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| Job Coach | Want to make a difference in the life of a refugee? Here's how you can help! Interfaith Refugee and Immigration Ministries is accepting applications from Chicago residents interested in helping refugees find full-time employment. Interfaith Refugee and Immigration Ministries provides career counseling and seeks connections with employers in the community to help refugees gain employment and self-sufficiency in the U.S. Volunteers would assist the Career Development team by practicing interview skills, preparing job applications and resumes, and accompanying refugees on job trips around the city. Please e-mail Jenise Morgan @ volunteer@irim.org for a volunteer application. |
| Join our Board of Directors! | If you want to make a big difference in the lives of teens, joining our Board is a great way to do it! The WYO is a non-profit drop-in teen center that provides programs and services in a safe place for high school kids. The teens who frequent our center are rewarded with opportunities to develop leadership qualities and positive behaviors. Please see our web page for more information about our agency! www.winnetkayo.org |
| Special Events Coordinator | Career Resource Center is celebrating its 20th year of assisting adults seeking new employment. We are planning a special event to celebrate this anniversary. Our planning committee is looking for creative individuals with event planning experience to help orchestrate this special occasion. |
| Technical Writer | Your talent at transmitting knowledge of accessing and using software would be extraordinarily helpful in training volunteers and employees on our database. Our goal is to produce a guide on the how-to of using CRC's access database. |
| Volunteer - Advisors | Recently retired executives or those working who have time and talent to offer are ideal job search advisors. Must have extensive experience in mentoring, training, and hiring individuals at all levels of an organization. Experience can be in any discipline. Familiarity with the hiring process and networking strategies are important but being a good listener and having a desire to help others is critical. |
| Volunteer - Client Services/Reception | As the first contact for all visitors, you will interact with a diverse group of talented professionals, providing that "human touch" that earns us high marks from our clients. Your duties as a Client Services Rep will include greeting visitors and clients, answering the telephone, scheduling appointments and performing a few light office tasks. By offering a kind word or a smile, you can boost the morale of clients as they come through our door. In addition to helping others, you have the opportunity to form lasting friendships with other volunteers. |
| Volunteer - Marketing Writer | If you have a passion and flair for writing, a strong marketing voice, and the ability to articulate nonprofit missions, here is an opportunity for you to assist in raising the visibility of CRC! Your talents can make a difference as you prepare human interest stories, newsletters, press releases, posters, and/or brochures. 3 hours per week (daytime or Tuesday evening) or project based. |
| Volunteer - Network Facilitator | Enjoy conversing with individuals from a wide spectrum of disciplines? You can make a difference in a job seekers quest for new employment by facilitating a group of 15-25 job seekers. The ability to elicit an animated exchange of information between participants is key. Tuesday evening 7-9 pm, or various times during the week, 4-6 times a year. |
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| Anixter Center | To enhance the ability of individuals living, or at risk of disabilities to live, learn, work, and play in the community. |
| Career Resource Center | "Career Resource Center, established over 20 years ago, is a regional, nonprofit career transition center that provides professional assistance to adults seeking employment. Our team of professionals energize and empower job seekers by offering education, training, and mentoring. CRC's comprehensive re-employment services focus on helping candidates optimize their search efforts and maximize their results. CRC members receive access to private individualized advisory sessions, group programs featuring professional experts in their fields, networking sessions, interview and resume preparation and critique, reference materials and access to workstations, computer lab, Internet, office equipment and more." |
| Chicago Anti-Hunger Federation | The mission of the Chicago Anti-Hunger Federation is to alleviate hunger in Metropolitan Chicago through distribution of high-quality food; education; advocacy; culinary arts and other employment training. |
| Connections for the Homeless | Connections provides housing, employment and supportive services to move individuals and families out of the shadow of homelessness. |
| Council of International Programs | To promote world peace through international training and cultural exchange |
| Inspiration Corporation | In an atmosphere of dignity and respect, Inspiration Corporation helps people who are affected by homelessness and poverty to improve their lives and increase self-sufficiency through the provision of social services, employment training and placement, and housing. |
| Interfaith Refugee & Immigration Ministries | Interfaith Refugee and Immigration Ministries creates opportunities for refugees fleeing war, terror and persecution to build new lives of safety, dignity, and self-reliance. |
| North Shore United Way | United Way of the North Shore, a member of United Way of Metropolitan Chicago, engaes caring people thourghout our city to invest time and resources where they are needed most. United Way provides the leadership and resources it takes to make long-lasting change, so that people can become independent. We are all connected in our community. When children succed, when families become stable, when individuals stay healthy, our community is stronger. That's why United Way focuses on Income, Education and Health - the building block of independence. Our goal is to provide the leadership and resource it takes to make long-lasting change the advances the common good. |
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