Month of Service

2026 Iowa CPAs Month of Service

Unite with CPAs, accounting professionals, co-workers and accounting students for the annual Iowa CPAs Month of Service to make a positive impact in your local community this September. Since its launch in 2015, the profession-wide community service event has logged well over 10,000 volunteer hours on projects impacting over 100 organizations in Iowa. The event helps raise awareness of the CPA profession’s influence in communities across the state each September.

Sign up to participate

Aug. 10 is registration deadline to receive a volunteer t-shirt.

Individuals: Register here
Teams: Have your firm administrator login and register your team here, or complete and submit the team registration form.

Deadline for registrations for those wanting volunteer t-shirts is Aug. 10. Registration remains open through Sept. 15 without t-shirt.

Who can participate?

ISCPA members, co-workers and student members are encouraged to participate individually or as a team. Volunteer for a community or charitable cause of your choice for a day or a few hours — any activity that benefits your community counts!

Sponsor the event

Deadline to sponsor is Aug. 3.

For only $600 you or your business can be a Champion level sponsor with your name or logo on the event t-shirts and other benefits. Complete this form. Three sponsorship levels are available. Hurry! Month of Service sponsorship submission deadline is Aug. 3.

Share your service!

Take pictures and videos of your volunteer projects or activities while wearing your event t-shirt and share with us! Email your files to iacpa@iacpa.org and then post to social platforms like Facebook, LinkedIn or Instagram using hashtag #IowaCPAsVol26. Be sure to tag us! Find all of our social media links in the footer of this web page.

IMPORTANT! Report your volunteer activities by Oct. 30

Report your service hours here: 2025 MOS Reporting.
Share information about your volunteer activity. Complete the Month of Service reporting to help us tabulate total service hours and impact from this year's event.

Want to volunteer and looking for a project?

Check out the Volunteer Ideas section below. We have ideas for individuals looking for organizations to contact for service opportunities.

2026 focus is on youth mentoring

Help support ISCPA's 2026 Month of Service spotlight on mentoring youth. There are so many opportunities to share your gifts with young community members. Maybe your passion is to:

Inspire high school students to explore the accounting profession
Commit to becoming someone's big brother or big sister
Improve a student's success in school by becoming a weekly reading program partner
Help youth build life skills
Share your leadership skills

Some resources for volunteers and donations:

Volunteer Iowa MENTOR: https://volunteer.iowa.gov/iowa-mentor (This site also includes locations and links of Big Brothers Big Sisters across Iowa)
Boys & Girls Clubs of America (search for clubs by zip code): https://www.bgca.org/
Boys & Girls Clubs of Central Iowa: https://www.bgcci.org/
Big Brothers Big Sisters of America: https://www.bbbs.org/
Everybody Wins! Iowa (read with a child program): https://everybodywinsiowa.org/
New Opportunities Mentoring Programs (Audubon, Carroll, Sac, Greene and Guthrie Counties): https://www.newopp.org/services/prevention/mentoring-program
Helping Services youth mentoring (Allamakee, Clayton, Delaware, Southern Fayette, Howard, and Winneshiek Counties): https://www.helpingservices.org/services/youth-mentoring/

Find more volunteer ideas in the "Volunteer ideas" section below that go well beyond food insecurity/food bank activities.

Questions?

Contact Kim Ripley at kripley@iacpa.org or Tyler Strachan at tstrachan@iacpa.org or call 800-659-6375.

Volunteer ideas - click to expand

Looking for volunteer ideas?

Here are some great resources for volunteer opportunities around Iowa:

September is also Hunger Action Month and you can support the Iowa Food Bank Association, which serves children, adults and seniors in all of Iowa’s 99 counties. Simply locate the food bank in your part of the state and find a volunteer opportunity that’s right for you or your team. Questions? Contact your local food bank.

Other opportunities

Host a charity drive at your business or visit VolunteerMatch to find something in your part of the state. Looking for remote options? Here are some websites with virtual or remote volunteering ideas and options:

Points of Light
Idealist
VolunteerMatch
MENTOR and iCouldBe.org have partnered to create a Virtual Mentoring Portal. This online tool is one way to connect with young people while maintaining social distancing guidelines.

Looking for ideas to volunteer outdoors? Here are some organizations that offer opportunities or links. Anything from helping harvest food (see links above) to restoring benches, planting trees or improving prairies at state parks:

State park volunteers
Iowa National Heritage Foundation - individual based activities
Polk County Conservation - contact for individual or small group projects
Hartman Reserve Nature Center (Cedar Valley area)