Make Lasting Holiday Memories With Volunteer Opportunities In Middletown

MIDDLETOWN, CT — Volunteering is a meaningful way to connect with neighbors in Middletown and make lasting holiday memories for both yourself and the people you help.

Volunteering also fosters a sense of shared responsibility and purpose, leading to a more vibrant, resilient, and engaged community with a higher quality of life.

Many of the organizations that make life better in Middletown depend on volunteers, including food banks, animal shelters, toy drives, adopt-a-family drives and others.

Here are a few ways to volunteer in Middletown:

• Middlesex United Way — Mission: Works to achieve positive impact in youth opportunity, healthy communities, financial security, equity, and community resiliency.

• Community Health Center — Mission: A primary care organization committed to special populations, improving health outcomes, and building healthier communities through various initiatives.
• St. Vincent de Paul Middletown — Mission: Meets needs and offers hope by providing essential services like food, clothing, and shelter to those experiencing insecurity, and offers programs to support recovery and reduce isolation.

• The Connection, Inc. — Mission: Builds safe, healthy, caring communities and inspires individuals to reach their full potential.
• The Rockfall Foundation — Mission: Promotes and supports environmental education and conservation in the Lower Connecticut River Valley.

• Oddfellows Playhouse Youth Theater — Mission: Provides high-quality theater for young people, promotes their growth through performing arts, and offers opportunities to underserved youth to foster a multicultural society.

• The Jonah Center for Earth and Art — Mission: Fosters sustainable relationships among people, nature, and resources, and promotes interdisciplinary community partnerships.

• Cat Tales CT — Mission: A no-kill organization dedicated to protecting and improving the well-being of abused, neglected, and abandoned cats and kittens through shelter, foster homes, community outreach, education, and spay/neuter programs. Address: P.O. Box 901, Middletown, CT 06457.