Volunteer, support groups and charitable organizations in and around greater Ventura County. Contact us with any additions.
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Charitable/Volunteer Organizations
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Calabasas based non-profit serving the children of Ethiopia
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Sobriety support group
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Based in Agoura Hills
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Education, support and care for SLO, Santa Barbara and Ventura Counties
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Founded in 1913; now with over 3400 locations
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Founded in 1940
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Goal to fight heart disease and stroke
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Established in 1917
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Rescues and re-homes abandoned animals in Simi Valley as well as greater Ventura and Los Angeles County area
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Non-profit founded in 2007 to provide youth programs.
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Nonprofit organization providing services to people with disabilities
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Supports and promotes local arts
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Philanthropic community service organization
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ASVC is the local Ventura County chapter of the Autism Society.
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Thousand Oaks based non-profit that empowers teens to learn about themselves.
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Improving the lives of children through mentoring in Ventura County since 1970
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Local office is in Santa Barbara
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Nonprofit organization serving needs of the VC adult brain injury community
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Assist injured wildlife and promotes protection of wildlife through education
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Established in 1978
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Provides support to enhance lives of cancer sufferers. Based out of Camarillo.
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Non-profit dog rescue organization since 1996
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Founded in 1991, the Cancer Support Community Valley/Ventura/Santa Barbara's mission is to ensure that all people impacted by cancer are empowered by knowledge, strengthened by action, and sustained by community.
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Nonprofit that brings healthcare to the world's least served people
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Nonprofit providing free assistance and transportation to the elderly since 1984
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Ventura County based non-profit offering support to special needs families
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Grassroots advocacy for residents of Ventura/Santa Barbara counties
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Non-profit that provides mental health treatment to children and their families in Ventura County
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Homelessness support organization
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Provides free office space to local human services agencies
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Provides legal and medical services to those in need - since 1976
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Non-profit organization dedicated to studying and shaping the future in the Conejo/Las Virgenes region
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Nonprofit that promotes and maintains Conejo Valley open space and trails
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Community organization supporting our local schools
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Non-profit organization originally incorporated in 1978 that supports local arts
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Non-profit licensed child care referral network
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Agoura based non-profit helps families of children with special needs
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Non-profit medical clinic and resource center in Thousand Oaks
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Helps employ youths in the Conejo Valley
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Non profit that trains community volunteers to become sworn-in officers of the court who provide a conistent, caring adult in a foster child's life.
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Non-profit community garden located at North Oxnard United Methodist Church. Come volunteer, learn and share food together!
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Covers Ventura County
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Support group Monday/Thursday nights in Oak Park. Click link for contact info.
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Covering Ventura, Santa Barbara and SLO since 1946
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Non-profit focused on education 7 to 12 year olds about health and the environment
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Established in 1983 to provide food and support to the hungry of Ventura County.
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Founded in 1984. Supports educational and interpretative programs in California State Parks in Santa Barbara and Ventura Counties.
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Somis based nonprofit created to help save the endangered Island Fox that lives on 6 of the 8 Channel Islands.
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Nonprofit group that helps support our local libraries
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501(c)3 local nonprofit that raises money to fund microloans that enable women in poverty to start businesses
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Assists needy families around the world in the areas of health care, safety and education.
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Builds affordable housing for those in need
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Agoura based non-profit that aims to increase environmental education and awareness. The foundation provides grants for schools and other groups to visit state parks and other natural history destinations.
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Private, nonprofit, Camarillo-based foundation promoting responsible animal care
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Adoption and foster care agency; local office in Thousand Oaks
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Provides support and aid to the homeless in Ventura County
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Non-profit in the hills of Malibu that shelters, rehabilitates and places unwanted and neglected animals
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Volunteer hospice founded in 1977
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Promotes humane care and treatment of animals
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Simi Valley non-profit that teaches horseback riding to the disabled
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Working with troubled youth and battered women since 1973
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Helps talented young men and women blaze the trail of design by providing them with the inspiration and assistance to achieve their goals in the Fine Arts.
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Calabasas nonprofit serving kids with exceptional needs and their families
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Counseling, education, & support resource center for families that are raising a relative’s child, as well as foster & adoptive families.
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Volunteer literacy services in the county since 1970
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Agoura based animal rescue non-profit since 1992
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Provides treatment and placement for sick or injured dogs
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Oxnard based nonprofit that provides a platform for entrepreneurial women to share their knowledge, talents, and compassion with communities in need.
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Moorpark nonprofit founded in 1996 to champion the benefits of hospice care and provide financial assistance to those in need.
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Lutheran Social Services has provided support to those in need in Ventura County for over 30 years
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Founded in 1980 to grant wishes to children with severe illnesses
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Provides support to help the basic needs of homeless youth aged 14-24 in L.A. and Ventura Counties
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Established in 1971; provides food on short-term basis to those in need
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Conejo Valley based pediatric cancer reseach foundation
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Camarillo-based support organization for orphans, seniors and the poor
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Society founded in 1946
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Created in 1950 and made famous by Jerry Lewis
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Thousand Oaks based nonprofit music organization dedicated to enriching the Conejo Valley and the surrounding areas by providing mentorship, musical instruments, and other music-related resources to our community's youth.
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Westlake Village charity provides comfort and hope to neglected and abused children.
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Founded in 1981, NAMI Ventura County is an affiliate of NAMI, the National Alliance on Mental Illness.
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The County Line Area of Narcotics Anonymous has meetings in Agoura Hills, Moorpark, Simi Valley, Thousand Oaks, and Westlake Village.
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Mother-daughter non-profit organization serving local charities. Operates the Fibber McGee’s Closet Thrift Shop located in Thousand Oaks at Moorpark Road and Avenida de los Arboles.
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Founded in 1971, NatureBridge is a 501(c)3 non-profit that provides environmental field science education for students in our national parks.
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Dedicated to rehabilitating and releasing birds of prey in Ventura County
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Private citizens working to preserve open space in the Ojai Valley.
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Nonprofit dedicated preserving the two oldest structures on the Oxnard plain and creating a 19th century farm site.
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Support group for single parents in Ventura County - established in August 2009
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Ventura based non-profit w/mission of restoring/conserving Central America's Pacific slope
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Local advocacy group for children with special needs
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Provides resource sand programs to support K-8 arts/technology education in Camarillo
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Horse rescue and rehabilitation in Hidden Valley
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Volunteer group of outdoors enthusiasts; meets in Simi Valley
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Non-profit that provides financial and emotional support to families of children who have cancer living in Santa Barbara, Ventura, and San Luis Obispo counties.
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Community volunteers ages 55+
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Horseback riding program for disabled adults/children
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Dedicated towards preserving and protecting Ventura historical architecture
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Non-profit organization focused on limiting urban sprawl
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Nonprofit serving older adults in the area since 1975
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Nonprofit provides information, direction and instruction to seniors
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Thousand Oaks based non-profit dedicated to serving our community by offering a solution for kids to help fight kids' cancer
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Supports over 750 local Ventura County athletes
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Thousand Oaks non-profit rescues, rehabilitates and releases local, native wildlife and helps educate the public on how to live with our wild neighbors. For questions regarding injured or orphaned wildlife please call 805-498-8653.
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A youth development project that addresses issues surrounding underage and binge drinking and impaired driving
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Nonprofit created in 2000 to help support foster children
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Nonprofit organization supporting the ocean/beaches
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Please donate $1 to $25 to raise money for mothers in need for emergency assistance for their kids. 501(c)3 non-profit charity..
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Free baby clothes exchange based in Ventura.
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Promotes public welfare, safety and volunteer programs
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UCAAN is a local 501c3 organization that focuses on the survivors of cancer & their families, by providing the resources cancer patients/survivors need upon diagnosis.
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Serving Ventura County over 60 years
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Local organization enables single parents to access care services
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Provides network of education, advocacy, other services to the elderly
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Nonprofit arts group founded in 1996
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Autism information resources and events in Ventura County
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Promotes local philanthropy
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Nonprofit dedicated to preserving the Fairground's position as one of the most beloved and unique public facilities in all of Ventura County.
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VCFPA is a 501(c)3 non-profit Chapter 25 of the California State Foster Parent Association and serves over 1,200 foster and kinship care providers in Ventura County.
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Support group for Ventura County homeschooling families
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Nonprofit with mission of enhancing the availability and quality of health care services in Ventura County
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Supports recruiting, training and retaining local volunteers
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United Way of Ventura County has a great online resource for finding volunteering opportuntiies for charities in the area.
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Local Ventura County area YMCAs are non-profit organization that always seek donations and volunteers.
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