Volunteer Opportunities

The Los Angeles Department of Animal Regulation needs volunteers to help care for animals at its six city-run Animal Care and Control Centers. Volunteers are needed to work three hours a week feeding and grooming animals, walking dogs, answering questions from the public and cleaning cages.

According to Beck Day-Swain, director of the department’s volunteer program, volunteers can help reduce the number of animals and cut down on euthanasia by helping reunite owners with lost pets and encouraging callers to adopt pets.

Volunteer information meetings will be held this month at all six centers, including those in the East and West Valley. For information, call Day-Swain at (213) 485-8542.

Heal the Bay, the Santa Monica-based environmental organization, needs volunteers to help restore the Point Dume Nature Preserve in Malibu. Volunteers are also needed for International Coastal Cleanup Day on Sept. 21, when thousands of pounds of trash will be picked up at 45 sites along the Los Angeles County coastline.

A volunteer orientation program will be held at 7 p.m. Monday at the Heal the Bay office, 2701 Ocean Park Blvd., Suite 150, Santa Monica. For information, call (800) HEAL-BAY.

A national network of volunteers called doingsomething, geared toward matching busy professionals with short-term volunteering opportunities, is looking for volunteers. The group works with a wide variety of volunteer agencies. For information, call the doingsomething hotline at (310) 391-3907.