I've spent the last 3-4 hours struggling to find a great resource for technical project-based volunteering. I'm a future junior developer, who wants to get real-world experience in the time before starting my job search.

As fun as working on personal projects has been, it has been less fun than working on scoped projects with a team. So rather than shifting my direction to open source, I'm interested in a part time volunteer project.

The ideal experience would be:

• guided / overseen by an accountable organization
• scoped to a specific timeline, with mapped deliverables
• part time (5 - 10 hours per week)
• geared to a real-world social issue
• led by a senior developer (this is critical)
• in a dev team (3-10 people)
• mimic a dev workflow
• fullstack
• similar to the (now defunct) freecodecamp nonprofit projects

This list is deliberately project oriented. Though I am still studying and am weeks (if not months) from landing a full time position, I'd love to find a great project part time (5-10 hours per week).

Running list of resources I've applied to or checked out:

• Socialcoder
• BetaNYC
• Benetech
• Catchafire
• Codemontage
• UN Volunteers
• VolunteerMatch
• Electronic Frontier Foundation
• Chingu
• and many more

This will be in addition to my weekly self study, algo practice, meetups, hackathons, personal projects, etc. Working on a team project is an invaluable experience for any field.

In university, I always pursued competitive summer internships, while volunteering during the semester. So I'm hoping the same will be possible in tech.

Separately, this is a great resource for nonprofits who want to recruit great tech volunteer.