Volunteers needed: Help students and families carry belongings into their residence hall suites. This is a wonderful opportunity for the University and Evansville communities to make a strong first impression on our newest Screaming Eagles.
The day is organized into three-hour volunteer shifts. Volunteers will receive a Move-In T-shirt to ensure students and families can easily identify you as someone ready to assist. Volunteer teams will be stationed at each residence hall. Your primary role is to help students and families move items from their vehicles to their rooms while offering a warm welcome and demonstrating the caring spirit that makes USI special.
Sign up for your volunteer shift in 3 easy steps.
Volunteer Contact: Dr. Laurie Berry at 812-464-1862 or lberry@usi.edu
Welcome Week tents will be located all across the USI campus on the first two days of classes. Volunteers are needed to greet students, help them find their way and kick off the year with energy and support. You will help answer quick questions, point students toward resources and make their first days feel friendly and stress-free. Sodexo will be sponsoring refreshments, so the tents will have a fun, inviting atmosphere.
Please sign up for a shift using SignUp.com: https://signup.com/go/oSVMSYp.
Shifts are available from 7:30 a.m. through 4:00 p.m. Even one hour makes a big difference!
Volunteer Contact: Carmen Stoen at 812-465-7167 or cstoen@usi.edu
Dates: October 29 - November 1, 2026
USI will be hosting The Wall That Heals, a three-quarter scale replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, along with a mobile education center at the Broadway Recreational Complex on Broadway Avenue. The exhibit honors more than 3 million Americans who served in the U.S. armed forces in the Vietnam War.
Volunteer Details:
Sign Up to Volunteer for The Wall That Heals.
Feed Evansville
Brown Bag Summer Lunch Preparation at CK Newsome Center (100 E Walnut St., Evansville, IN)
Volunteers needed: Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday at 9:00 am - 11:00 am (June 1 – August 7) Volunteers are needed to make lunches for all area pools and park programs. Volunteers will make sandwiches or wraps and assemble other items for delivery. Feed Evansville will be on site to guide assembly and quantity of lunches made.
Volunteers needed: Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday at 11:00 am - 11:45 am (June 1 – August 7) to pick up the lunches at CK Newsome Center and deliver them to the local pools participating in the program. Volunteers will be designated a specific pool when they arrive to pick up the brown bags.
Volunteer Contact: Lisa Vaughn, Feed Evansville 812-319-9330 lrhyand@hotmail.com
Click here to learn more about Feed Evansville.
United Way of Southwestern Indiana Day of Caring:
The United Way Day of Caring is a community-wide volunteer initiative that connects corporate teams and individual volunteers with local nonprofit organizations to complete meaningful, hands-on service projects. These projects may include painting, landscaping, building repairs, and other improvements that help strengthen our community.
The 2026 Day of Caring will take place on Friday, September 11, beginning at 7 a.m. at the Old National Events Plaza. The morning will begin with a kickoff breakfast honoring the significance of the day, followed by volunteers departing for project sites throughout the community at approximately
8:30 a.m.
Volunteer registration begins July 13 – August 7. Volunteers who sign up within these dates will receive a free Day of Caring t shirt and entry to the kickoff breakfast!
Contact: Althea Stachyra, astachyra@unitedwayswi.org, (812) 421-7476
E'ville Iron Street Rod Club Volunteer Opportunities:
51st Annual Frog Follies - Be a part of the largest independent Pre '49 Street Rod Show in the nation by volunteering to sell T-shirts and help in the concession stands.
Dates: August 28 – 30 (Fri., Sat. and Sun.) There are two shifts each day.
First shift: 7:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. Second shift: 11:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Location: Vanderburgh County 4-H Center, 201 E Boonville-New Harmony Rd, Evansville, IN 47725
Contact: Stacy Wagner, E'ville Iron Street Rod Club
812-453-2850 evilleironmember@gmail.com
Click here for more Frog Follies event details.
Chef Revival Ministries at The Dream Center:
Ongoing help is needed to prepare and package meals in the Dream Center's commissary kitchen for underserved individuals in the Jacobsville and Jimtown neighborhoods in Evansville.
Location: The Dream Center, 1516 North Main Street, Evansville, IN 47711
Dates: Every Saturday
Time: 10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Visit the website at https://chefrevivalministries.startsites.org/ for more information.
Register to volunteer at https://bit.ly/3Udl8HH
Historic New Harmony
USI Freshmen Day at New Harmony
Date: September 15, 2026
Volunteer Opportunity: For alumni and USI upperclassmen to encourage freshmen to visit exhibits, historic sites and collections and to share points of interest with them.
Contact: Heidi Taylor-Caudill, Historic New Harmony 812-682-6133 | hltaylorca@usi.edu
Atheneum Visitors Center greeters
Date: Ongoing
Greeters will be trained by David Angel to improve the overall visitor experience in New Harmony.
Contact: David Angel 812-682-3168 | dwangel@usi.edu
Maximillian Bodmer Exhibition volunteers
Historic New Harmony needs help staffing the museum. They haven’t been able to keep regular hours due to limited staff. This would be a great alumni or student opportunity for those who studied art or history.
Date: Ongoing
Contact: Heidi Taylor-Caudill, Historic New Harmony 812-682-6133 | hltaylorca@usi.edu
Location: Lichtenberger Building on the corner of Main Street and Tavern Street in New Harmony.
About Maximillian Bodmer Exhibition in New Harmony: The exhibit showcases works from Karl Bodmer, a Swiss artist who accompanied German explorer Alexander Philip Maximilian, Prince of Weid, in 1832-1834. They had an extended stay in New Harmony and then traveled the Missouri River to present-day Montana, documenting the American landscape and Indigenous peoples.
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