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Position: Special Events Internship

Posted: 06/24/09

Description: The American Diabetes Association (ADA) seeks a highly motivated, self-starting student who is passionate about public service and educating children in public schools in Central Texas. Intern will provide support to ADA staff and gain valuable skills and insights while assisting with presenting information about diabetes, the American Diabetes Association, and our School Walk for Diabetes program. ADA internships are unpaid, but the hours are part-time and the schedule can be flexible. If your degree program requires you to do an internship this can be used as course credit, where applicable.

This internship will enable a skilled student to assist the ADA by working on important educational and fund-raising cultivation events. This internship will provide the opportunity to gain experience in a variety of areas including:

Education

  • Work with ADA manager to present age-appropriate diabetes education and health information to students in schools across Central Texas
  • Distribute information to students/teachers about diabetes, ADA, School Walk for Diabetes
  • Present information about ADA’s School Walk for Diabetes program to students at kickoffs.  Motivate and educate about importance of event and incentives to raise money for the ADA mission.
  • Attend walks at individual schools, representing the ADA – cheer on the students!
  • Follow up with all school coordinators and order prizes, banners, etc.
  • Communicate often via phone and e-mail to school coordinators to answer questions and keep motivation high.

Fundraising & Event Planning

  • Assist with planning & implementation of special events along with pre and post events.
  • Assist with donor tracking and follow-up both in recruitment and registering companies, teams and individuals
  • Draft letters, mail out and follow-up to prospective sponsors and special guests
  • Design and prepare event materials and communications including newsletters, email blasts, phone calls, etc.

Marketing

  • Researching charitable programs of major local corporations
  • Assisting with implementation of marketing strategies
  • Project development and management
  • Strategic planning of brochure distribution
  • Street team recruitment and management
  • Research and data entry projects

Requirements

  • Interpersonal communications skills
  • Excellent writing and research skills
  • Ability to see the "big picture" and assist with all aspects of events and programs.
  • Ability to prioritize and handle a variety of assignments simultaneously
  • Currently enrolled as an undergraduate or graduate student
  • Proficiency in MS Office, Internet and e-mail
  • Proficiency in database management and design of spreadsheets
  • Ability to lift 25 lbs.
  • Superior academic record
  • No experience necessary, but attention to detail and accountability required
  • Time commitment of 15-20 hours per week is requested

Location: 2499 South Capital of Texas Hwy Suite A-204 Austin TX 78746 (between Barton Creek Mall and Rudy’s Country Store).

Contact: To determine if this opportunity if right for you please email your resume to Jane Koble, Executive Director at the American Diabetes Association.

Type: Volunteering for the Congreso para el Bienestar de la Familia, sponsored by the American Diabetes Association and the American Heart Association.

Description: Hispanics are at a disproportionately higher risk of heart disease, diabetes and other conditions that are preventable through lifestyle change and education. To combat this trend, Univision is partnering with the American Diabetes Association and the American Heart Association to host el Congreso Para el Bienestar de la Familia, an all day event featuring workshops about prevention, treatment and coping with heart disease and diabetes.

The Congreso Will Feature:

  • Screenings will be held for body mass index, glucose levels, cholesterol, blood pressure, hearing loss and vision.
  • Speakers on the topics of prevention, treatment and living with heart disease and diabetes
  • Entertainment: music and performers.

Come join us, and learn how you can effectively combat these diseases and lead a long and healthy life with your family!

Volunteer Form

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Location: Mexican American Cultural Center, 600 River St., Austin, TX
Saturday, March 28, 2009 from 8:00 AM to 2:30 PM

Contact: For more information, email Fely Garcia or call at 512-533-2849.

Type: Volunteer Nursing Students Needed in Central & South America, Africa, and Asia

Description: Do you want to apply your skills to international humanitarian work? NGOabroad is a unique service that provides frugal, customized international volunteer options and helps people enter international humanitarian work.

Central & South America

  1. High Andes: Help design programs to prevent high infant mortality. Design & implement health education program.
  2. Caribbean (being negotiated): Health education & prevention - TB, HIV, pregnancy good nutrition, mother & child health
  3. Central America: If you like kids & the beach, this is a great spot. Teach kids who have been abandoned & abused how to stay healthy: safe sex, AIDS prevention, personal hygiene

Africa

  1. Work Side-by-Side with African Doctor: This is an ideal arrangement: see the breadth of medical problems in both urban & rural practice s and have lots of supervision and support.
  2. Community Health Education: Prevention is as critical as treatment. Teach about AIDS, sex & reproduction; about the prevention of malaria; about sanitation; mother & child care.

Asia

  1. India: We have 3 sites that are great places to start.
    1. school nurse & prevention education.
    2. Buddhist monastery: tending to health needs of youth.
    3. Village medicine:" tending to villagers' health needs.
  2. Nepal: 95% of Nepal lives in the countryside and never sees a doctor. Assess need & design health prevention program.

These are volunteer positions. (But we also help people into international careers.) Applications accepted on a rolling basis. No end date.

Contact: Interested? Please READ the entire NGOabroad web site. Email info as requested on home page: embedded resume & answered Questionnaire to info@NGOabroad.com.
Ann McLaughlin MSW
Director, NGOabroad: International Careers & Volunteering

Type: Volunteer Nursing Students Needed in Africa, NGOabroad

Description: NGOabroad is a unique service that provides frugal, customized international volunteer options and helps people enter international humanitarian work.

  1. Maternity Clinics: Nursing students needed to assist in maternity clinics.
  2. Work Side-by-Side with African doctor: This is an ideal arrangement to see the breadth of medical problems in both urban & rural practices and have lots of supervision and support.
  3. Community Health Education: Prevention is as critical as treatment. Teach about AIDS, sex & reproduction; about the prevention of malaria; about sanitation; mother & childcare.

NGOabroad specializes in harnessing your skills to humanitarian need. These are volunteer positions. (But we also help people into international careers.) Applications accepted for rolling basis. No end date.

NGOabroad has 3 services:

  1. Career Consults that help people enter into or advance in international humanitarian work. Your skills & experience determine if you qualify. Ann McLaughlin MSW brings 25 years counseling experience to help: articulate your strengths; clarify your goals; design strategies; write cover letters & resumes that "get-your-foot-in-the-door."
  2. Exciting international volunteer programs working with at-risk youth who have been trafficked or abandoned; domestic violence; AIDS; community organizing; empowerment of women; teaching refugees and women & girls; vocational training, capacity building, nursing & medical; small business development.
  3. A guide to the resources to fulfill your goals. Ideal for people entering humanitarian work: current job openings, the organizations to watch for openings, and entry to advanced opportunities. We give you the raw materials, you make it happen! Tap our expertise & vast database to enter or advance in international development; fulfill personal dreams ("I always wanted to.."); and or unusual requests.

Contact: Interested? Please READ the entire NGOabroad web site. Email info as requested on home page: embedded resume & answered Questionnaire to info@NGOabroad.com.

Type: Volunteer & Paid Positions, Community Smart Start

Location: Community Smart Start (Pickle Elementary and TA Brown Elementary)

Requirements: Help children with their schoolwork and play time after school until their parents are able to pick them up. Many of the students speak English as a second language as well.

Description: Community Smart Start programs are after school-care programs that serve under-served populations in Austin.

Contact: Email Whitney McCollum or call at 536-0131.

Type: Hospice Volunteer

Area: Travis, Williamson, Bastrop, and Hays Counties

Requirements: Nursing Student

Details: A-Med Community Hospice is seeking volunteers. A-Med Community Hospice utilizes an interdisciplinary team approach to provide services for our clients. We recognize emotional, spiritual and physical losses occur during the dying process, and strive to enable clients to live life to the fullest extent until death. We seek to help our clients live each day comfortably and assist their families in adjusting after their loss.

Contact: Call Molly Cox, Volunteer Coordinator at 512-323-6500 or 800-397-6500. Free training and on-going support.

Type: Mentoring at UT Elementary School

Location: 2200 East 6th Street

Details: Please help our Little Longhorns by being a mentor. The purpose of the UTES Student Mentoring Program is to provide role models who build relationships with students by providing guidance and support in order to improve academic performance and character development to support success in life.

Students participating in the program come from different backgrounds, have a variety of interests, and a range of ages from K through 5th grade. These students may need help with academic achievement, character development, problem-solving skills, improving self-esteem, relationships with adults and peers, and school attendance.

Benefits: Mentors gain the satisfaction of being a positive role model for a student who may not have many. Mentors also increase their community involvement while connecting with youth. Students will benefit from having a consistent, dependable relationship with a caring adult. Students often have increased academic achievement and improved behavior at school and at home after having a mentor.

Mentoring at UTES just takes a commitment to spend 30-45 minutes per week at UTES with the student for an extended period.

Type: Community Health Centers of Austin/Travis County

Location: Austin & surrounding areas

Details: The Community Health Centers of Austin and Travis County have immediate openings for volunteers. Become a patient advocate, read to children in clinic waiting rooms, work with other volunteers, and more. Help us keep central Texas families healthy. We have clinic locations throughout Travis County.

Contact: If you have time to spare and want to make a difference in the lives of central Texas families, join us and contact:
Ward Kirkpatrick, Volunteer Coordinator
Community Care Services Department
512/972-4115
City of Austin - Community Care Services

Type: Internship/Support

Area: Austin & surrounding areas

Requirements/Other: Graduate Student/Mother

Details: FamilyConnections is seeking volunteers and graduate student interns to assist with data collection/analysis and follow-up support to the families seen in the hospital. We require that hospital visitors, play group leaders and mentors be MOMS. The phone support can be done by non-moms.

Click here to view the Family Connections Volunteer Opportunities (PDF Format).

In response to both the growing number of local births and the accompanying increase in the number of families not well prepared to meet their infants' needs, Connections Resource Center (as of 1/1/04, FamilyConnections and Austin Famalies) launched the Parents of Newborns pilot in 2002. The program's initial focus was to provide new mothers and fathers with general information about infant safety, health, emotional well-being and child development, including materials about local parent supports and other resources. This information and these materials were delivered to parents in local hospital settings, within 48 hours of their infant's arrival. To date, nearly 10,000 families delivering at Seton Brackenridge and St. David's Hospitals have been personally visited in the maternity ward and provided with a follow-up telephone contact to provide critical support during the first weeks at home with their infant. The project also disseminates low/no cost child safety seats with installation instruction, information and videos about child abuse and SIDS prevention, child proofing safety techniques, normal child growth and development, and positive discipline and related parenting skills.

Contact: If you are interested in learning more contact:
Rose Gabriel
Project Manager
Parents of Newborns Program
Phone (512) 478-5725 ext. 211
Fax (512) 474-2626

Type: Home Hospice Volunteer

Area: Austin and surrounding area

Requirements/Other: Prenursing/Nursing students

Details: Wonderful opportunities to volunteer with Girling Hospice Health Care. You will receive a 20 hour training program, based on the work of Elizabeth Kubler-Ross and will be viewed and treated as an integral part of the health care team. Inclusion in a monthly staff meeting to benefit from other professional 's experiences related to this work. After the initial 20 hour training, you will be expected to visit the family once a week. You will schedule your own visits with the family so that you may arrange your volunteer time around your school schedule.

Contact: If you are interested, please call:
Penny Cedel, RN
Program Development,
Volunteer Coordinator
Girling Hospice of Austin
Phone (512) 349-0402

Type: Numerous Volunteer Opportunities with MHMR Adults

Area: South Austin

Requirements/Other: Criminal Background Check

Details: There are many areas to consider when you choose to volunteer! Our campus includes three communities -- Mabee Village, Marbridge Ranch, and The Villa -- supported by a chapel, recreation rooms, classrooms, an art studio, three computer labs, multiple sports and activity facilities, a livestock barn, walking trails, and 40,000 square foot Marbridge Garden Center.

View for Marbridge web site for volunteer opportunities. Contact information and applications available from volunteer page for both individuals and organizations wishing to volunteer.

Type: Volunteer at the Food Pantry or Teach a Class

Area: East Austin

Requirements/Other: Energetic Students

Details: Volunteer at the Food Pantry and help fellow Austinites. Need students with positive attitudes willing to give their service from 4-6 PM Tuesdays, Wednesdays or Thursdays. Email Evan Autry, Volunteer Coordinator or call at (512) 220-7312 for more information.

Volunteer by Teaching a Class. Teach English as a second language, GED Prep Courses, Health, and Computer Literacy. Email Luis Ponce, Education Coordinator or call at (512) 220-7312 for more information.