Opportunity Details

Open Doors Circles Program located in Clearfield is looking for volunteers in the following area: Childcare-assist circles teachers with providing children with educational activities. Days and times: Thursdays(Clearfield location) 6-8 pm.

Must be 18 yrs old
There will be a Orientation or Training
Background Check (no cost to volunteer)

Participant Notes: Clearfield location class is every (Thursday) from 6-8 pm

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Our middle school students involved in STEM after-school programming will write questions for AOL employees to write a letter back to them. This is for AOL employees who can't leave the office on their May 12 global day of service. Students will ask questions involving the 3 things AOL is interested in: STEM/Media/Writing, and AOL employee responds to them and can also give career advice.

Available Shifts

Shift Name	Signup Max	Start	End
General	10	n/a	n/a

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At Capital One/ Junior Achievement Finance Park each student becomes “an adult for the day” in an electronic simulation. The students are assigned a life scenario so they can experience firsthand the real-life challenges of making personal budgeting decisions. After calculating their net monthly income and savings goals, students visit kiosks that represent different budget categories such housing, health insurance, groceries, and utilities. Anyone with real world monthly budgeting experience can become a volunteer. JA Finance Park Volunteers play a key role by helping the students understand the concepts of personal financial planning and career exploration. Volunteers provide guidance and assistance while monitoring and verifying students’ work.

Available Shifts

Shift Name	Signup Max	Start	End
General	6	n/a	n/a

Opportunity Details

At Capital One/ Junior Achievement Finance Park each student becomes “an adult for the day” in an electronic simulation. The students are assigned a life scenario so they can experience firsthand the real-life challenges of making personal budgeting decisions. After calculating their net monthly income and savings goals, students visit kiosks that represent different budget categories such housing, health insurance, groceries, and utilities. Anyone with real world monthly budgeting experience can become a volunteer. JA Finance Park Volunteers play a key role by helping the students understand the concepts of personal financial planning and career exploration. Volunteers provide guidance and assistance while monitoring and verifying students’ work.

Available Shifts

Shift Name	Signup Max	Start	End
General	10	n/a	n/a

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Student Driven Solutions (SDS) is a registered nonprofit organization founded in 2015 to provide financial literacy and business training, together with mentorship and social justice awareness, to girls in Malawi aged 15-25. Our core program called “Girls Empowered” is currently implemented in three partner schools (2 in peri-urban Lilongwe and 1 in rural Zomba). The goal of the volunteer activity is to enhance our marketing capacity. Our staff does not have strong skills in social media and other brand management strategies. We are looking to AOL HELPS to assist us in building our strategy to strengthen our reputation and build awareness of our work - ultimately leading to increased fundraising.

SDS beneficiaries are females aged 15-25 from low-income semi-urban neighborhoods in Malawi. By age 19, a third of girls in Malawi are married, 7% have given birth, and only 13% are in school. Many girls lack self-esteem and are unsure of the next steps in their lives. Despite dreams for the future, they might not know how to reach their short-term goals. Without means for financial independence during teenage years, many adolescent girls rely on parents, friends, and partners who might not envision the future she wants to pursue. Combined with a lack of confidence, many girls conform themselves to the wants of others without being able to independently pursue her goals.

Available Shifts

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

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Helping students release trout that they have raised in their classroom, remove invasive species and help plant native trees.

Available Shifts

Shift Name	Signup Max	Start	End
General	50	n/a	n/a

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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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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

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Green Calgary Volunteer Orientation - Tuesday March 21st, 2017

If you are interested in volunteering with an environmental charity, or have signed up as a volunteer with Green Calgary in the last little while, we'd love to meet you. Every month we host 1 night/month where we get our new volunteers together and give an orientation about who Green Calgary is, what we do and the volunteer opportunities we have available. Feel free to bring a friend or family member, ages 14-18 also welcome. Refreshments are provided. This orientation is scheduled for Tuesday March 21st @ 6:00 - 7:30 pm. Contact lex@greencalgary.org for info or visit: http://www.greencalgary.org/applications-opportunities/volunteer-opportunities/

Available Shifts

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

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PSE is looking for volunteers to be English teaching assistants to help deliver both a General English Programme and an English for Specific Programme in the Technology school. Volunteers will also provide extra-curricular support – helping students read and leading group discussions & talks. The assistants will support the PSE English teaching staff during the school year (October to July).

To qualify you need to be fluent in English (it is not necessary for English to be your mother tongue), be over 18 and have a strong interest in teaching - especially underprivileged and vulnerable children. Previous teaching experience and a pedagogy certificate would be a plus.

If you are interested, please email uk@pse.ngo for further information.