Volunteer in Three Easy Steps!

In just 2-4 hours per week, you can make a difference by delivering nutritious meals or groceries to seniors, serving our senior diners, or by providing clients with transportation to medical appointments and pharmacies.

*Neighborly is unable to accept volunteers for one-time service for our current volunteer opportunities. If you are able to make a regular commitment, please complete our application and choose your orientation date.

Here’s how to get started:

1. Click on the application button below, complete, and submit. You can choose your orientation and review opportunities and locations.

2. Attend an in-person volunteer orientation. We limit participation for everyone's safety. We’ll discuss Neighborly programs, policies and procedures, and together determine the best fit and location for your service. Some additional paperwork will be completed.

3. We conduct a background screening. Once the results are returned and are clear, volunteers are referred to the site of their choice where staff will schedule.

Neighborly Care Network/Meals on Wheels Pinellas County does not accept court-ordered volunteers, and our minimum age to volunteer is 18 (a summer-only program for Pinellas County teens age 16-17 will be piloted, and applications will be accepted starting May 5, 2021).

Volunteer Application

Volunteer Opportunities:

New! Transportation Drivers

Volunteer drivers ensure Neighborly clients safely arrive on time and are returned home from a range of medical appointments and pharmacies (within ten miles, one way, of the client's home). Choose your region of the county in which to serve. Volunteers usually assist two to four hours per week between 8:45am and 4pm. This opportunity will be available starting March 1, 2021. Please note the additional volunteer and vehicle requirements in the volunteer application.

Meals on Wheels (MOW) Volunteers

Group Opportunity - Adopt a Route

Here’s an opportunity for your organization to support your very own Meals on Wheels route! Meals are picked up at a one of our nine sites in the county. Your team members can rotate through on your chosen weekday between 10:30am and 12:30pm and meals are delivered to 5 to 10 homebound individuals. We can structure your route to be once a week, once a month, or every day – whatever works best for you and your team. It only takes 1½ to 2 hours during lunch time and two people with access to a vehicle to get started.

Dining Site Volunteers

Adult Day Care (ADC) Entertainers

Adult Day Center Volunteer

These volunteers assist staff with various needs and client activities including physical and cognitive exercises. May include some light clean-up after activities and meals. Opportunities exist Monday- Friday, typically between 9am-1pm. Shift times are flexible, and there are two locations from which to choose (Palm Harbor and Largo with a third under construction in South St. Petersburg scheduled to open Spring, 2021).

Administrative Support