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Adanac Park Lodge is a residential care home in East Vancouver providing housing and support to 73 individuals. The residents at APL have complex healthcare needs and cognitive impairment related to brain injury, mental illness and dementia. The APL resident community is younger than most care homes. Currently, 70% of the residents at APL are between ages 31 and 70.

We are delighted to have welcomed amazing teams of Telus volunteers to Adanac Park Lodge (APL) for the past two years. This year we would like to welcome volunteers back to assist us with a spring garden & building clean-up and a celebratory lunch. I can’t think of a better way to welcome the summer season!

Team members will be working along side staff and residents to clean up our gardens, plant spring flowers and sort through some unwanted items around the building. We will be cleaning garden beds & pots, replenishing soil and planting shrubs & flowers. We will also been sorting through recycling and unwanted items around the building for removal. A bin will be on site for the day.

Available Shifts

Shift Name	Signup Max	Start	End
Adanac Park Lodge Spring Garden Clean-up	10	n/a	n/a

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Thank you so much for your interest in volunteering for Easterseals at our Walk With Me event, to be held on Saturday, June 2, 2018 at the Philadelphia Zoo. Walk With Me is our largest fundraiser and awareness event, reaching over 1,300 participants, volunteers and vendors! Walk With Me consists of a 5k run and a 1 mile fun walk through the Philadelphia Zoo. It is a day filled with fun, music, food and love, all while raising awareness for children and young adults living with disabilities in Southeastern Pennsylvania.
We need volunteers in the areas of:
- Set up
- Food distribution (nothing major, basically monitoring the bags of chips, sodas)
- Registration
- Handing out t-shirts
- Course Marshall
- Clean Up
- Miscellaneous

In the meantime, please visit www.walkwithme.org/Philadelphia to learn more about the event!

Available Shifts

Shift Name	Signup Max	Start	End
Set-Up	no limit	n/a	n/a

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Austin Creative Reuse loves hosting volunteer groups! We have projects for all ages and levels and can tailor an event for your group. For more information, please contact us at volunteer@austincreativereuse.org

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Every Monday morning, from 9:30am to noon, volunteers help sort and price donated materials. Families with children ages 10+ are invited to volunteer together with 2 children per adult, please.

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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

Available Shifts

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!
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Cold Case Research
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National Conference for Missing Persons
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