen curation and processing. Without their assistance, many specimens would remain unavailable for study and research, and other projects would not get started, or completed.
• Washington Park Arboretum

For Students

• Carlson Leadership and Public Service Center
  The Carlson Center at the University of Washington is committed to engaging undergraduates in understanding, building and improving our communities. In partnership with the university's curriculum, the Carlson Center develops and supports programs designed to incorporate academic coursework with community-based learning and leadership.
• Student Providers Aspiring to Rural and Underserved eXperiences (SPARX)
  SPARX is a multidisciplinary effort of the University of Washington Schools of Health Sciences that encourages health profession students to interact with their peers in other schools and to consider practice in rural and urban medically underserved areas upon completion of their program. Activities bring together students in the schools of dentistry, medicine, nursing, pharmacy, public health and community medicine and social work. SPARX menu of activities includes a series of evening forums presented by panels of practitioners from rural and urban communities, field trips to health care facilities in rural and inner-city communities and service projects. Service projects are health-related, involve two or more disciplines, address rural and underserved issues and relate to patient care, public health or community service.
• The Pipeline Project: UW tutors and mentors in the K-12 schools
  In the co-curricular tutoring programs, administered through the Pipeline Project, teams of students work with elementary school children in several local schools which serve homeless and other children who are at risk. The internship and community service clearinghouse is a self-help resource guide to opportunities with hundreds of organizations, including government agencies, businesses, nonprofits and schools in all sectors of the community, locally, nationally and internationally.
• Purple Hearts Community Outreach Program for UW Student-Athletes
  Helps UW Student-Athletes get connected in the community through tutoring and mentoring opportunities.

For Alumni

• UW Alumni Association
• UW Alumni Association Career Connections
  Volunteer to be a career contact for University of Washington alumni and students. Volunteers provide valuable career advice for alumni and students—whether they are pursuing that first job, changing jobs, or contemplating a career change.
• Volunteer Opportunities for Medical Alumni