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“This school has been amazing. The supportive teachers and personalized attention have helped me excel academically and personally. I feel confident and well-prepared for the future.”

Jack M.

Tackle to-do item #10 while shaping longterm volunteer relationships.

We recruit, nurture, and engage student volunteers for local nonprofits to facilitate impactful longterm volunteering relationships for nonprofits and researchers.

1,500+ Volunteer Matches

We've supported over 45K students for the past 6 years. We love what we do.

Impact Beyond Hours for Free

We help with volunteer training to ensure volunteers have an impact beyond hours. Completely free for nonprofits.

Active Engagement

Recruitment is one thing, retention is another. Othea helps nonprofits end to end.

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For Schools: Get Matched

Our Mission

Your next volunteer champion awaits. Let us find them.

The volunteer landscape is changing, and nonprofits are feeling the squeeze.

The best nonprofits are local, run by small passionate teams. We help organizations that don't have the recruiting infrastructure for the power teams they need.

Despite 51-year highs of students’ reported desires to engage in their community, volunteering has declined rapidly since the early 2000s, as found by the University of Maryland’s School of Public Policy in “Good Intentions, Gap Action.”

Traditional methods are failing. Let's save community engagement together.

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How We Work

Partnership with Othea at a Glance

Here's how Othea works, step by step.

1. Send us a project brief or hop on a 15 minute call to walk us through your needs. Past projects look like - social media rebrand, end-of-year video project, or cold emailing stakeholders.
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2. We work with our network of schools in your zip code.
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3. We turn your brief into step-by-step trainings and send you the top student volunteers.
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4. The volunteer completes their first project and begins working with your organization longterm.

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Our Methodology

The Impact Paradox: Short Term leads to Long Term

You have to give people a win. That's why Othea facilitates longterm volunteer relationships through an initial impactful project.

Doing so empowers the volunteer and helps the nonprofit keep moving.

The best part? We're doing this for free for nonprofits.

Othea makes money with our corporate responsibility partners, educational institutions, and research labs.

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