Your time is worth just as much as your dollar.
Help the foundation directly, or help a partner program near you. Either way, real Texas kids get more of the adults they need.
Wherever you'd rather help, there's a place for you.
With the Foundation
Events and fundraisers, community outreach, and behind-the-scenes admin — the work that keeps applications moving and scholarships funded.
With a Partner Program
Coaching, mentoring, and hands-on help with the teams, troops, and programs kids are already in. Partner programs run their own volunteer screening — where a role involves youth, background checks apply.
An hour of your profession goes a long way.
Accountants, designers, tradespeople, lawyers — a foundation this size runs on donated expertise as much as donated time. If your work has a skill in it, we probably have a use for an hour of it.
Count Me In
Tell us a bit about yourself and where you'd like to help — we'll reach out within a week to find the right fit.
- Collects: contact details, city, where they want to help (foundation vs partner program vs either), interest areas, and availability.
- On submit: reply within a week matching them to something nearby; roles involving youth route through the partner program's own screening and background checks.
- Mockup note: a skills-based checkbox feeds a separate "professional bench" list the foundation can call on.
Mockup notes — what this page fixes (Kobold site audit, May 2026)
Fixed here: this is an entirely new door — no volunteer pathway existed on the live site at all. The page is deliberately plain about the two paths (foundation vs. partner program) and states background-check requirements up front rather than leaving them as a surprise later in a screening process. Skills-based volunteering gets its own short section since a foundation this size leans on donated expertise as much as donated hours.
Intended SEO: title "Volunteer With The Next Generation Foundation — Texas Youth Programs"; description "Help directly with foundation events and admin, or volunteer hands-on with a partner program near you. Skills-based volunteering welcome."