SPX on Mission: Service Opportunities

Great Plains SPCA offers comprehensive resources for pets that strengthen the relationship between pets and their human companions. Serving nearly 6,000 pets annually, Great Plains SPCA works to save, protect and improve the lives of animals, by providing humane sheltering, adoptions, unparalleled behavior, and training as well as the HERO Team’s humane community outreach.

PAWS for Autism's mission is to provide Autism Service Dogs and related services, including community outreach and education, service dog awareness, informational training, social skills classes and innovative transitional job skills to youth and young adults who demonstrate autism spectrum behaviors.

Whether you have a free day on the weekend, or an occasional hour after school there is a place for you at KC Pet Project.

• New Simplified Orientation

• Three Locations

• Over 200 dogs want a twice daily walk

• Rewarding and heartwarming

Heartland provides equine-assisted activities and therapies. HTR offers adaptive riding lessons, interactive vaulting, horsemanship classes and occupational therapy through hippotherapy. These activities and therapies provide physical, cognitive, and emotional growth through the movement of and emotional bond created with the horse. 

Owl Hallow Farms provide a place of safety, acceptance and healing for children in need; a shelter from the storms of life. They actively maintain programs to bring horses back to health and bring joy and hope to children.

The mission of Northland Therapeutic Riding Center is to improve the quality of life for persons with special needs through equine assisted activities and therapies.

Giving HOPE to their future one ride at a time!

Wayside Waifs is committed to finding homes for all adoptable pets. Wayside is the largest pet adoption campus in Kansas City, in 2018 Wayside adopted more than 5,600 animals in loving forever homes. 

Alex's Lemonade Stand is on mission to change the lives of children with cancer through funding impactful research, raising awareness, supporting families, and empowering everyone to help cure childhood cancer.

Helping with youth educational recreational activities.

Family First provides therapeutic services and training opportunities to support children with autism and their families. Their goal is to help all children to reach their fullest potential.  A volunteer at Family First Center for Autism and Child Development, Inc. would have the opportunity to do any or all of the following:

• assist a therapist by running programs for a child with autism

• participate in a peer modeling in social skills groups

• assist with general needs at the center

Contact familyfirstkcamy@gmail.com  or 816-984-8280

Historically, the KCIA student body has included students from all over the world. Students and families at KCIA represent 21 different countries from Africa, Asia, and South America and speak at least 15 different languages. Most of our students come from families experiencing economic challenges.

The mission of RMHC is to create, find, and support programs that directly improve the health and well-being of children and their families.

The Little Sisters of the Poor is an international congregation of Roman Catholic women religious founded in 1839 by Saint Jeanne Jugan. Together with a diverse network of collaborators, they serve the elderly poor in over 30 countries around the world. Continuing the work of Saint Jeanne Jugan, their MISSION is to offer the neediest elderly of every race and religion a home where they will be welcomed as Christ, cared for as family and accompanied with dignity until God calls them to himself.

Call (816) 584-3200 about volunteer opportunities.

Jerusalem Farm is a Catholic intentional community located in Kansas City, MO. Built on the four cornerstones of Prayer, Community, Service and Simplicity we strive to transform our lives and those around us through service retreat experiences, sustainable living and home repair.

Morning Glory Ministries is a community, faith-based ministry helping Kansas City a safer, better, happier place for our homeless brothers and sisters. 

NourishKC's goal is to provide food security for Kansas City. 

Missourians for Life help to carry out Missouri's Right to Life work in every area of the state and, in turn, give it the strength of a statewide grassroots organization. The more effective that MRL is, the more the lives of the unborn and the vulnerable are benefited.

Mother's Refuge's mission is to shelter and educate homeless, pregnant and parenting young women by providing comprehensive services that empower them to make successful life decisions for themselves and their babies.

Habitat for Humanity is a global nonprofit housing organization working in local communities across all 50 states in the U.S. and in approximately 70 countries. Habitat’s vision is of a world where everyone has a decent place to live. 

As the organization at the service of charity of the Bishop and Church of Kansas City-St. Joseph, the mission of Catholic Charities is to answer the commandment of Jesus Christ to love through service, advocacy, and empowerment of the vulnerable and those in need throughout northern and western Missouri.

The American Red Cross prevents and alleviates human suffering in the face of emergencies by mobilizing the power of volunteers and the generosity of donors.​

Inspired by Christian faith, Bishop Sullivan Center shows God’s love to people in financial hardship by providing food, help in finding jobs and other aid.

Beyond material assistance, Bishop Sullivan Center strives to build relationships among  those who live in poverty and those who do not, promoting mutual understanding and affirming the dignity of all.

Don Bosco positions our ethnically diverse
population of all ages across metropolitan
Kansas City to be self-sufficient and
contributing members of this great community.

Focuses on pediatric healthcare.

The mission of the Guadalupe Centers is to improve the quality of life for individuals in the Latino communities of Greater Kansas City

They accomplish their mission by:

Providing early childhood, secondary, adult education and workforce training programs;

Facilitating access to health and social services for all ages;

Promoting and providing Latino cultural enrichment events;

Sponsoring social activities that engage our diverse communities.

LOVE INC  purpose is to humbly serve, learn from, and provide leadership to Love INCs that:

encourages…through prayer, caring relationships, connecting local Love INCs to one another, and affirming strengths.

equips…by leading the development of new local Love INCs, and providing operating Love INCs training and facilitating the exchange of resources and ideas.

elevates…by challenging local Love INCs to assess and improve operations, continually focus on mission integrity and mature in vision casting to increase opportunity for the Body of Christ to show and share the love of Christ.

A 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization that works with professional and major college sports teams to provide free dental care and oral health education to at-risk children throughout the country.  They throw “Dental Tailgate Parties” to create an awesome lifetime experience for the at-risk children that they serve; they help with set-up and break-down for our three programs in Kansas City:  Chiefs, Royals and Sporting KC; additionally, they help within our inventory and storage areas, and possibly additional tasks from time to time.

The Salvation Army, an international movement, is an evangelical part of the universal Christian Church. Its message is based on the Bible. Its ministry motivated by the love of God, the mission is to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ and meet human needs in His name without discrimination.

Bridging The Gap (BTG) works to make the Kansas City region sustainable by “connecting environment, economy and community,” and is the premier organization in the area providing environmental education and volunteer action through more than 1,500 volunteers annually.

St Benedict’s Food Pantry--call Geri at (816) 468-6552 for service opportunity.

St. Mary's has a long tradition of reaching out to the poor here and offering assistance with food, clothing, and medicine purchases. The Outreach Center is staffed by volunteers who help make appointments, and stock and distribute the items.

Contact Pat Cummings at 741-8661 for service opportunity.

Contact Mary Pat DeStefano at marypatdestefano@yahoo.com for service opportunity.

Contact Gretchen Lathrop (816) 781-4569 or ghlathrop@sbcglobal.net for service opportunity.

Contact Nikki Power (816) 407-1208  or kpower@kc.rr.com for service opportunity.