Volunteer Site: Child Care Resource and Referral
Contact Person: Christy Gaudette
Phone Number: (919) 832-7175 ext. 3005
Web Site or E-mail Address: www.fsn-inc.org or cgaudette@fsn-inc.org
Volunteer Position Title: Lending Library Assistant, Corporate Seminar Clerical Assistant, Various seasonal opportunities. Internships are also available, especially for students in education, library science, nutrition, sociology, psychology, or any child care-related field.
Description of duties and/or responsibilities: Program Update and Evaluation Assistants participate in various projects for both parent and provider services, including telephone follow-ups with parents, data entry, updating provider information and calling child care centers and substitutes to update and verify hours worked. These calls can be made in the evenings from the volunteer's home. Lending Library Assistants maintain inventories, assist providers in the Lending Library, design displays. Help is especially needed in organizing our library; volunteers with knowledge of library organization (or an interest in gaining this knowledge) are particularly needed. Corporate Seminar Clerical Assistants prepare handout packets for corporate seminars, tabulate evaluations following each seminar and prepare mailing of evaluation results for sponsors.
What are the time requirements and or special skills needed for this position: Hours are flexible. Volunteers should have good telephone skills, pay strong attention to detail and have good organizational skills. Computer knowledge is helpful, but not required.
Also: We need assistance setting up our new library software program, i.e. library system, inventory, data entry etc... This would be a perfect opportunity for a student in the Library Science curriculum who wanted to have a start-up project for their resume'.
Volunteer Site: Common Sense Foundation
Contact Person: David Mills
Phone Number: (919) 821-9270
Web Site or E-mail Address: www.common-sense.org david@common-sense.org
Volunteer Position Title: Volunteer
Description of duties and/or responsibilities: Common Sense is a non-partisan, non-profit political organization which analyzes public policy and serves as a conduit of information for the citizens of North Carolina. Volunteer positions within the organization vary. Call or visit the website for details.
What are the time requirements and or special skills needed for this position: Flexible
Volunteer Site: Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD)
Contact Person: Brandi Jarrett
Phone Number: (919) 787-6599
Web Site or E-mail Address: http://www.madd-nc.org Jarrett@madd-nc.org
Volunteer Position Title: Office Assistant
Description of duties and/or responsibilities: General
administrative office duties; filing, copying, answering phones, monitoring MADD-NC
website. Provide assistance to the MADD-NS State Office staff for event planning and
implementation.
What are the time requirements and or special skills needed for this position: Flexible
Volunteer Site: National Multiple Sclerosis Society
Contact Person: Debbie Hoffman, Operations Manager
Phone Number: (919) 834-0678
Web Site or E-mail Address: http://www.encms.org Debbie.hoffman@nct.nmss.org
Volunteer Position Title: Office Volunteers, Event Volunteers, Program Volunteers
Description of duties and/or responsibilities: We need one-time volunteers in September, April and for the Bike Tour.
Office volunteers are needed for a variety of clerical work such as folding, labeling and sorting mailings as well as completing data-entry assignments and answering the telephone.
Event volunteers are essential at fundraisers such as the MS Walk and the MS 150 Bike Tour. Jobs include registration, manning rest stops, support and gear (SAG) and medical.
Program volunteers assist with registration, greeting and other duties at various MS events. Long-term facility visitors are also needed to visit younger and older adults on a monthly basis, or to be TeleFriends, a phone check-in program.
What are the time requirements and or special skills needed for this position: Flexible
Volunteer Site:TeamTech
Contact Person: Shelly Bowles-Roghelia
Phone Number: (919) 463-5046
Web Site or E-mail Address: teamtech.home.mindspring.com
Volunteer Position Title: TEAMing for TECHnology
Description of duties and/or responsibilities: Train staff of non-profit agencies in web browsing, internet research, desktop publishing, word processing, database and spreadsheet use, accounting machine maintenance, website design, etc. Volunteers can also work with our Computer Recycling project, where we recycle old computers and donate them to local non-profit organizations. Volunteers are also needed to assist with networking computer labs in the community.
What are the time requirements and or special skills needed for this position: Hours are flexible. Volunteers can register online through our webpage.
Volunteer Site: United Way Infolinc Hotline United Way 2-1-1
Contact Person: Susan King Cope, Director
Phone Number: 919-463-5029 or 460-8687
Web Site or E-mail Address: http://unitedwaytriangle.org
Volunteer Position Title: Information and Referral Specialist
Description of duties and/or responsibilities: Provide information and referrals to clients in coordination with community human service agencies or by contacting agencies on caller's behalf. Research agencies for new referral sources. This service is open to residents of Chatham, Durham, Wake, and Orange counties.
What are the time requirements and or special skills needed for this position: Flexible.