Volunteer Opportunities in the DC Metro Area for

Harvard Club Members

2009

 

Members of the Harvard Club of Washington DC are welcome to post information here on community service organizations seeking volunteers. 

 

Instructions:

1.  Hit "Edit" button in upper left corner of this page.

2.  The username for this page is "volunteer63" and the password is "charity".

3.  Scroll to the bottom of the "Volunteer Opportunities" list

4.  Identify (a) organization (b) type of work or activity required (c) contact information at the organization (d) name and affiliation of the Harvard Club member who recommends the organization.

5.  Please note that this list is a service supported by the Harvard Club of Washington DC for its members only.

 

Thank you for sharing your good ideas and information with other club members.  If you prefer, you may email your information to Irene Wu, community service committee, at ireneswu@yahoo.com and she would be happy to help you post the information.

 

For more information on volunteer events with the Harvard Club of Washington, please contact Amanda Gregory, Co-Chair, Community Service Committee at amandagregory@gmail.com

 

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Upcoming Harvard Club Volunteer Events

 

Saturday, October 17, 2009

10am - 12pm

Wolf Trap National Park

Landscape work

 

Monday, November 23, 2009

6:30pm - 8:30pm

Washington DC Jewish Community Center

Everything but the Turkey - meal prep

 

Saturday, January 23, 2010

8:45am - 12pm

DC Central Kitchen - meal prep

 

Saturday, March 20, 2010

8:45am - 12pm

DC Central Kitchen - meal prep

 

Sunday, April 18, 2010

8:45am - 12pm

DC Central Kitchen - meal prep

 

Saturday, June 12, 2010

8:45am - 12pm

DC Central Kitchen - meal prep

 

Saturday, September 25, 2010

8:45am - 12pm

DC Central Kitchen - meal prep

 

List of Volunteer Opportunities

 

Organization:  Community Club

Type of Activity:  Tutoring/Mentoring

Volunteers tutors are needed to work one-on-one with DC public and charter students enrolled in the Community Club tutoring, mentoring, and college access program (www.communityclub.org).  Community Club meets at the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church (NYAPC), located at 1313 NY Avenue, NW, from 6:45 pm to 8:15 each Thursday during the school year.  Since 1962, Community Club has helped DC public and charter school students, primarily in grades 7-12, improve their academic skills, prepare for college and career, and become successful adults. Our tutors often become role models and offer sources of stability in students' lives, and many foster relationships with their students that extend beyond Thursday evenings to special outings and attendance at school events.  Tutor/student pairs often form lifelong friendships.

To Volunteer or for Additional Information: Please contact Susannah Harris at susannah@communityclub.org or Tom Karr ‘84 at tom@communityclub.org.

 

Organization:  NHT/Enterprise

Type of Activity:  Tutoring/Mentoring

NHT/Enterprise has worked for over ten years in Washington, DC to help tenants preserve affordable housing under the Tenant Opportunity to Purchase Act (TOPA).   The group needs tutors to provide up to four (4) hours of direct tutoring  and or mentoring assistance for underperforming DC youth in Grades 1-8.  If you are interested, send a copy of your resume to Devin Tucker at dtucker@nhtinc.org.  Please write “After-school Volunteer Tutor” in the subject line.  Volunteers will start their placements in September 2009.

 

Organization:  Civil Justice and Pro Bono Services of Maryland. 

Type of work or activity: Foreclosure prevention pro bono project:  Opportunity for members of the Maryland bar.  

 

 The Maryland Bar and two pro bono organizations (Civil Justice and Pro Bono Services of Maryland) have a strong program working with individuals in Maryland who are in foreclosure or in danger of entering foreclosure.  Workshops for walk-ins with mortgage/debt issues are held on a weekly basis and attorneys offer legal counsel and, if interested, take on individual foreclosure cases.  This is a very well run and successful program.  To participate, you should take one of the training classes below:

• Tuesday, February 24, 2009.  Crownsville/Anne Arundel County.  11:30 - 1:30 (Brown Bag Lunch Training) .  Negotiating Loss Mitigation and Maryland's New Foreclosure Process Law and Rules
• Friday, March 6, 2009.  Silver Spring/Montgomery County.  2:00 - 4:00.  Negotiating Loss Mitigation and Maryland's New Foreclosure Process Law and Rules
• Friday, March 20, 2009.  Crownsville/Anne Arundel County .  2:00 - 4:00 .  Litigation Strategies and Defenses to Foreclosure

Contact at the organization: From Mary Ann McGrail, tel: 202-577-4368, or Jennifer Larrabee, jlarrabee@probonomd.org

Harvard Club member, affiliation:  Mary Ann McGrail

 

Organization:  Community Club (see http://www.communityclub.org/)

Type of work or activity:  Tutoring students.

Mission Statement:Since 1962, The Community Club has helped DC school students improve their academic skills, prepare for college and career, and become successful adults. We provide a supportive, secure environment where learning and understanding flourish. We believe the structure of our program – long-term, one-on-one relationships between students and caring adult tutor-mentors – provides students the best opportunity for academic and personal success.  Contact at the organization:   Michael Williams, mwilliams@example.org

Harvard Club member, affiliation:  Tom Karr, Board Member, Harvard Club of Washington DC.

 

Organization:  DC government public school tutoring program

Type of work or activity:  Tutoring students

Individuals: Be a Tutor-Mentor to a DCPS student. What will you do? • Tutor one student for one to two pre-scheduled hours per week, during after school hours. Tutoring will align with curriculum and pacing guides. • Communicate with DCPS representative, afterschool coordinator, parents and teachers regarding student progress.• Communicate regularly with the student you are tutoring. Actively encourage attendance and motivate engagement.• Attend an orientation/training. • Attend a meet-and-greet at the high school where you will be working with other tutors. • Attend high school graduation. How will we support you? • We will provide the training and curriculum guides for the year.• We will provide a regular point-of-contact from Chancellor Rhee’s office. Communicate by phone, email, online group forum, etc. • On-site after school coordinators will support and communicate with tutors regularly. What are the Rewards? Research shows that one-on-one tutoring and mentoring can have remarkable results. This year we are aiming for this result: a high school diploma for every student who works with a tutor. While we fix the system, we cannot let one more student become part of a dismal ‘dropout’ statistic. Statistics can tell us the effect that graduation can have on a child’s future. However, only the people who work with students can describe the rewards of this work. Work with us, and let one student show you the rewards.

Contact at the organization:  Kaitlin McKee 202-442-5608, kaitlin.mckee@dc.gov; Gerren Price, 202-442-9192, Gerren.Price@dc.gov

Harvard Club member, affiliation:  James Carter, Board Member, Harvard Club of Washington, DC

 

 

 

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