Helps people humanely trap feral, homeless, and stray cats, neuters them, and returns them to where they were found. Offers community outreach and educational programs about cat overpopulation. Offers reduced rate spay/neuter services, vaccines, and microchipping for cats and dogs.

Altered Tails - Phoenix | Altered Tails - Phoenix

Programs that trap feral cats who cannot be tamed and placed into homes, neuter or spay them and, after a day of recovery, release back them onto the street to live out the remainder of their lives. The program reduces the feral cat population by halting the production of litters rather than capturing and killing the animals.

Feral Cat Management Programs

Organizations that are actively seeking individuals with the requisite skills who are willing to do general office work on a voluntary basis without remuneration.

Clerical Volunteer Opportunities

Programs that use any of a wide variety of materials to educate the public about issues that relate to a particular field or topic.

Subject Specific Public Awareness/Education

Programs that accept paper, binders, labels, writing pads, scissors, rulers, pens/pencils, rubber bands, paper clips and other office supplies and keep them for use in their own program or donate them to other community-based organizations.

Office Supplies Donation Programs

Programs that conduct routine physical examinations, administer vaccines, test for parasites, perform a dental check and conduct whatever other tests may be necessary to ensure the health and wellbeing of pets and other animals.

Well Animal Checkups

Programs that implant scannable coded computer chips in dogs, cats and other pets as a means of facilitating the reunion of lost pets with their owners.

Pet Tracking Microchips

Programs that surgically alter animals to prevent them from reproducing. "Spay" refers to the surgical removal of the ovaries, uterus and fallopian tubes of a female animal; "neuter" refers to the surgical removal of the testes of a male animal.

Neuter/Spay Services

Programs that accept pet food, water and food dishes, leashes, crates and other pet-related supplies, and keep them for use in their own program or donate them to other nonprofit organizations for their own use or for distribution to the people they serve.

Animal Food/Supplies Donation Programs

Organizations that are actively seeking individuals who are willing to work as janitors on a voluntary basis without remuneration.

Custodian Volunteer Opportunities

Animal shelters that are actively seeking individuals who are willing, on a voluntary basis without remuneration, to provide care for impounded animals (feeding, watering, bathing, grooming, exercising, socializing, cleaning cages), reunite lost pets with their owners and/or help find homes for unwanted animals who have been abandoned.

Animal Shelter Attendant Volunteer Opportunities

Organizations that are actively seeking individuals who are willing, on a voluntary basis without remuneration, to provide a temporary home for animals who are abandoned or lost or come to the aid of animals in hazardous situations.

Animal Foster Care/Rescue Volunteer Opportunities

Maintains a no-kill shelter for cats. Rescues cats from shelters, and places them for adoption in properly screened homes. Provides trap-neuter-return resources for feral cats. Also provides community outreach and summer programs for children.

Hermitage No-Kill Cat Shelter and Sanctuary | Hermitage No-Kill Cat Shelter and Sanctuary

Organizations that are actively seeking individuals with a valid driver license and current insurance who are willing, on a voluntary basis without remuneration, to pick up and remove personal and household goods, office equipment and supplies and other items that individuals and agencies want to donate. Tasks include coordinating pickup of donated goods from homes, businesses, or designated drop off points; lifting boxes, loading trucks and driving from one pickup location to another.

Donations Pickup Volunteer Opportunities

Organizations that are actively seeking individuals who are willing, on a voluntary basis without remuneration, to organize, move and distribute donated goods to designated distribution points. Tasks including lifting boxes, loading pallets and/or handing out donated goods at a distribution center.

Donations Distribution Volunteer Opportunities

Programs that provide protection and care for unwanted pets or stray animals, and hold them for a specified period of time to provide an opportunity for owners to claim them prior to offering them for adoption. Included are shelters that euthanize the animals if not adopted within a specified amount of time, as well as "no kill" shelters that will keep the animals until they are adopted.

 

Animal Shelters

Programs that accept donations of paints, brushes, easels, canvases, paper, dyes, chalk, charcoal, colored pencils, clay, glass, wax, beads, pieces of wood, cutting tools, scraps of fabric and other tools and materials that are required for any of a variety of art or craft projects. The materials may be kept by the organization for use in its own program, sold to the general public or teachers (usually at discounted prices) or donated again to arts/crafts programs for use by the people they serve.

Arts and Crafts Donation Programs

Organizations that are actively seeking individuals who are willing, on a voluntary basis without remuneration, to organize, sort, inventory and package donations arriving by bus, truck, air or rail.

Donations Sorting/Packing Volunteer Opportunities

Organizations that are actively seeking individuals with the requisite skills and experience who are willing, on a voluntary basis without remuneration, to make minor repairs to the homes of older adults, people with disabilities, low income individuals and others the organization serves. Typical services include repair or replacement of broken doors and windows; accessibility improvements such as ramps and hand railings; correction of safety hazards such as repairs to porches, steps and sidewalks; home security improvements such as fences, security doors and smoke detectors; habitability improvements such as replacement of sinks, toilets and floor tiles; and interior and exterior painting.

Handyworker Volunteer Opportunities

Divisions of businesses or nonprofit agencies that are responsible for developing products or delivering designated services to the public. Departments of NGOs are generally led by a manager, supervisor, director or vice president.

Nongovernmental Agency Departments

Programs that rescue domestic animals who are in hazardous situations and which may provide emergency medical care if injuries have occurred.

Animal Rescue

Programs that accept cleaning equipment and/or supplies such as brooms, mops, dust pans, cleansing powder, dish washing soap, window cleaner, furniture polish and trash bags and keep them for use in their own programs, or donate them to other community-based organizations for distribution to the people they serve.

Cleaning Product Donation Programs

Programs that place stray and homeless domestic pets with people who are willing to provide for their care; find homes for wild burros, horses or other animals who are being removed from their natural environment; or place retired race horses, show horses, greyhounds and other animals when their racing or show careers have come to an end. Included are websites where animals available for adoption can be listed.

Animal Adoption

Spay Neuter web-based Hotline provides referrals for low cost and free sterilization of companion animals. Trap Neuter Return Program provides assistance for people who want to safely trap street cats, bring them to a veterinarian for neutering, and return them to the area in which they were trapped.

Animal Defense League of Arizona | Animal Defense League of Arizona

Animal rights groups and other similar organizations that are actively seeking individuals who are willing, on a voluntary basis without remuneration, to work for the passage and enforcement of laws and other measures that protect domestic and wild animals from cruelty or neglect or seek to limit or prevent the use of animals for experimental purposes.

Animal Advocacy Volunteer Opportunities

Animal shelters that are actively seeking individuals to provide transportation for accompanied or unaccompanied pets or other animals to veterinary offices, clinics, animal grooming facilities or other needed animal-related services on a voluntary basis without remuneration. The service may be provided for animals kept in temporary confinement by the organization itself or pets owned by the people it serves.