Community Engagement Opportunities

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* If your nonprofit agency has ongoing service learning/volunteer opportunities, apply for inclusion on our sustaining list. If you're already on our list, but need to make adjustments, inform us on the changes and we will update your listing.

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Community Opportunities

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Summary of what your organization does
The Civil Air Patrol (CAP) is a non-profit organization that serves as the official auxiliary of the United States Air Force (USAF). The organization offers a range of opportunities for young people aged 12 to 20 to develop leadership, character, and aerospace education.

CAP's cadet program is an excellent way for young people to learn about aviation, aerospace, and other related fields, while also developing important life skills such as teamwork, communication, and leadership. Cadets have the opportunity to participate in a wide range of activities, including flying, leadership training,communityservice, and emergency services.

In addition to the cadet program, the Civil Air Patrol also provides opportunities for adult members to contribute to their communities through a variety of service-oriented activities, including disaster relief and emergency services.

 

General Service Needs
Cadet programs support

 

Address: Fort Worth Aviation Museum 3300 Ross Ave, Fort Worth, Texas 76106
Contact Person: Roman Vitanza
Telephone: (817) 919-4924
Email: rvitanza@cap.gov
Website: https://tx388.cap.gov/

Reading, Writing, Talking, listening, light house work, transportation, picking up food, helping with children...any needs the patient and the family of the patient desires.

General Service Needs

Also any special skills a student might have, including instrument, singing, music, magic, etc.

 

Address: 4025 Woodland Park Blvd., Suite 130, Arlington, Texas 76013
Contact Person: Missy Jones
Telephone: 972-824-3551
Email: missy_jones@classichomecare.usv
Website: http://www.classichomecare.us/classichomecare/

Walnut Grove Middle School - Midlothian ISD (Walnut Grove Middle School)

Communities In Schools (CIS) is a private, nonprofit dropout prevention program. Since 1985, CIS has provided year-round, on-campus academic and social support services to at-risk students and their families. Our team of social workers are experts in providing comprehensive case-managed services and bringing community resources into schools to help students and families in need. CIS currently provides services to students in nearly 60 public schools in 10 school districts across the Dallas region. It is the largest stay-in-school network in the nation, and is the leading program of its kind.

Some of the volunteer opportunities through CIS are: Mentor: Serve as a positive role model, and a caring and compassionate sounding board for personal, academic, and professional life choices one hour per week working one-on-one with an at-risk student. Tutor: Assist students one-on-one in their academic areas of need. Tutors are needed for once-weekly, one-hour sessions as well as small group sessions. Clubs & Student Organization Sponsor: Lead groups of students as a club or student organization sponsor! Tap into your talents and interests. What can you share that will help shape developing young minds? Some club ideas include: Skateboarding Club, Extreme Sports Club, Photography Club, Gamers Club, Step Team, and more!!!

 

Address: 990 N. Walnut Grove Rd., Midlothian, TX 76065
Contact Person: Missy Falk
Telephone: 972-775-5355, ext. 1597
Email: missy_falk@midlothian-isd.net
Website: http://www.midlothian-isd.net/

The Community Enrichment Center offers resources for homeless families, women and children fleeing domestic violence seniors and others in the community who need help with housing, food, job skills and educational and financial goals.

General Service Needs

We have a Food Pantry and a Second Glance Thrift Shop where we need volunteers on a daily basis. We often have one day events where we need volunteers as well. You can complete the online application.

Tasks Available for UTA Students

Food Pantry volunteers sort, organize and shelve donated food and bag food for neighbors at our Pantry. Mondays - Fridays 8:30am - 4:00pm.

Thrift Shop volunteers greet customers, help with retail tasks, sort, organize and stock a variety of donated items. Mondays - Saturdays 9:30am - 5:30pm, Sunday 12pm-5pm.

 

Address: 6250 NE Loop 820 North Richland Hills, Texas 76180
Contact Person: Tiffany Guillory-Hood - Volunteer Coordinator
Telephone: 817-281-1164
Email: tiffanyg@cechope.org
Website: https://cechope.org/volunteers/

COMMUNITY FOR PERMANENT SUPPORTED HOUSING creates affordable, community-based housing options for individuals with intellectual/developmental disabilities through advocacy, education, collaboration and public awareness.

Collaborate on various projects to improve the lives of people with disabilities.

 

Address: 2111 Sexton Drive, Arlington TX 76015
Contact Person: Jacky Sylvie, Community Liaison
Telephone: 469-438-8757
Email: community@txcpsh.org
Website: http://txcpsh.org/

Our pediatric Urgent Care Clinic (UCC) volunteers help parents and children as they wait to be seen by clinical staff. They provide art and coloring projects that help pass the time, update parents on wait times, are empathetic listeners to parents worried about their sick child, and help staff with simple tasks that free them up for more specialized parts of their work.

If you are good in emergent situations, you are needed at any of our urgent care clinic locations (Fort Worth, Mansfield, Southlake).

 

Address: 801 7th Ave. Fort Worth, TX 76104
Contact Person: Sarah Lang - Volunteer Services Specialist
Telephone: 682-885-4337
Email: sarah.lang@cookchildrens.org
Website: https://www.cookchildrens.org/giving/volunteers/adult-volunteers/

We serve individuals and families suffering under the burden of poverty, in Tarrant County, with FREE medical care, a food pantry, GED and ESL classes, a single men's and a single women's home, reentry services, job training through our catering program.

General Service Needs

Translators, medical students, social media students, and food drives.


Tasks Available for UTA Students

Landscaping projects, Food Drives, Translating in the medical clinic, helping market through print and digital materials, and executing outside fundraisers.

 

Address: 3500 Noble Avenue, Fort Worth, TX 76111
Contact Person: Susan Derstine, Community Outreach & Development Coordinator
Telephone: 817-632-6038
Email: sderstine@canetwork.org
Website: http://www.canetwork.org/

CovEducation (CovEd) is a national education nonprofit that connects K-12 students with undergraduate and postgraduate students to provide free, virtual mentoring and tutoring. Our mission is centered on reversing pandemic-induced learning loss in the most vulnerable K-12 populations. Founded in March of 2020, CovEd partners with K-12 schools and recruits college mentors to tutor with underprivileged students. To date, we’ve connected 6,000+ undergraduates, postgraduates and educators from 470+ higher education institutions with over 5,500+ mentees across 50 states.

 

General Service Needs
We are currently seeking undergraduate/postgraduate/grad school students to volunteer virtually as mentors for K-12 students, particularly those with limited access to educational resources. If you’d like to connect with a student in need, please consider signing up to be a mentor at bit.ly/coved-mentor-signup! Mentors usually serve not only as a source of academic support, but as role models for the student they work with. In addition, we have positions available in Outreach, Speaker Series, and Refugee Educational Support (for Afghani children coming into the U.S./Canada) if you're interested!

Tasks Available for UTA Students
In addition to virtual mentorship opportunities, students can volunteer in various teams among CovEd, such as Outreach, Coordinators, Handbooks, ABC Club, and more. More details along with application to these teams are listed at bit.ly/covedrecruitment

 
Address: 16 Hound Pack Circle East Walpole, Massachusetts 02032
Contact Person: Yeji Lee, National Outreach Co-Director
Telephone: 714-351-4555
Email: outreach@coved.org
Website: coved.org

Dallas Area Habitat brings people together to build homes, communities, and hope. For more than 30 years, Dallas Habitat has been creating sustainable homeowners, through education, support, and sweat equity. Our homebuyers work along side our volunteers to build their own homes. We fund the mission with four ReStores, retail stores that sell a combination of new and donated goods.

General Service Needs

Volunteers help us run the stores and build the houses. We have needs daily.

Tasks Available for UTA Students
We always need volunteers in the ReStores. Construction is available on some Saturdays.

 

Address: 2800 N Hampton Rd., Dallas, TX 75212
Contact Person: Mary Beth O'Connor
Telephone: 214-678-2312
Email: moconnor@dallas-habitat.org
Website: www.dallasareahabitat.org

Corporation for National and Community Service

CNCS is a federal agency that brings Americans together to serve communities. They tap the can-do spirit of the Americans to tackle some of our nation's most pressing challenges.

CNCS Website