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Opportunities to Invest Your Time to Support StudentsGive Back. Lift Up. Make a Difference.
As an alum or friend of San Antonio ISD, you have the power to make a lasting impact on today’s students and our newest alumni. By sharing your time, skills, and experience, you can help shape a brighter future for the next generation.
We offer a variety of volunteer opportunities that fit your interests, talents, and availability—from mentoring and speaking engagements to hands-on support at events or in classrooms. Want to make an even bigger impact? Bring a group and volunteer together!
Your involvement—big or small—helps inspire confidence, build connections, and open doors for SAISD students. Join us!
Inspired?Here's how YOU can get involved.
Book Buddies
(Saturdays & Weekday School Visits)
Book Buddies is a program of the SAISD Foundation that provides tens of thousands of free children’s books to students in San Antonio ISD schools. Through Book Buddies, volunteers sort through books by grade level, assess the condition of the books, clean them, and load them on the Book Buddies Bus to be distributed to San Antonio ISD students. Our goal is to provide six books for each student who visits the Book Buddies Bus during a school visit. The initiative aims to foster a joy for reading by having students choose their books to bring home.
Book Buddies is located off Hwy. 90 in Port SA and sorting sessions take place every Saturday from 9:30 am – 12 pm.
School visits take place during the week, and hours vary by visit.
STEM Bus
Inspire the Next Generation of STEM Leaders!
Help students explore exciting gateway activities leading to STEM careers by volunteering with our Voyager and Pathfinder STEM Buses. Support hands-on learning in areas like flight, robotics, and advanced manufacturing—either during the school day or after school (2-hour shifts or more). Or get involved with our esports and CyberPatriot programs aboard the Pathfinder Bus. Prefer to share your professional journey? Speak virtually or in person about your STEM career and spark curiosity in the innovators of tomorrow!
Garden Stewards volunteer to support one or more SAISD schools by providing regular maintenance and improvements such as weeding, trimming, filling empty spots with new plants, dividing perennials, and transplanting plants. Stewards are asked to visit the garden weekly to weed, water, and remove trash as needed throughout the garden season. If the steward will be away for part of the season, the steward can ask a friend or another Garden Steward to help during that time or check with the volunteer coordinator. Many of the locations are easy-to-care-for gardens of 3-6 raised beds, needing just some pruning, weeding, watering, and a love for seeing things grow.
(Recruitment in spring annually)
The SAISD Foundation is looking for community virtual volunteers to help review scholarship applications from our incredible SAISD seniors! Each year, we award over 200 scholarships to students pursuing their dreams in college and career training. Your perspective and insights can make a difference in helping select deserving students for these life-changing opportunities. Volunteers will read and score applications online at your convenience.
Are you a proud graduate of an SAISD public school? Did you begin your educational foundation in San Antonio ISD? You’re invited to give back in a way that transforms lives! Attend learning expeditions – a combination of learning and networking on or near SAISD campuses in blocks of time during the day to engage with fellow alumni, learn about current issues affecting SAISD students, and discover ways to support their career aspirations.