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Thank you for volunteering to help keep the Victory Garden Urban Farm productive, sustainable, and rewarding for the Harambee Neighborhood and City of Milwaukee. Your involvement is crucial to a successful harvest that brings fresh, healthy, and local produce to Milwaukee residents.

By volunteering at Concordia Gardens you can expect to learn, grow, and get your hands dirty! There are several daily and weekly tasks that you can help to accomplish. These include: composting food waste, watering crops, pulling weeds, harvesting produce, planting seeds, digging, mulching, etc.

A Garden Leader will be present at the time of your shift to provide you with objectives and tasks that are to be completed during your volunteer shift.

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Volunteers can help with raising international awareness about the Institute and developing our communications by:
1) Improving the website - web design, additional content, website translations 2) Social media - targeted messaging, blogs, facebook posts 3) Creating videos - to recuit volunteers, display our infrastructure and inform people about our work 4) Attempting to attract more volunteers by posting adverts, like this one, on various volunteer websites 5) Contacting universities to organize courses or set up agreements to develop our internship program 6) Promoting and marketing our Ebooks on biodiversity and wildlife 7) Developing and implementing strategies to increase funds by partnering with institutions, companies and other NGO´s 8) Helping us acquire donated equipment such as audio recording equipment that can help develop our research projects 9) Write grants 10) Find new ways to secure the financial sustainability of our organization

Ensuring the long-term financial sustainability of the NGO is critical to the longevity of existing programs and can allow us to develop new projects.

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WYF is seeking dynamic professional volunteers/mentors to help open the minds of our next generation of leaders. Through our flagship program YIIP, we are preparing students to excel academically, thrive in the workforce, assume productive leadership roles, and gain and maintain economic empowerment in this increasingly global society. Without strong literacy skills in reading and writing, students are unable to comprehend and learn information, record and apply knowledge, and function appropriately as contributing members of our global society. Moreover, without strong literacy skills that equip them to win in life against all odds, our youth -- especially underserved minorities -- will continue to experience academic underperformance that widens the racial achievement gap in education, economic disadvantage, homelessness, growing incarceration rates, growing teen pregnancy rates, growing gang affiliation rates, growing crime and drug addiction rates, growing unemployment and underemployment rates, and other poverty- and literacy-related community ills as cited in the Harris County Community Plan and other sources.
The Literacy component of YIIP’s Literacy and STEAM program underpins every step of the program. The program will capitalize on the intriguing nature of science and entrepreneurship to provide problem-based learning tools that enable YIIP to not only teach STEAM and entrepreneurship skills but also reading, writing, and public-speaking skills.

The STEAM component provides the fun, engaging project-based learning environment in which YIIP will motivate students to develop the myriad skills outlined above. Our projects will draw on various STEAM fields, including physics, geology, engineering, computer technology, climatology, mathematics, chemistry, graphic design, performing and visual arts, and web design.

The project goals are YIIP’s Literacy and STEAM Program has the following five goals:

1. Strengthen students’ literacy skills in an effort to enhance their educational and career readiness.

2. Improve students’ literacy and STEAM skills through the use of fun, engaging project-based learning programs specifically designed with best practices and evidence-based instructional strategies in mind.

3. Expose underserved middle and high school students to science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics (STEAM) in an effort to provide students with resources to design their own futures in a STEAM career.

4. Cultivate an additional means of fulfilling YIIP’s overall goal, which is to create self-sufficient entrepreneurs with the business acumen to produce/provide innovative affordable products/services in quantities sufficient to lift themselves and their families

5. Aid society in achieving a diverse and dynamic global workforce whereby enhances the pipeline of skilled workers in STEAM professions.

Your participation will help us strengthen our program, while expanding into the local school districts.

Available Shifts

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

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Passion Impact is searching for local professionals to join our Portland Advisory Board, which blends the local knowledge of those in the nonprofit world, private sector and secondary education to further our our of empowering students to build a healthy habit of volunteering their passions. We are seeking input from community members with previous nonprofit experience and/or experience mentoring youth in Portland.

The Advisory Board Members must commit to attending each of our quarterly meetings. The first meeting will be held on Tuesday July 12th. Those interested in joining the Advisory Board must have a phone interview with a Passion Impact staff member prior to attending the meeting.

Available Shifts

Shift Name	Signup Max	Start	End
Advisory Board Member	3	n/a	n/a

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Newark Parks Foundation is in search of a Development Director to oversee the organization's fiscal management. We are a non-profit startup (October 2015), and we need to grow our revenue.

This director will work with the Executive Director and the Board to deleveop a fundraising strategy and budget and provide direction to the organization's volunteer Grant Writer.

Our projects and programs are well-defined. We have a small donor base from which to build. If you understand how to prudently grow a company, we'd be honored to have you on board.

Available Shifts

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

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Do you enjoy networking and business development? Want to help empower children in under-served communities? Join Books of Joy as a volunteer Corporate Relations Development Manager.

Books of Joy is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization with a mission to empower children in under-served communities to achieve their full potential through education. We partner with local communities to provide books, school supplies, create educational programs and establish learning environments to promote literacy. Our organization is entirely run by volunteers. We are seeking a volunteer Corporate Relations Development Manager to identify and build strategic relationship with corporate partners who share similar values to Books of Joy, and help broaden our impact of empowering children with education.

Responsibilities:
- Research and secure corporate partner support for our cause and build strategic alliance
- Develop and implement a corporate development strategy, researching and identifying prospective corporate partners with synergies in mission with our organization
- Conduct business development activities, identifying appropriate contacts and building partnership opportunities
- Collaborate with companies' giving departments in designating corporate contributions, workplace giving and matching gifts to our children's educational programs
- Co-design programs with corporations that bring transformational change in children's education

Qualifications:
- Ability to present our vision to potential partners and funders
- Knowledge of corporate businesses and potential partners
- Strong interpersonal and networking skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to work independently and as a member of a team

Commitment:
- Flexible; 2 hours per week

If you're interested, please email us at volunteer@booksofjoy.org. Thank you for your support in providing the opportunity of education to every child in the world.

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Join us as we create a vibrant and enduring visual arts community

Do you enjoy the visual arts? Do you have a passion to increase the influence of and access to the visual arts in our community? artEAST is looking for creative and diverse new board members. All skills are welcome, but we are especially looking for new members with fundraising, legal, or finance experience and interest. Board meetings are monthly on the second Thursday of each month at our art center gallery location, 95 Front Street North in Issaquah, Washington.

Interested? Contact director@arteast.org for more information.

Available Shifts

Shift Name	Signup Max	Start	End
Board Interest	6	n/a	n/a

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Executive Board Memberships

Being a part of something that make a sufficient impact to communities in need is one of the greatest achievements one can commit too. Our purpose is to work with urban communities and create sustainable projects which reduce urban blight, promote green economic development and educate urban youth on environmentally sound ways to live.

Leadership
Leadership begins at the top. We need our leaders to provide direction, help set the tone for the organization and influence resources in order to achieve our organization purpose and goals. As a board member you have a fiduciary responsibility to aide with the financial direction of this organization. You are the goodwill ambassador for many of the organization activities. Your activities allow you to interface with many local political figures, corporate leaders and other non-profit officers

Responsibilities
The term for a board member is generally two years. Board members are responsible for raising not only their annual board initiation tax, but also funds for the organization. Board members may elect to serve more than two terms, but not more than two consecutive terms. Board members seeking to serve more than two consecutive terms will be requested to take a leave of absence for one year and return the follow period or be place on the senior advisory board.
Every member is required to assists with raising a portion of the annual budget for the non-profit either through project activities, fundraisers or cash donations to the non-profit. This figure will be explained during our annual budget meeting. Each board member will be required to lead one fund raising project for the year. These projects will require you to build your volunteer committee and oversee the program.

Available Shifts

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

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Cornerstone Community Housing has a two-fold mission. We are dedicated to helping
men experiencing homelessness rebuild their lives and to changing community attitudes
toward homelessness through outreach and education. Cornerstone Community Housing provides Hope, Help, and a Home to men experiencing
homelessness through two programs.

Earl’s Place located in Baltimore City provides supportive housing for up to two years to
men in recovery from substance use who are experiencing homelessness.
Prospect Place, located in Baltimore County, is a Housing First permanent supportive
housing program for men who were chronically homeless and now have a studio
apartment and a new lease on life.
Learn more at www.cchbaltimore.org

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR:
We are looking for experienced, strategically minded people to join our Board.
Successful applicants should have skills or experience in any of the following:
• Strategic planning and visioning
• Marketing
• Public relations and media
• Information Technology
• Facilities management
• Fundraising and Philanthropy

We welcome applicants of any background, especially those who represent the
communities we work with or have a passion for our mission.

Currently the Board meetings are held virtually at 6:30 p.m. on the fourth Tuesday of the
month. Additional committee meetings outside of the Board meetings may be required.
Members serve for three terms and may renew for another 3-year term.
NEXT STEPS:
If you are interested in applying, please contact Sheila Helgerson at 410-522-0225 or
sheila@cchbaltimore.org or by downloading an application from our website: BoardApplication-Form-CCH.pdf (cchbaltimore.org)

Opportunity Details

The Fund Development Committee provides leadership for the individual giving program and the organization’s grants solicitation process. The Committee shall identify fundraising opportunities and help secure and coordinate the resources necessary to implement fundraising efforts, including assistance in cultivating new and established major donors, corporate sponsors and grantors.


This committee meets from 12 - 1:30 pm bi-monthly on the following Mondays:
• March 21
• May 16
• July 18
• September 19
• November 14

Available Shifts

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