How to Volunteer for Thanksgiving 2025 in SF
Take a moment and give back to the community this Thanksgiving.
Read on below for organizations across San Francisco and the Bay Area in need of volunteers to help spread food and warmth to those less fortunate.
Know of another volunteering opportunity for Thanksgiving 2025? Let us know.
San Francisco City Impact’s Thanksgiving Day Outreach 2025
San Francisco City Impact is reaching out to the Tenderloin community. Join us in the heart of the Tenderloin as we serve our neighbors through hot meals, toy distribution, clothing giveaways, and more. If this date doesn’t work, there are 5 special holiday outreach events.
Thursday, November 27, 2025 | 8 am to 2 pm | 144 Taylor Street, San Francisco
RSVP online. A $25 registration fee is required. The cost to volunteer helps to cover the outreach supplies, equipment, food, and any permits for the event.
– Confirmed as of 11/3/2025
SF-Marin Food Bank 2025
SF-Marin Food Bank distributes over 1 million meals every week. Make a hands-on difference by volunteering in the warehouse or in the community. Learn more about volunteer opportunities . – Confirmed as of 11/3/2025
San Francisco Glide Thanksgiving Meals 2025
Put on your apron and come to GLIDE to help chop, dice, mix and slice in preparation for their Annual Thanksgiving Day lunch and come serve nearly 2,500 complete Thanksgiving meals with all the fixings to individuals and families (both onsite and throughout the city). Volunteers are likely needed to deliver home meals as well.
Thursday, November 27, 2025 | Various shifts | 330 Ellis St., San Francisco
Starting November 1, you can sign up for Holiday Volunteer Opportunities. If you don’t get one, don’t worry spots open often as plans change, so keep refreshing the calendar or join the wait list. If their volunteer needs on a particular holiday have already been met, please consider supporting GLIDE through a donation or by volunteering on another day. – Confirmed as of 11/3/25Project Open Hand 2025 – San Francisco
Join Project Open Hand this Thanksgiving in providing meals with love to our sick and elderly neighbors. During the week of Thanksgiving, volunteers will help assemble and prepare medically-tailored meals and sort and package groceries.
730 Polk St., San Francisco
RSVP to volunteer – Confirmed as of 11/3/2025Salvation Army Thanksgiving Meal Deliveries 2025 – San Francisco
Help deliver Thanksgiving Day meals to 4,000 homebound seniors and disabled individuals. Volunteers positions available: Greeters, Check-in, Traffic Control, Load-in, and Deliveries. Drivers must provide their own vehicle and bring along at least one passenger.
Thursday, November 27, 2025 | Shifts from 6 am to 12:15 pm | The Salvation Army Culinary Training Academy, 155 Clara Street, San Francisco, CA
RSVP is required – Confirmed as of 11/3/2025
Little Brothers: Friends of the Elderly 2025
Make a difference in an elder’s day and volunteer to bring some joy to LBFE’s older adults. Thanksgiving volunteer opportunities include delivering Thanksgiving meals and in-person visits. Family and friends are welcome to join so long as one person in the group has completed a background check. Full details will follow in a confirmation email. Read more.
Thursday, November 27, 2025 | Thanksgiving Meal Pickup in Downtown San Francisco
RSVP is required. – Confirmed as of 11/3/2025Martin de Porres House of Hospitality
Volunteers are invited to take part in a beloved Thanksgiving Day meal service, coming together as a community to serve guests a nutritious meal and delicious pies. Depending on preferences and current needs, tasks may include serving food, washing dishes, or preparing the meal.
Thursday, November 27, 2025 | 9:30 am-2:30 pm | 225 Potrero Ave, San Francisco, CA
RSVP is required. – Confirmed as of 11/3/2025On Lok 30th Street Senior Center
Spread some Thanksgiving cheer by helping serve a holiday meal to seniors.
Thursday, November 27, 2025 | 9:30 am to 11:30am or 11:30am to 1:30pm | 225 30th Street, San Francisco, CA
RSVP is required. – Confirmed as of 11/3/2025
Meals on Wheels’ Thanksgiving Day Card Marking 2025
For 2025, we’re not sure if Meals on Wheels is hosting their traditional Thanksgiving meal delivery volunteer opportunity this year (you may have to make a longer commitment to volunteer for meal delivery with Meals on Wheels), but you can still make a meaningful impact by participating in Thanksgiving Day holiday card making. Help bring a smile to a senior’s face (and yours too) by making handmade Thanksgiving cards. In past years, 4,500 handmade cards have been delivered to homebound seniors.
– Confirmed as of 11/3/2025
SF SPCA Holiday Windows at Macy’s 2025 – Volunteer Positions Unconfirmed for 2025 (last checked 11/3/25)
Every winter, adorable and adoptable puppies and kittens take over the windows of Macy’s Union Square. The 2025 Holiday Windows return November 21–December 31, 2025. In past years, SF SPCA volunteers have helped spread holiday cheer at the annual holiday SPCA pop-up adoption center at the Macy’s Holiday Windows at Union Square. The adoption center is open Wednesday – Sunday through the holiday season, except on Thanksgiving and Christmas day. It’s unclear if SF SPCA is accepting volunteers for the Holiday Windows in 2025. These volunteer positions often book up quickly. We’ve reached out to SF SPCA for 2025 updates on volunteering.
Gobble Gobble Give
Gobble Gobble Give delivers food, clothing and toiletries to the homeless in eighteen cities across the country on Thanksgiving morning. Bring a warm dish and join volunteers to walk the streets to hand out care packages to unhoused individuals and families including second-hand warm clothing and hygiene supplies. This used to be hosted at Slim’s, but after the venue closed, this event went dark for a few years. Thankfully, in 2024, Gobble Gobble Give returned to San Francisco. Here’s what happened in 2024: “A group of people get together on Thanksgiving Morning, bring a hot dish and put the meals together with second-hand warm clothing and hygiene supplies and take the meals to the streets of SF. Meeting in the Mission district this year.” It’s not confirmed for 2025 yet, but keep an eye on their Facebook page for updates. – last checked 11/3/25
