Community Organizations for Employee Volunteering

Gettysburg College Volunteer Time Off Policy is effective June 1, 2013.

Read about the policy and then choose to volunteer from one of the organizations listed below.

Please note that volunteer needs may vary throughout the year. This means that an opportunity may not be on the day that you had originally thought possible. Please contact the agency directly to arrange logistics in advance.

Adams County Farmers Market Association

Adams County Literacy Council

Adams County Office for Aging

  • Meals on Wheels
  • raking leaves/yard clean-up
  • light housecleaning

Adams Rescue Mission

Adams County SPCA

  • filing
  • organizing sheds
  • walking horses

Battlefields Community Gardens

  • weeding & watering
  • seeding & planting
  • general garden clean-up

Big Brother Big Sister

Campus Kitchen at Gettysburg College

  • cooking meals
  • packaging meals for delivery
  • preserving produce

Casa de la Cultura

Adams County Children's Advocacy Center

  • organizing or data entry
  • cleaning toys
  • preparing mailings

Children's Aid Society

Girl Scouts in the Heart of Pennsylvania

Gettysburg Community Soup Kitchen

  • organizing pantry
  • prepare a meal
  • dishwasher, kitchen asst., server

Gettysburg Community Theatre

Gettysburg Foundation

Head Start

Interfaith Center for Peace and Justice

LIU #12 Migrant Education

Manos Unidas

Painted Turtle Farm

  • weeding & watering
  • planting & harvesting

Project Gettysburg León

  • Nicaragua Night event
  • Hauser Winery event
  • program assistance

SCCAP Food Pantry

SCCAP Work Ready

School of Musical Theatre

Shining Stars Therapeutic Ministries

  • saddle and tack cleaning
  • cleaning horse stalls

Strawberry Hill Nature Preserve

Survivors, Inc.

United Way of Adams County

YWCA of Gettysburg and Adams County

  • office help
  • mailings