Careers in Service
Whether you’re searching for a career in service or you just want to get involved as a volunteer, start by learning about national and international service organizations listed here. Some offer short-term experiences while others provide 2-3 year opportunities. Some orgnaizations provide travel, food, housing and stipend or salary while others require you to help raise funds to cover your expenses.
If you’re looking for ways to get involved in service locally while you’re a student at EMU, please contact our Community Learning Coordinator, Marta Frederick, , 432-4146. or stop by the office at 320 Campus Center.
The Community Learning Center is always available to help you find a good fit, answer questions and provide support.
Action without Borders
www.idealist.org/
Action Without Borders is a global network of individuals and organizations working to build a worldwhere all people can live free and dignified lives in a healthy environment.
Americorps
www.americorps.org
Americorps members train volunteers, tutor and mentor at-risk youth, build housing, clean up rivers and streams, help seniors live independently, provide emergency and long-term assistance to victims of natural disasters, and meet other community needs.
Bread for the World
www.bread.org/
Celebrating more than 25 years of seeking justice for the world's hungry people, Bread for the World is a Christian voice for ending hunger in the new century.
Brethren Volunteer Service
www.brethren.org/genbd/bvs/
Brethren Volunteer Service is persons giving their time and skills to help a world in need. It is a way for people to work at issues greater than themselves, recognizing that their efforts may not immediately solve deep-rooted problems, but can be part of on-going work for justice, peace, and the integrity of creation.
Caring Institute
www.caring-institute.org/
The Caring Institute is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization founded in 1985 to honor and promote the values of caring, integrity, and public service. Inspired by the example of Mother Teresa, the Institute believes that the solution to most problems is the caring of one human being for another. The Caring Institute celebrates those special individuals who, in transcending self, devote their lives in service to the disadvantaged, the poor, the disabled, and the dying. We honor those individuals who ennoble the human race with their long-standing commitments to caring.
Catholic Network of Volunteer Service
www.cnvs.org/
Catholic Network of Volunteer Service (CNVS), challenged by the message of the Gospel, promotes and assists member programs serving in the United States and throughout the world. We are a resource for people who are discerning a call to volunteer service, are in service, or have returned from service
Christian Appalachian Project
www.christianity.com/cap
Christian Appalachian Project (CAP) is a non-profit, interdenominational service organization that seeks to help in need in Appalachia by providing physical, spiritual and emotional support.
Christian Peacemaker Teams
www.cpt.org
Christian Peacemaker Teams is a program of Brethren, Quaker and Mennonite Churches and other Christians that support nonviolence.
Cross Cultural Solutions
www.crossculturalsolutions.org/student
Cross-Cultural Solutions is a not-for-profit international volunteer organization that operates volunteer programs in Brazil, China, Costa Rica, Ghana, Guatemala, India, Peru, Russia, Tanzania, and Thailand. Our programs offer a unique opportunity for participants to work side-by-side with local people, on locally designed and driven projects. Our volunteer programs are designed to facilitate hands-on service and cultural exchange in the aim of fostering cultural understanding. As an international volunteer, you will participate in meaningful community development and gain a whole new perspective of the world.
EMU Career Services
www.emu.edu/careers/
People deciding on majors, summer jobs and internships, seniors anticipating life after graduation, EMU alumni exploring a career change. . . . . Find thoughtful support and up-to-date resources at EMU’s Career Services.
Environmental Career Opportunities
http://ecojobs.com/
The #1 source of environmental jobs!
Global Volunteer Network
www.volunteer.org.nz
This non-profit organization places volunteers in community projects in China, Ecuador, Ghana, Nepal, New Zealand, Romania, Russia, Thailand, and Uganda. Volunteers have the opportunity to participate in a variety of educational, environmental and community aid programs. Examples of the exciting and rewarding activities available to volunteers include teaching English, environmental work, AIDS education, and assisting in an orphanage.
Heifer Project International
www.heifer.org/
Heifer Project International offers hungry families around the world a way to feed themselves and become self-reliant.
Inner-City Teaching Corps
www.ictc-chicago.org
ICTC is a volunteer service program that places recent college graduates as classroom teachers in inner-city Chicago. Volunteer Teaching Corps members live a simple lifestyle in faith based community residences and participate in a specially designed Alternative Teacher Certification Program, developed in partnership with the School of Education and Social Policy at Northwestern University. Corps members serve for two years, and work full-time as teachers in grades 1-8 of low income Catholic schools in inner-city Chicago. Corps members receive room, board, medical insurance, a modest stipend, and transportation. Application Deadline is January 21.
InterMenno Trainee Program
www.intermenno.doopsgezind.nl/english/index.html
The Intermenno Trainee Program is a one year exchange program, administered by the Intermenno Committees of Europe. Young people, between approximately 18 and 25 years old, spend a year in Europe. They work and live with European Mennonites and thereby learn to know Europeans, their culture and their language, firsthand.
Internet Nonprofit Center
www.nonprofits.org
The Internet Nonprofit Center publishes the Nonprofit FAQ, a resource of information provided by participants in many online discussions about nonprofits and their work.
KaBOOM!
www.kaboom.org/
KaBOOM! is a national nonprofit organization that fosters those networks and provides those spaces for kids to grow. We inspire individuals, organizations, and businesses to join together to build much-needed, safe and accessible playgrounds. Through this team effort, we help communities create a model of partnerships that achieve positive and sustainable changes in neighborhoods nationwide.
Literacy Volunteers of America
www.literacyvolunteers.org/home/
Literacy Volunteers of America, Inc. (LVA) is a national network of over 350 locally based programs, supported by state and national staff. Our mission is to change lives through literacy. Professionally trained volunteer tutors teach Basic Literacy and English for Speakers of Other Languages to courageous, motivated adults like Evelyn. Literacy skills enable LVA students to be better parents, workers and citizens.
Lutheran Volunteer Corps
www.lvchome.org/
Lutheran Volunteer Corps: Since 1979, more than 1,200 men and women have joined the Lutheran Volunteer Corps to work for justice, live in intentional community, and simplify their lifestyle, while exploring their spirituality. Grassroots, community-based agencies across the country count on Lutheran Volunteers to provide essential services in the areas of education, public safety, human needs, and the environment. Many programs offer the opportunity for hands-on direct service while others involve coordination, development and management of projects.
Make-A-Wish
www.wish.org/
The Make-A-Wish Foundation® grants the wishes of children with life-threatening illnesses to enrich the human experience with hope, strength, and joy. We are the largest wish-granting organization in the world, with 81 chapters in the United States and its territories, and 22 international affiliates on five continents.
Mennonite Central Committee
www.mcc.org/serve/
Whether you are interested in economic development, education, health, or peace-building work, MCC offers a variety of opportunities to serve. SALT (Serving and Learning Together) is a program for young adults to serve abroad for a one-year term. Three-year terms are also possibilities for recent college grads.
Mennonite Mission Network
www.mennonitemission.net
Mennonite Mission Network, the mission agency of Mennonite Church USA, supports ministries in more than 50 countries. Formed Feb. 1, 2002, with offices in Elkhart, Ind., Newton, Kan., and Harrisonburg, Va., Mennonite Mission Network succeeded the mission agencies of the former General Conference Mennonite Church (Commission on Home Ministries, Commission on Overseas Mission) and the former Mennonite Church (Mennonite Board of Missions).
Mennonite Voluntary Service
www.mennonitemission.net/Work/Service/MVS/default.asp
Mennonite Voluntary Service provides a way for people (age 20 and up) to live out their faith through deeds of service in more than 20 communities throughout the United States. Started in 1944, Mennonite Voluntary Service is the oldest continuing voluntary service program in Mennonite circles. MVS has been a powerful influence on the church. Thousands of Mennonites (and increasingly people from other denominations) have served the marginalized people of America in the past five decades. In the process, they themselves were served and transformed by the people among whom they lived.
Mickey Leland - Bill Emerson Hunger Fellows Program
www.hungercenter.or g/international/
The Mickey Leland - Bill Emerson Hunger Fellows Program is a yearlong fellowship that trains emerging leaders in the fight against hunger. The program provides twenty participants with a broad understanding of the problem of hunger, the skills necessary to contribute to a solution, and the personal experience that puts faces and names to these issues.
Nature Conservancy
http://nature.org/?source=overture_nature_conservancy
The mission of The Nature Conservancy is to preserve the plants, animals and natural communities that represent the diversity of life on Earth by protecting the lands and waters they need to survive.
Nonprofit Career Network
www.nonprofitcareer.com
This web site is dedicated to the nonprofit sector of today’s business and economic world. Their mission is to be a complete, one-stop resource center for nonprofit organizations, individuals seeking job opportunities in a nonprofit organization, and people who want to volunteer to make a difference in this world.
Peace Corps
www.peacecorps.gov/indexf.cfm
Peace Corps was created to help the people of interested countries in meeting their need for trained men and women. To help promote a better understanding of Americans on the part of the peoples served. To help promote a better understanding of other peoples on the part of Americans.
Red Cross
www.redcross.org/
Be a Red Cross volunteer! Helping others feels good, and helps you feel good about yourself. Your local Red Cross can work with you to provide rewarding experiences, opportunities to utilize your talents, or provide training to help you serve your community.
SALT (Serving and Learning Together)
www.mcc.org/vep/salt/index.html
SALT is a one year cross-cultural living and service experience for young adults from the United States and Canada. Assignments are available in the Caribbean, Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, Europe and Asia.
Student Conservation Association
www.thesca.org/explore.cfm
The Student Conservation Association offers high school and college students, as well as other adults, extraordinary opportunities to serve our nation's most prized public treasures: its natural and cultural resources
Teach for America
www.teachforamerica.org/
The Teach for America national corps of outstanding and diverse recent college graduates of all academic majors who commit two years to teach in urban and rural public schools. Since 1990, we have focused the leadership and passion of some of our nation’s most talented graduating seniors on expanding educational opportunity for our nation’s most disadvantaged students. During their two-year commitments, corps members have a powerful impact on their students’ lives and on the schools in which they teach. After their two years, Teach For America alumni bring their unique perspective and experience to every sector of professional life, where they remain lifelong advocates for making an excellent education available to all children.
United Nations Volunteers
www.unv.org
The United Nations Volunteers (UNV) program was created by the General Assembly of the United Nations in 1970 to serve as an operational partner in development cooperation at the request of UN member states. It is unique within the UN family and as an international volunteer undertaking. It reports to the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and works through UNDP's country offices around the world.
United Planet
www.unitedplanet.org
United Planet is a leading international non-profit organization devoted to fostering
cross-cultural understanding and supporting communities in need. As
a partner with the International Cultural Exchange
Federation (ICYE), they offer 6-month and one-year volunteer opportunities worldwide.
Volunteer Match
http://volunteermatch.org/
Find a Volunteer Opportunity in your area for whatever you like doing
