How to Find a Hunger & Homelessness Awareness Week Event Near You and Volunteer

Hunger & Homelessness Awareness Week (hhweek.org) is an annual program held at more than 700 locations, where participating groups run educational, service, fundraising, and advocacy events. To find one near you and volunteer, go to hhweek.org, use the Volunteer section to search for an Awareness Week in your area, then use Find An Event to see what's happening and how to get involved.

Start With the Two Entry Points on hhweek.org

The site organizes participation around a few clear actions: Host An Event, Volunteer, and Get the Facts. For someone who wants to join rather than organize, the relevant paths are:

• Volunteer — described on the site as the place to "search for an Awareness Week near you and find out how to get involved."
• Find An Event — the follow-up step to see specific events and participation options.

Both sit under the site's broader call to "Volunteer. Donate. Educate."

Step-by-Step: From Search to Signing Up

1. Go to hhweek.org. The homepage presents the main actions, including Volunteer and Find An Event.
2. Open the Volunteer section. This is where you search for an Awareness Week near you. The site frames this as the way to "find out how to get involved."
3. Search by your location. Because the program is held at more than 700 locations, searching locally is the intended way to surface nearby activity rather than browsing a single national list.
4. Use Find An Event to see specifics. Once you've located an Awareness Week near you, this entry point shows the events tied to it.
5. Check how to participate. Events during the week typically fall into educational, service, fundraising, and advocacy categories — so the volunteer role you want may depend on which type of event a local group is running.
6. Contact the local organizer if details are unclear. The site points you to local Awareness Weeks; the individual group hosting one is the source for shift times, sign-up forms, and requirements.

Expected result: you should end up with a specific local Awareness Week, a list of its events, and a route to volunteer through the hosting group.

What to Expect Once You Find a Local Event

Participating groups "spend the week holding a series of educational, service, fundraising, and advocacy events." That means the volunteer options near you can look quite different from one location to the next:

The program reports that millions of dollars have been raised for local service providers and that hundreds of thousands of participants take part — so local opportunities are usually plentiful rather than limited to one big event.

Common Snags and How to Work Around Them

• Nothing shows up for your exact town. The program spans 700+ locations, but coverage isn't everywhere. Try nearby cities or the wider metro area before concluding there's nothing close.
• You find an event but no obvious sign-up button. The site routes you to local Awareness Weeks; the hosting group manages its own volunteers. Look for that group's contact or event page.
• You're not sure whether to volunteer or host. If you want to take part in something already happening, stay on the Volunteer / Find An Event path. If nothing exists near you, the Host An Event path — "Bring Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week to your community. Register Your Event" — is the alternative.
• You want background before committing. The Get the Facts section ("Find out how you can help end hunger and homelessness") is the site's own starting point for understanding the issue.

Quick Reference

• Find a local event: hhweek.org → Volunteer → search for an Awareness Week near you → Find An Event.
• Scale: more than 700 locations; hundreds of thousands of participants.
• Origin: founded in 1975 at Villanova University.
• If there's nothing nearby: use Host An Event to register your own.