Help shouldn’t be hard to find.
DoGoodHub is a free, nonprofit discovery platform for the people who give help and the people who need it. One place to look — kept fresh, searchable, and built to last.
The discovery problem
Free clinics, food pantries, volunteer roles, pro bono attorneys — they exist. The hard part is finding them. Information is scattered across hundreds of small sites that go stale fast.
What we do
We crawl the trustworthy sources, structure what we find, and keep it fresh. Each topic — each ‘vertical’ — is its own focused tool, so you’re never lost in a sea of unrelated listings.
Why it’s free
DoGoodHub is a philanthropic project. No ads, no paywalls, no selling your data. The goal is to make the help that already exists actually reachable.
Find what you’re looking for
Each vertical is a focused search experience for one kind of need. Pick the one that fits.
Volunteer Match
Find a place to help.
Discover volunteer opportunities at nonprofits in your area — sorted by what you care about, kept fresh so listings aren't stale.
OpenCommunity Resources
Find help when you need it.
Food pantries, free clinics, shelters, and legal aid — searchable by location, with current hours and eligibility.
OpenPro Bono Clinics
Free and low-cost legal help.
Pro bono attorneys and free legal clinics — filterable by case type, languages spoken, and who they serve.
OpenComing soon
Event Venues
SoonSpaces for community gatherings.
Affordable and donated venues for nonprofit events, community meetings, and grassroots organizing.
Local Events
SoonWhat's happening near you.
Civic events, town halls, community fairs, and volunteer days — pulled from local sources and kept current.
Affordable Housing
SoonA roof you can keep.
Income-qualified housing, rental assistance programs, and emergency shelter — with up-to-date availability.
Real listings. Kept fresh. Updated daily.
These numbers are pulled live from our database. They reflect only the verticals currently live; we’ll add the others as they come online.
The mission
A 4 a.m. parent searching for a free clinic. A laid-off worker looking for legal advice. A retiree with time to give and no idea where to give it. The help they need exists. They just can’t find it.
The information is real, but it lives in PDFs and forgotten directories and websites last updated in 2019. So people give up. Or they don’t look at all.
DoGoodHub is built to close that gap — not by becoming another place to list things, but by being the place where the right listing actually surfaces. We do the boring work of keeping data fresh so the people who need it don’t have to.
Who we are
DoGoodHub started as a high school junior’s side project. I wanted to volunteer somewhere local, opened a browser, and hit the same wall everyone hits — listings buried five clicks deep, dead links, contact pages from 2018, and no real way to tell which opportunities were still active.
So I built Volunteer Match — one focused tool that pulls from real nonprofit sites, keeps the data fresh, and lets you actually find a place to show up.
Once it worked, the same broken-discovery pattern was everywhere: free clinics nobody could find, pro bono attorneys hidden behind PDFs, food pantries with phone numbers that hadn’t been updated in years. So DoGoodHub grew. Each new vertical solves the same problem in a different corner of civic life — built one at a time, kept current, and free for anyone who needs them.
It’s still a small operation. That’s on purpose. Small means honest, means fast, means we can keep promising that the listings you see are listings that actually work.