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9 people are interested
questions: Can you program a computer? Can you help homeless kids?
ORGANIZATION: Campaign: Children NEED Parents
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9 people are interested
Two questions: Can you program a computer? Can you help children who are homeless/ displaced from family? If your answer to #1 is yes, then our answer to #2 is also Yes! Absolutely. Just join the volunteer team we’re creating to manage our website/data.
If you’re Front End you can play a pivotal role in in the development of our website applications. If you’re Back End, you can work on the development of our website projects for the platform.
This work becomes both thrilling and fulfilling as it helps raise awareness about the crisis faced by 1,000,000+ children children in America who are displaced from family. They’re raising themselves and need your skills to get the word out. You know the power of a computer -- help us harness it to get the kids home.
This is an ideal opportunity to provide you with real world skills and to network with like minded colleagues. We would prefer folks with professional training. We're currently bi-coastal and are doing everything by Zoom & Slack.
Folks with Lived Experience in Foster Care or other child-caring systems are especially encouraged to apply.
Check us out: https://childrenneedparents.org/ and/or write TerryTaffe29@gmail.com
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About Campaign: Children NEED Parents
Location:
213 W 30th St., c/o St Johns Friary, New York, NY 10001, US
Mission Statement
Children NEED Parents is a campaign to bring awareness to the reality that there are more than 1,000,000 children in our country who needlessly find themselves with no functional family. Data shows, however, that there are more than enough families willing and able to provide the support, guidance, and love that these children are living without. There is much misinformation and many preconceived notions that contribute to this problem. We need to correct this and get families for EVERY child. We are looking for you to help bring attention to this problem by signing our petition which will be used to garner the resources to allow this to happen. Please visit our website www.childrenneedparents.org to get more information and sign the petition.
Description
There are at least 1,000,000 displaced children in the U.S. They are at phenomenal risk of being unable to function properly as adults. 30 - 50% of compromised adults grew up on their own- displaced from family. "Angie" has been in 32 different foster houses and group homes. She’s 14 now. Why??? The Campaign says lack of resources, fundamental misinformation, and wrong assumptions have led to this tragedy. The Campaign says her tragedy is/was avoidable.
We have been around for a while but this is a heavy lift- we're basically a start-up with a vision.
We're a very small group of committed individuals who are finding it very difficult to get an organization off the ground. At this time, we have a fairly clear organizational structure but no volunteers to fill the allotted slots. A major piece that is currently missing is a cohesive marketing plan and we have a demonstrated inability to develop one. The Campaign is simply a guerrilla marketing, public education effort telling the public that there are enough families to care for each and every one of these children. We want to create/demonstrate a groundswell of public opinion which will authorize policy makers to do the difficult work of changing the systems that surround the kids.
This is an idea whose time is coming. It is sea-change, cultural construction (reconstruction) and is for those who can generate a large vision. We welcome applications.
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
This is a Virtual Opportunity with no fixed address.
DATE POSTED
May 4, 2024
SKILLS
- Software Engineering
- Web Design / UX
- Database Administration
- Security / Network Administration
- PC Platform
- SQL / MySQL
GOOD FOR
- People 55+
REQUIREMENTS
- Must be at least 21
- Orientation or Training
- Time commitment is negotiated with each volunteer. The initial project is to get our IT structure up and running and so that will be part of the equation.
- We ask for a commitment to orientation and on-boarding as well as signing a volunteer agreement.