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At the request of Sensei, current students assist in teaching classes up to 4 times each week.

Our board is a dedicated group of working and retired professionals who have a passion for Montgomery County Public Libraries. They provide guidance, leadership, oversight, and extra pairs of hands to our small staff on a wide variety of projects.

Does this sound like you or someone you know?

If you have skills in finance, fundraising, human resources, or marketing, or if you know someone who does, please submit an application online at http://www.folmc.org/get-involved/volunteer-with-us/.

Board members serve one three-year term and may be reappointed for up to two additional terms. Board members must attend quarterly meetings and participate on two committees, such as:

- finance,

- programs & marketing, -

- fundraising,

- strategic planning,

- advocacy, etc.

The application process includes a nomination application, interview, and reference check.

Learn more about FOLMC at www.folmc.org.

This is a great entry-level volunteer position for someone looking to be part of The Borgen Project. Advocates can operate from anywhere in the U.S.

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How to Apply: To apply, send your resume to borgenproject-brgn0771@applications.recruiterbox.com

You don’t need to be a lobbyist to help influence foreign policy. As a Regional Director, you’ll serve as a Borgen Project Ambassador in your city – mobilizing your friends, family and colleagues to contact Congress in support of key poverty reduction legislation.

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How to Apply: To apply, send your resume to borgenproject-brgn0771@applications.recruiterbox.com

Do you have experience in training volunteers? Are you a grief counselor? Widow Care is looking for an experienced grief sensitivity trainer to conduct volunteer training for those who will be working closely with widowed persons grieving. If interested, please contact Widow Care to discuss this opportunity further! To learn more about Widow Care, please visit www.widowcare.org Thank you for considering, The Widow Care Team Experience in grief counseling and/or volunteer training and management. To apply, email marissa@widowcare.org. 

Widow Care, a small Rockville non-profit, provides widows and widowers of all ages with support, resources and social networking opportunities. We are seeking enthusiastic, new board members to generate ideas and work alongside us to devise strategies.

Our Board meetings are held in-person every other month on Monday nights from 6:00 p.m- 8:00pm. These in-person meetings are held at our office, 795 Rockville Pike, Rockville (next to PNC Bank and IHOP). Dinner will be provided. During the months where we do not meet in person, we meet for an hour-long zoom call. Board membership will require a time commitment of a minimum of 18 hours per year for our meetings. 

We'd love to hear your ideas. Support for our mission to assist widows and widowers in our community. Attendance of a minimum of one event per year (fundraiser, meetup or support group) is required.

The APALRC hosts citizenship application workshops in the County to assist lawful permanent residents apply for U.S. citizenship.  Volunteers are needed to assist with language interpretation, completing the application and with other administrative tasks during the workshop.

The Lois Green-Sligo Chapter of the Izaak Walton League of America is looking for an individual or an organization to survey part of our property where it backs up to residential properties. We are located behind the Airpark. Throughout the years, some of our property markers have disappeared or have been buried. 

Idara-e-Jaferia Inc is a non profit organization from time to time takes part in feeding the homeless, does yearly coat drive along with interfaith programs. volunteers can take part in above programs and can also help the organization during its routine programs. 

Montgomery County Vocational program in need of business professionals to share knowledge and experience.   This would include Mock Interviews, presentations, and to share your expertise.  For more information please contact Terrence Shields at 240-632-1434, ext. 24 or Kim Lester at 240-632-1434, ext. 27.

Thank you!

The Germantown Historical Society is looking for volunteers for its Board of Directors. Anyone from Germantown who is interested in history and in community can apply. The Society is dedicated to preserving the historic structures, objects and spaces that contribute to the heritage of Germantown, conducting research on those and on the people of the past of our town, and to sharing the history of our community with the residents. We believe that knowledge of the roots of a community fosters community identity and cohesiveness. We meet one evening a month. Our current projects include archiving 1930s bank records, our campaign to create a museum of banking history in our 1922 bank building, and local historical and genealogical research. We host a large Flea Market the first Saturday of every month April-November to raise funds. The sale of spaces for vendors at the Flea Markets grosses $13,000-$24,000 a year, which we share 1/4 each to two other non-profit partners that help with the markets.

Volunteers review out-of-home placement cases of children in the public foster care system to make recommendations regarding the well-being, safety, and permanency in the best interest of the child. Volunteers provide individual case advocacy and there are also opportunities for leadership in legislative advocacy

"When asked to share why I volunteer on the Frederick County Citizens Review Board (CRBC), I immediately thought of The Starfish Story adapted from a book by Loren Eiseley. This story tells the tale of a young boy who frantically tries to save starfish stranded on a beach by throwing them back into the sea - one by one. A skeptic tells the young boy he is wasting his time, and he cannot make a difference to the thousands of starfish on the beach. The young boy picks up a starfish, throws it in the water, and says, It makes a difference to that one. Making a difference in the life of each child in foster care is an important focus for me. For this reason, after hearing about the CRBC from a former state CRBC staff member, I have been volunteering on the CRBC in Frederick County for eleven years. By volunteering, I am able to review cases to ensure the needs of each child are taken care of while in out-of-home placement. In addition, as part of the review process, I can also make recommendations that lead to a loving, safe, and permanent home for each child after he/she leaves the system. For me, each case I review matters - one by one. My hope is by serving on the Frederick County CRBC and advocating on behalf of children in foster care, I can make a difference in the lives of these children that will matter now and will have a positive, lasting impact for generations to come." - Wanet Tyson, CRBC Volunteer

Volunteers must be a resident in the jurisdiction in which they serve. Opportunities are available state wide. Volunteers must be 21 or over and able to pass a background check. One full day of pre-service training is required.

Our organization is highly interested in motivated person who can help us to promote theater events and camp for the children of different age. 

Volunteers are needed to serve as docents who will provide guided tours to groups of adults and school-aged children weekdays and weekends for our 150-year-old national museum in Washington D.C. area, which the Baltimore Sun says is "pretty cool" and the Washington Post says has "plenty of unique items to make it worth the visit."

The National Museum of Health and Medicine is not just another Washington, D.C.-area museum. The museum began as a national repository for materials relating to Civil War injuries. Back then, Surgeon General William Hammond told field medical officers to collect "specimens of morbid anatomy...together with projectiles and foreign bodies removed" and forward them to the museum to be studied in hopes of improving medical conditions.

The specimens and artifacts in the museum were the first collection in the country and is the only one in the nation's capital registered as a National Historic Landmark by the U.S. Department of the Interior.