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Volunteer With VTC

Share your time, experience, or professional skills in a way that directly benefits Veterans and their families. From campus projects to events and community outreach, volunteers help strengthen the spaces, programs, and connections that make VTC’s work possible.

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Share Your Expertise

Put Your Skills to Work for Veterans

Skilled volunteers help VTC maintain safe, welcoming homes and facilities across our historic Fort Ord campus. Professionals in the trades can assist with repairs, improvements, and specialized projects that strengthen the environment where Veterans live and gather.

There are also opportunities to contribute through events, fundraising, outreach, administration, and communications.

Skills We Often Need

Tell us about your experience, interests, and availability. Our team will help identify an opportunity that is a good fit.

Electrical and plumbing
HVAC and carpentry
Landscaping and gardening
Painting and woodworking
Welding and masonry
Concrete and exterior projects
Mechanical and small-appliance repair
Moving and hauling
Volunteer Your Skills
Skilled-trade volunteers in work clothes repairing and painting a residential building outdoors at the veterans housing campus
Volunteer Inquiry Form

Tell Us How You Want to Help

Share a little about yourself, your availability, and what you love doing — our team will follow up to find the right fit.

When are you available?
Which areas interest you?
Volunteer Waiver & Photo Release

Please read this before you submit. Checking the box below creates an agreement between you and the Veterans Transition Center of California ("VTC"). What volunteering involves. Volunteer work at VTC can be physical: lifting and carrying, sorting and moving food and household goods, working around tools and equipment, working outdoors, and being on our Fort Ord campus or at community events. I understand this work carries risks — including injury, illness, and damage to my property — and I choose to volunteer knowing that. Release of claims. In exchange for the opportunity to volunteer, I release VTC, its board members, staff, volunteers, and partner organizations from claims for injury, illness, loss, or damage I may suffer while volunteering, except where it is caused by their gross negligence or willful misconduct. I agree to follow staff instructions and safety directions while I am on site. Emergency medical care. If I am hurt or become ill while volunteering and cannot speak for myself, I authorize VTC staff to arrange emergency medical care for me. I understand that I am responsible for the cost of that care and that VTC does not carry health or accident insurance for volunteers. My own responsibility. I am volunteering by my own choice. I am physically able to do the work I take on, and I will tell VTC about any condition or limitation that affects what I am asked to do. If I am under 18, a parent or guardian must sign for me. This agreement covers my volunteer service with VTC until I withdraw it in writing.

Photo and media release — optional. VTC sometimes photographs, films, or records volunteers at work and at events, and uses those images in newsletters, printed materials, our website, social media, grant reports, and news coverage. We use them to show the mission; we never sell them. If I check the box below, I give VTC permission to use my name, image, likeness, and voice this way without payment, and I release VTC from claims related to that use. This is entirely optional — I can leave it unchecked and still volunteer, and I can ask VTC to stop using a particular image at any time by emailing info@vtcmonterey.org.