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Community Agencies

Service + Community Partnerships

Want to volunteer but don't know where to go?

Student Voluntary Services (SVS) works with more than 100 local nonprofit agencies in a variety of different areas. Whether you want to work with children, spend time with the elderly, or help clean the environment, SVS has a program for you!

Our volunteer programs are categorized by the population served. These categories and the agencies that are open to working with Ball State students are listed below. These lists should help you identify the volunteer agency that best matches your interests.

Once you have an agency identified, you can preview our available programs or if you are ready, register for your volunteer experience.

Animals:

  • Action for Animals
  • Animal Rescue Fund
  • Muncie Humane Society
  • Roscoe's Rescue
  • SPCA Humane Society of Delaware County
  • SPUR Therapeutic Riding

Arts & Culture:

  • Cornerstone Center for the Arts
  • Gallery 308
  • Minnetrista
  • Muncie Ballet
  • Muncie Civic Theatre

Child Care:

  • Child Study Center
  • Enchanted Playroom
  • Hazlewood Pre-School
  • Janelle Kramer In-Home Daycare
  • Mothers of Preschoolers (M.O.P.S.) 
  • United Day Care

Community:

  • Goodwill Industries
  • Muncie Public Library
  • Red Cross
  • Salvation Army
  • YMCA
  • YWCA

Corrections:

  • Pendleton Reformatory

Disabilities:

  • Hillcroft
  • Hillcroft - Camp Isanogle

Education:

  • Back to School Teachers Store
  • Minnetrista

Environment:

  • Cardinal Greenway
  • Minnetrista

Health Care/Hospital:

  • American Cancer Society
  • Ball Memorial Hospital
  • Brookside Haven Health Care
  • Little Red Door
  • Westminister Village Health Center
  • Waters of Muncie
  • Willowbend Living Center

Homelessness:

  • Muncie Mission
  • Wayside Mission
  • YWCA

Hospice:

  • Covenant Hospice
  • New Hope Hospice
  • Southern Care Hospice

Housing:

  • Habitat for Humanity
  • Rebuilding Together

Hunger/Food Distribution:

  • Harvest Soup Kitchen
  • Second Harvest Food Bank
  • Salvation Army

Older Adults:

  • Alpha Center
  • Bethel Point Health and Rehabilitation Center
  • Golden Living Center
  • Liberty Village Nursing Home
  • Life Stream Services
  • Parkview Nursing Home
  • Woodlands Nursing Home

Recreation:

  • Ross Community Center

Tutoring/Mentoring:

  • Boys and Girls Club
  • Buley Center
  • Cowan Community Schools
  • Delaware County Community Schools
  • Motivate our Minds (MOM)
  • Mount Pleasant Schools
  • Muncie Community Schools
  • Muncie Public Library

Youth:

  • Big Brothers/Big Sisters
  • Girl Scouts
  • Muncie Children's Museum
  • Union Chapel Children's Program

Women's Issues:

  • A Better Way Inc.