Stop Waiting for the Perfect Volunteer Opportunity. Create It.

Local nonprofits need help they've never thought to ask for—here's how to find organizations in your area and create a volunteer opportunity around what you do best.

Volunteering Insights

Local Volunteering

4 New Ways to Volunteer as a Family this Holiday Season

Tips and advice for finding meaningful activities that match your family's unique skills and energy.

Local Volunteering

Volunteering Isn’t a Classified Ad: Why Directories Are Failing Us

We replaced phone books with Google twenty years ago — so why are we still using 1990s directories to match volunteers with nonprofits?

Volunteering Insights

Owein Reese's Career Advice for Aspiring Software Developers and Quants

Veteran software engineer gives career advice to Samaritan Scout interns on startups, hedge funds, interviews, unit testing, and more.

Volunteer Stories

Scout News

Vicinity Magazine

Reporter Jackie Schatell tells the story of Samaritan Scout's founders and student interns.

Scout News

Video: How Scout Uses AI

Intern explains the four ways the Scout platform uses AI to connect people to all the volunteering opportunities near them.

Scout News

The 74: America's Education News Source

Scout co-founder explains "fusing the best of Project-Based Learning with the best of community service —and then modernizing both."

Scout News

The Role of AI in Building an Innovative Volunteer Search Engine

How college students, volunteers, and advanced AI joined forces to create the Internet’s only search engine for service.

Scout News

Samaritan Scout Interns in the New Jersey’s Career Accelerator Internship Grant Program

Young people now face more difficulty than ever in navigating the elusive career search. Thankfully, New Jersey is stepping up to help.

Scout News

Interns at Samaritan Scout Meet Marketing Leader Adrian Fulle

Marketing exec Adrian Fulle volunteered his time to meet Scout interns, sharing insights and advice: "The only way we move forward is through innovation and change…"

Scout News

Volunteer Stories