Since the founding of Zen Caregiving Project, our volunteer caregiving program in San Francisco has been the heart of the organization offering volunteer opportunities in palliative, hospice, and chronic care settings. We offer a variety of ways volunteers can become involved in the city, and we welcome you to consider how you can serve.

Our volunteer program emphasizes a mindful, human-centered approach in which the spiritual and emotional needs of those we care for are primary.

We train volunteers once or twice during the year depending on need. Our next application period will open in December 2025. We require a minimum of one year of service for five hours, one day per week. Shift assignments remain the same day and time each week. 

Applicants accepted into our program will undergo an initial 40-hour training over a 10-day period of time once they are accepted into the program.