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Every Tuesday, from 6pm to 8pm, volunteers gather at the Austin Creative Reuse Center for planned activities. Volunteers may help sort donations such as pens, beads or other items in preparation for the sales floor. Families with children ages 10+ are welcome to volunteer together with 2 children per adult, please.

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Voluntários para aula de artesanato, dança, trabalhos manuais e orientação nos estudos

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Shift Name	Signup Max	Start	End
General	3	n/a	n/a

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We have 4 intern positions per semester ( and summer) focussing on social media, business development, office coordination and event planning.
Please send your application/resume to info@wellawareworld.org

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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

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Meal teams cook a full, nutritious dinner for Teen Feed’s young people! Meal teams either cook food off-site (work, home) and drop dinner off at our service sites or cook in our kitchens (max ~10 people). A handful of team members can also bake off-site and drop-off dessert, for the rest of the team to serve day-of. A perfect opportunity for groups and a fun way for your workplace to make a difference! Reach out to talk about scheduling and next steps. Log your volunteer hours here on Benevity!
Forward and share. www.teenfeed.org/volunteer

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Cold Case Research
Tip Process Missing Persons
National Conference for Missing Persons
Search and Recovery Teams
Fundraising Committee

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Over 450 volunteers make Fiesta Arts Fair possible each year. Shifts are three hours long and volunteer opportunities include the Young Artist's Garden, Artist Relief, Water/Soda Booths, and more!

For information about Fiesta Arts Fair, please visit https://www.swschool.org/fiestaartsfair

You can also sign up directly as a volunteer, at https://goo.gl/forms/ZyiY2JE0INrkjnaE3 or by completing the information below.

Available Shifts

Shift Name	Signup Max	Start	End
Young Artist Garden	5	n/a	n/a
Surveys	3	n/a	n/a
Young Artist Garden	6	n/a	n/a

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A fantastic 3.5 hour team building experience, cooking in our commercial kitchen under the supervision of our professional chef. Learn some valuable cooking skills while preparing up to 500 healthy meals for distribution to low income families through our food bank. You will also receive a tour of our facility and learn about the work we do to fight hunger in Mississauga. Please contact info@edenffc.org to inquire about availability. We can accommodate 10-30 participants in one class, for a donation of $75.00 per participant, with a minimum total donation of $750.00 for 10 participants or fewer.

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Cuisine & Cuvée, presented by The Co-operators, has earned a reputation as one of Toronto’s best parties by featuring the latest in culinary trends at 30 gourmet food and beverage stations. Guests at Cuisine & Cuvée can expect beautifully presented tasty morsels prepared by the top chefs in the city. Whether your particular delight is the lip-smacking smokiness of ribs, the bright flavours of tropical fruit smoothies, or the refined tastes of some of Italy’s finest imports such as olives, cheeses and tapenades, you’ll get to experience food at its finest. The smorgasbord of savory and sweet is accompanied by sommelier-selected wines and beers along with modern twists on traditional cocktails.

At Providence Healthcare, we greatly value the time and professional expertise that our corporate partners can provide to our patients, residents, clients and event donors. Our goal is to forge lasting and impactful partnerships with our donors and supporters to a mutually beneficial experience where donors have more meaningful engagement with our work, in both Providence Healthcare and the Foundation’s fundraising activities.That’s where the work of our volunteers makes a difference in the lives of so many of the people in our care.

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Shift Name	Signup Max	Start	End
Event	40	n/a	n/a

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Race4Respect™ is the only 5K and 1K Kids Dash in the nation’s capital dedicated to Down syndrome awareness. The 5K is a UASTF timed race is a finalist for the RUNWASHINGTON Best 5K for 2017! Strollers,wheel chairs and walkers are welcome, Race4Respect™ is a family friendly event!

Volunteer opportunities include water stop, registration, finish line support and race marshals.

Available Shifts

Shift Name	Signup Max	Start	End
On Site Registration	12	n/a	n/a
Water Stop	10	n/a	n/a
Finish Line	10	n/a	n/a
Race Marshal	no limit	n/a	n/a