Opportunities
In our Resources section, you can find additional listings for multiple services and resources in our community.
We invite you to submit additional paid/unpaid/stipend opportunities for possible publication on this website. Please include a description of the opportunity as well as the location of the opportunity and contact information. To submit information, click here.
Open Doors Community Advocate
Literacy Kansas City this year celebrates 25 years of providing one-on-one literacy tutoring to adults in the greater Kansas City area. Literacy Kansas City was recently awarded a contract by Missouri Department of Corrections, Department of Probation and Parole to continue and expand our Open Doors Program into its 2nd year.
The Community Advocate will be responsible for recruiting Open Door volunteer tutors and assist the Open Doors Coordinator with student intakes and assessments at Literacy KC and other community agencies.
Continue ReadingThemed Table Designer
Are you a designer or have an artistic flair? The Truman Heritage Habitat For Humanity's "American Dream Gala" is still looking for designers or groups to design Themed Tables.
Truman Heritage Habitat for Humanity is a non-profit Christian housing ministry seeking to eliminate poverty housing and to make decent shelter a matter of conscience and action. The affiliate serves Eastern Jackson County, Missouri, USA.
The American Dream Gala is Truman Heritage Habitat for Humanity's biggest fundraiser of the year.
The event will be held at the Independence Events Center and emceed by Mavericks Coach, and partner, Scott Hillman. Be sure to mark your calendars for Saturday, August 21st at 5:30pm, for this is an event you surely will not want to miss.
Please contact Jenny Forsythe at 816-679-6626 or by e-mail: frontlinemkt@yahoo.com for more information.
Volunteers needed to provide Medicare counseling
Shepherd Center is seeking volunteers to help provide Medicare counseling for local seniors and people with disabilities.
Volunteers will receive training and become certified through CLAIM, Missouri’s State Health Insurance Assistance Program. Through this program, Shepherd Center and CLAIM provide free and confidential Medicare assistance.
Continue ReadingAmeriCorps Kansas Program Coordinator
The AmeriCorps Kansas Program Coordinator serves as the administrator for Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Kansas City’s program and its members by ensuring grant guidelines are being followed, documented and reported to the Kansas Service Commission.
Continue ReadingJET Express Volunteer Driver
Help Kansas City's older adults ZOOM around town and stay active and independent! Many vibrant older adults can no longer drive and need help getting to daily activities such as the doctor, the hairdresser, the grocery, or to religious services, to name just a few.
As a JET Express driver, you choose the rides you wish to give based on your schedule.
Provide a ride once a week or once a month - no matter what, you're always providing a lift to an older adult who needs our assistance!
Continue ReadingThe Dictionary Project
Dictionary Project Kansas City is now in its 9th year of providing free dictionaries to kids in the metropolitan KC area, as well as throughout MO and KS.
Last year, with our partners’ help, we presented over 35,000 free dictionaries throughout the two states, with the most of them going to kids in the Kansas City area.
We are looking for volunteers to go into the schools and present dictionaries to the third gradersTo become a volunteer, contact
Chris Hope, Executive Director, Reading Reaches
816-763-5205
Continue ReadingAdvice Counselor
Do you have wisdom to share? Are you 60 or better and enjoy offering guidance to younger generations?
Members of the Elder Wisdom Circle are seniors who share their wisdom with young advice seekers from across the world. Via the Internet, Elders answer advice requests at their own convenience, offering young readers personalized and free advice on a wide range of topics - love and relationships, family and child-rearing, career and self-improvement, and more.
We are looking for seniors in your area to help expand our national reach. Please visit our site at www.ElderWisdomCircle.org and then the 'Offer Advice' tab on the top of the homepage. All advice providers must be 60 or better, no exceptions. Volunteers must complete an application and screening process.
Thrift Store Manager
Blessings Abound Thrift Store is seeking a manager with the drive and ability to stimulate growth in sales and donations. We're looking for someone with great management skills, experience in the retail or thrift market and proven ability to recruit and manage volunteers.
The successful candidate will have retail or thrift management experience, college education, strong computer skills, and an established record in working with volunteers.
Send a cover letter and resume to BlessAboundjob@gmail.com. Please state salary requirements.
Continue ReadingAdventures in Learning Volunteer Teacher
Would you like to share your talents, wisdom, interests, hobbies, or passions by facilitating a 45-minute class once a week? Adventures in Learning is a volunteer driven program with a multi-faceted curriculum offering subjects of interest to those 50+.
Teaching a class could make an impact on the life of an older adult exploring life-long learning. A teaching certificate is not necessary, only the love of a subject.
To become a teacher, contact Shepherd’s Center Central Volunteer Manager, Gwen Marshall at 816.444.1121 x105 or Gwen@sccentral.org.
Odyssey Hospice Volunteer
Volunteering for Odyssey Hospice could change your life. Odyssey Hospice has volunteer opportunities for individuals who can view the terminal illness of a patient as only a mere aspect of a person’s life, for those who can see the person as a whole… past, present and beyond…
If you have as little as three hours per month to devote to using your time and talents to serve others at end of life, please consider Odyssey Hospice. If you are a working professional, your skills may be useful to a patient who can no longer leave home or a nursing home.
Required and paid by Odyssey:
- Training
- TB test
- Criminal background screening (Mandatory)
Odyssey wants to ensure our patients are cared for by the safest and most reliable team possible.
Please join us in supporting those “living” with a terminal illness. We’re waiting for you.
Contact Gretta Koehler-Jones MSW/Manager of Volunteer Services for more information or to set an appointment: (816) 333-1980 or GKoehler-jones@odsyhealth.com.School and Community Programs Coordinator
Part-time Group Leader
The Boys and Girls Club of Greater Kansas City is seeking a Part-time Group Leader. A successful Group Leader must have the ability to deal effectively with staff, youth, parents, local community leaders, schools and churches.
In addition, they must demonstrate an understanding for the on-the-street inner city environment. Must demonstrate written and verbal communication skills in order to prepare and present oral presentations effectively. Click Continue Reading for more information on the position including duties.
Continue ReadingPicture Perfect
Do you enjoy photography? We are looking for photographers to document Bike MS 2010 by taking pictures of our teams and the ride.
We specifically need photographers Saturday morning and Sunday afternoon at our start and finish lines to photograph our teams. From there photographers are able to travel our route to photograph
You can volunteer for one day or two, it's up to you! You make the choice! Bike MS: Kansas City Ride 2010 takes place September 25 & 26 and is a 2 day, 180 mile journey to create a world free of MS.
Requirements:
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Must have your own camera and a way to submit your pictures to the MS Society.
Check out our online volunteer application at www.msmidamerica.org. Want more information? Feel free to email us at midamerica@nmss.org with the subject "Bike MS Volunteer".
VITAS Respite-Care Volunteer
VITAS Innovative Hospice Care is looking for kind and caring people to help terminally ill patients and their families-just by being there.
Respite care (sitting with a patient while the caregiver takes a break) is one of our biggest volunteer needs.
We are especially looking for volunteers who would be available during daytime, weekday hours but weekends or evenings are also helpful.
VITAS volunteer orientation is provided free of charge to help you learn the skills required to be an outstanding hospice volunteer. Time and dates are ongoing and flexible.
Click here to become a volunteer
Continue ReadingHelp keep our cyclists safe!
Bike MS: Kansas City Ride 2010 that takes place September 25 & 26 and is a 2 day, 180 mile journey to create a world free of MS. Cyclists fundraise and train for this event.
Safety Patrol volunteers keep our cyclists safe along the route. Ensuring that cyclists follow the route as well as obeying the rules of the road is the key responsibility. Safety Patrol volunteers can volunteer individually or on teams.
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