Become a volunteer
If you want to help people with cerebral palsy through your time, knowledge, professional skills, or personal involvement, join our volunteer team.
Volunteer
Give your time, skill, and human presence to people affected by cerebral palsy.
Volunteering with Cerebral Palsy Community Foundation is unpaid service. It is for people who want to help families, strengthen community, share skills, and make practical support more visible and reachable.
Volunteer work is not about status. It is about showing up.
The most useful help is often practical, quiet, consistent, and respectful: a translation, a phone call, a photo session, research, a ride, an introduction, a community event, or professional advice that helps a family feel less alone.
Become a fundraising partner
If you have experience attracting donations, finding grants, developing corporate partnerships, or growing charitable projects and want to receive approved incentives for results, join our Fundraising Partner Program.
Volunteer opportunities
There are many ways to help without turning care into a transaction.
We welcome unpaid volunteer help from people who can support families, improve access to information, strengthen public visibility, and bring professional skills to the community with respect and humility.
Family support
Help families navigate information, prepare requests, organize practical needs, and stay connected before pressure turns into isolation.
Community and events
Assist with community gatherings, awareness events, local outreach, accessible activities, and moments where families can meet people who understand.
Research and information
Help find useful resources, grants, services, benefits information, assistive technology options, and local support opportunities as an unpaid volunteer.
Translation and languages
Translate materials, review multilingual pages, help families communicate across languages, and make support easier to understand.
Creative and media help
Support respectful design, photography, video, social media, newsletters, and storytelling that protects dignity instead of exploiting vulnerability.
Professional advice
Offer unpaid guidance in law, accounting, healthcare, disability services, technology, housing, accessibility, communications, or nonprofit operations.
Administrative help
Help organize documents, lists, follow-up tasks, event details, outreach records, and the quiet infrastructure that makes real support possible.
Awareness and visibility
Share the Foundation with community groups, professionals, families, local leaders, and people who should know that help and connection are being built.
Technology and accessibility support
Help improve forms, websites, accessibility checks, simple databases, assistive technology research, and digital tools that make support easier to request and deliver.
Volunteer principles
Volunteer service must stay voluntary, respectful, and clear.
The purpose of volunteering is to help people, strengthen community, and support the Foundation mission without creating confusion about employment, contracting, or compensation.
Volunteers serve freely and voluntarily.
Volunteers are not employees of the Foundation.
Volunteers are not contractors and do not receive monetary compensation.
Volunteer work should protect dignity, privacy, and trust.
The main goal is practical help, community, and human connection.
Volunteer FAQ
Questions before you join
Who can become a volunteer?
People who care about disability dignity, practical support, inclusion, and community can apply. Some roles use professional skills, while others simply require reliability and respect.
Can I help remotely?
Yes. Translation, research, design, writing, outreach, social media, administration, and professional advice can often be done remotely.
Can I volunteer from outside the United States?
Yes, many volunteer roles can be international, especially language support, research, design, technology, communications, and awareness work.
How much time is required?
There is no single requirement. Some volunteers help with one defined task, while others support recurring work. Clear expectations are agreed before work begins.
Can a company volunteer?
Yes. Corporate volunteering may include skilled professional support, event participation, translation, technology help, design, media, or community outreach.
Can I later apply as a fundraising partner?
Yes. The fundraising partner program is separate from volunteering and requires a separate review, written agreement, and approval process.