Volunteer
CENTS can work with your schedule to create a volunteer experience. CENTS seeks volunteers for the following volunteer positions:
- Volunteer Program Coordinator
- Primary responsibilities:
- Answer phone, return calls/emails
- Special projects
- Shift length: 4-8 hours
- Hours per week: 8-40
- Commitment: 3 months minimum
- Qualifications: college student, paralegal, or legal secretary
- Good fits may be students of social work, political science, pre-law, non-profit
- Volunteer Legal Researcher & Writer
- Primary responsibilities:
- Review materials and programs
- Legal research
- Draft new materials
- Commitment:
- Let us know your availability:
- Hours per week
- For how many months
- and we’ll come up with a project.
- Projects
- Review current classes & programs
- Review training materials
- Research/write on specific legal issue
- Create guides/brochures for general public
- Collections, garnishments, credit reports, et cetera
- Qualifications: Lawyer or law student
- Volunteer Program Manager
- Primary Responsibilities
- Help manage one or more of CENTS’ programs
- Innovo/Credit Counseling
- Financial Clinic
- Money Answers
- MoneySense
- Evaluate/Enhance one or more program
- Commitment. Let us know:
- Hours per week
- For how many months
- Qualifications: Graduate student or professional experience
- Public administration, social work, non-profit, business student
- Volunteer Marketing Coordinator
- Primary Responsibilities
- Create plan to promote one or more of CENTS’ programs
- Help with execution of promotion plan
- Commitment. Let us know:
- Hours per week
- For how many months
- Qualifications: business or marketing/PR student or professional
- Volunteer Non-legal Research Project
- Primary Responsibilities
- Research project on program(s)
- Program populations
- Program effectiveness
- Commitment:
- Hours per week
- For how many months
- Qualification: student research project
Reasons to volunteer with CENTS
- Community enriching activity: give back!
- Professional experience
- Networking opportunity with Attorneys and Judges
- Letters of recommendation/resume
E-mail us at volunteer@centsprogram.org
