Volunteer Opportunities
Most agencies seeking volunteers are reputable and reliable, but the School of Social Work is not in a position to guarantee the professional standing of individual agencies, companies or other organizations posting volunteer opportunity notices. Volunteers should research potential agencies before committing to the agency.
Agencies/Organizations: if you would like us to post your volunteer opportunity, send it to: ssw@missouri.edu.
- 7/30/09: Project Homeless Connect needs your help! Volunteer guides are needed Friday, August 7, 2009 at Stephens College, Silverthorne Arena. We need up to 100 volunteers to work the morning shift, from 8:30 till 12:30 and assist the participants with moving from station to station, paperwork and services. We need up to 25 volunteers to work the afternoon shift beginning at noon and including break down after 3:00 p.m. Training will be provided on Tuesday or Wednesday of that week from 5:30 to 6:30pm at Boone County CMCA offices at 400 Wilkes Boulevard.
If you are unable to volunteer and would like to donate, they are accepting donations to provide bus passes as well as hygiene kits to be distributed to our homeless families and individuals as they depart.
If you are interested, please contact Pat Fowler at fowlerp@missouri.edu or 239-3769. - 7/23/09: Special Olympics Missouri. On August 7 & 8, 700 Special Olympics athletes will gather for the 2009 State
Outdoor Championships. Athletes will compete in golf, tennis, horseshoes, and softball. Volunteers are needed to help in a variety of ways. Go to www.somo.org/fan to find out more about the 2009 State Outdoor Championships and sign up to volunteer. If you can’t volunteer, but still want to help, you can donate to the Outdoor Championships at www.somo.org/help. - 6/9/09: NGOabroad is a unique service that provides frugal, customized international volunteer options and helps people enter international humanitarian work. NGOabroad specializes in harnessing your skills to humanitarian need. The following opportunities are available in AFRICA:
- AT-RISK YOUTH IN POST CONFLICT NATION
- DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
- KIDS: AIDS, ABANDONED or TRAFFICKED
- COMMUNITY ORGANIZING
- MENTAL HEALTH
- REFUGEES
- 3/6/09: Volunteer in Africa is an organization dedicated to disseminating information on volunteer work programs in Africa and organizing a wide range of volunteer work, internship-volunteering and group volunteer-tourism programs in Ghana. Our abroad programs in Ghana include volunteer work in the area of orphanage assistance, teaching, health care, Christian Religion, computer training, Media and Journalism, Law, conservation, sports, community development and others. Our volunteer work program is for individuals and groups of any size.