Profile: Volunteer Center of Riverside County

Welcome to the Volunteer Center of Riverside County!

About Us

Our Mission

The mission of The Resource Center is to provide leadership and professional development resources to strengthen the nonprofit sector

Our Vision 

The vision of The Resource Center is to promote the advancement of healthy communities by empowering local nonprofits to become more effective and efficient in their delivery of programs and services, management, and sustainability efforts. This will ensure continued programs and services for stronger and healthier communities.

 Our History

Since 1966 The Volunteer Center of Riverside County (VCRC) has been creating safe and healthy communities with an emphasis on providing services and referrals to the truly needy.

Our Services

Each year the VCRC assists men, women and children in need. Our services are divided among eight different programs: a Volunteer Connection program, promoting volunteerism by recruiting, training and placing volunteers, a HELPline Crisis & Suicide Intervention program, providing trained counseling 24 hours/7 days a week, a 211 Riverside County program, connecting people to appropriate community resources and intervening in problematic situations before the crisis stage, a Transportation Access Program (TAP), distributing bus tickets through other agencies for the truly needy, disabled and seniors, a Shared Housing multigenerational program, connecting home seekers with home providers in a shared arrangement, a Senior Ombudsman Services (SOS) program, deterring elder abuse through community education and the investigation of senior's problems in long-term care facilities and an Alternative Sentencing Program (ASP) One-Stop program providing court ordered restitution and diversion services for clients.

Here is a snapshot of what we offer:  

Job Seeker Benefits

Networking Opportunities

Volunteering is a great way to network! You can read all about volunteering right here.

This could be your next big networking step!

Why Volunteer?
Volunteering often turns out to be an enriching and growing personal experience You'll learn about yourself, your community and it's different needs and concerns. You can also benefit in many other ways:

You can:

• Make a difference in your community and the lives of others
• Learn current job market skills
• Meet new people
• Develop new interest
• Share your talents and expertise
• Do something you've always wanted to do

Do I have time?
You decide. You are in charge. It's your time and you decide how, when and where to spend it.

What can you do?
With over 300 agencies listed with the Volunteer Center, you can volunteer for almost anything. Here are some of the choices available to you as a volunteer: