Opportunities From: United Way of King County

Got love to share? Consider becoming a foster volunteer!

As a foster volunteer, you would make a short-term commitment to nurture one or more animals from the shelter in your home on a temporary basis. 

Some cats need a break from living at the shelter.  Providing time in your home helps them get ready to be adopted. Many cats need a quiet patch of sunlight to recover from a cold, for example.

RASKC also offers kittens, rabbits, and dogs to foster too.

Are you in a position to help?

Among the animals that are eligible to be fostered, you choose which animal that will go home with you.

Foster volunteers are given training online and 1:1, great support and everything necessary-- free pet food, free medical care for the kitty, free litter, free litter box, free kennel...

When the pet is ready to be adopted, you may choose to:

   a) adopt to a member of the community through RASKC's Adopters Welcome program, or

   b) bring the animal back to the shelter, or

   c) adopt the animal yourself.

You can decide when the time is right for you to foster-- on an ongoing basis or just every once in a while.

Children may participate in the animal care, though an adult in the household must be the official volunteer.

Community service might be available for school (if okay with the school). Usually 1.5 hours is credited for each day an animal is cared for in your home.

1. Complete a RASKC volunteer application.

2. Go to RASKC's website. View the training videos- Modules 1, 2, & 4 - then answer the questions.

3. Submit your completed liability-release form if you are an adult. If you are a youth, the form would need to be completed by your parent/ legal guardian.

Share your love and have fun as a foster parent to sweet fur-baby that needs you.

Thanks for considering this possibility. RASKC looks forward to hearing from you...

A precious bunny would love to receive care in your home for a few weeks (or a few months) until an adopter has been identified or until a spot has opened up at Reber Ranch.

RASKC provides free food, free hay, free supplies, plus free medicine and free medical care for the foster animals.

Foster training is provided online with lots of one-on-one support, if needed, from RASKC's Foster Care Coordinator and/or RASKC's Lead Rabbit Volunteer.

Opening your heart and your home to an animal from the shelter on a temporary basis is one of the very best things you can do to help.

It the situation isn't working out for any reason, you can return the bunny back to the shelter the next afternoon.

Children may assist in the animal care, but an adult in the household would need to be the official foster volunteer.

Community service for school might be available (if okayed by the school). Usually 1.5 hours credit is given for each day caring for a foster animal.

Application required. Click "respond" and we will follow up with more information. 

RASKC hopes to hear from you!

 Katharine’s Place is a home to 25 families in Seattle’s north Rainier Valley. Our program provides housing to families coming from homelessness, those affected by HIV/AIDS, clients with disabilities, and refugees and immigrants. We work with our tenants to promote stability and self-sufficiency. One aspect of our work is to provide fun activities for our families to participate in. We love to have someone come to the site and not only get the kids out but the parents also to enjoy fun outdoor activities.

St. Vincent de Paul Needs Volunteers | Please Help!

We urgently need 10-20 volunteers to help pre-bag food items for neighbors in need.

For more information, please visit svdpseattle.org

Email taij@svdpseattle.org or volunteer@svdpseattle.org

SVdP thanks you for all your help and support! 

All volunteers will participate in the COVID-19 (Novel Coronavirus) Screening Questions before volunteering. If the volunteer shows signs of COVID-19, they will not be allowed to volunteer.

Questions:

SVdP Georgetown Food Bank Current Procedure:

Number of Volunteer Needed:

Volunteers will be pre-packing food items for Tuesday distribution.

Volunteers will be handing out prepackaged items to neighbors

Volunteers will be stocking and sorting items.

Volunteers will be handing out prepackaged items to neighbors

Volunteers will be handing out prepackaged items to neighbors

Seattle Urban Academy is over 95% funded by donations. Our Nutrition Program makes sure students have access to breakfast and lunch during the school day, but resources and support for the program comes straight from donors and volunteers. So how can you or your business support SUA's Nutrition Program?

This is a great opportunity for your team, life group, family, or church to participate in a service project to benefit high school students. 

Come join the Room Circus team!  Room Circus's Board of Directors is an "active board" responsible for activities such as fundraising, marketing, financial over-site, supporting staff, and most importantly, being ambassadors to the community. The VP Board meets the fourth Monday of the month, in the Judkins Park neighborhood, and maintains email discussions and pop-up meetings between formal meetings as needed. General Board members meet quarterly, although they are welcome to attend the monthly meetings as well. Although we have our separate functions, we work as a team and help one another when needed. 

Current needs:

- Secretary (VP board position): Primary duty is taking minutes at board meetings. Signatures are required periodically. A few other minor duties.   

- Treasurer (VP board position): Our office manager takes care of the day-to-day financial matters, but the treasurer would help with the more global plan. Treasurer is needed for "check & balances" to make sure we have two eyes on the flow of money.

- Corporate Sponsorship (board position): Seeks corporate sponsorships.

- Grants (board or volunteer positions): (a) writing grants, (b) seeking out new grants, &/or (c) tracking grants. Ideally, we'd have a person in change of grants (track them), and that person would have volunteers seek out and write grants.

- Volunteer Coordinator (board position): Recruits and manages volunteers.

- Events (board member & volunteers): We usually have 2-3 fundraisers per year with approximately 25-80 guests. Board member helps organize events. Volunteer assists with duties such as: mailings, set-up, assist at event, and clean-up.

- General Board Member or volunteer: There are several other tasks that can be done as a board member or volunteer.

For questions and more information, please click the "respond" button and we will follow up with you!

The North west Refugee and Immigrant Services looking a Volunteer Primary responsibility includes preparation of proposals and grant applications in the areas of Education, Refugee Case management , Youth Program, and other related areas to the mission statement of the NWRIS. Duties · Writes letters of intent and completes grant applications to be submitted to foundations, corporations, and government agencies · Assists Grant Researcher research and identify new government and private funding opportunities · Serves as liaison between funding agencies and organization · Assists the Grant Researcher in anyway appropriate

This position is ideal for a student or professional looking to gain valuable experience in working in a professional office setting, while learning more about CAIR-WA's work in defending civil rights, fighting bigotry, empowering American Muslims, and promoting accurate, representative media portrayals of Islam and Muslims. No previous experience is required for this position.

CAIR-WA is a 501c3 non-profit Muslim civil rights organization funded almost fully by local individuals who live in the state of Washington, and their employers' matching funds. The Donor Relations Volunteer helps maximize fulfillment of pledges by local donors and ensure matching of their donation by their employers.

As an Executive Assistant intern at CAIR-WA, you will play a valuable role in making our office run efficiently, looking professional, and assisting our staff and interns to maximize their ability to serve our communities.

This position is ideal for a high school or college student or professional looking to gain valuable experience in working in a professional office setting, while getting in-depth, hands-on experience in all facets of CAIR-WA's work in defending civil rights, fighting bigotry, empowering American Muslims, and promoting accurate, representative media portrayals of Islam and Muslims. No previous experience is required for this position.

While working at CAIR-WA, the Event Planning Intern will play a valuable role in planning and managing all logistical aspects of event planning for our annual awards banquet to be held in June 2016 and for full-day youth events in 2016 that will include meetings with executives, workshops on resume optimization, interview role-play/practice, business communication, for 30 MYLP students (www.cairseattle.org/MYLP)

Tasks include, but are not limited to: setting numerous appointments with executives via e-mail and phone, maintaining a detailed pre-event registration system, compiling detailed event attendee information, track planning committee members' work to ensure completion, track inventory of all supplies needed for events, vetting and confirming experts to prepare students in these areas; preparing and printing of all event literature; and preparing and disseminating all event marketing.

This position is ideal for a student or professional looking to gain valuable experience in event planning, while learning more about CAIR-WA's work in defending civil rights, fighting bigotry, empowering American Muslims, and promoting accurate, representative media portrayals of Islam and Muslims.

Global Acts of Compassion (GAC) is searching for a new Board of Directors as we grow and transition our founders into other staff roles. Volunteering on a nonprofit's Board is a great way to add to your nonprofit resume, learn about the industry, and REALLY make an impact in the world by serving as an integral part of an organization. Our movement addresses income inequality, providing aid for the homeless, environmental consciousness, and educating communities on the necessity of practicing compassion regularly with one another and the eco-system.

This will be our third year running, and we have come along way in that time. We have hosted 4 Community Free Markets where people take or leave belongings and food for one another, learn about sustainability, and engage with their community in an atmosphere that promotes acceptance and equality all the while. We also launched a beta of our program Tips For Humanity, where customers at participating local restaurants are able to donate money towards a stranger in need's future meal. To learn more about us, visit us at facebook.com/globalactsofcompassion.

This year we aim to expand Tips For Humanity, file our 501(c)(3) status (we have the funding for this, we just need to transition our board in order to file so our application is up to date), get our website back up and running and make it more comprehensive, and of course, transition our Board!

Below you will see the list of Board Positions available, as well as the criteria we are searching for in our applicants. In order to apply, please email globalactsofcompassion@gmail.com with your resume and a cover letter explaining why you would be fit for this role. Please remember to include which Board Position you are applying for in your cover letter! :)

PRESIDENT
responsibilities:
-schedule and organize Board meetings
-act as a liason between the Board and Executive Director
-assist Board in their general activities, fill in when necessary for absent members
-attend Board meetings regularly

qualifications:
-experience leading a team
-experience in the nonprofit sector; either volunteering (at least 2 years experience) or working for a nonprofit in some capacity (at least 1 year experience)
-reliable, motivated, adaptable
-willing to learn with us and take initiative to find ways to help develop our Board so that it continues to become more organized, systematic, and effective

TREASURER
responsibilities:
-work with GAC staff to create comprehensive 2017 budget
-develop financial controls of the organization
-work with GAC staff on annual legal paperwork regarding finances (form 990-N)
-manage Balance Sheet of the organization
-report finances to Secretary for filing regularly
-attend regular Board meetings

qualifications:
-previous Treasurery experience preferred
-experience managing and documenting finances in a business, nonprofit, club, event, etc. setting preferred
-reliable, motivated, adaptable
-willing to learn with us and take initiative to find ways to help develop our financial management so that we continue to become more organized and systematic

SECRETARY
responsibilities:
-write and upload Meeting Minutes to GAC's Drive for every Board meeting
-upload Meeting Minutes from staff meetings to GAC's Drive when received
-file and manage necessary records of GAC
-work with Treasurer to file ongoing financial reports
-attend regular Board meetings

qualifications:
-previous Secretarial experience preferred
-experience with record keeping in a nonprofit, business, club, event, etc. setting preferred
-comfortable using Google Drive
-reliable, motivated, adaptable
-willing to learn with us and take initiative to find ways to help develop our record keeping so that we continue to become more organized and systematic

LEGAL ADVISOR
responsibilities:
-assist Executive Director and Treasurer in legal paperwork filing of the organization (501(c)(3) application, Form 990-N, etc.)
-research legalities for project proposals as they occur
-file any necessary legal paperwork for specific projects as they occur (i.e. event permits, solicitation permits, etc.)
-attend regular Board meetings

qualifications:
-background in law or relevant experience that will supplement your time serving as legal advisor
-experiencing filing legal documents locally and/or federally for a nonprofit, business, club, event, etc. preferred
-reliable, motivated, adaptable
-willing to learn with us and take initiative to find ways to help develop our Board so that it continues to become more organized, systematic, and effective

MARKETING ADVISOR
responsibilities:
-create new website for GAC or select and work alongside a volunteer website developer to ensure new website represents our organization well and is comprehensive for the person visiting
-ensure our Facebook page is consistently active, look for new ways to engage supporters on Facebook and market our organization
-reach out to local journalists, etc. to get the word out about GAC
-develop new ways to market our organization
-attend regular Board meetings

qualifications:
-successful marketing experience
-experience marketing using social media platforms
-website development experience preferred
-reliable, motivated, adaptable
-willing to learn with us and take initiative to find ways to help develop our branding so that we gain more support and enrich our following

Thank you for your interest! We look forward to hearing from you! :)

This is a Public Opportunity for volunteers to help support us in Colectiva Legal's new office! Volunteers will get an orientation, and may be asked to help with some of the following tasks: 

Racing in the past to help children in the future.

Sovren Group  (Society of VintagRacing Enthusiast)  and the Sovren Guild of Seattle Children's Hospital.

Sovren Guild meets the 2nd Monday of most months.  

The event is a one time a year, 3 day weekend on or around the 4th of July of each year.  

Car races, Car Corral of Car Clubs, vendor row, Open paddick area to see the cars and drivers.

A celebrity race car driver with autograph sessions within the featured car display of famous race cars.

 Katharine’s Place is a home to 25 families in Seattle’s north Rainier Valley. Our program provides housing to families coming from homelessness, those affected by HIV/AIDS, clients with disabilities, and refugees and immigrants. We work with our tenants to promote stability and self-sufficiency. One aspect of our work is to provide fun activities for our families to participate in. Some of the families have asked that we try and find someone who can come to the building to help the kids with homework since most of the family's are English as a second language.

Our Civil Rights Department handles hundreds of cases each year that range from prejudiced gestures to full blown discrimination against Muslim clients as well as non-Muslims who have been perceived to be Muslim. Casework includes conducting intake interviews, ongoing communication with clients and offending parties, writing advocacy letters, attorney referrals, researching relevant legislation, and database entry. The department also presents "Know-Your-Rights" trainings for local Muslims.

While working with CAIR-WA, the Civil Rights Intern will gain interviewing, investigative, and writing skills from work with diverse clientele to document civil rights abuses. S/he will oversee civil rights cases, as well as assist in documenting and reporting data and educating the community about CAIR's work. In addition, s/he will have access to a number of community events and trainings (depending on scheduling) pertaining to broader civil rights work in Washington State. S/he may be asked to perform other tasks as needed.

Growing Veterans is a veteran powered organization that works to reduce isolation that leads to suicide while working to make sustainable farming the norm. Volunteer days are Thursdays and Saturdays from 10am to 3pm. Saturdays will typically involve seeding and planting tasks, and Thursdays will typically involve harvesting tasks in June. Volunteers will help with life affirming acts of cultivating, irrigating, seeding, transplanting, and harvesting crops. It is recommended to have personal transportation. The farm is not on a public transit route.