Skills-Based Volunteering

If you have particular skills, you can either seek to employ them to the best advantage in one of the state or national organisations that can use them or you can seek out a volunteering scheme specifically for your area of expertise.

Click on one of the headings below or scroll down to view all of the resources listed.

General

• Skills Passport
A Skills Passport to help you assess what you have to offer and where you would be needed.

• Volunteer Match
Volunteer Match is a free service that matches skilled professionals with Not for Profit organisations online. Professionals can search and apply for volunteering opportunities, and representatives from Not for Profit organisations can post their needs for skilled professional volunteers and edit existing opportunities online.

• Good company
goodcompany connects skilled professionals in Victoria and NSW with charitable organisations in need of pro bono assistance.

• ExperienceBank
ExperienceBank provides an avenue for people over the age of 50 to use their professional skills to make a difference by being a mentor, a Board member or project adviser for a nonprofit organisation.

• Great Connections
GreatConnections connects skilled, experienced people (drawn largely from the ranks of the retired) with not-for-profit organisations in need of help. Prospective volunteers can list the skils they have, organisations needing special skills can list them online.

Law

• Arts Law
Arts Law aims to maintain panels of volunteer lawyers in all state capitals (except in Queensland), who provide face-to face legal advice to the Australian arts community.

• Community Legal Centres
Community Legal Centres provide free information and advice to more than 60,000 Victorians every year. Contact your local CLC for information about volunteering opportunities.

Business Administration

• Australia Business Volunteer
Helping Australians to volunteer their skills overseas

• Australian Business Arts Foundation (ABAF )
Volunteering programs that connect businesspeople with the arts and cultural sector, strengthening management and governance in the arts sector. AbaF's Volunteering programs are boardbank and adviceBank .

Medicine

• International Medical Volunteers Association (IMVA)
The IMVA site provides networking opportunities for potential volunteers, volunteer organisations and medical practitioners working in international development.

• Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors without Borders)
Through its network of 18 offices around the world, Médecins Sans Frontières sends out some 3000 volunteers per year. Working alongside over 15,000 local staff in teams around the world, MSF volunteers bring life-saving emergency medical assistance to populations who would otherwise be denied access to even the most basic health care.

Engineering

• Engineers Without Borders Australia
An organisation aimed at helping communities in need through engineering related projects. The unique part of EWB is in involving younger engineers. These younger engineers (students & graduates) are mentored through the development process by more experienced engineers.

And if, at the end of the page, you still haven't found what you were looking for, look at the field from another angle - check out these other pages.

• Find a Local Group - sorted by state or region

• Find a Group in my Interest Area - sorted by causes

• [Find a Group that Matches my Skills]

• Provide Corporate Support - for companies that want to support volunteering

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