Community Engagement Opportunities

Neuro Fitness Foundation (NFF) is a one-of-a-kind adaptive fitness gym in North Texas that provides strength and cardiovascular training for individuals with neurological impairments and related lifestyle challenges. A 501(c)(3) public charity, NFF has served the community for over 27 years and promotes mind-body wellness through exercise and education.

General Service Needs
NFF welcomes volunteers to support its mission through gym housekeeping, facility maintenance, marketing efforts, IT enhancements, and event fundraising.

Tasks Available for UTA Students

• Fundraising Support: Help plan and execute events like bowling or pickleball fundraisers.
• Gym Volunteer: Assist clients with workouts, help keep the gym clean; available Monday–Friday 10am–5pm and Saturday 10am–1:30pm.
• Adaptive Classes & Activities: Lead or support sessions in drumming, yoga, painting, cooking, music therapy, and more (Monday–Friday 10am–3pm).
• Gym Housekeeping & Maintenance: Deep clean gym areas, entrance upkeep, window washing, painting touch-ups; Saturdays 10am–1pm.
• Photo Project: Update and display gym photos (Friday 10am–4pm, Saturday 10am–1pm).
• Marketing: Distribute flyers, contact local clinics, gather reviews/testimonials.
• IT Assistance: Support website updates, optimization, mobile responsiveness, SEO, and performance enhancements.

Noggin provides free educational resources and services to students from low-income families.

Tasks Available for UTA Students

• Assembly of activities for summer program
• Social media content and management
• Online research
• After school homework help
• Summer program teacher assistance
• Light bookkeeping
• Donor appreciation thank you notes and cards
• Marketing material design
• Help with event coordination tasks

Off Da Glass Squad Inc. supports at-risk, underprivileged youth by providing essential resources and programs. Through education, mentorship, and community engagement, they aim to create brighter futures for these young individuals.

Tasks Available for UTA Students

• Customer support and maintenance 
• Tutoring

On the Road Lending is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization founded in 2013 that provides vehicle selection assistance and long-term financial mentoring to address a little understood, but substantial problem—providing a way for low-income individuals to overcome transportation barriers so they can get to work, lead a healthier life, and avoid predatory lending. We help people improve their credit and purchase fuel-efficient, reliable cars, financing them ourselves with a low-cost loan.

Tasks Available for UTA Students
Community Outreach, Marketing and Promotion

Open Arms Health Clinic was conceived by Christian health professionals to help the many families and individuals in our community with limited access to affordable healthcare. Our 2,500 square foot clinic includes six exam rooms, a 20-seat lobby, a children's reading room, a staff lunchroom and a small conference room. In this compact space, a rotating group of volunteers - doctors, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, nurses, med techs, social workers, interpreters and office staff – work hard to give patients compassionate, quality care.

Donations and grants supply 100% of our medical supply costs, technology and utilities. Each week, our clinic is full of chronically ill patients who need consistent medical care. All are uninsured or underinsured and do not qualify for government healthcare programs. All too often, we have to turn patients away due to to lack of personnel, supplies or time.

Tasks Available for UTA Students
When you volunteer at Open Arms, you help us keep the clinic running, improve the health of our community and make a real difference in people's lives. You can volunteer for just a few hours a month or more if your schedule allows.

• Physicians
• Physicians Assistants
• Nurse Practitioners
• Nurses
• Clerical Volunteers
• Translators
• Scribes
• Medical Assistants
• Physical Therapists
• Counselors
• Social Workers
• Volunteers Liason
• IT Specialist
• Repair Person
• Delivery Person
• Pharmacist
• Pharmacist Tech

The Perot Museum exists to inspire minds through nature and science. From on and off-site education to interacting with guests in our exhibits, our goal is to educate the public.

General Service Needs
Volunteers at the Perot Museum interact with guests in various exhibit halls and assist staff with everything from education classrooms, administrative duties, directing school groups, guest services, events, programs, and other various requests. There are a myriad of opportunities to volunteer with and help us inspire minds through nature and science!

Tasks Available for UTA Students
There are a variety of volunteer opportunities for college students. The Perot Museum offers individual, year-round volunteering, group volunteering, and unpaid internships. Each form of volunteering has different requirements and benefits. Please see perotmuseum.org/volunteer or contact [email protected] for more information on specific opportunities.

PetPair matches and transports animals from overcapacity shelters nationwide to fosters. These fosters generate content, our pet adoption marketplace brings the adopters, and pets find their forever homes.
General Service Needs
We’re looking to partner with students & alumni at UTA to present a volunteer opportunity to provide temporary foster homes to at-risk animals in DFW. - What we do: We identify at-risk animals from overcapacity shelters and match them to foster caregivers who are able and willing to care for them temporarily until they find their forever homes. - What we need: We’d love to be added to your volunteer portal/listings for students and alumni, as well as share proactively more information about the volunteer fostering opportunity with your alumni. We’re happy to send along flyers and additional material – whatever is helpful for you to spread the word!
What tasks are available for UT Arlington students to help with?
Students and alumni will temporarily provide a home to the animal, playing with it, taking it on walks, and proactively adding content and searching for prospective adopters in their network.

Portfolio Resident Services, Inc., a non-profit organization whose mission is to provide quality social assistance to residents of affordable housing communities through programs designed to raise culture and family standards. PRS designs, staffs, implements, and tracks programs that proactively assist residents in both the short and long term.

General Service Needs
We are seeking four to five reoccurring student leaders from UT Arlington to plan and implement after-school activities for the Good Neighbor Program at my apartment complex.
This program is geared towards children from low-income families. Every weekday excluding Thursdays, we provide catered hot meals for our kids, administer homework assistance as needed, and aim to provide enriching and fun games as well as arts & crafts at our "Kids Club". This program is completely free for the families residing on our property.

Tasks Available for UTA Students
Plan and implement activities for a group of 15-20 kids in kindergarten-middle school on a weekly or bi-weekly basis.

Available hours are Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Fridays from 3:30-5 PM.

Prairie Paws Adoption Center, part of Animal Services in the City of Grand Prairie, provides a safe, healthy, and humane community for the pets of Grand Prairie. We accomplish this through protecting the public and its interests, providing education on responsible pet ownership, housing homeless animals, and placing companion animals.

General Service Needs
Volunteers assist Prairie Paws staff in providing sanitary, healthy environments for shelter animals to maximize their adoptability. New volunteers must complete 18 hours of Shelter Essentials Training before they can attend an Animal Handling class and be approved for animal handling assignments, such as walking dogs and grooming shelter animals.

From time to time, Prairie Paws also has openings for volunteers to assist with program coordination, such as for the Foster Care program.

Group volunteers are welcome to host independent, offsite fundraising campaigns or supplies collection projects to benefit the shelter animals.

Tasks Available for UTA Students
Shelter Essentials Training encompasses ongoing cleaning tasks to achieve sanitary conditions and prevent disease, such as washing toys/ dishes, washing/ folding laundry, sanitizing litter boxes/ crates, restocking food/ litter/ supplies, and sweeping and mopping hallways/work areas.

After 18 hours of SET, volunteers will be eligible to attend an Animal Handling class, a requisite for direct animal handling.

Apply online at http://bttr.im/vpkno

Pretty Blessed Girls provides educational, cultural and recreational opportunities for at-risk families. The purpose of Pretty Blessed Girls Mentoring program is to empower girls to feel pretty and blessed without compromising. Our mission is to bring girls together from all walks of life to create a strong sisterhood that will empower, motivate and uplift girls from all over the world.

Students can volunteer for bi-monthly program days, 2nd or 4th Saturdays, from 1:00 p.m.- 4:30 p.m., and/or for special events/activities. In total, there are 4-8 hours a month available to volunteer.

Tasks for students include helping mentors facilitate discussions and activities with youth on program days as well as helping with setup/takedown, sorting supplies/inventory for program days and special events.