Volunteer Opportunities

URGENT NEED: Now seeking licensed optometrists
  • Spiritual Care Volunteers – Mercy Care is looking for compassionate and empathetic listeners with good communication skills. In addition, volunteers should be personable, professional, and able to be work well with others while being openly sensitive to cultural & religious diversity.
  • Meal kits – Mercy Care is currently needing donations for meal kits. Click here for information on how to build meal kits.

Contact Nicole Smith at nsmith2@mercyatlanta.org for more information about either of these important volunteer opportunities.

Volunteerism has been at the heart of Mercy Care since our very beginning in the 1980s and remains essential to our operations to this day. Whether you are a professional a student or a retiree, you have what it takes to bring hope and healing to our community.

For more information or to join this committed group, fill out the application below or contact our Volunteer Coordinator, Nicole Smith at NSmith2@mercyatlanta.org.

Volunteer Application

Medical Professionals

URGENT NEED: Now seeking licensed optometrists
As an eye care provider, you know how important sight is for daily life and well-being. Since 1985, Mercy Care has been a healing presence for those with and without health insurance, little or no income and those experiencing homelessness. Join us and help provide exceptional care to those most in need. 

Licensed medical providers
Calling all physicians, dentists, RNs and mental health specialists! When you serve with one of Mercy Care’s many programs today, you make an inestimable contribution while expanding your professional skills through a diverse patient population and environment. You’ll work alongside a staff that is equally compassionate and professional.
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Street Medicine
Primary Care and psychiatric professionals offer healthcare to the unsheltered homeless.
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Group Opportunities

Click here to learn about group volunteer opportunities.

Other Opportunities

Everyone has a gift to share. Here are just some ideas for how you could put your talents to work!

  • Make healthy meal kits. (essential need at this time)
  • Donate cloth masks. (essential need at this time)
  • Work alongside physicians as a medical scribe. (essential need at this time)
  • Support staff and patients behind-the-scenes.
  • Welcome patients to our clinics.
  • Translate for Spanish-speaking patients (certified medical translators preferable).
  • Tell our story through writing, photography or videography.
  • Teach health education and fitness classes.
  • Provide therapy through art or music.
  • Mentor or tutor life skills.
  • Fundraise and plan events with Mercy Care Foundation.

We appreciate each and every one of our volunteers throughout the years who have given their time and talents so selflessly to our patients and operations.