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QUINTESSENTIAL CAREERS VOLUNTEERING/NONPROFIT TOOLS:

• Community Trusteeship Can Add Value, Purpose to Your Career Path
• Consider the Nonprofit Sector to Expand Your Employment Options
• Volunteering Can Open Doors to a New Career.
• Volunteering Can Reveal Your Work Passion

OTHER VOLUNTEERING/NONPROFIT CAREER RESOURCES:

ACCESS: Networking in the Public Interest -- comprehensive national resource for employment, internships, volunteering, and career development in the non-profit sector.

American Red Cross -- information about volunteering at the Red Cross, which is a humanitarian organization led by volunteers and guided by its Congressional Charter and the Fundamental Principles of the International Red Cross Movement, will provide relief to victims of disasters and help people prevent, prepare for, and respond to emergencies.

America's Charities -- provides information about volunteering at America's Charities, founded in 1980, and which is a coalition of prestigious, national charitable organizations providing direct services in thousands of local communities.

Charity Careers -- learn more about career opportunities with charitable organizations, as well as view job postings.

CityCares -- encompasses a group of innovative, entrepreneurial organizations in cities across the U.S. and the United Kingdom committed to providing flexible opportunities for all people to engage in community service and volunteering activities that fit your schedule. Not one in your area? Start a chapter! Free.

Corporation for National Service -- offers volunteer possibilities at a number of federal organizations, including the Corporation for National Service, AmeriCorps, Senior Corps, Learn and Serve America, and America Reads.

DeepSweep -- a leading job site for nonprofit jobs, where all levels of job-seekers can search for numerous career opportunities, post your resume, and register for a personal search agent. Job postings are listed by date. Free to job-seekers.

DevelopPro.com -- a great job source, including access to a national job database, for development professionals serving non-profit organizations. Job-seekers can search the job database, sign-up for an email job alert service, and find career resources. Job-seekers must register to access "membership benefits." Free to job-seekers.

Dress for Success -- a great not-for-profit organization that helps low-income women by providing job interview suits, confidence boosts, and career development -- in more than 75 cities. Learn how to volunteer, how to donate, or how to get assistance. Free to job-seekers.

Earthwatch Institute -- internship, volunteer, and employment opportunities with Earthwatch Institute, an international nonprofit organization that supports scientific field research worldwide to improve our understanding and management of the Earth.

ExecSearches.com -- a site for middle, executive, and director level job-seekers looking for non-profit and public sector employment in higher education, health, advocacy, philanthropy, government, social and human services, and community and economic development. Search jobs by keyword, function, industry, and region. You can also take advantage of a matching service and find career resources. Free to job-seekers.

Experience Corps -- a volunteering site for people 55 or older in which you can tutor children who need basic literacy skills; mentor students who need guidance; and partner with classroom teachers to create better learning communities. Currently in 20 U.S. cities. No cost to job-seekers.

4 Labors of Love -- an Internet volunteer initiative where people looking for volunteering experiences or internships can register your interests and skills and search the volunteering database (by location and keyword) for opportunities that interest you. Free to job-seekers.

Global Volunteer Network -- a great site for those searching for international volunteer educational and community aid projects. Includes people needed in developing countries for teaching English, environmental work, health and sanitation, and more. Free to job-seekers.

Global Volunteers -- a private non-profit, non-sectarian development organization, Global Volunteers was founded in 1984 with the goal of helping to establish a foundation for peace through mutual international understanding. Its programs center around a one-, two-, or three-week volunteer work experience in Asia, Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean, the Pacific, Europe, or the United States.

GuideStar -- a national database of more than 850,000 non-profit organizations. Search for non-profits by name, keyword, location, and category. A good resource for job-seekers considering a non-profit organization. Free.

Habitat for Humanity International -- offers many ways people can get involved in an organization that is at work in every state of the United States and in 59 other countries around the world trying to eliminate poverty housing.

Humana People to People -- a volunteering site for job-seekers who are looking to make a difference in improving the living conditions for people living in the poorest nations of the world. Volunteer to become a development instructor. Free to job-seekers.

Idealist -- search for volunteer opportunities in 15,000 organizations in 130 countries Idealist serves as a clearinghouse for organizations - whether they have a Website or not - and allows them to enter and update information about their services, volunteer opportunities, job openings, internships, upcoming events, and any material or publication they have produced.

ImpactOnline -- is a nonprofit organization dedicated to increasing volunteerism through the Internet. ImpactOnline offers VolunteerMatch, a matching service for volunteers and nonprofits that finds volunteering opportunities that fit everyone's interests and schedules. Includes some great articles, such as Susan Ellis' Putting Volunteer Work on Your Resume.

InfoZone: The National Park Service -- includes detailed information about jobs and volunteer positions with the National Park Service. Includes information about the National Park Service Volunteers In Parks Program (VIP). The primary purpose of the VIP program is to provide a vehicle through which the National Park Service can accept and utilize voluntary help and services from the public.

InterAction -- offers resources that are useful to people seeking paid or volunteer positions -- in the US and abroad -- with international relief and development agencies. The American Council for Voluntary International Action is the nation’s largest coalition of international development, disaster relief and refugee assistance agencies. InterAction's members include more than 150 US-based non-profit organizations.

Jobs in Nonprofit -- self-described "largest source for professional and management openings in nonprofit." Access to a number of resouerces by completing a free career profile. More resources available for members-only.

Nonprofit Career Center -- whose focus is on bringing people together by identifying the people who want to participate in the nonprofit sector and the organizations that have a need for those people. Site includes a section where job-seekers can post their resumes and search for jobs or volunteer opportunities with nonprofit organizations.

nonprofitJOBMARKET.org -- a job site where job-seekers can find volunteering, employment, and consulting and temporary opportunities with non-profit organizations around the world. Search for postings by keyword, job status, country, location, job type, and mission type. No cost to job-seekers.

NonprofitOyster.com -- for job-seekers searching for jobs in the nonprofit sector. Search nonprofit job listings (by job function, area of focus, and location), post your resume, store jobs of interest, and create a job search agent. Free to job-seekers.

OpportunityNOCs.org -- the Net's leading source of non-profit jobs and career opportunities for administrative, staff, and professional positions. A great resource for job-seekers. National jobs database contains about a thousand jobs -- and you can search by keywords, organization, position, and location. Free to job-seekers.

Peace Corps -- tens of thousands of people have served as volunteers since 1961, helping change and improve the human condition at the grassroots level. The Peace Crops provides volunteer opportunities teaching children the basics of math, science, and English; working with a community to protect the local environment; and helping people stay healthy, expand their businesses, or grow more nutritious food.

Project America On-Line -- founded in 1993 by three college students, this organization inspires and teaches people to take positive steps in their communities, and creates partnerships between volunteers and the organizations that need them.

Rainforest Action Network (RAN) -- since its founding in 1985, the RAN has been working to protect tropical rainforests and the human rights of those living in and around those forests. From the beginning, the Network has played a key role in strengthening the worldwide rainforest conservation movement through supporting activists in tropical countries as well as organizing and mobilizing consumers and community action groups throughout the United States.

Save the Children -- committed to serving children and families in need in 15 states across the United States and in more than 35 developing nations around the world. Save the Children employs highly skilled administrative, managerial, and other professional and technical staff and offers both employment as well as volunteering opportunities.

SERVEnet -- created as a tool for the volunteer and service community, volunteers can search for opportunities in their communities as well as elsewhere. Every day, it bring thousands of volunteers and community organizations together online. SERVEnet is a program of Youth Service America, a leader in the field of youth service for more than 10 years.

ServiceLeader.org -- a comprehensive volunteering site, with everything you need to know about volunteering, including cyber-service. Excellent advice for volunteers of all types and all ages. From the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin.

Teach for America -- where interested individuals can find out about joining this teaching corps, which places members in 13 sites around the U.S. to teach in under-resourced urban and rural public schools. Members make a two-year commitment.

United Planet -- a volunteering site from an international non-profit organization devoted to fostering cross-cultural understanding and supporting communities in need, partnered with the International Cultural Exchange Federation (ICYE), offering 6 month and one year volunteer opportunities worldwide as an alternative to the Peace Corps. No cost to job-seekers.

USA Freedom Corps -- a great resource for finding volunteer service opportunities of interest to you in your hometown, the U.S., internationally, and even virtually. Volunteering options come from thousands of organizations that need help. You can also keep an online journal, keep track of your volunteering efforts, and find all sorts of great resources and advice for volunteer. Free to job-seekers.

USAService.org: Renew America Together -- designed to help promote service events related to Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, and for Americans to make their commitments, build communities, find opportunities to serve and share their results -- engaging people in direct service or bringing people together to reflect on how they can commit to becoming more engaged citizens.

Volunteer & Work Opportunities Abroad -- lists programs for students and young professionals in a wide variety of academic disciplines and fields. Opportunities mentioned here are both long and short term in all areas of the world. Some of the programs require a fee while others provide such benefits as a stipend or salary, housing and meals, transportation, insurance etc. From Towson University.

Volunteer in Africa -- an organization dedicated to disseminating information on volunteer programs in Africa, as well as to organizing a wide range volunteering, internship and cultural exchange programs in Ghana. No cost to job-seekers.

VolunteerMatch -- you can now easily search thousands of volunteer opportunities by zip code, category, and date; then signup instantly by email for those that fit your interest and schedule. Opportunities are posted directly by local organizations. Free.

Volunteers of America -- where you can learn about volunteering opportunities in designing and operating programs that deal with today's most pressing social problems -- from rural America to inner-city neighborhoods.

Volunteer-Village.com -- a volunteering matching service, where you can find thousands of volunteer opportunities throughout North America and the world -- matching your skills, your location, and your time of availability. All of volunteering opportunities are screened. Registration required. No cost to volunteers.

WWOOF: World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms -- a great volunteering site for people looking to volunteer on organic farms around the world. Browse for opportunities that most interest you and then make direct contact to arrange a stay. Volunteers usually live as part of the family. Small fee to job-seekers.

Youth for Understanding -- a non-profit educational organization that offers opportunities for young people around the world to spend a summer, semester, or year with a host family in another culture.

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