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Project ECHO's High School Entrepreneurs' Business Plan Competition simulates the real-world process of entrepreneurs soliciting start-up funds from investors. More than 300 teens will participate in this annual start-up competition and executive level Judges are needed to help evaluate their team business presentations.

Judges will act as venture capital investors deciding on which business they'd most likely fund. The quality of the idea, the strength of the management team, and the clarity and persuasiveness of the oral presentation are the criteria that determine each judge's decision. Each panel of judges will evaluate 7-10 business teams, which means listening to a formal 10-minute presentation, participating in a Q&A with the team, and then scoring each team accordingly on ECHO's cloud-based system.

The 2025 competition will be hosted at CSU, Dominguez Hills in Los Angeles with some teams pitching virtually on Zoom.

Requirements to be considered as a Judge: You must be able to serve in person. In addition, ECHO recruits a diversified pool of executives from various industries to serve as judges. Interested volunteers must have at least 10 years of professional work experience and have served in leadership roles accountable for managing teams of employees. Judges should be compassionate individuals who are innately interested in supporting the personal and career aspirations of young adults who are preparing to graduate from high school and are focused on discovering their career goals. Your feedback matters!

To learn more and to register to become a judge, please visit: www.projectecho.org/volunteer. Or visit https://www.flipcause.com/secure/cause_pdetails/MTQ5NzQx

Project ECHO teens come from various academic and socio-economic backgrounds, but none of it matters when they come to compete for cash start-up funds (aka college scholarships). We hope you'll consider joining us!

Available Shifts

Shift Name	Signup Max	Start	End
Judge	25	n/a	n/a

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Tutoring Plus, a local nonprofit, is looking for volunteers to provide homework support and mentoring to Cambridge students in grades 4-12. Volunteer are matched with one student and commit to one hour, one evening per week. We also have volunteer opportunities within our science, engineering and coding enrichment programs.

To apply, please complete our volunteer application at: www.tutoringplus.org/volunteer

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BE OUR GUEST

Virtual Career WorkOut introduces students to work guests from different work backgrounds, so they can find out what it’s really like to do different jobs.

You’ll join 4 other work guests for a 40-minute Question & Answer session! They’ll ask you open questions about your job, how you got it and what it’s like for you.

Guests can be anyone who has experience of work, including self-employment, even unemployment. Ideally they will have or have had the kinds of jobs to which the young people can reasonably aspire. A young person who has been working in a shop, or as a junior mechanic or trainee nurse for a year, is as important to this as a top manager, senior government employee or business owner.

Just choose a session you'd like to join from the list at www.worktree.org/events, and we'll send you a confirmation email with meeting link (usually MS Teams). On the day, just turn up, relax and be yourself. You don’t need to prepare anything, just answer the questions as honestly as you can. There are no right or wrong answers. Career WorkOut is easy, informative, fast-paced and fun. See Tips for volunteers.

What’s in it for you? A break from your day-to-day. A chance to inspire young people and learn about what they think. These sessions give guests a chance to say what they do for work and why, find out more about young people today and network with guests from other local businesses. It’ll make your day!

What’s in it for a company? It can help recruit new staff as well as develop current staff, especially helping them think newly about their current role and focus. It can also raise the company’s profile in the community.

To find out more and book a session visit this link - https://worktree.org/events/

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Help the Sammamish Symphony provide concessions for our concert attendees at our Sunday afternoon concerts at the Eastlake Performing Arts Center in Sammamish. We have five concerts each season (Oct, Dec, Feb, Apr, and Jun) and are looking for a volunteer to help procure food donations, prepare coffee and tea, set up concessions with help of other volunteers, store the concessions items, and be the face of the Symphony with our concert-goers. The first opportunity starts February 23, 2020 at 2:00PM.

Available Shifts

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

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Local musicians organize and perform in events with and for student musicians in public demonstrations, workshops, performances and rehearsals for the ACIT Music Demo Project. On-going rehearsals, culminating in educational events take place in venues all over King County.

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Looking to participate in a radically green develoment project? Long Way Home is constructing a self-sustainable 18-building green campus in the western Highlands of Guatemala. Using alternative methods and materials, we are empowering the youth of this community, the majority of whom are Kaqchikel Maya, to be the architects of their own futures.

We practice several methods of alternative construction including earth rammed tires, earthbags, trash bottles, and aluminum! We also boast a rainwater catchment system with the capacity to store 45,000 gallons of water. As a volunteer, you will join our local construction crew and other volunteers that participate in the construction of the school. Most of the campus is finished and operating a school of grades K-11 with 150 students and 35 local staff, while we continue construction. In Guatemala, there is a dry season (Nov-April) and a rainy season (May-Oct), and we work throughout the whole year. We accept volunteers of all skills and experience levels! It is important to have a good attitude, team player, motivation to help out, and be flexible. Must be able to walk up and down hills at high elevation (7,000 ft). On-site we have a communal kitchen. All the water we collect from rainwater, some of which is filtered for drinking water on-site and at the volunteer house.

Long Way Home's mission is to use sustainable design to construct self-sufficient buildings that promote education, employment, and environmental stewardship. We've used more than 400 tons of trash and over 15500 tires in our construction so far. We aim to end the cycle of poverty through innovation that is relevant to the context.

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Finding the "right" job is important and the "right" job varies from person to person. At OPPortunity Academy, our students had previously struggled in high school and are now on their new path to their diploma. We infuse college and career programming as students at OPPortunity Academy need to broaden their horizons and learn about different paths post-high school that they may not have considered or heard of before. This Career Activities Day is an opportunity for outsiders to impart their knowledge from their personal journeys and to assist students in their career planning and finding the "right" job for them.

Available Shifts

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

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Covenant Preparatory School, an interfaith, tuition-free independent day school for middle school boys from underserved communities, is looking to clean out storage areas to allow for more efficient use of space. This project would involve clearing out a large storage area of various items, including some larger furniture items. There may be some other cleaning and "sprucing" involved as well, time allowing. All of this will help make the school environment more pleasant and safer for our students and staff!

Available Shifts

Shift Name	Signup Max	Start	End
General	15	n/a	n/a

Opportunity Details

As an English Teaching Assistant you will work with students in a local K-10 school. This will include:

Assisting the teachers with everything from lesson planning, to leading and supporting the teacher with language learning activities, games, songs, and projects.
Coming up with some of your own activities for the class.

Schedule

Schedules are based on a 25 hr/week commitment. Typically Monday-Friday 7:00AM –12:00PM Exact times may be subject to change depending on the tasks at hand. Time for preparation is in the afternoons.
Requirements

Intermediate level of Spanish in order to communicate with co-workers and students.
A genuine passion for children’s education, and their well-being.
Ability to work independently as well as in a team. Energetic, creative, and enthusiastic nature that stimulates the learning environment

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League of Young Professionals (L.O.Y.P) mission is to create networking opportunities for established entrepreneurs. To create positive atmospheres for our youth and the like-minded individuals within our community and surrounding areas. This organization is invested in the development of an underserved population of inner city youth. We strive to bridge the educational gap and combat educational inequities by providing material to support students in need. L.Y.O.P. has collaborated with Hello, My Name is KING, Inc., Da Population Entertainment, E.O.P.D, Black Men Smile, Grady Hospital, Fulton & DeKalb County staff, Black Kings Entertainment, Bella Society, and a host of others for this year’s Back to School community event that will provide essentials for students to begin their school year.

The proposed date for the event is August 6th, 2017 from 12 pm.- 4 pm. At the Fort Street Memorial United Methodist Church (562 Boulevard NE Atlanta, GA 30308). The event will provide book bags, basic school supply, basic grooming for children’s hair, health screenings, informational booths, academic games, and technology to local youth and their families.

As the adage claims “It takes a village to raise a child” and we need your support in sponsoring this endeavor.

Available Shifts

Shift Name	Signup Max	Start	End
General	20	n/a	n/a