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Southern Rhode Island Volunteers’ mission is to support older citizens by providing aging-in-place services for those in need, by providing meaningful volunteer engagement opportunities, and activities that promote and enhance independent living for mature individuals including seniors, disabled adults, and anyone interested in volunteer service opportunities in their community.

SRIV’s vision is an active community of Independence realized for all!

Our purpose and commitment is to sustain and grow our volunteer members who are a major resource providing assistance through their volunteerism in our communities across the southern third (12 communities) of the State of Rhode Island. Our programs serve our elders, first and foremost, our children and families and our nonprofits and community agencies as well as all of us—our neighbors and neighborhoods! Join us today; there is always a place for you on our team!

Our flagship service programs include:

  • Independent Aging Support Services that support independent living and aging (for those 60 years of age and over).

  • Washington County Retired Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP-55 plus years of age) Recruitment, training, support and deployment of volunteers through meaningful service opportunities assisting individuals, non-profits and our communities.

  • Community Volunteers Program (individuals 13 to 54 years of age) Recruitment, training, support and deployment of volunteers through meaningful service opportunities assisting individuals, non-profits and our communities.

  • SRIV Disaster Preparedness & Response Team SRIV volunteers 13 plus years of age helping during community disasters, crisis and other needs as determined by local emergency management directors.

SRIV’s team collaborates with many community service and nonprofit organizations addressing the needs of individual neighbors and our larger communities with concerns ranging from helping our senior citizens with independence and aging assistance, to food security, to access/transportation to healthcare providers, to affordable housing, to cultural history, to environmental concerns, to animal well-being and more. A helping hand for one individual has far reaching affects for that person and many others across entire communities. Working to make your home community the best it can be, even offers many benefits to you and I the volunteers engaged.    

SRIV offers opportunities for our members to use their skills, talents and time to benefit individuals in need and to benefit the greater community. Whether you are a retiree with extra time on your hands, a student looking to fulfill community service hours, a mom or dad with mid-day hours, or an individual or group interested in being involved, SRIV has an opportunity for you!  Volunteerism is as flexible as you need it to be at SRIV, we will work with you to help you make a meaningful choice for your service goals. Can you just imagine what we can do together to make life all it can be in our hometowns and for our neighbors? We sincerely hope you will join our amazing team of volunteers; there is a seat on our team waiting just for you! Join us today!

 

Serving Rhode Island

SRIV’s service area is approximately 361.2 square miles in the Southern one-third of Rhode Island. Our largely rural service area includes: Block Island (Islanders coming over to the mainland for service), Charlestown, East Greenwich, Exeter, Hopkinton, Jamestown, Narragansett, North Kingstown, Richmond, South Kingstown, West Greenwich & Westerly. 

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Southern Rhode Island Volunteers

Southern Rhode Island Volunteers’ mission is to enhance lives by inspiring, creating and supporting a lifelong culture of service through our volunteer members and affiliates across Southern Rhode Island. 

Current

Opportunities

Volunteer Opportunities October 2025

Fall is always a wonderful time in New England with festivals, colorful leaves on our trees, Halloween and Thanksgiving around the corner and more.

However, there are always opportunities to help those in need. Begin your fall with one of these great opportunities to share your skills, time and compassion:

Where are our dog lovers? A senior with severe physical limitations needs your help to walk the dog. Walking the dog is shared by a few volunteers for this senior. Current needs are Wednesday and or Thursday afternoon—between 2 and 4 pm; perfect for our teen volunteers! Also there is an opportunity to help for the Thursday morning walk. Not only does the dog get out, but great, easy exercise for you too! Beautiful walking in the pier area of Narragansett.

Call the office at 401-552-7661 to hear more about this great opportunity.

Always needed by our seniors to support independent aging:

Transportation to support healthy aging at SRIV is providing a ride to and from medical appointments including dentists, therapies, and pharmacies to support healthy aging.

This is a very flexible opportunity. You can choose the geographic communities/area you wish to serve, days, times—there’s no schedule that you must follow.

Staff communicates by email and phone calls to let you know current needs available to be a champion for a mature neighbor. You choose to accept the current needs or not based upon your availability and desire to help. You may choose to do one or more or none in any given week—it’s up to you. You’ll be joining a team of volunteers who need flexibility but wish to make a difference. There are between 100 and 130 times each month available to lend a helping hand by providing a ride.

Delivery of groceries and/or food from area pantries to ensure healthy nutrition and food security at SRIV means once a week you may help by delivering groceries to a homebound senior. Thursday mornings is a weekly delivery day from some area markets when our volunteers deliver food between 1 and 3 senior homes, it depends on you the volunteer and what you’d like to do, deliveries are coordinated from our office. At other times there are individual pick-up and delivery opportunities from any market that offers curbside pickup. Days/times vary and are provided as an opportunity the same way that medical transportation scheduling does. Substitute volunteers are always welcome too.

Meals on Wheels SRIV is looking for someone to help count the meals delivered for our volunteer drivers on Tuesday mornings in South Kingstown through the end of December to cover for a volunteer on a leave. There is opportunity for this to become a shared service, a sub service—again, at SRIV we are always flexible to meet the need of our volunteers and our seniors. We are also looking for one additional sub count volunteer for this position to cover Monday through Thursday on an occasional basis. Very flexible, training and more. Call SRIV for details.

RICAN food pantry is looking for volunteers to help in the thrift shop. There is a need especially on Tuesday and Saturday at this time. The thrift shop is open Monday through Saturday 9 am to 5 pm.

Tabitha’s Closet is searching for volunteers to join their team. The openings include Tuesdays 3 to 5 pm to help sort clothing donations; Fridays 3 to 5 pm to help rack those clothing donations; and Saturdays 9 to 1 pm to help with customer service and sales of the clothing. Join us at the Applumpkin event to meet the folks from Tabitha’s Closet—a great community support!

Hoping to meet you soon and welcome you to the team. If you have time and interest in these offerings we look forward to chatting with you. We will also help you find your great volunteer opportunity in southern Rhode Island.

SRIV can be reached at 401-552-7661 Monday through Friday between 9 am and 4 pm or by email at info@southernrivol.org. When you call ask for Jessen, our Americorp RSVP Director.

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Main Office: P O Box 1047, 100 Park Lane, Charlestown, RI 02813
Hours: 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM Monday-Friday
Phone: (401) 552-7661
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