HandsOn New Orleans is a local affiliate of the Points of Light Global network, the worlds largest organization dedicated to volunteer service.  The mission of HandsOn New Orleans is to engage, empower, and transform our community through volunteer service. Since 2005, the organization has recruited over 125,000+ volunteers serving 723,380 hours with $29,000,000 in community impact savings through volunteer labor and supplies.

The organization achieves its mission with 200+ collaborative community partnerships and a suite of synergistic programs. HandsOn leverages its core strengths of volunteer engagement, design and execution of high-impact community revitalization projects, and disaster response services to strengthen families and transform neighborhoods primarily in the seven-parish metro area.

The organization envisions a socially just community with happy, healthy, prosperous people, and outcomes promote educational equity in the public school system, improve access to community services and resources, foster healthy lifestyles, sustain the natural and built environment, and assist residents on emergency preparedness, response, and recovery.