Tuesday, January 31, 2012

The Posse Foundation

The Posse Foundation is an organization that awards student leaders full-tuition scholarships to top colleges and universities around the country.  In addition to awarding these prestigious scholarships, we conduct an 8-month training program for students before they go off to school in the fall to better prepare them for what they will encounter.  One of the components of their training is a writing program, for which we recruit writing coaches to work with the students. We need volunteers to be those training coaches preferably graduate students. 


Contact: 
The Posse Foundation, Inc.
101 Marietta Street, N.W.

Suite 1040
Atlanta, GA 30303



Monday, January 30, 2012

SEM Link

I would like to introduce you to Science, Engineering and Mathematics Link Inc (SEM Link), a nonprofit that promotes student achievement and career exploration in math and science for K-12 students. We achieve our mission by recruiting STEM professionals and retirees as well as undergraduate and graduate students to implement our programs. SEM Link has two core programs: the Experimental Design Program and the Math and Science Career Academy, which provide students with opportunities to develop the classroom learning experience in addition to teaching them skills that are transferable to other areas of life. Our Experimental Design Program teaches students how to design and conduct experiments for math and science fairs utilizing research, laboratory and scientific literacy skills gained through individual and group learning opportunities as well as mentoring  Our Math and Science Career Academy exposes students to math and science through hands-on activities, real-world applications and career exploration.  Since our inception, we have enhanced the math and science educational experiences for over 1000 youth in Atlanta, Georgia and San Francisco Bay Area.  

SEM Link has a diversity of opportunities for individuals or groups that want to give of their time and/or professional expertise to help the organization achieve its mission. You can find more information about the various volunteer opportunities on our Volunteers Page on our website.  However, the volunteer opportunity that I’m recruiting for is a Hands on Activity Leader for the after-school programs of our community partners. These programs take place Monday through Thursday from 2:30-5:30pm at local middle and elementary schools. This volunteer opportunity will require approximately 1 hour and half of your day (an hour to implement the activity and approximately 15 minutes before and after the activity for set up and clean up). We would like to extend this volunteer opportunity to students, faculty, and staff in your institution's STEM-related departments. Please have interested volunteers complete our Volunteer Information form (link is provided below). They may also e-mail me directly at sstennett@semsuccess.org for more information

For more information about SEM Link feel free to visit our website at www.semsuccess.org. If you have any questions about the volunteer opportunities please contact me via email atsstennett@semsuccess.org. Thank you in advance for  your consideration in  volunteering with our organization and help  us “unveil potential through exposure”.

Volunteer Information Sheet: http://bit.ly/semlinkvolunteerform
        

Thursday, January 26, 2012

Global Soap Project Warehouse Team

The Global Soap Project recovers and recycles soap from American hotels and facilitates a process by which it is sanitized and remolded into new bars, then distributed to vulnerable populations worldwide. In 2011, GSP collected over 200 tons of soap that would have ended up in the landfills, produced 60,000 new bars of soap, and distributed bars to eighteen different countries around the world. 


Volunteers are needed to: 


• Sort the soap donations from hotels and take inventory
• Inspect and clean the previously used soap of any hair or other particles; get rid of any bad soap 
• Cut bars of soap from the reprocessed soap created by the machine 
• Put soap in boxes and move boxes to storage area of warehouse 
• Break down and set up boxes as needed 
• Help keep the warehouse neat and tidy 
• As needed, drive to hotels in the metropolitan Atlanta area to pick up donated soap, and/or drive to local grocery stores to pick up donated cardboard boxes 


Requirements: Volunteers must sign a waiver to participate. This project may involve some heavy lifting and/or using a blade for cutting soap (only those 18 and over can participate in cutting soap). Make sure you wear clothing that can get dirty, closed-toe shoes.  Volunteers must be at least 12 years old with adult supervision to work in the warehouse and 18 years old to drive.  Those driving must show proof of a driver’s license and automobile insurance.  


This project is not accessible for wheelchair users and because of the strong soap scent, may not be appropriate for those with chronic respiratory conditions.  Volunteer shifts are either 9:00am-12:00pm or 1:00pm-5:00pm.  Please be on time and plan to stay for the duration of your shift.  If you are more than 30 minutes late to your shift, you may be asked to re-schedule your volunteer time.  This project site is located in Norcross.


Visit handsonatlanta.org to sign up for this opportunity.

Nicholas House

Share your talents or fun activities with our kids during Nick’s Activity Hour every Tuesday and Thursday from 7:30 to 8:30pm! Watch a movie, play games, help with homework or do an arts and crafts project! The possibilities are endless and they all start with you. Because you’re fun and kids adore you. Woo-woo!

Location: 830 Boulevard SE, Atlanta, GA 30312

Background Check Required: Fill out our form: http://tinyurl.com/nickshour

Contact: Yvonne Druyeh (404) 622-0793 x 106

http://www.nicholashouse.org/

Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Mentor Immigrant and Refugee Youth


The Go-Betweener Mentoring Program 
Unique Philosophy:  “Go-Betweeners” 

Immigrant and refugee youth have the experience of "going between" their culture at home and American
culture at school and in the community. This can prove to be especially confusing and challenging. Often,
these youth are able to learn English and adapt to American culture faster than their parents, but with
little support and guidance present as their parents are usually working multiple jobs to make ends
meet. They are at particularly high risk for falling behind in school, dropping out, or becoming involved with
drugs and gangs.

We match both 1st and 2nd generation youth (ages 7-17) very specifically with mentors who are:
• also immigrants and refugees;
• who speak the same home language; and
• are from the same (or very similar) home culture, and if they were born outside of the U.S. they
have been in the U.S. for several years.
This way, they are able to relate to and support their mentees in a way that no one else could. They
understand the unique challenges that their mentees face, and they are able to communicate effectively
with their families - connecting them with resources in the community and helping them to learn to be
successful in American culture while maintaining their roots with their own culture.  

A mentor can:  
• be a caring and supportive adult presence
• help with school work
• help with English skills
• help their mentee to set and work towards goals
• connect their mentee (and sometimes his/her family) with resources in the community
• foster an attitude of succes
Other information about the program:
• We thoroughly screen our mentors through in-person interviews, background and reference checks.
• The program is community based. This means that mentors and mentees schedule activities together
independent of Culture Connect. They may participate in community service projects; attend cultural
festivals, or visit museums, theatres, and venues such as the Zoo. Sometimes, they just hang out and
talk while cooking a meal or walking in the park.
• The program requires mentors and mentees to spend at least 4 hours per month with each other for 1
year.
There is an application process and training required for both mentors and mentees.
Contact us for more information today!


Culture Connect, Inc.

P.O. Box 250          
Clarkston, GA  30021       
tel. (404) 292-8457 x 4 
fax (404) 292-8458 
www.cultureconnectinc.org

Volunteer Your Summer With Outreach 360

A Life-Changing Summer Adventure
If you are looking for an incredible experience this summer that will change your world and the world of hundreds of children, a volunteer experience with Outreach360 may be for you!  Children in disadvantaged neighborhoods in the Dominican Republic and Nicaragua lack access to basic opportunities, and most reach adulthood without the education or training needed for college or a skilled job. By volunteering in an Outreach360 neighborhood center teaching English, literacy, and community health, you help to break the dead-end cycle of poverty by giving these children a world of choice. Join us for one week to three months for this life-changing summer adventure. 
This summer, volunteers will make a lasting difference by conducting learning camps for the many children we serve in rural communities, many of whom would not have this type of opportunity without you! Join us in the Dominican Republic or Nicaragua for 1 week to 3 months for this life-changing adventure! 

For more information visit http://www.outreach360.org/programs/summer 

Tuesday, January 10, 2012

The Borgen Project


The Borgen Project believes that leaders of the most powerful nation on earth
 should be doing more to address global poverty. We're the innovative, national
 campaign that is working to make poverty a focus of U.S. foreign policy.
The Borgen Project's Regional Directors serve as ambassadors
 for The Borgen Project in their city and play a crucial role in efforts to improve
 living conditions for those surviving on less than $1 a day.

Key Responsibilities:
- Attend one (30-60 minute) conference call every week with the President of The
Borgen Project and Regional Directors from across the United States (6PM PST, 7PM
MST, 8PM CST, 9PM EST).
- Meet with local congressional offices and lobby for legislation that improves living
conditions for those living on less than $1 per day.
- Mobilize people to contact congressional leaders in support of timely povertyreduction legislation.
- Manage and implement fundraising campaigns.
- Build a network of people engaged in the cause. - Serve as The Borgen Project's ambassador in your city.
Opportunities:
- Regional Directors will have the opportunity to utilize their background and come up
with new ideas for furthering the cause.

Details:
Regional Directors operate independently from home and maintain contact with The
Borgen Project's Seattle office. Regional Directors sign a 6-month contract. The
position is volunteer and roughly 4-6 hours per week. Directors attend a conference
call every Monday evening.
http://www.borgenproject.org

HOW TO APPLY 
To apply, send your resume to directors@borgenproject.org. If selected for an
interview, please spend extensive time on the website beforehand. Applicant’s
knowledge of the cause is a deciding factor in the hiring process.

Friday, January 6, 2012

AseraCare Hospice

Are you a licensed barber, beautician or nail technician?  Or certified to provide Healing Touch or massage?

Do you enjoy reading to others, playing a musical instrument, listening to music, watching videos, playing cards, or working with arts and crafts?

Would you want to share your time by helping others with minor chores like picking up their mail, doing light housekeeping jobs or filling their bird feeder?

Would you be interested to hear someone share the story of their life with you?

If any of these interests apply to you--and you have as little as two hours of free time each month--then you are qualified to make a big difference in someone's life as an AseraCare Hospice volunteer! 

Our volunteers provide care and services to patients every single day.  You may volunteer to spend your time with a patient near your own home, or you may provide services in other communities.

If you are ready, willing and able to become an AseraCare Hospice volunteer, we want you on our team!  Please call our volunteer coordinator Sonji Brown at 800-974-4677 or 770-698-8785.


Requirements for volunteers (provided by AseraCare at no cost to you):
  • 4-10 hours of training
  • Background check
  • Physical exam, drug test, TB test
  • Proof of current driver's license and auto insurance

Families First

Families First is a local nonprofit organization that has many volunteer opportunities for groups and individuals who are interested in making an impact on children and families in the Atlanta community.

To see a list of available volunteer opportunities, please visit:
http://www.familiesfirst.org/get-involved/volunteer-services/C1-volunteer-opportunities