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Although the health benefits of volunteering among older adults were well established in gerontological research, older migrants' abilities and interests in social participation have hardly been recognized. To address this gap, a convergent mixed-method design was used to understand the volunteering experiences, social networks, and feelings of loneliness among low-income Russian, Khmer, Somali, Nepali, and English-speaking older volunteers in the Senior Companions Program (SCP) in Columbus, Ohio (N= 41). The first aim of the study was to identify the social network structures among the SCP volunteers. The second aim was to understand how the social network contributed to volunteers' experiences with loneliness. Data were collected through focus groups and surveys during the SCP monthly in-service training in October 2022. A grounded theory approach informed the qualitative analysis. Five major …