Opportunity Details
We invite AOL Chicago's team to take part in the uniquely Embarc Community Social. Community Socials are an incredibly powerful event that would allow the AOL team to exchange meaningful life stories with Embarc students. This 2-hour experience is completely facilitated by the Embarc team and drives home a deeper understanding of networking skills, social awareness, and self-worth. Participants will broaden their horizons and see the impact of their work without even leaving the AOL office. Check out this video to see a Community Social in action: https://vimeo.com/178218559. The goal is to bring students from Chicago Tech Academy High School - where AOL also supports Step Up Women's Network programming - to participate in this Community Social.The Community Social is a critical component to addressing Embarc’s simple theory of change: you can only become what you can see.
For many low-income high school students in Chicago, daily life revolves around the four- or five-block radius from their home and their school. Based on our understanding that your experiences make you who you are, consider the impact of this social isolation on students’ mindset about where they belong and what they can achieve. Sixteen- and 17-year-old students living just three miles away have never seen the lake or set foot in a downtown office building, been to a play, or visited a college campus. Students know more people in jail, shot or killed than they do with a college degree. Without access to diverse models of success, and lacking exposure to colleges, careers, arts, and culture, many students move through high school with limited ideas about their potential and what is possible in their own lives.
Embarc’s program design was conceived by teachers in one of the nation’s toughest high schools with an understanding of the profound effect this “opportunity gap”. They knew that if low-income students have more social and cultural exposure, life skills, career development, and models for success, they will build non-cognitive skills and achieve academically, achieve postsecondary success, and contribute to their communities and to our collective society. To create lasting change, this exposure must be systematic and long term. Rather than addressing the achievement gap by simply driving academic skills, Embarc innovatively aims to close the achievement gap by addressing non-cognitive skills, sparking a passion and perseverance for long-term goals, and teaching students the action steps it takes to achieve those goals.
Embarc pairs a three-year, fully-embedded, in-school curriculum with journey immersion, providing an average of 12 experiences and approximately 210 total hours of Embarc programming for each student each year from their sophomore through senior year of high school. Curriculum is implemented by carefully selected teachers within each school who receive comprehensive training in Embarc’s methodology, including more than 23 hours of professional development and more than 50 hours of instructional coaching each year.
Embarc collaborates with more than 200 community partners to provide experiential learning opportunities in the areas of team building, health and wellness, arts and culture, and college and career awareness. Experiences include: journeys to businesses, nonprofits, university partners, and cultural institutions; curated, school-based workshops by community partners; and this “speed networking” Community Socials with corporate partners. The design of Embarc’s program ensures that all experiences are coupled with a curriculum that supports growth and drives the goal of increasing academic achievement and achieving postsecondary and life success.
Embarc is unique in our program’s holistic impact on students, combining intense academic enrichment and postsecondary preparation resources with experiential opportunities that take students out of their school, break down the classroom walls, and turn the city into a classroom. Embarc believes that experiences should not be relegated to those who can attend afterschool programs or extracurricular activities, but rather that they should simply be part of the educational lexicon and fundamental to our theory of education just like math, science, or reading is. The impact of Embarc’s program - affirmed by experience, evaluation, and research - is to not only transform student outcomes in the short term but to - in the long term - inspire shifts in urban education policy and strengthen our collective social fabric.
While there are nonprofit organizations focused on high school graduation and college success for low-income, first generation Chicago students, Embarc is uniquely positioned as leading experience-based learning with wraparound student support and a scalable model. This results from our low cost structure, use of teachers to implement the program, and strategic use of existing resources, systems, and infrastructure. Embarc uses teachers to run its program in schools, allowing us to leverage already existing relationships and expertise, and capitalizing on a familiarity with how the building works and how to engage with the students and the administration. Each year, Embarc brings approximately $100,000 in much-needed resources to each of our partner schools.
Available Shifts
| Shift Name | Signup Max | Start | End |
|---|---|---|---|
| Community Social | 25 | n/a | n/a |
Opportunity Details
Sector67 teaches a variety of classes on tech, art, and entrepreneurship topics. We're always seeking new instructors to inspire our community.Available Shifts
| Shift Name | Signup Max | Start | End |
|---|---|---|---|
| Instructor | 5 | n/a | n/a |
| General | no limit | n/a | n/a |
Opportunity Details
Project Hawai'i, Inc., is seeking a volunteer who can help to set up the google account for the nonprofit to be more efficient for our organization. This would include setting up the fundraising platform, google calendar and email.Knowledge with the NONPROFIT section of Google is important. It is a bit tricker than the public format.
Our goal is to be active with the different opportunities that Google provides for nonprofit to assure we are utilizing all our outlets to help the homeless children.
This volunteer position will help our nonprofit to utilize more of our donation to directly benefit the homeless children and our programs. At this time we are wasting approximately $25-$30 per month on purchasing aps to stay connected with our donors and volunteers. While that might not seem like a lot, since we are run 100% by volunteers, and solely supported by public donations, that adds up and would make a difference in one child's life. For example it costs $35. a month for a food box for a child... almost as much as we are spending on aps.
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United Way of Northern New Jersey is seeking the assistance of area residents to sign up as volunteer tax preparers to help ALICE (Asset Limited, Income Constrained, Employed) and poverty-level households throughout the northern New Jersey region avoid the high cost of preparation fees during tax season. Despite working hard, ALICE workers struggle to afford life's basics.No experience required! A free training program provides all the information needed to prepare both federal and state tax returns and to become an IRS-certified tax prep volunteer. Training is offered both online and in person.
Serving as a volunteer tax preparer is a tangible way to give back to the community and help your fellow neighbors in need. During the last tax season, volunteers helped United Way and its partners file more than 5,600 tax returns across the region, saving ALICE households an estimated $1.5 million in tax preparation fees.
Along with becoming a volunteer tax preparer, there are other opportunities to get involved during tax season. Volunteers are also needed to:
Greet clients and assist with necessary paperwork
Provide translation services
Help residents find additional community services that may be available to them
Offer administrative support, such as scheduling and other office tasks
For more information or to volunteer, contact Monica.Conover@UnitedWayNNJ.org.
Opportunity Details
Volunteering with your team from work, an association or soical group is an excellent teambuilding activity and a great way to give back to the community. We can accommodate groups of up to 20 volunteers to help at our Donation Centre, sorting items for our Free Goods Referral Program and for our thrift stores which support WINS and the programs we run for women in need.If you are interested in setting up a group volunteer day, please email us at volunteer@winsyyc.ca or call 403-255-5102 ext. 260.
If you are interested in corporate sponsorship of a program, or wish to partner with us on an event please email Kevan at keldridge@winsyyc.ca or call 403-255-5102 ext. 260.
Opportunity Details
Northern Rangelands Trust supports 33 community owned and managed conservancies covering 44,000 sq km in Northern Kenya. These conservancies help conserve the environment and create a stable space for livelihood development. Tourism is a fantastic tool to help generate sustainable incomes for these conservancies. We are creating a Tourism Portal which helps link guests with tourism products and services while generating revenues for conservation
Opportunity Details
There are many ways to pitch in and help he Redwood Forest Foundation. Currently, we need dedicated individuals to help with planning and conducting events, eTapestry database management, fundraising, graphic design, photography and tree-planting. Volunteers can work remotely. If you have other talents that you would like to share with rffi please contact morgan@rffi.org.
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Every 2-3 weeks, the Art Centre Theatre tears out their old set and builds a new one. Set builds happen on Sundays from 6:00 pm to 10:00 pm. Set builds require old clothes you can get dirty and paint on and a willingness to work. Volunteers will paint, build, carry, wash, tear down and put together various construction, costume and prop projects. Since we do 72 shows a year this opportunity is available year-round. To see when the next build is, please email the theater -jamey@artcentretheatre.com OR if you look on our website, shows open on a Friday. The SUNDAY BEFORE that show's opening is that show's set build date. IE: In other words if a show opens on Friday OCT 7 - then Sunday Oct 2 would be that show's set build date.
Opportunity Details
Cherrywood Art Fair is an art-filled two-day event showcasing local artists, live music, kids activities and great food in a free, family-friendly environment. More than 8,000 visitors stroll through the fairgrounds looking at art, listening to beautiful music and sampling some of Austin’s finest food trailer cuisine. Since its 2002 inception, the Fair has served as a destination for discerning holiday shoppers seeking unique and artful items from Texas artists and makers.Proceeds benefit the Little Artist BIG ARTIST arts mentoring program that pairs East Austin elementary school students with professional artists.
We need volunteers of all ages and skill sets to put on our fantastic holiday event. Like to do hard work and heavy lifting? Sign-up for Set-up or Breakdown. Are you outgoing and enjoy talking to people? We’d love to have you on our Info & Guest Services or Artist Relief Crew. Organized and personable? You might enjoy our Silent Auction Crew.
Shifts are 2-4 hours long. Most opportunities take place Dec. 8-110, 2017, but there are a few pre-event positions, too. Here’s what you get out of the deal:
• Participation in an Austin holiday tradition
• Satisfaction of knowing you contributed your energy to support artists and arts education in your community
• Event production and nonprofit experience
• Opportunities for networking with people who do cool things
• Sweet treats and snacks from the Green Room
• An invitation to our annual volunteer party in January
• Access to the fair’s artists and makers, tasty food trucks and unique performances
• Loads of good vibes, thanks, and never-ending appreciation from CHULA League and Cherrywood Art Fair team!
Available Shifts
| Shift Name | Signup Max | Start | End |
|---|---|---|---|
| Artist Load In | 4 | n/a | n/a |
| Artist Load Out | 4 | n/a | n/a |
| Info & Guest Services | 4 | n/a | n/a |
| Info & Guest Services | 4 | n/a | n/a |
| Info & Guest Services | 4 | n/a | n/a |
| Info & Guest Services | 4 | n/a | n/a |
| Info & Guest Services | 4 | n/a | n/a |
| Info & Guest Services | 4 | n/a | n/a |
| Auction Closers | 5 | n/a | n/a |
| Auction Closers | 5 | n/a | n/a |
| Break Down | 20 | n/a | n/a |
| Auction Set Up and Runners | 5 | n/a | n/a |
| Auction Set Up and Runners | 5 | n/a | n/a |
