Volunteering in Arkansas
There are many ways to serve your community in Arkansas. Studies show that engaging in a volunteer activity connects you with others while altering brain chemistry releasing dopamine, oxytocin, and serotonin. You know, those feel-good hormones responsible for boosting moods!
The Engage Arkansas volunteer portal is a great way to find statewide opportunities and manage your personal volunteer hours through the self-report tools available. Learn more about how to volunteer and how to share volunteer opportunities below.
Engage Arkansas uses Give Pulse to list, find, organize, and measure the impact of community engagement efforts in Arkansas. Through Give Pulse, you will be able to find volunteer opportunities statewide.
Host a Volunteer Opportunity
If you are an organization looking for volunteers, we would love to partner with you on Give Pulse to share and promote your events. Follow the steps below:
CREATE A GROUP on Give Pulse here. For guidance on creating a group, review this Give Pulse tutorial.
Learn how to AFFILIATE your organization with with Engage Arkansas here. Once your affiliation request is sent, the Engage Arkansas team will review and approve your request, allowing your volunteer opportunities to be shared with a statewide network of volunteers.
For Arkansas school districts interested in utilizing the Engage Arkansas Give Pulse page to identify volunteer opportunities and record service hours for students fulfilling their LEARNS service credits, please reach out to Engage.AR@adhe.edu for assistance if needed.
President’s Volunteer Service Award (PVSA) Recognition
In 2024, Engage Arkansas became a certifying organization for Arkansans interested in receiving the President’s Volunteer Service Award. This award honors individuals whose service positively impacts communities in every corner of the nation and inspires those around them to take action. Led by AmeriCorps and managed in partnership with Points of Light, this program allows Certifying Organizations to recognize their most exceptional volunteers. Though Engage Arkansas certifies the award, we do not certify direct service hours. These must be approved by the organization where your service took place.
On May 27, 2025, Points of Light announced that, effective immediately, the President’s Volunteer Service Award program is on a temporary pause, as decided by AmeriCorps. We do not have a date for when the program will resume. All orders that were placed before the program pause went into effect will be processed and shipped as normal.
If you’re seeking other ways to recognize volunteers and AmeriCorps members, Points of Light offers the Daily Point of Light Award, which honors a volunteer each weekday throughout the year and was initiated in the White House in 1990.
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