Part-Time AmeriCorp Member - Garrett County MD
ORGANIZATION: Horizon Goodwill Industries
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Horizon Goodwill Industries is seeking AmeriCorps volunteers to fill up to 8 part-time positions through A STAR! In Garrett County Maryland. Part-time positions will complete 300 hours of service over one year - all at once or over the entire year. Candidates must be at least 18 years old, have a minimum GED and be a US citizen or Naturalized Permanent Resident. At the conclusion of the year AmeriCorps members who successfully complete the program are eligible for an educational scholarship in the amount of $1,200.00.
Brief description of position:
- Tutor individuals in basic literacy, numeracy, and computing skills
- Lead group learning sessions in Financial Literacy
- Maintain records of student attendance and progress
- Complete required AmeriCorps reports in a timely fashion
- Organize and participate in community service projects
- Conduct Community Outreach on a regular basis
- Attend all required meetings
- Attend all relevant trainings / professional development activities
Contact information: Catharine Fleming, Chief Mission Officer cfleming@goodwill-hgi.org
Start date September 1, 2017 through August 14, 2018.
More opportunities with Horizon Goodwill Industries
No additional volunteer opportunities at this time.
About Horizon Goodwill Industries
Location:
14515 Pennsylvania Ave., Hagerstown, MD 21742, US
Mission Statement
Our Mission: Removing Barriers, Creating Opportunities. Our Vision: Helping people realize and achieve their full potential through the dignity and power of work. Our Values: Have PASSION for your purpose. Make CHARACTER your cause. Make time for CELEBRATION. Seek opportunities for SERVICE. Have COMPASSION for others.
Description
Removing Barriers, Creating Opportunities.
The Goodwill model uses instruction, seminars, assessments of skill levels, training, and real work experience to help develop individuals who experience barriers to employment. We help people who have physical, psychological, social or development obstacles.
Our goal is to impact the lives of those who want to work but have been excluded, either voluntarily or involuntarily, from the competitive labor market. We make employable those currently unemployed or underemployed by enhancing the skills of each individual.
Our goal is to impact families by helping stabilize them, connecting them to our services and to other services available to them.
Our goal is to impact our communities by creating a ready workforce, starting new business lines, running retail stores, putting people to work and bringing our economic engine to bear in the communities we serve.
Through the donations of gently used household goods and clothing, Goodwill utilizes a workforce to process donated goods, sell donated goods through its retail stores to support our training and development programs. Goodwill also provides business-to-business services in the community that give our participants real life work to help them realize their full potential while filling a community need at competitive rates.
We help people realize and achieve their full potential through the dignity and power of work.
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
223 North 3rd StreetOakland, MD 21550
DATE POSTED
August 25, 2017
SKILLS
- Literacy / Reading
- Adult Education
- Teaching / Instruction
- Financial Literacy
- Reading / Writing
- Community Outreach
GOOD FOR
N/A
REQUIREMENTS
- Driver's License Needed
- Background Check
- Orientation or Training
- 300 hours over one year