Volunteer Opportunities
Looking for ways to make a difference?
Become a mentor, classroom volunteer and more. Check out all the volunteer opportunities we have below.
Literacy
Volunteers
Needed
A question was posed , “How can we teach financial capability to those who can’t read”? Only 20% of low-income students are proficient in reading by the fourth grade. Money Smart Month KC has worked to connect literacy with financial capability. There are many partners that are working to implement financial and entrepreneurship themed books into the literacy initiatives. Turn the Page KC is establishing an opportunity for groups to purchase financially-themed books for literacy education. Literacy volunteers can read books themed to financial education and entrepreneurship and encourage youth savings accounts and dedicated college savings as part of their literacy outreach.
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Financial Education
Volunteers
Needed
Junior Achievement offers volunteer-delivered, kindergarten-12th grade programs that foster work-readiness, entrepreneurship and financial literacy skills. To learn more about volunteer opportunities, please email Dina Kostrow at dkostrow@jagkc.org.
Money Talk Financial is seeking 10 volunteers interested in teaching financial literacy classes to small groups in Metropolitan Kansas City.
Call for more information: 913-538-1465
These volunteer opportunities are located within various school districts. Most school districts will consist of majority low- and moderate-income schools. Other conditions such as background checks might be necessary to participate as a volunteer.
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These volunteer opportunities are located within various school districts. Most school districts will consist of majority low- and moderate-income schools. Other conditions such as background checks might be necessary to participate as a volunteer.
600
Volunteers
Needed
Mentoring
Money Smart Month KC representatives are working with mentoring organizations to increase financial capability for the youth and the family as part of the outreach process. Mentors are encouraged to talk to their mentorees about money, savings, college savings and financial education. Mentors are also encouraged to walk mentorees into financial institutions to bridge a positive relationship between the youth and bank.
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100
Volunteers
Needed
Financial Capability
Achieveing financial empowerment for adults includes finding long term employment with substainable wages. Providing a network of support, and feedback throughout the job search, resume building, and mock interview process, enables connections, as well as, tips that these individuals need for success. Volunteers can be supportive as job search assistants, resume writers/reviewers, and as mock interviewers. Volunteers can teach financial education classes that result in financial capability and economic mobility.
Financial Literacy Teacher – English and Spanish
We are seeking volunteers interested in teaching financial literacy classes in both English and Spanish to small groups in Olathe, Overland Park and Kansas City, KS. Flexible days and hours are available and materials are provided. Classes are offered in our Emergency Assistance Centers.
Financial Mentor – English and Spanish
We are seeking volunteers interested in mentoring adults who are taking classes through the Community America Credit Union. Opportunities are available in both Wyandotte and Johnson counties. A one year commitment is required.
For more information contact:
Christie Dade, Volunteer Coordinator, cdade@ccharities.com
Sasheen Cutchlow, Financial Education and Stability Coordinator, scutchlow@catholiccharitiesks.org
The School of Economics is a bustling marketplace simulation for elementary school students. Field trips bring about 80 students to the facility every day for “hands-on” practice of the financial concepts they have learned in the classroom.
Volunteers can help young bank tellers and loan officers, ages 10-12, perform money-handling tasks in the bank or credit union. Together you will cash checks, take deposits, process loans, and calculate interest earned.
Other adults can help in the student-run shops, producing and selling merchandise, and trying to make a profit.
Money Smart Month Kansas City
Money Smart Month of Greater Kansas City is a public awareness campaign designed to help consumers better manage their personal finances. This is achieved through the collaboration and coordinated effort of hundreds of organizations across the Kansas City metropolitan area including businesses, financial institutions, schools, libraries, not-for-profits, government agencies and the media.
These groups come together in April of each year to stress the importance of financial literacy, inform consumers about where they can get help, and provide free educational seminars, workshops and activities throughout the month of April. Even though our focus is in the month of April, there are also activities held throughout the year. Programming is offered to all ages and income levels and covers all areas of personal finance from establishing a budget to first-time home buying to estate planning.
400
Volunteers
Needed
Tax Preparation
Next Step KC and the MU Extension operate several IRS-sponsored Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) tax preparation sites in the Kansas City area. VITA offers free tax help to hard-working taxpayers with incomes of $53,000 and below who cannot prepare their own tax returns.
Although approximately 30,000 individuals have had their taxes prepared for free at free tax sites in metropolitan Kansas City, almost a million individuals qualify for the free service. More tax preparation volunteers could mean a savings of millions for low- and moderate-income families in Metropolitan Kansas City.
Click on Next Step logo to visit their website to Learn More about volunteering. You will need to call for more information with the MU Extension.
Call for more information: 816-482-5850
1000’s of
Items &
Volunteers
Needed
Additional Ways to Volunteer
These are great initiative but what does it have to do with financial education, financial capability and economic mobility?
Groups like giving the Basics provides a mass amount of products to almost every school district that has a majority of low- and moderate-income students.
How is a student supposed to learn if they don’t have their basic needs met? How do they improve in math and reading if they don’t want to go to school because they are embarrassed?
If education is directly related to income and income is directly related to economic mobility, then we must remove as many barriers as we can to ensure students have positive opportunities. Other groups are providing low-cost computers. And other groups are providing a variety of stabilization services that need volunteers. Banking the unbanked is extremely important. That being said, almost every low -and moderate-income family has multiple needs. We are working to stabilize families with multiple issues by providing support for community based organizations with volunteer needs.
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Catholic Charities of Kansas City-St. Joseph serves over 75,000 individuals each year. Our clients come from all walks of life. From young mothers to homeless veterans–our agency works to fulfill the most basic needs.
For more information contact:
Christie Dade, Volunteer Coordinator, cdade@ccharities.com
Rachel Larsen at 816-659-8216 or email her at rlarsen@ccharities.com
Volunteers are the heart of MLM. Our goal is to find a meaningful way for you to walk alongside MLM to serve the poor.
How can we Help? Connecting those in need with food, housing, health care, education, employment services and other resources.
In order to see these efforts impact those in need, we need hundreds of used computers. With your help, we can see many lives changed simply because they will be able to connect to all the resources available through the Internet.
Won’t you help? This is a great time to give us your unused PC equipment and get a year end tax deduction at the same time. What is no longer useful to you can be turned into something that will chage the life of a child in an under resources urban core family.
As a participant in the Microsoft Registered Refurbisher Program, we follow a strict set of data sanitation standards that protects the confidentiality of the information on donated computers we receive.
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