The Best Ways to Volunteer in South Dakota

80+ Sioux Falls Volunteering Opportunities

South Dakota nonprofit organizations welcome volunteers of all ages and abilities! In Sioux Falls alone, the Samaritan Scout search engine found over 30 different locally-operated organizations offering almost 80 different volunteer roles.

Are you looking to expand or apply your professional skill set while also supporting your local community? Reach out to organizations like the Project Management Institute to offer website or social media support, or the Sioux Valley Genealogical Society for IT computer or website maintenance.

Help plan and run events to raise essential funds for organizations that are helping survivors of domestic violence, abuse, and trauma. The Children’s Home Society of South Dakota and The Compass Center welcome volunteers for this and other efforts.

30+ Organizations Seeking Volunteers in Sioux Falls!

These and dozens more organizations are having a positive impact on the people and animals and environment in the greater Sioux Falls area. You can find information about all of them by using the Scout search engine.

Here are a few of more organizations, and descriptions of their missions. Check out the links below to learn about the ways they welcome volunteers:

• Almost Home Canine Rescue:  dedicated to assisting, rescuing, fostering, and providing a lifetime of love and care for unwanted, homeless, abused, or neglected pets
• Northern Prairies Land Trust: preserves the unique ecosystems of the Upper Grasslands, providing land preservation tools to landowners in South Dakota and Nebraska
• South Dakota Symphony Orchestra: the professional 75-member orchestra, the Dakota String Quartet, and the Dakota Wind Quintet perform in the Mary W. Sommervold Concert Hall at the Washington Pavilion and over 100 times annually in schools, hospitals, senior living communities, behavioral health and community centers throughout the region.
• The South Dakota Transformation Project: support and empower transgender individuals and their families while educating communities in South Dakota and the surrounding region about gender identity and expression.
• Bishop Dudley Hospitality House: To fulfill the Gospel call to love our neighbors as ourselves by recognizing the God-given dignity of each person and providing essential life services to those in need.
• Ronald McDonald House Charities of South Dakota: provide a safe place to stay with the comforts of home at no cost to families with children receiving care at nearby medical facilities. The support of family is crucial to patient healing, and we’re here so families can remain close to medical care and to each other during their most challenging times.
• Inter-Lakes Community Action Partnership: serves primarily low-income families and senior citizens in a 14-county area of East Central South Dakota, administering programs from early childhood education to employment, health, housing, recreation and other services.
• Call to Freedom: brings wholeness to all individuals impacted by sex and labor trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation by navigating a healing path through our continuum of care model
• Junior Achievement of South Dakota: helps young people discover what’s possible in their lives, connecting what they learn in school with life outside the classroom. JA lets them know it’s possible to invest in their future, to gain a better understanding of how the world works, and to pursue their dreams
• Dow Rummel Village: enriches lives by providing extraordinary senior care.
• Sanford Health: largest rural health system in the United States, is dedicated to transforming the health care experience and providing access to world-class health care in America’s heartland. Headquartered in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, the organization serves more than 1.4 million patients and nearly 200,000 health plan members across 250,000 square miles. The integrated health system has 48 medical centers, 211 clinic locations, and more than 160 Good Samaritan Society senior living centers.
• The Compass Center: provides prevention education, crisis intervention, counseling, and advocacy to children, adolescents, and adults (all gender identities and gender expressions) who are survivors of domestic/dating violence, sexual assault, child sexual abuse, and human trafficking/sexual exploitation. All survivor services are free and confidential, and the organization does not discriminate on any basis.
• Sioux Empire Tnr Coalition: Our mission is to foster community welfare and improvement through protecting the quality of lives for feral and free roaming cats. We also provide referrals for low or no-cost sterilization surgeries and provide access to a wide range of resources for TNR education and colony management in the Sioux Empire and surrounding areas. Finally we adopt friendly cats and kittens who come to us through TNR and other local resources into loving homes.
• Lutheran Social Services of South Dakota: Through our whole-person, family-centered approach to care, and continuum of services, individuals, families and communities have access to the support and resources they need to thrive. Children and families have safe, stable home environments. Our community is a welcoming and inclusive place for people of all ages, faiths, races & economic statuses.

Find your next volunteering activity by searching Scout today

The Scout search engine visits nonprofit organizations‘ websites to find volunteer activities for you. Unlike directory websites, we do not burden nonprofits by requiring that they manually submit job postings. As a result, our results are more comprehensive than directory sites, such as the one shown below – which only provides 10 opportunities in the entire Sioux Falls greater region:

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