The benefits of volunteering are enormous both to the community and to you. Skills-based volunteering is an innovative way to contribute the skills that you’ve spent a lifetime developing to addressing the pressing needs of nonprofit agencies. In return, you can expand your network, learn new skills, advance your career, stay viable in your field as you conduct your job search and even earn college credit.
Metro Volunteers’ Volunteers with Impact and Purpose (VIP) program can help you find flexible, collaborative, high-impact volunteer opportunities. Start you search by Creating a Volunteer Profile. Once you have completed this step, you will have access to skills-based volunteer job descriptions posted by numerous nonprofit agencies.
As you review the posted job descriptions and find an opportunity that appeals to you and you do not feel that you need assistance in applying, check “Current Client: Self-Directed” as you complete your profile and proceed according to posted information. However, if you have questions or need assistance in applying for a position check “Current Client: Advisor Requested” as you complete your profile and a VIP Placement Adviser will contact you.
*Profile tip: As you complete your profile, please ensure that you fill out all sections. Information related to your interests and your motivations to volunteer is key to finding the best placement for you.
Become a VIP Facilitator
Help nonprofit agencies survive and thrive by working to capitalize on the power of skills-based volunteer engagement. Facilitate a process of learning and applying new approaches to engaging volunteers in collaboration with paid staff to build agency capacity and sustainability. As a Volunteer Facilitator you will complete a required training program. You will then be paired with a nonprofit agency for a six-month commitment of approximately twenty to thirty hours per agency. To apply download a Facilitator Position and Description and email to Sandi Eichberg at sgeichberg@msn.com.
The VIP program was developed in partnership with JFFixler & Associates with generous support from VolunteerMatch, the Jay and Rose Phillips Family Foundation, and Boomers Leading Change, an initiative of Rose Community Foundation.
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