Arts

Book Harvest

Book Harvest provides an abundance of books and ongoing literacy support to families and their children from birth and serves as a model for communities committed to ensuring that children are lifelong readers and learners. Nothing gets accomplished at Book Harvest without the help of hundreds of hardworking volunteers each year, and there are lots of different ways to plug in to our team. Youth volunteers under 16 must be accompanied by an adult.

Marbles Kids Museum

Make a positive impact on today’s youth! We welcome your support either behind the scenes or in the exhibits. Help spark imagination, discovery and learning through play and enrich the lives of children. There are opportunities for individuals age 16 and above and opportunities for 7th to 10th graders as part of the Marbles Teen Play Corp.

North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences

Discover a wide variety of volunteer opportunities at the largest natural history museum in the Southeast.

Junior Interpreters: Junior Interpreters (formerly known as Junior Volunteers) are teens who are passionate about sharing the wonders of science and the natural world with others. Junior Interpreters interact directly with the public out on the Museum floor and provide them with the opportunity to have up-close, hands-on educational experiences with natural history specimens from the Museum’s collections.This is a summer program, running for ten weeks. For rising 9-12 graders.

North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences

Discover a wide variety of volunteer opportunities at the largest natural history museum in the Southeast.
Junior Interpreters (formerly known as Junior Volunteers) are teens who are passionate about sharing the wonders of science and the natural world with others. Junior Interpreters interact directly with the public out on the Museum floor and provide them with the opportunity to have up-close, hands-on educational experiences with natural history specimens from the Museum’s collections.This is a summer program, running for ten weeks. For rising 9-12 graders. Junior Curators are volunteers with an intense interest in conservation, animal care and field biology. Junior Curators directly support the Museum’s conservation efforts by participating in educational programs and events, field experiences to natural areas, natural history service projects and
assisting in the care of the Museum’s live animal collection. For students in grades 9-12.

The Scrap Exchange

The Scrap Exchange is a friendly, creative, and fun place to volunteer. Our mission is to promote creativity, environmental awareness, and community through reuse. With a small core staff, we rely on volunteers to help process and organize materials, clean and maintain the store, and generally keep things running smoothly. We welcome volunteers who can commit to a regular schedule or those who wish to volunteer on a short-term basis. Projects may include sorting donations, packaging materials, and organizing our store as well as general tidying. We welcome volunteers with all kinds of abilities and interests to be a part of our scrappy team.
The Scrap Exchange accepts volunteers as young as 14 years old. Anyone under the age of 18 must have a guardian sign a liability waiver and parental consent form before they volunteer, both of which can be found on our website. Everyone has to go through a volunteer orientation before they get started, and they can also receive a copy of the liability waiver and consent form at that time. Anyone from the ages of 10-14 must be accompanied by an adult while they volunteer, including their orientation. The Scrap Exchange does not accept volunteers under the age of 10.