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Local nonprofits looking for help right now, and the groups that rely on volunteers year-round. Pick a cause, find something that fits, and sign up with the organization.

All nonprofits →Needs checked Oct 27, 2026
Open needs18From 12 organizations, on 2 public volunteer boards
Posted by local nonprofits10The rest are regional groups serving Bay County
Nonprofits that use volunteers79Reported on their IRS filing, or posting a need now
Volunteers they reported13,909On their latest Form 990; some counts cover a whole state group

Open needs right now

Soonest first, then ongoing
Kids and mentoring Ongoing Remote or from home

Take Stock in Children Mentors

Bay Education Foundation

The Bay Education Foundation is seeking caring adult volunteers to serve as mentors for students in the Take Stock in Children program. Mentors meet with their student just twice permonth during the school year, providing encouragement, guidance, and a positive role model as the student works toward graduation and a college scholarship provided by Bay Education Foundation. No special expertise is required, just a willingness to listen, support, and help a young person believe in their future. One hour a month can truly change a student’s life. If you’re interested in making a lasting…

Kids and mentoring Ongoing Panama City

Volunteers Needed to Serve as Mentors in Bay County!

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Northwest Florida

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Northwest Florida seeks caring adults to serve as mentors to young children facing adversity in their lives. There are currently more than 100 children on our waiting list - mostly boys! Just a few hours each month can make a huge difference in the life of a child. As a volunteer you will be matched with a child between the ages of 5 and 13 who needs a caring adult role model and friend. In our community-based mentoring program, volunteers spend 1:1 time with their matched youth, known as "Littles," in the community. Activities might include going to a sporting…

Kids and mentoring Ongoing Panama City

Seeking Host Families: Host a Foreign Exchange Student Panama City, FL and surrounding areas!

NorthWest Student Exchange

Volunteer to Host a Foreign Exchange Student! Benefit from opening your home and heart to an exchange student for a term during the upcoming high school year by: Making life-long friendship connections abroad Giving a young person an opportunity to immerse themselves in our American culture and your family Gaining an international son/daughter Gain new perspectives on our American way of life through the eyes of your exchange student Choose from these ways to host; just a few weeks as a short-term Welcome Family, for a Semester, or school Year. You don't have to have your own child in high…

Kids and mentoring Ongoing Panama City

Reading Pals

United Way of Northwest Florida

ReadingPals is a statewide early literacy initiative that provides volunteer mentors for students from Pre-K to 3rd grade who may need extra help, utilizing one-on-one or small group settings. In Bay & Washington Counties, ReadingPals volunteers help elementary students build strong early literacy skills necessary for success. Being a ReadingPals volunteer means becoming a real-life superhero in a child’s story—someone who sparks imagination, builds confidence, and opens doors to a lifetime of possibilities through the power of reading. As a ReadingPal, you’re more than a volunteer; you’re a…

Food and basic needs Ongoing Panama City

Help a Neighbor in the Panama City, FL area with a Homemade Lasagna

Lasagna Love

Lasagna Love is a grassroots movement powered by thousands of volunteers cooking and delivering lasagna to neighbors in need. We are united by our commitment to offer a tangible act of love, compassion, and hope in communities often marked by uncertainty and stress. Together, we are proving that kindness has the power to nourish not only bodies, but also hearts and communities. Our purpose is simple yet profound: feed families, spread kindness, strengthen communities. As a volunteer Lasagna Chef, you decide what works for you. You choose how often you would like to volunteer—whether that’s…

Food and basic needs Multiple shifts Panama City

AD Harris Food Pantry

Rebuild Bay County, Inc

The A.D. Harris Food Pantry provides nutritious food and essential grocery items to individuals and families facing food insecurity. Through regular distributions, food rescue, community partnerships, and volunteer support, the pantry helps ensure that Bay County residents have reliable access to food and other critical resources. Volunteers needed for receiving, stocking and driving (Tues/Fri), and distribution (Tues, Sat).

Food and basic needs Ongoing Location varies

Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA)

United Way of Northwest Florida

For many in our communities, taxes can feel like a burden. VITA volunteers work to help lift that burden by offering low income families free tax preparation. Tax refunds give these families a springboard for the future by putting their hard-earned money back into their pockets. It's a simple way to offer a sense of hope. The United Way of Northwest Florida VITA program is now being offered in Bay, Calhoun, Gulf, Holmes, Jackson & Washington Counties. We need volunteers like you to help these families! Why Volunteer with VITA? Learn a New Skill - No experience is necessary. As a volunteer…

Health and hospice Ongoing Panama City

Volunteer for Emerald Coast Hospice

Emerald Coast Hospice - Panama City

Listen, Read, Sing Hold a hand Make gifts for patients Run Errands or perform light housekeeping Share a gift or baked goods Veteran-to-veteran Support

Health and hospice Ongoing Panama City

32407 Stitch a Memory Bear. Create a Forever Friend. PCB

VITAS Healthcare of Pensacola

VITAS Healthcare(r) is looking for people who love to sew who are able to share their skills with hospice patients and families. A Memory Bear, sewn by a volunteer with compassion and love, is a forever friend who can ease a hurting heart after the death of a VITAS hospice patient. Sewn from a favorite pair of PJ's, a pullover top, dress, bathrobe or nightgown, a Memory Bear may recall the closeness of a loved one, bring a smile to someone in distress, or offer a sense of security to a child who feels alone after the loss of a parent or sibling. This is a great opportunity for you to give…

Health and hospice Ongoing Panama City

32408 Stitch a Memory Bear. Create a Forever Friend. PCB

VITAS Healthcare of Pensacola

VITAS Healthcare(r) is looking for people who love to sew who are able to share their skills with hospice patients and families. A Memory Bear, sewn by a volunteer with compassion and love, is a forever friend who can ease a hurting heart after the death of a VITAS hospice patient. Sewn from a favorite pair of PJ's, a pullover top, dress, bathrobe or nightgown, a Memory Bear may recall the closeness of a loved one, bring a smile to someone in distress, or offer a sense of security to a child who feels alone after the loss of a parent or sibling. This is a great opportunity for you to give…

Disaster and emergency Ongoing Panama City

Front Desk/Business Operations Volunteer - Panama City Area

American Red Cross - North Central Florida Region

Do you enjoy helping people get connected and providing good customer service? Join us as a Front Office Hero! Welcome clients and members of the public who visit the office, as well as answer the incoming calls. Connect inquiries to appropriate departments and people, and assist with office support projects. K Tasks include: Front Desk communication with guests, staff, and volunteers Assist in office administration in Red Cross department Answer telephones and take messages Light typing, data entry, work filing, spread sheets Assist is preparation of mailings, course materials packaging…

Disaster and emergency Ongoing Panama City

Shelter Service Associates (Panama City area)

American Red Cross - North Central Florida Region

Be Ready to help your local community! Due to predictions for an active hurricane and wildfire season and the complexities of COVID-19, the Red Cross will need thousands to care for people when disasters strike. Train now to be a Ready Red Cross Shelter Volunteer so you can answer the call when your community needs it most! We will need volunteers to help support emergency shelters by staffing different areas including reception, registration feeding, dormitory, information collection and other vital tasks. We have both associate and supervisory level opportunities available. Will you be…

Sign-up happens on the organization's board. Needs are read every day from United Way of Northwest Florida and Idealist; check the details there before you go.

Nonprofits that rely on volunteers

Open needs first, then by volunteers reported
Housing and neighborhoods

A community development corporation that convenes stakeholders to develop and impliment authentic, collaborative solutions to neighborhood challenges.

97 volunteers (2024 filing)5 staff$269K revenue
Schools and reading

Develop student potential by providing enhanced opportunities for a quality education as well as encourage employees and promote greater community involvement.

50 volunteers (2024 filing)7 staff$709K revenue

Club 360

Panama City

Kids and mentoring

Women leaders engage our youth to learn about future career choices before graduating and provide scholarship opportunities for vocational and college degrees. we provide career education as well as scholarships to our youth and a continuing educaton

$27K revenue
Veterans and service clubs

To perpetuate the memory of the grand army of the republic, to honor all those who have served our nation; to teach patriotism, the duties of citizenship, the true history of our country and love of the flag; to oppose every tendency of movement that would weaken loyalty to, destroy, or impair our constitutional union and to inculcate and sustain the principles of representative government, equal rights, and justice for all.

5,869 volunteers (2024 filing)$342K revenue
Food and basic needs

The mission of early education and care, inc. (eec) is to support and provide quality care and education for children, families, and child care providers.

1,353 volunteers (2024 filing)196 staff$8.6M revenue
Schools and reading

The company owns and operates five charter schools in panama city, florida.

784 volunteers (2024 filing)628 staff$43.3M revenue
Faith

To provide religious guidance and worship.

580 volunteers (2024 filing)38 staff$3.2M revenue
Veterans and service clubs

Assist veterans and military personnel and their families; direct public attention to the needs of these groups; promote and assist in funding programs sponsored by the vfw, its affiliates, and other non-profit groups.

350 volunteers (2024 filing)3 staff$59K revenue
Schools and reading

Established as a charter school of the district school board of bay county, florida and is considered a component unit of such board.

300 volunteers (2024 filing)138 staff$8.0M revenue
Environment

To ensure that all future growth in bay county is managed to maintain or improve the present quality and productivity of the local estuarine systems.

300 volunteers (2021 filing)$145K revenue
Sports and recreation

To raise funds to provide financial support for educational scholarships, programs, benevolent programs, and community services and encourage positive attention on historic st. andrews as well as generate funds to improve historic st. andrews.

217 volunteers (2025 filing)$388K revenue
Schools and reading

Cultural events promoting growth, welfare, and community of bay co while providing proceeds to local school age organizations

175 volunteers (2025 filing)$408K revenue
Food and basic needs

To enhance the future of agriculture; promote, protect, and represent the educational, social, and business interest of the farmers in bay county.

120 volunteers (2023 filing)$125K revenue
Health and hospice

To provide support and opportunities for people with disabilitiies to choose and participate in valued adult activities.

120 volunteers (2024 filing)94 staff$2.6M revenue
Health and hospice

Bay, franklin, gulf healthy start coalition, inc. is a non-profit organization authorized under the authority of florida statute 383.216. this legislation is designed to establish a system that provides women access to prenatal care and infants access to services that promote good health, normal growth and development.the mission of the organization is to implement the provisions of florida's healthy start legislation within bay, franklin, and gulf counties. the healthy start coalition mission i

100 volunteers (2024 filing)9 staff$1.9M revenue
Sports and recreation

To develop, administrate, and operate competitive soccer teams for boys and girls as designated under the guidelines of the us soccer federation, the us and fl youth soccer associations. to educate youth in teamwork, leadership, character, and confidence through athletics.

100 volunteers (2023 filing)$424K revenue
Health and hospice

To deliver professional, christ-centered,volunteer healthcare to economically disadvantaged persons of bay county thereby meeting their physical and spiritual needs.

90 volunteers (2024 filing)1 staff$713K revenue
Animals

Our mission is to promote the responsible ownership, management, and propagation of animals in both private and public domains through professional standards in husbandry, animal care, safety, and ethics. this is accomplished by supporting and promoting education, establishing best practices for animal care, and providing financial assistance to wildlife conservancies and conservation entities internationally.

86 volunteers (2025 filing)4 staff$1.2M revenue
Kids and mentoring

The organization provides emotional, recreational, cultural and educational activities and support for girls ages 6-18.

80 volunteers (2024 filing)30 staff$751K revenue
Food and basic needs

The mission of backpack blessings, inc. is to provide shelf-stable weekend meals to students in panama city beach facing food insecurity, enabling them to focus on their education and thrive by alleviating the burden of hunger on their families. we work to ensure no child in the community goes hungry and bring together a variety of volunteers of all backgrounds and ages to serve and make a difference in the lives of our local youth.

75 volunteers (2025 filing)$187K revenue
Veterans and service clubs

The junior league of panama city, inc. is an organization of women whose mission is to advance women's leadership for meaningful community impact through volunteer action, collaboration, and training.

74 volunteers (2024 filing)1 staff$200K revenue
Veterans and service clubs

Mission is to foster camaraderie and provide support to combat veterans in need and help support our local community by promoting and educating the local community, schools and businesses with patriotic activities. to advocate on behalf of all veterans.

63 volunteers (2024 filing)11 staff$338K revenue
Food and basic needs

Conducting interactive retreats and small groups that will encourage participants to contemplate god's purpose for their physical and emotional wounds, to demonstrate his love and grace in healing them.

50 volunteers (2025 filing)2 staff$784K revenue

Bay Band Boosters

Panama City

Schools and reading

Provide uniforms, band equipment, music, travel, competition, instruction, and other services to the students of the bay high school band.

50 volunteers (2021 filing)$67K revenue
Kids and mentoring

To protect and enhance the quality of life for victims of sexual violence and child abuse in our community by providing a trauma sensitive, specialized approach to assess, identify, treat and prevent sexual assault and child abuse through the coordination of community resources.

50 volunteers (2023 filing)142 staff$11.9M revenue
Schools and reading

To operate a public charter school in bay county, florida.

50 volunteers (2024 filing)$3.4M revenue
Housing and neighborhoods

World changers exists to serve churches in their mission of making disciples by providing missions experiences that develop the heart of students for serving others and sharing the gospel so they can change the city...change the world.

50 volunteers (2024 filing)17 staff$1.0M revenue
Seniors

Provide for the elderly of bay county, nutritional, recreational, social, financial and transportation services.

49 volunteers (2024 filing)40 staff$3.3M revenue
Veterans and service clubs

We support the men and women of the sea services. we support youth groups such as sea cadets, njrotc, mcjrotc, and a summer stem program.

45 volunteers (2025 filing)$212K revenue
Schools and reading

Support the extracurricular and sports activities of north bay haven charter academy.

43 volunteers (2023 filing)$851K revenue

American Legion

Panama City

Veterans and service clubs

A non-profit patriotic, community-service, wartime veterans organization

35 volunteers (2024 filing)$142K revenue
Veterans and service clubs

This organization unites its members in the bonds of fraternity, benevolence, & charity. this is accomplished through a year-round schedule of social & recreational activities for the members and their families estimated to number 375

35 volunteers (2024 filing)$104K revenue

CAT 5 Aquatics Inc

Panama City

Sports and recreation

To promote and support the growth of youth swimming in the panama city/bay county area

30 volunteers (2024 filing)$279K revenue
Health and hospice

Life management center provides comprehensive, integrated behavioral and mental health care in bay, gulf, jackson, washington, holmes, calhoun counties by promoting the health and quality of life of our community members.

30 volunteers (2023 filing)218 staff$21.4M revenue
Health and hospice

To restore hope and dignity and affect positively the quality of life for brain injury survivors and their families, minimizing the effects and enabling each to function at the highest level possible, both in the community and in their personal lives

30 volunteers (2024 filing)5 staff$132K revenue
Food and basic needs

The organizations mission is to help people with impaired mobility to stand up and participate in sporting, artistic, and other dailiy events. the organization provides its clients with a unique piece of equipment, the paramobile, and other adaptive equipment.

30 volunteers (2025 filing)$179K revenue
Animals

To protect threatened sea turtles on 17.5 miles of gulf beach in bay county florida.

28 volunteers (2024 filing)11 staff$202K revenue

Amercian Legion

Panama City

Veterans and service clubs

War veterans assistance

25 volunteers (2024 filing)5 staff$300K revenue
Food and basic needs

Anchorage children's home's mission is to be an anchor for today's children, strengthening tomorrow's families. anchorage children's home is a non-profit organization, founded on christian beliefs, which serves, protects and strengthens children, families and community.

25 volunteers (2023 filing)122 staff$5.9M revenue
Arts and culture

The mission is to bring the excitement of classical and modern music, dance, opera, and musical theatre to the widest possible audience of bay county and to increase the participation of youth in musical arts.

25 volunteers (2024 filing)$159K revenue
Health and hospice

He mission of the gulf coast lgbtq+ center is to enhance and sustain the health and well-being of the lesbian, gay, bisexual transgender, asexual, intersex, queer, non-binary, and questioning (lgbtqia+) population of the gulf coast by providing activities, programs and services that create community; empower community members; provide essential resources; advocate for civil and human rights; and embrace, promote and support lgbtqia+ cultural diversity. the gulf coast lgbtq+ center, inc. currentl

23 volunteers (2024 filing)$65K revenue
Schools and reading

To provide customized employment and training solutions that facilitate economic prosperity in partnership with education, economic development, chambers of commerce, community-based organizations, local governments and businesses.

23 volunteers (2024 filing)45 staff$2.8M revenue
Arts and culture

To provide excellent classical and popular music which delights, educates, and inspires the cultural life of our communities within a sustainable financial structure

22 volunteers (2023 filing)$441K revenue
Arts and culture

To support, promote, and develop the arts as essential to the growth of bay county's communities.

20 volunteers (2023 filing)6 staff$536K revenue
Sports and recreation

The activities of the organization consist of youth community services that foster growth of the members culturally, physically, emotionally, and recreationally.

20 volunteers (2025 filing)$41K revenue
Schools and reading

The purpose of the mosley football touchdown club shall be to promote and enhance the a. crawford mosley high school football program and to support football student athletes, their parents and coaches.

20 volunteers (2025 filing)$189K revenue
Food and basic needs

Provides for the basic needs of families and individuals in bay county, florida

15 volunteers (2025 filing)7 staff$1.2M revenue
Schools and reading

To create a scholarship program providing educational opportunities to deserving students and to enhance the educational programs and student services available at gulf coast state college.

15 volunteers (2024 filing)4 staff$1.7M revenue

Actheals

Panama City

Food and basic needs

Education in the healing arts.

13 volunteers (2024 filing)$157K revenue
Schools and reading

To support, promote, advance and strengthen the after school assistance program (see schedule o) (asap) for the benefit of low-income youths who are at risk of educational failure.

12 volunteers (2024 filing)$94K revenue
Schools and reading

To operate 3 public charter schools in the state of florida.

10 volunteers (2024 filing)127 staff$8.2M revenue
Food and basic needs

To provide an environment where the compassion and love of jesus christ can empower people to overcome and prevent life's adversities.

10 volunteers (2024 filing)15 staff$997K revenue
Faith

To serve the financial disadvantaged and meet the tiaf requirements of the usda food bank.

10 volunteers (2025 filing)$170K revenue
Food and basic needs

The foundation shall receive, hold and administer in perpetuity funds and contributions received, as memorials or otherwise, which shall constitute a permanent repository of such contributions in memory of persons or purposes designated by the contributors and benefactors. the assets will be managed by the foundation board of directors and any earnings thereof may be distributed from time to time solely to support the work of anchorage children's home of bay county, inc.

8 volunteers (2024 filing)$72K revenue
Animals

Our mission is to promote responsible pet ownership with affordable spay/neuter and veterinary care services. in offering these affordable services the ultimate goal is to reduce the overpopulation of unwanted cats and dogs throughout our community and promote healthy outcomes for all.

6 volunteers (2024 filing)38 staff$3.3M revenue
Sports and recreation

The mission of panama city gym club, inc is to encourage, inspire and develope girls through the sport of gymnastics and cheerleading. we strive to provide high quality skill sets helping each girl reach their physical potential.

6 volunteers (2022 filing)1 staff
Arts and culture

To conduct programs for children and others to promote religion, community wellness, the environment, the humanities and the arts.

5 volunteers (2024 filing)$212K revenue
Animals

To manage a no-kill animal shelter where all healthy and treatable shelter dogs and cats can find a loving home and to end the needless destruction of companion animals.

5 volunteers (2024 filing)$28K revenue
Sports and recreation

To develop, administrate, and operate high school soccer teams for girls as designated under the guidelines of the florida high school athletic association. to educate youth in teamwork, leadership, character, and confidence through athletics.

5 volunteers (2022 filing)$69K revenue
Food and basic needs

Ucp of north florida provides medical and development services tochildren aged birth to twenty-one years old who are medically fragile,technologically dependent, or developmentally impaired.

5 volunteers (2022 filing)30 staff$1.2M revenue
Schools and reading

The panama city trilingual school prepares students to be globally aware and confident in their leadership through rigorous academics including fluency in spanish, mandarin chinese, and english.

4 volunteers (2025 filing)$1.6M revenue

Revolt Ministries

Panama City

Housing and neighborhoods

We connect people around the world in the fight to end poverty. working together, we invest in the lives of children and youth to build healty environments.

4 volunteers (2024 filing)$319K revenue
Health and hospice

-avicenna is a not-for-profit clinic-providing quality health care and related services to uninsured residents of bay and surrounding counties.-services provided primarily by volunteer providing comprehensive and dependable health care in a caring environment.-providing training opportunities to local medical students.

3 volunteers (2020 filing)$172K revenue
Food and basic needs

Serving childern with diverse learning needs to help these children acheive their goals and succeed in school and beyond.

3 volunteers (2025 filing)49 staff$906K revenue

Volunteer counts are each organization's own estimate on Form 990, Part I, line 6. Statewide groups with a Bay County address (a state VFW department, for example) report for the whole group. Smaller nonprofits file the 990-EZ or 990-N, which don't ask, so many active groups aren't counted here: see every nonprofit.

Getting started

How to help

  1. Pick a cause and a schedule. Ongoing roles like mentoring ask for a few hours a month; one-day events need no long commitment.
  2. Sign up with the organization. Many roles that work with children or patients ask for a background check and a short training first.
  3. No need listed? Most nonprofits below take volunteers year-round. Visit their website or call and ask what they need.

Where this comes from

  • Open needs are read every day from United Way of Northwest Florida's volunteer center and from Idealist's listings for Bay County towns. Only needs in a Bay County town or ZIP are kept. We copy the title, organization, what volunteers do, when, and the city; no addresses or contact names.
  • Organizations are joined to local nonprofits by exact name (a few checked by hand), so their names link to the nonprofit's profile with its filings, board and public money.
  • Causes are plain groupings made from each need's words and the nonprofit's IRS category.
  • Volunteer counts, staff and revenue come from each nonprofit's latest e-filed IRS Form 990.
  • Data: volunteer-needs (CSV) · volunteer-orgs (CSV).