How To Get Involved

The Carter Center Volunteer Program


Carter Center volunteers are the heart of the Center, providing professional skills, time, energies, and personal commitment to waging peace, fighting disease, and building hope.

Volunteers serve at The Carter Center in three main areas:

• Most volunteers work one day per week during business hours on a regular year-round basis. Opportunities include clerical support such as mailings, copying, filing, answering telephones, faxing, computer work, and basic research.  Trained tour guides conduct a limited number of private tours of the Center's offices by appointment.  Tours are available for business or personal guests of Carter Center employees but not to the general public.  Volunteers also participate in the speakers' bureau for community groups.
  
• Special Events volunteers work in the evenings and on weekends, assisting with meetings, lectures, and parties, as scheduled by the Events Office.  These volunteers provide our guests with a welcoming atmosphere, information, directions within the facility, and any assistance to help events run smoothly. 
  
• The third group of volunteers works in the Center's gardens, assisting our small landscape crew in maintaining approximately 35 acres of gardens.  This work is done during weekdays or on the third Saturday morning of each month.  Work in the gardens may include deadheading and pruning the rose garden;  mulching the gardens and bark paths;  planting flowers, tulip bulbs, and shrubbery;  pulling weeds and detailing;  prepping flower beds;  dividing daylilies and daffodils; and detailing of the Japanese Garden.