Whether you need service hours or just want to devote your time to giving back to the community this summer, here are a few Tampa-based options that are all accepted by Bright Futures. 

1. OASIS (Outreach Assisting Students in Schools): OASIS is a volunteer-based organization that works to serve both at-risk and low-income students in Hillsborough County Schools by providing them with clothes, shoes, hygiene items etc.  

As a Teen Volunteer you can… 

• Pick up donations 

• Sort through donations 
• Launder Clothes 

How to Volunteer: https://www.oasisopportunities.org/volunteer#form  

1. Trinity Café: Under Feeding Tampa Bay, Trinity Café is a free, full-service restaurant that provides those in need of a nice meal with precisely that. They are open 365 days a year. 

As a Teen Volunteer (Minimum age 16 without an adult) you can… 

• Assume the role of “wait staff” 

• Serving tables 
• Bussing tables 
• Hosting tables 

• Assist in the outdoor drive-thru distribution 

How to Volunteer: https://volunteer.feedingtampabay.org/trinity-cafe 

1. Feeding Tampa Bay (Warehouse and Mega/Mobile Pantries): These facets of Feeding Tampa Bay are what assist in their fight to end hunger. They provide food to more than 1 million food-insecure families in the region and bring nutritious foods to food deserts. 

As a Teen Volunteer (Minimum age 16 without an adult) you can…  

• Help inspect perishable and nonperishable items  
• Package usable food into boxes 
• Set up and breakdown the mobile pantry sites 
• Direct traffic and hand out food at pantry sites 

How to Volunteer: https://feedingtampabay.org/volunteer 

1. Tampa Bay Watch: Tampa Bay Watch is a restoration organization with the goal of preserving the watershed of Tampa Bay’s bodies of water. They host community-drive restoration projects, education programs and outreach initiatives. 

As a Teen Volunteer you can… 

• Take part in cleanups 
• Take part in plantings  

• Sign up for their Bright Futures program that offers one project per week during the summer 
• Oyster Reef Ball Construction (Minimum age 15)  

How to Volunteer: https://tampabaywatch.org/volunteer-main/volunteer-faqs/ 

1. Sweetwater Organic Community Farm: The community farm is a nonprofit community-supported urban organic farm and environmental education center located in Tampa. 

As a Teen Volunteer (Minimum age 16 without an adult) you can… 

• Take part in planting, harvesting, and weeding 
• Work events 

• Food prep 
• Setting tables 

• Clean up 

How to Volunteer: www.sweetwater-organic.org/community-programs/volunteer/