VOLUNTEER WITH CATCH A RIDE
A Few Hours Can Help Change Someone’s Week.
A volunteer ride can help someone reach dialysis, therapy, a job, a grocery store, a child’s appointment, a community program, or a loved one.
But volunteering with Catch a Ride is not limited to driving. Your time, skills, relationships, and experience can help communities build more dependable paths to care, work, food, family, and opportunity.
Transportation Security Is Built by People Who Show Up.
Across the country, people miss medical appointments, work shifts, groceries, therapy, school, and family moments because transportation is difficult to find, too expensive, unavailable at the right time, or simply too hard to navigate alone.
Volunteers help make the network more human. They bring patience, reliability, creativity, professional expertise, and local relationships to work that can otherwise feel overwhelming for someone already trying to manage health, family, employment, or financial stress.
Whether you drive one trip a month, help plan an event, design a tool, introduce a local partner, or lend your professional expertise to a project, you can help someone move forward.
“The most meaningful transportation systems are built when communities decide that no one should be left trying to get there alone.”
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There Is More Than One Way to Help.
Drive or Support Transportation
Help riders reach healthcare, therapy, work, food, education, social connection, and other essential destinations.
Volunteer drivers choose trips that fit their availability and help create a calm, dependable experience for people who may be facing a stressful day.
Best For
People who enjoy direct local involvement and have access to a vehicle or live in a community where Catch a Ride vehicles are available.
Share the Skills You Already Have.
Your professional knowledge can help Catch a Ride reach more people, strengthen local partnerships, improve systems, tell stronger stories, and build the infrastructure communities need for long-term transportation security.
Skills-based volunteering can be a one-time project, a short-term team engagement, or an ongoing advisory role.
Best For
Professionals, students, retirees, consultants, corporate teams, and anyone who wants to contribute beyond driving.
Bring Your Workplace, Team, or Community Group.
Employee groups, service clubs, faith communities, student organizations, and civic groups can contribute through hands-on service, project support, fundraising, outreach, events, and skilled volunteer teams.
Best For
Companies, employee resource groups, professional associations, student groups, faith communities, and civic organizations.
Help Bring the Right People Together.
Community connectors introduce Catch a Ride to organizations, leaders, volunteers, employers, healthcare providers, transportation partners, and funders who may be part of a stronger local solution.
You may know a hospital, employer, nonprofit, school, church, civic club, business owner, public official, or local leader who understands the transportation barriers people are facing.
Best For
Local leaders, social workers, chamber members, advocates, public officials, business owners, faith leaders, and trusted community members.
VOLUNTEER DRIVING
Give a Ride When You Can. Help Someone Reach What Matters.
Volunteer drivers help people get to the places that keep life moving: healthcare appointments, treatment, work shifts, grocery stores, pharmacies, training programs, family visits, and community activities.
You choose opportunities that fit your schedule. Catch a Ride helps with trip information, rider communication, coordination, and ongoing support.
Practical Benefits
✔ Flexible scheduling
✔ Mileage reimbursement where available
✔ Ongoing staff support
✔ Clear trip information
✔ Community connection
✔ Recognition and appreciation opportunities
1. Apply
Complete a brief interest form and share where and how you would like to help.
2. Complete Screening and Orientation
Depending on the role and local program, this may include a background check, driver verification, safety information, and a short orientation.
3. Choose Trips That Work for You
Review available transportation opportunities and accept the trips that fit your schedule and comfort level.
4. Stay Connected to Support
Catch a Ride provides trip details, rider information, scheduling support, and help when plans change.
SKILLS-BASED VOLUNTEERING
Your Professional Skills Can Help a Vital Community Service Grow.
Some volunteers help people get to an appointment. Others help Catch a Ride reach more people in the first place.
Catch a Ride needs people who can bring expertise, creativity, and problem-solving to the work of building stronger community transportation systems. A few hours of skilled support can help improve a resource, clarify a message, strengthen a partnership, solve an operational problem, or create a tool that serves people for years.
Communications and Storytelling
Writing, editing, video, photography, social media, public relations, content strategy, branding, and graphic design.
Technology and Data
Data analysis, dashboards, mapping, user experience, technology planning, systems integration, accessibility reviews, and cybersecurity.
Fundraising and Partnership Development
Corporate outreach, foundation research, sponsorship strategy, donor engagement, grant support, and relationship mapping.
Community and Program Strategy
Healthcare navigation, public health, workforce development, aging services, veteran services, accessibility, transportation planning, and public policy.
Operations and Professional Services
Finance, legal support, human resources, procurement, risk management, insurance, project management, and process improvement.
Events and Community Engagement
Event planning, facilitation, volunteer recruitment, local outreach, employer engagement, and community convening.
A Skill Can Become a Stronger System.
Brand and Communications Support
Help create clearer tools, messages, visuals, videos, and stories that make it easier for riders, partners, volunteers, funders, and community members to understand Catch a Ride and get involved.
Examples:
Brand review, website copy, video editing, graphic design, newsletter support, media strategy, storytelling, and social content.
Data and Technology Support
Help turn transportation information into useful community insight.
Examples:
Data dashboards, mapping, service-area analysis, rider feedback tools, accessibility reviews, system integration, technology planning, and data storytelling.
Community Partnership Support
Help strengthen the local relationships that make transportation systems work.
Examples:
Employer outreach, healthcare partnership development, local resource mapping, transportation-provider engagement, volunteer recruitment, funder research, and community convening.
COMMUNITY FUNDRAISER SPOTLIGHT
Bring Your Community Together for Something That Moves People Forward.
Group volunteering can look like more than a traditional service day.
It can mean helping create an event that brings families, businesses, community leaders, supporters, and local partners together around a shared belief: transportation should not be the reason someone misses care, work, food, school, family, or opportunity.
At The Car Mom Auto Show, Catch a Ride had the opportunity to connect with families, automotive leaders, volunteers, and community supporters while raising awareness and support for transportation security.
The event showed how a fun, family-centered gathering can also create meaningful momentum for people who need dependable access to everyday life.
“A community event can do more than raise funds. It can help people see a problem differently—and invite them to become part of the solution.”
A community fundraiser or volunteer-led event can help fund direct transportation support, Mobility Wallets, volunteer-driver programs, older-adult access, veteran transportation, workforce mobility, maternal and infant health, or local transportation coordination.
Host a Community Fundraiser
Organize an event, vehicle showcase, walk-and-roll activity, local business night, family gathering, golf outing, auction, or community celebration that raises funds and awareness.
Volunteer at a Catch a Ride Event
Help welcome guests, support registration, share transportation resources, assist with activities, capture photos or video, connect attendees to the mission, or help make an event feel warm and inclusive.
Invite Your Workplace or Organization
Bring employees, members, customers, or community partners together for a team fundraiser, matching-gift campaign, service activity, or awareness event.
Sponsor a Local Mobility Initiative
Help underwrite transportation support in a community while giving employees, customers, and local partners a meaningful way to participate.
The Car Mom Auto Show: Families, Vehicles, and a Shared Commitment to Mobility.
Catch a Ride was proud to join The Car Mom Auto Show to share why vehicle access and transportation security matter for families, caregivers, workers, and communities.
Events like this create a natural bridge between the automotive world and the real-life transportation barriers people face every day. They also offer a meaningful way for sponsors, volunteers, families, and local businesses to come together around practical solutions.
WHY TRANSPORTATION MATTERS
We Want Volunteering to Feel Meaningful, Supported, and Safe.
Catch a Ride understands that volunteering involves trust. We work to make sure people know what to expect, understand their role, and have support when questions come up.
Volunteers Can Expect
✔ Clear information about available opportunities and local needs.
✔ An application and screening process appropriate to the volunteer role.
✔ Orientation, training, and practical guidance.
✔ Support around safety, privacy, accessibility, and boundaries.
✔ Communication from Catch a Ride staff when schedules, trips, or project needs change.
Volunteer roles, availability, mileage reimbursement, insurance expectations, vehicle access, background checks, and training requirements vary by role and community.
Volunteer FAQs
Ready to Help Someone Move Forward?
Tell us a little about your interests, skills, location, and availability. A Catch a Ride team member will help connect you with the right opportunity.
Your Time Can Help Make the Next Ride Possible.
Whether you drive, share your skills, connect a local partner, bring your workplace, host a fundraiser, or help build awareness, you can help people reach the care, work, food, family, and opportunity waiting for them.