Did your New Year’s resolutions include a commitment to volunteer more? Or maybe to practice acts of kindness? Or just to generally be a better person? We’re here to help! We have a volunteer gig you can do from your own home….even while watching Netflix: the Notes of Encouragement Campaign.
Interested in Volunteering?
Do Good Over Holiday Break!
Want to give back over this holiday season? We have the easiest-entry project ever for you - write notes of encouragement to our students in Mali! We provide instructions and you write short notes (and add photos, stickers, etc. if you like), scan the notes and send them to us. Learn more and sign up here.
Help! Virtual Volunteers Needed for 2 Special Projects
By Merritt Frey, Executive Director
Well, the good news is that we have been totally overwhelmed with responses to our new Volunteer Campaigns. The bad news? We need some help to manage the influx!
We are looking for two people willing to tackle some support help for our Read to Mali and Notes of Encouragement Campaigns. Each role can be done from anywhere in the U.S. as long as you have a good internet connection and will average about 1 to 3 hours a week.
For the Read to Mali support volunteer, we will ask that you review short (5 to 15 minute) videos from our volunteers to make sure they are kid-friendly and of good quality. You do not have to judge the volunteers’ work — we just need someone to check each video to make sure nothing untoward goes on and that the audio/video quality will work in our classrooms (you do not have to be a video tech — we are just wanting to be sure one can hear the volunteer, etc.). Specs and support will be provided.
For the Notes of Encouragement Campaign, the support volunteer will review notes submitted by volunteers — again making sure that there is nothing untoward in the notes (sometimes young volunteers might think it is funny to add an “exciting” word or two) and that no contact information is shared. The notes will all be scanned into pdf files, so they will be easy to review. Again, specs and support will be provided.
We are hoping whoever steps forward can take on their role for at least a two or three months staring in mid-April. Interested? Email me today please! And thank you…