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Working Groups
Ways to volunteer with us

Gain experience in strategic planning and implementation. Experienced people collaborate with those who would like to help and learn.

Choose what you like
Develop your skills in your choice(s) from the wide range of activities below.

Even if you are fairly new to an activity, you still can help and learn from others. You can later switch groups, if you like. Over time, you will find increasing responsibilities and opportunities.

After you see this web page, you might like to add your activity choices to your volunteer application. You can also contact us with any questions.

Hearts & Minds End Poverty Campaign logo links to more on how you can help END extreme hunger and poverty worldwideEND POVERTY CAMPAIGNSM (EPC) - Hearts & Minds is building a nationwide End Poverty Campaign - an innovative and achievable plan to help end extreme poverty more quickly and cost-effectively.

Grassroots Organizing and Advocacy - recruit or work with citizen activists helping end global hunger and poverty. Logo for Our World - Our Future: Youth For Change links to information about the program

YOUTH ARTS AND COMMUNICATIONS PROGRAMS - please see Youth for ChangeSM  (YFC) and Seniors for ChangeSM (SFC)

You can also work on EPC, YFC or SFC with your choice of almost any combination of activities below:

GENERAL - participate in a wide range of activities

MARKETING AND COMMUNICATIONS
 Social Media is growing part of our public service. We use Facebook, Twitter and other social media to recruit supporters, support ending extreme poverty, raise funds and more.

Marketing & Publishing - choose from strategic planning, website and social media promotion, production and other marketing activities.

Marketing Research - online research and/or surveys and focus groups to evaluate and improve our effectiveness.

Journalism - research, writing and editing articles for our website and newsletter. We are most interested in coverage of global poverty and successful programs where people lift themselves from extreme poverty.

Public Relations for national publicity campaigns: press releases and other marketing materials. Contact major media, including blogs, newspapers, magazines, social media, radio and television.

Advertising - general use and development of skills in advertising and marketing to promote our work, website and publications.

Ad Sales - selling sponsorships and advertising for our website.

Fund Raising - personal solicitation and fundraising events are most active. There may also be opportunities in planned giving, direct mail, corporate and foundation fundraising.

Events Planning - organize fund-raising events from a small dinner to a large End Poverty Walkathon.

Volunteer Recruitment & Personnel - recruit, supervise and communicate with volunteers and interns in our office and all over the world (via fax, phone or e-mail).

COMPUTERS, TECH & WEBSITE
Computers/Technical Support - hardware and software.

Website Design, Programming and Development - can include website editing, design, management, promotion, and website hosting, software. May involve WordPress, PHP, MySQL, JavaScript and other programs.

CREATIVE & GRAPHIC DESIGN
Arts - arts management and/or fine art, illustration or photography for our website, printed publications and public-service ad campaigns.

Art Direction/Graphic Design - can include work on our website, print publications, press releases, direct mail and more.

Copywriting - promotional writing for website, publicity and printed publications.

Creative Writing - essays, poetry or short stories that must be of high quality and usually directly related to helping end extreme poverty. Less often, we publish material related to other issues.

MANAGEMENT, FINANCIAL, LAW - see also: Leadership Opportunities
Accounting and Financial Management - can include bookkeeping and financial reports. May also involve analysis of financial info from organizations we may work with in Haiti (travel not required or included). QuickBooks experience is a big plus.
Because we've had problems created by new accounting volunteers, even those with extensive experience, we require an orientation period before anyone has full access to all of our accounting functions. You should not expect a large accounting division here. On the other hand, over time, you'll have opportunities to work on a wide range of activities. For highly experienced accounting volunteers, this can happen fairly quickly.
Important: Special conditions apply if you don't have extensive experience with QuickBooks. Please speak with us before your info session.

Law and Regulatory Compliance - can include employee, volunteer, member and government relations; intellectual property; avoiding libel, liability, and other legal exposure; regulatory compliance.

Office - office management and/or clerical work.

Carpentry and Interior Design - design and/or crafting improvements for our office space.

TRANSLATION activities are on hold for now: More Info

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