Poverty Alleviation Advocates

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Join the Circles in Columbus family. In addition to empowering people to grow beyond poverty, we work to remove the barriers of systemic poverty. Bring your passion as we learn from our clients ways we can join together and make changes within our own community.

As a community volunteer, you offer your unique talents and passions to serve in a variety of ways such as being a special guest speaker or a member of one or our resource teams. Resource Teams help keep the program running and some even work to fight the systemic barriers of poverty. These teams are a great opportunity to support this program and make a real difference.

The Resource Teams include:

Recruitment - to recruit participants and volunteers

Community - to organize and manage the meeting space, secure donated meals, assist in serving meals and occasionally assist the Circles staff in facilitating the meetings

Jobs and Education - to help Circles with contacts for educational programs and finding better jobs

Big View - to look at ways the group can influence policies and circumstances which contribute to the blockades that prevent people from getting out of poverty