Category — Community Service

Volunteer with Junior Achievement as a teacher-for-the-day at PS 230 in Brooklyn. The Tax Advisory Services group from Ernst & Young is going to be working with the second-graders on December 11th, we are looking for volunteers to fill about 4-5 classes along with E&Y volunteers.

Contact gkprograms@gkbaruch.com if you are interested or if there are any questions.

Xuewei Wang
Golden Key International Honour Society
Programs Director
Baruch College Chapter

You are invited to volunteer at the Chashama Film Festival 2009: Festival of the Worlds on Saturday, October 24, 2009. We will be volunteering at 379 East 3rd Avenue in Manhattan.

Volunteers will be broken up into shifts of 10am-2pm, 2pm-6pm, and 6pm-10pm.

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Community Service Opportunity for Baruch College Honor Students

I am please to inform you about a great opportunity for you to earn community service hours as well as gaining experience. For the past several years, Baruch Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) Program has become well-known for being the largest VITA program run by students in the metro area. Just this past tax season, Baruch VITA claimed over $5.7 million in tax refunds and prepared more than 6,100 tax returns. The best part about Baruch VITA is that we welcome all majors, no minimum GPA requirements, no prior experience or tax knowledge necessary! Our services are free of charge and so are the trainings, we just ask for dedicated students!

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Turkish Philanthropic Fund (TPF) is a nonprofit 501 (c) (3) public charity established in 2007 with the aim of making Turkish and American donors’ philanthropic needs a reality. TPF is a platform in which American philanthropists can donate to nonprofit organizations in Turkey and receive tax benefits they would not have received otherwise by donating directly to the organization. Hence, TPF has two main tasks- receiving donations and making grants.

As the organization continues to grow, they are in need of volunteers to help with office related tasks- mainly updating current database to reflect the most recent information on their contacts.  TPF would like to invite any Baruch College Honors Program student who would like to fulfill their community service requirement in their office to express interest.

They are located in Midtown East, conveniently near major lines of transportation.  Space for volunteers to work in the office is provided.   TPF anticipates the current volunteer project to be completed in 10-15 hours but would like any amount of commitment possible.  If you are interested in this volunteer opportunity, please contact Gulsah Senol at gulsah@tpfund.org.

F·E·G·S offers you a diverse range of volunteer opportunities, to make a difference in the lives of others. FEGS Volunteer Department will match your skills, interests, and available time, to programs and volunteer opportunities that help people in need. Depending on your interests, you can have the opportunity to work with children, young adults, parents, and the elderly in programs located throughout Greater New York and on Long Island.

For more information go to: http://www.fegs.org/

Want to feed the hungry? Or help children or elderly people in need? How about assisting high school students who are unsure if they even want to go to college?

For more information on these and all of Golden Key’s community service programs, please contact them at http://www.baruch.cuny.edu/goldkey/about.html

Phi Eta Sigma National Honor Society is starting up a volunteer program with a non-profit organization called Cents Ability which dedicates itself to teaching the fundamentals of finance to inner-city teens.

They are in the midst of recruiting volunteers from Baruch College to become volunteer teachers or committee members. Please see the attached flyer for more details about the program.

If you have questions or concerns about the Cents Ability program, please feel free to contact Phi Eta Sigma at phi.eta.sigma@gmail.com.

Cents Ability

JCCA is offering an opportunity to become a volunteer tutor in our Two Together program, a nationally recognized tutoring program for NYC school children.

Tutoring takes place:

Monday – Thursday evening from 5:00 pm-8:00 pm

Located at 120 Wall St.

Tutors volunteer for a 90 minutes session once a week.

For more information, please visit the website: http://www.jccany.org/site/PageServer

Once on our site, please click on “How Can You Help” and then “Volunteering”.

If you want to know more about the program, please contact Marie McNally at mcnallym@jccany.org

CUNY & NYC Department of Homeless Services

HOPE 2009: The NYC Street Survey

CUNY is in search of volunteers to join workers from the Department of Homeless Services to conduct the Homeless Outreach Population Estimate (HOPE). Volunteers will canvass parks, subways, and other public spaces to count the number of people living unsheltered. Anyone aged 18 or older is encouraged to participate.

More Info: Visit www.nyc.gov/dhs or call 311.

Lutheran Medical Center is looking for individuals who have an interest in sharing information that will empower patients and community residents to make more informed health care decisions and improve health outcomes.

Do you have good communication and public speaking skills (or willing to learn these skills)? Bi-lingual would be an asset yet not mandatory – Spanish, Cantonese/Mandarin, or Arabic.

Volunteers are trained to cover the following topics (based on the site they are assigned to):

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