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**To indicate your interest in volunteering with the Refugee Education Center, please visit www.refugeegr.org/volunteer**

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What we’re doing:
We are hoping to create a new website with the primary goals of making our content easier to manage, celebrating our projects, and improving transparency of where donations are applied. Having a professional looking website is so important for us as it will add credibility to grant applications and also provide a clearer message to our donors about what we do and how we work. Fundamentally we think our website should be a vital tool for donor and grantor engagement.

Who we’re looking for
We are looking for a backend web developer to configure and connect a CMS that allows our team to easily to add, edit, and manage content. Our current website is built on forestry.io and we’d like to have someone to either configure and optimise it, or setup an alternative that better suits our needs.

We already have a volunteer designer who will be designing and building an entirely new frontend, so the work would primarily be integrating those templates and configuring fields for content entry on the CMS side.

Ideal skills/experience
Ruby / PHP / Java / .NET / etc
Website backend builds and customisation
SEO optimisation
HTML template integration
Web hosting, domain, and email setup

Future state
Once the new website is launched the intention is for the Trustees of the charity to maintain the website and update content. There may be an element of training/ handover needed once the project is finished.

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The Power of One!
The goal of this project is to galvanise global citizens towards crowdfunding lending a helping hand in provision of dignity & hygiene packs to 0ver 100 000 girls in marginalised schools in South Africa ( rural communities). Each global citizen donates One Pound, One Yen, One Dollar, One Rand, One Yuan, One Euro towards our national drive to purchase and distribute dignity packs to our beneficiaries. The funds will go towards 80% beneficiaries and 20% administrative and program management.

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We have an opportunity for volunteering with RightsTech Women for one to three months.
What your employees can expect:
We will meet with them via Zoom and draw on their strengths as we work to bring in the resources for our research, advocacy and training programs for girls and women in STEM.

We're looking for enthusiastic volunteers who would want to help us:
- identify potential donors
- make contacts and set up meetings
- write proposals
- share social media links among their networks.

Requirements:
Equipment: The employee would need their own computer and internet access enabling them to meet via video conference
Time requirements: 1-3 hours per week

For more information
Please write to volunteers@rightstech.org, putting 'Fundraising Volunteer 2025' in the email subject heading, and we can set up a time to meet.

Let's advance girls and women in STEM together.

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Together we can end Period Poverty in the Island of Mozambique.
Join us to Change the World, Save the Planet, and Empower Woman though menstrual health education and the distribution of the CouldYou? Cup.
$10 meets the menstrual health needs of a girl/woman for 10 years!
You can partner with us by:
1) Raising funds. We are hoping to raise $50,000 to support 5000 young woman.
Estée Laude will match dollar for dollar up to $1100 of employee giving.
2) Raise awareness about the issue of Period Poverty. Sign the manifesto
http://chng.it/hDTDFMqz
3) Share about the project on social media channels.
4) Raise awareness and keep updated by following us at:
https://www.instagram.com/couldyoucup/
https://www.instagram.com/cup.and.go.project/
https://www.facebook.com/search/top?q=couldyou%3F%20cup
https://www.facebook.com/CupGo-117298410185421
4) There will be opportunities to participate in local events (dates to be confirmed)

Available Shifts

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

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Learning Equality develops and maintains the open source project, the Kolibri Learning Platform, to support learners without Internet connectivity to have support for offline learning with resources that are aligned for their use.

Its GitHub repository contains “beginner-friendly,” self-contained issues for volunteers, with Python or Javascript skills but limited experience with this particular codebase, to pick up issues on GitHub and submit a contribution. This is a great opportunity for volunteers looking to get hands-on with their Javascript and Python skills, and contribute to a project that is supporting millions of learners globally. We’re currently on a six week release cycle for minor releases, so you have the opportunity to rapidly contribute to pushing out updated learning technology that is currently benefiting learners in 220 countries and territories. You can contribute whenever you would like! Get started here: https://tinyurl.com/klp-beginner

Requirements:
- Familiarity with GitHub
- Familiarity with Javascript and/or Python
- Ability to quickly familiarize with new codebase and get started
- Excitement about open source technology for marginalized communities

Photo Credit: CARE Peru (Learners using Kolibri in Punchao, Peru)

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Shiver me timbers, it’s time for the next SDCL Literacy Night & Movie in the Park! This year, we’re weighing anchor and setting sail with a pirate theme, with free crafts, games, a costume contest, treasure/scavenger hunt, and more! After the event, we’ll maroon ourselves on the lawn and watch the family-friendly movie The Goonies!

Available Shifts

Shift Name	Signup Max	Start	End
General	6	n/a	n/a
General	3	n/a	n/a

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We are celebrating children going back to school with a big Back-to-School bash on Saturday, August 14th from 9am-4pm. It is a fundraising event to keep our STEAM centered, children's museum going in a direction where we can reach more families. All of our events bring in members of the community to volunteer and we would love to include you as well!

Available Shifts

Shift Name	Signup Max	Start	End
Morning Shift	no limit	n/a	n/a
Afternoon Shift	no limit	n/a	n/a

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Volunteer with ExpandED to help teens navigate their own paths to bright futures! With the support of ExpandED Schools staff, you will design a group internship task for a cohort of 12-15 teens to complete. Internship supervisors will support the students throughout the week to work on the task, and CUNY students will provide near-peer mentorship around workplace readiness. Volunteers will meet with the cohort of teens for one hour per week for five weeks to check in on work progress and provide guidance and encouragement. Volunteers will also participate in a career panel.

After a year of so much hardship, providing teens with meaningful work-based learning opportunities this summer is absolutely critical to promote reengagement
in learning, a hopeful future outlook, and preparation for college and career.

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The Destination Imagination (DI) Board of Trustees is seeking exceptional individuals to be part of our volunteer Board of Trustees.

Company Description: The Board is seeking candidates who will help broaden the expertise and experience of the board in order to advance the mission of the organization—to inspire and equip youth to imagine and innovate through the creative process.

Destination Imagination, Inc. (DI), is a US-based global educational nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization whose mission is to inspire and equip all youth to imagine and innovate through the creative process. We believe that when an educational experience is hands-on, collaborative, and fun, students are empowered and motivated to take their creative problem-solving skills to the next level.

As its core program, DI presents an annual international competition cycle involving seven project-based challenge types–Technical, Scientific, Engineering, Fine Arts, Improvisational, Service Learning, and Early Learning. Open-ended Team Challenges are developed annually with the help of educators, subject-matter experts, and qualified volunteers, to cover a wide range of student interests and align to current educational standards. Participants take full responsibility for the creative aspects of their problem solutions. An Instant Challenge component tests teams’ ability to respond creatively and rapidly to a surprise short-term problem. Participation is open to students from Kindergarten through university level. This learner-focused methodology empowers students to take the lead and provides a framework within which they can take risks and learn from failure. DI participants become lifelong problem-solvers who are inspired to innovate creative solutions to real-world challenges quickly and collaboratively. Problem solving, team building, and respect for others and their ideas are at the foundation of all of the challenges.

DI’s business is conducted through a central headquarters staff and through 38 U.S. and 27 international affiliate organizations (many of which have subordinate regional organizations). A network of thousands of volunteers helps prepare DI challenges, supervise DI teams, and conduct DI tournaments.

Business Category:
Educational
International
Nonprofit Organization

Management Board of Trustees Responsibilities: The Board of Trustees provides governance and strategic guidance to DI, working in close cooperation with its Executive Director.

The Board’s specific responsibilities include:
•Ensuring that the organization fulfills its mission and purpose.
•Selecting and evaluating the performance of the Executive Director.
•Strategic and organizational planning.
•Ensuring strong fiduciary oversight and financial management.
•Fundraising and resource development.
•Oversight of the organization’s programs and services.
•Enhancing the organization’s public image.
•Assessing its own performance as the governing body of the organization.

Expectations of Board Members: Members of the Board of Trustees are expected to: •Contribute meaningfully to meetings and activities of the board and its committees.
•Use personal and professional knowledge and networks in support of DI’s programs.
•Make a meaningful financial contribution ($1000+ suggested) to DI.
•Serve a term of four years with a possible second term.
•Attend 1 face-to-face board meeting TBD (All meetings are currently
•Attend bi-monthly evening teleconference board meetings in the remaining months.
•Serve on 1 standing committee (Audit, Development, Finance, Governance, Management); committees typically meet monthly by teleconference.
•Board members are encouraged to attend Global Finals—DI’s international culminating event celebrating teams’ creativity (late May).

Travel, meals, and lodging expenses for face-to-face Board meetings are reimbursed, although donations by Board members to defray these expenses are encouraged.

Desired Skills and Expertise: We are currently recruiting candidates to fill two to four vacancies. Ideal candidates will have appropriate expertise and experience to work in partnership with the DI staff in one or more of the following areas:

•Development/fundraising (public, corporate, foundations, etc.)
•Corporate or governmental sponsorship and partnership
•Educational leadership
•Marketing
•Information technology

If you are interested in this volunteer Board role, please email us at advancement@DIHQ.org and someone will get back to you shortly.