Opportunities
Warehouse Maintenance Associate
It's Time that Dog Got a Job!
Academy of Lifelong Learning Instructor
Volunteer Fund Raising Consultant
Read Me a Story!
Master Mentor
Short-term, Work-From-Home Opportunity
The Delaware Association of Nonprofit Agencies (DANA) is seeking two volunteers to assist with the updating of the Directory of Grantmakers in Delaware last published in 2006. The duration of the project is 3 months. Volunteers may work at DANA or from their own homes (after instruction at office). Hours and days are flexible. Functions to include mailing information to foundations, updating electronic forms, making calls to foundations and preparing data spreadsheets.
For more information, contact Mary Cella at nycella@verizon.net.
Prisoner Reentry VISTA Positions
Client Interviewer - Faith Center
Women's Shelter Assistant
Interested parties should fax their resumes to Rhonda Miller at (302) 428-3655.
Project Consultants for Nonprofits
Interested in a short-term project that utilizes your professional skills?
Enjoy helping nonprofits to build organizational capacity?
Miss working with other professionals to achieve meaningful goals?
Then Project Consultants for Nonprofits just might be the organization for you. We are a self-managing team of experienced people 50+ who provide consulting and short-term assistance to help nonprofits get things done. You can join the PCN management team or just register your skills with us and volunteer when an opportunity of interest comes up. Our past projects have included facilitating a retreat, writing an annual report, developing a marketing plan, revising a training curriculum, conducting focus groups, designing a survey and more. Individuals wanting to become consultants or organizations seeking assistance can go to our website or contact Jessica Snow at jsnow@newarkseniorcenter.com.
Foster Grandparent Program
"I'm retired, but I just decided that I wanted to do something more with my life - to give back to the community."
Sound like you? Foster Grandparents serve up to 40 hours a week offering emotional support, tutoring, mentoring and more to disadvantaged and disabled youth. Some volunteers may qualify to earn a tax-free, hourly stipend of $3.45 per hour. Foster Grandparents will also recieve transportation reimbursement, a free annual physical and supplemental accident and liability insurance while on duy. The income eligibility for the program has just been raised. For more information, call 857-5016 or email robin.fisher@state.de.us.
Assistant Program Director
Caring Corps Member
Want to make a difference in our community? Join the Caring Corps, a partnership with AmeriCorps and The Ministry of Caring Inc. As a Caring Corps member, you will work to improve the lives of those less fortunate in a non-profit setting, in a job that fits your interests and abilities. In return, you will gain valuable job skills; a living allowance of over $10,000; health insurance coverage; day care assistance, if needed; and an education award of nearly $5,000 upon successful completion of a term of service (about 11 months in duration). Best of all, you’ll make new friends, broaden your world, and have the satisfaction of knowing that you have done something that really matters!
For more information contact Marie Keefer at 302-428-3652 or mkeefer@ministryofcaring.org. You can obtain a Caring Corps application online at http://www.ministryofcaring.org/ (click on the AmeriCorps Caring Corps Program icon).
Teach Inmates Decision-Making Skills
Going to prison is not the most popular volunteer endeavor. Yet, this is exactly what a special group of people do in the Thresholds Decision Making program. For an eight week period volunteers go into correctional institutions in the state to teach inmates how to make better decisions in their lives. Volunteers must take one day of training, fill out security clearance forms, attend a security meeting and recieve a volunteer badge before they can enter the prison classroom.
Each student inmate is assigned their own teacher. The inmate and teacher sit at a table across from each other in a prison classroom, each with a Thresholds workbook and together discuss and complete the exercises. The format of the program is one of the reasons it is so successful. Because it is not conducted in a traditional classroom style, it eliminates the usual tension, and peer pressure to not look dumb, stupid, or even too smart. It takes into consideration the reading levels of inmates, many of whom have dropped out of school in the 9th grader or earlier. Individual attention is the key to the success of this program. Since 1999 Thresholds has graduated 345 inmate students in 43 eight-week cycles.
To learn more about volunteering with Thresholds contact RSVP.
Contributed by Lynn Kroesen.
