volunteer organizations
Charitable service collectives
Volunteer organizations are groups whose members contribute time and effort without payment.
These range from local community groups to international nonprofits—food banks, disaster relief agencies, environmental groups, youth mentorship programs.
The term encompasses both the organizations themselves and the broader sector: She's spent her career working with volunteer organizations.
Members may be called volunteers, though some organizations also employ paid staff.
- food bankNonprofit distributing free groceries
- homeless shelterTemporary housing for vagrants
- Red Cross volunteersUnpaid humanitarian aid workers
- charityVoluntary aid for others
- neighborhood associationLocal homeowners' collective body
community garden · community centers · churches · schools · vocational training centers · soup kitchen · meal delivery · coat drive · voter registration drives · tutoring programs · Peace Corps · AmeriCorps · community service · giving back · lending a hand · helping hands · good cause · Red Cross
- social groupsdemographic groups, community, clan, ethnic groups, age groups
- nonprofitscharity shop, charity organizations, nonprofit, nonprofits, charities
volunteer organizationscommercial enterprises
For-profit organizations
professional associations · staffing agencies · temp agencies · employment agencies
volunteer organizationscommercial enterprises
For-profit organizations
businesses · corporations · private companies · multinational corporations · investment banks
volunteer organizationscompulsory labor
Work required by law
forced labor camps · indentured servitude · military conscription · chain gangs · work gangs