Boston Cares, Inc.

Boston Cares, Inc. partners with nonprofits and schools to expand their impact by mobilizing diverse people to collaboratively address the community’s critical needs. Its programs and service events engage thousands of adults, teens, children and corporate partners each year in support of up to 150 schools and nonprofits, mainly in Greater Boston and eastern Massachusetts. Volunteer work focuses on hunger relief and basic needs, adult education and ESOL tutoring, and youth success.

Boston Cares dates to 1991 and is New England’s largest volunteer agency, an award-winning leader in volunteer engagement and an affiliate of the Points of Light Global Network. Its volunteers have generated well over a million hours of service. For businesses, it provides project management for corporate volunteering groups as small as 10 or as large as 1,000 or more, helping companies engage employees through meaningful service.

What to Know

• More than 60 corporate clients use its volunteer project management services.
• The organization fills more than 20,000 volunteer spots each year.
• It was started by seven young professionals who met at Pizzeria UNO in Kenmore Square.
• It is listed as a voluntourism option in the Meet Boston directory.