Opportunity Details

Project Renewal’s Next Step Employment Program prepares clients with his for careers in the homeless services field through classroom training, professional internships, and opportunities to earn industry-recognized credentials. Many of the students have experienced homelessness themselves, so they are uniquely qualified to help and inspire they shelter residents they serve.

Colgate volunteers can support program participants by holding mock interviews for men and women preparing for upcoming job interviews. Project Renewal will provide recommended questions and sample job descriptions. Each volunteer will be assigned to 1-3 interns to work with based upon participation.

Available Shifts

Shift Name	Signup Max	Start	End
Mock Interviews	20	n/a	n/a

Opportunity Details

Thanksgiving is truly a time for everyone to pause and give thanks for the gifts in their life. At Project Renewal we strive to make every New Yorker, especially those in our life-transforming programs in health, homes and jobs, have a Thanksgiving that is special and personal.

Join Colgate colleagues to make Thanksgiving holiday cards for New Yorkers experiencing homelessness and working to renew their lives.

Cards, accompanying a full Thanksgiving dinner, are distributed to hundreds of clients at Project Renewal, as well as partner organizations. Cards accompanying these meals can help make this special delivery a personalized and unique experience for New Yorkers in need.

Thanksgiving is also the busiest time at Project Renewal, and cards for the homeless community in NYC that we will be feeding over the holiday will be appreciated by everyone.

Available Shifts

Shift Name	Signup Max	Start	End
General	no limit	n/a	n/a

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Riverfront Recapture's mission is to connect people with the Connecticut River. Access is through Riverfront's four parks along both banks of the Connecticut River in Hartford and East Hartford. Volunteer support in our parks is essential to keeping the parks beautiful and well-maintained. Projects range from weeding, mulching, planting, trimming, sweeping, painting, and more. The specific projects for September 15 will be selected approximately one week prior to the project date.

Available Shifts

Shift Name	Signup Max	Start	End
Riverfront Recapture - Morning!	25	n/a	n/a

Opportunity Details

Together Center (TC) is a nonprofit human services hub serving the Greater Eastside for over 30 years. The 20+ nonprofit providers located at TC’s campus in Downtown Redmond help 30,000+ people each year via an innovative model that benefits both residents seeking services and the dedicated nonprofits who serve them.

TC is under construction on a landmark project in Downtown Redmond that rebuilds and expands our nonprofit human services hub and adds 280 units of family-focused affordable housing.

As a small nonprofit with a staff of 3 and no marketing department, Together Center is seeking volunteers to help organically spread the word about this innovative model – one of the Eastside’s best kept nonprofit secrets - and the bold redevelopment project now under construction.

Volunteers are asked to come for 1 hour. The first 50 minutes will be an opportunity to learn about TC, the new campus, and view the construction site. The last 10 minutes will be a live promotion period. If volunteers are impressed, they can use the final 10 minutes to post about TC on social media and LinkedIn and/or invite their friends and colleagues to come learn more.

By serving as a mouthpiece for Together Center during this exciting time, volunteers can positively impact the Greater Eastside for years to come by helping make the community aware of TC’s work to reduce health and social disparities and offer wrap-around services for vulnerable populations by uniting nonprofit providers and reducing barriers to service access.

Thanks for considering helping Together Center raise its public profile and visibility via this atypical but valuable and informative volunteer experience!

Opportunity Details

We are looking for a volunteer to support Goodwill Industries International (“GII”), the international federation headquarters for the 155 Goodwills across the US and Canada, on a new UX research project to support the redesign of Goodwill.org. Many people know Goodwill as a thrift retail store, but only three in ten people understand Goodwill’s mission & vision, which is to provide people with opportunities and support to empower themselves and thrive through training, development and employment. Goodwill.org, serves as a primary touchpoint for the organization’s key audiences, including thrift shoppers, goods donors, program participants and financial donors.

The goal of this project is to specifically improve the website experience for goods donors who serve as key audience to make Goodwill’s mission possible. As a result of the UX research, we are looking to accomplish the following objectives:

1) Allow goods donors to easily take actions on Goodwill.org towards their goals.

2) Allow goods donors to better understand Goodwill’s mission and purpose.

With support from Google.org Fellows, Goodwill International Industries previously executed UX research around the needs of job seekers to optimize our new website design. With this research, we hope to gain insights about goods donors to enrich our understanding of the key audiences audience and identify additional opportunity areas to make UI and UX design improvements. We are seeking a UX researcher to lead this work and will collaborate with the volunteer to recruit at least 3 Goods Donors to include in the UX test. We will leverage the same methodology used to research the Job Seeker audience to maintain consistency and facilitate this study. We hope that you will consider joining this critical workstream and join us as we deepen our understanding of this key audience.

Available Shifts

Shift Name	Signup Max	Start	End
General	no limit	n/a	n/a

Opportunity Details

We are looking for a volunteer to support Goodwill Industries International, the international federation headquarters for the 155 Goodwills across the US and Canada, on a new UX research project to support the redesign of Goodwill.org. Many people know Goodwill as a thrift retail store, but only three in ten people understand Goodwill’s mission & vision, which is to provide people with opportunities and support to empower themselves and thrive through training, development and employment. Goodwill.org, serves as a primary touchpoint for the organization’s key audiences, including thrift shoppers, goods donors, program participants and financial donors.

The goal of this project is to specifically improve the website experience for thrift shoppers who serve as key audience to make Goodwill’s mission possible. As a result of the UX research, we are looking to accomplish the following objectives:

1) Allow thrift shoppers to easily take actions on Goodwill.org towards their goals.

2) Allow thrift shoppers to better understand Goodwill’s mission and purpose.

With support from Google.org Fellows, Goodwill International Industries (“GII”) previously executed UX research around the needs of job seekers to optimize our new website design. With this research, we hope to gain insights about thrift shoppers to enrich our understanding of the key audiences audience and identify additional opportunity areas to make UI and UX design improvements. We are seeking a UX researcher to lead this work and will collaborate with the volunteer to recruit at least 5 Thrift Shoppers to include in the UX test. We will leverage the same methodology used to research the Job Seeker audience to maintain consistency and facilitate this study. We hope that you will consider joining this critical workstream and join us as we deepen our understanding of this key audience.

Available Shifts

Shift Name	Signup Max	Start	End
General	no limit	n/a	n/a

Opportunity Details

Walk Like MADD is our signature event to raise awareness on the dangers of substance impaired driving and raise vital funds, so we can provide direct support services to the victim survivors and educate the community on the ultimate consequences of this 100% preventable crime. Many who participate have a common bond. They know someone who has been injured or killed in a substance impaired driving crash, or they feel strongly about ending drunk driving.

With every step taken and each dollar raised, we support MADD's lifesaving mission to keep our families and communities safe.

Available Shifts

Shift Name	Signup Max	Start	End
Walk Like MADD Kansas City Volunteers	6	n/a	n/a

Opportunity Details

Help us welcome our new class of DanceChance students by prepping their welcome packets and writing a note of encouragement. We'll come to you - this activity is perfect for a team lunch hour!

DanceChance was created in 1994 by PNB School Founding Director Francia Russell to improve equity and access in classical ballet training. Partnering with Seattle Public Schools, this bedrock youth program invites students demonstrating unique attributes for classical ballet to study at Pacific Northwest Ballet School free of charge, dependent only upon students’ potential and interest in dance. DanceChance aims to enrich the lives of each participant through the opportunity to study classical ballet, to cultivate a diverse School and Company, and to train and nurture the next generation of dancers.

DanceChance students receive weekly ballet classes with introductions to other dance genres, free dancewear, PNB performance tickets, and opportunities to perform in professional productions and student showings. PNB covers all costs including transportation to and from PNB. DanceChance alumni have gone on to join the PNB Company as professional dancers (like Soloist Kuu Sakuragi) and other ballet companies. Eric Hipolito, Jr., pictured below, is a DanceChance alum who danced with PNB and is now a faculty member.

As PNB prepares for our 2024-2025 DanceChance program, we invite Microsoft employees to help us welcome these wonderful students. In particular, we seek help to prep welcome kits for our Level I students prior to their first day on October 12, 2024 - we welcomed 78 new students last year and anticipate another large class this year. Prepping the welcome kits includes stuffing folders with necessary paperwork, labeling folders, packing bags with dancewear, and the best part - writing a note of encouragement to these young dancers.

This is the perfect opportunity for a team of up to 25 to complete over a lunch hour or other one-hour period, and we'll come to you with all the necessary supplies. You just need to reserve a space on the Microsoft campus and bring your team!

Opportunity Details

Walk Like MADD is our signature event to raise awareness on the dangers of substance impaired driving and raise vital funds, so we can provide direct support services to the victim survivors and educate the community on the ultimate consequences of this 100% preventable crime. Many who participate have a common bond. They know someone who has been injured or killed in a substance impaired driving crash, or they feel strongly about ending drunk driving.

With every step taken and each dollar raised, we support MADD's lifesaving mission to keep our families and communities safe.

Available Shifts

Shift Name	Signup Max	Start	End
Walk Like MADD Kansas Volunteers	5	n/a	n/a

Opportunity Details

DESCRIPTION - For years, volunteers have brought warmth and relief to YES families who are experiencing hard times through the YES Gift Card Drive. During such uncertain times and with so many families in need, the need for support is greater than ever before.

This is why your support as a Gift Card Drive volunteer is so crucial. With this helping hand, families will be able to purchase groceries, clothing, school supplies, or other items they may need.

How to become a gift card volunteer:
As a volunteer, you commit to donating gift cards in $25 or $50 increments to any of the following stores:
Target
Fred Meyer/QFC
Safeway
Walmart
VISA

We ask that you only purchase gift cards for the locations listed above. This is to ensure that distributed gifts are more equitable for all families. You can purchase as many gift cards as you like!

Contactless gift card purchases:
Please visit our website at the URL below for directions on how to purchase gift cards online: https://www.youtheastsideservices.org/get-involved/ways-to-give/gift-card-drive/

Please mail gift cards directly to our Bellevue location at the address listed below or you can drop them off in person at our Bellevue location.

Youth Eastside Services
Attn: Becca Holbrook
999 164th Ave NE
Bellevue, WA 98008

Questions?
If you have any questions or would like to drop off gift cards in person, please reach out to Becca Holbrook at beccah@youtheastsideservices.org.

PARTICIPANTS - This opportunity can be completed by as many people as would like to participate.

LOCATION - This opportunity can be completed in person, or the gift cards can be purchased online following the guidance in the description above.

DURATION - There is no defined timeframe for this opporutnity.

GEOGRAPHIC REACH - Youth Eastside Services' main campus is located in Bellevue, WA. We also have satellite locations in other cities in East King County.

FUNDING REQUIRED - Funding would be required to purchase the gift cards.

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