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Sometimes it can be helping do the grocery shopping or preparing meals. Other times it's help getting to and from cancer treatments. Whatever it is, there's LotsaHelpingHands.com, a site dedicated to setting those individuals up with volunteers willing to offer their time to them.

Their mission states they seek “to provide the communication resources facilitating a world where caregivers feel empowered to ask for help, and in so doing, improve their own health and quality-of-life; volunteers can become part of the solution when family, friends, neighbors or colleagues are in need of help, and community becomes a recognized way to find meaning in both giving and receiving."

The coordinator is usually a close friend or family member of the person in need. They can then invite members into that community, who can volunteer for specific activities. Using the program requires no special training. Volunteers can easily sign up and review their commitments, which they will be automatically sent email reminders for.

Community members can also log in to private message boards, photo galleries, other pertinent links and documents. They may also write on a Well Wishes wall. The Lotsa Helping Hands website is free of charge to use.

Each community in the Lotsa Helping Hands website has its own private membership list. In order to volunteer for a community in which you know a member, you must talk with that coordinator and ask them to send you a "tell-a-friend" link. Using that link, you can then request membership into that particular community. There is currently no way to volunteer for a community in which you don't know a member of.