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Flexible Schedule
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Virtual Opportunity
Basic Info Kid City Hope Place is a college access and youth leadership program that serves high school and college students in the DTLA area and its surrounding communities. Our organization has participated in several advocacy campaigns that have highlighted the importance of college affordability for first-generation college students, students of color, and students that come from low-income households. Recently, our organization met with the offices of 10 California congressional legislators to advance the Double Pell priority with the National College Attainment Network and other member organizations across the United States. In addition to doubling the pell grant, our delegation of advocates pushed for improving accessibility to SNAP benefits, expanding Pell grant eligibility to DACA and undocumented students, ensuring internet access for Pell grant recipients, and extending the student loan grace period and pandemic deferment. Advocacy Volunteer: The Advocacy Volunteer will assist Kid City’s participation in national and state advocacy campaigns. Volunteers will reach out to congressional offices, work alongside other college access organizations in California, and recruit and train volunteer advocates. To prepare for meetings, the volunteer is expected to gather relevant research to develop key points, data summaries, and other advocacy materials. This is a great opportunity for individuals that are interested in advocacy, education policy, college access work, or grassroots organizing. Reports to: Executive Director, Anne Hawthorne Commitment requested (two separate time periods for internship): January - April - National College Access Network: March advocacy week (virtual, federal); Education Trust West: Two-day state-wide advocacy (virtual, state) May-July - College for All Coalition: June advocacy week (virtual, state); National College Access Network: July advocacy week (virtual, federal) Primary Responsibilities: Responsibility #1: Reach out to congressional offices; Identify the precise contact/info; Draft invitations; Make phone calls; Maintain formal communication with congressional staff. Responsibility #2: Coordinate with partner organizations; Participate and prepare for weekly meetings with partner organizations to prepare for advocacy; Update shared documents; Maintain open communication with team members. Responsibility #3: Recruit and train advocates. Persuasive advocacy requires advocates with strong narrating skills. Recruit advocates can identify policy priorities by narrating their personal experiences through precise messages. Responsibility #4: Research. Gather research about congressional representatives, legislation, and policy priorities; Develop internal and external documents for the advocacy campaign by identifying key points, congressional profiles, district data summaries, and policy priority leave-behinds. Responsibility #5: Lead multiple advocacy meetings with congressional offices; Prepare an agenda; Assemble a team of storytellers, a data person, and a note-taker. Responsibility #6: Create external communications; Draft Kid City accounts and social media posts to promote advocacy priorities and achievements across multiple digital platforms; Write blog posts and newsletter articles addressing advocacy work that may include adding photos, quotes, policy issues, and partner organizations. Responsibility #7: Attend advocacy training. Advocacy training will provide you with more context about policy issues and tips for executing effective meetings. Responsibility #8: Completion: Add participating students to a rapid response roster or student contact database; Move documents into appropriate folders in Kid City Hope Place drive- "Advocacy" folder. Qualifications: Required College student or recent grad Demonstrate an interest in advocacy, education policy, college access work, or grassroots organizing Knowledge or willingness to learn about institutional barriers to college attainment for underrepresented communities. Ability to work with little guidance during assignment performance Experience completing group and individual projects Strong communication and outreach skills Strong research and writing skills Experience leading meetings and managing small teams. Knowledge of Google Workspace programs (e.g. Gmail, Google Drive, Calendar) Preferred Pursuing a degree or completed a degree in public policy, political science, social work, or education Ability to use social media or visual design programs to promote advocacy goals Benefits Exposure to advocacy and grassroots organizing Opportunity to build relationships with congressional staff, policy, and advocacy professionals
Date Posted: Aug 25, 2021
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Flexible Schedule
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Los Angeles, CA 90015
The Kid City Hope Place Music Lead Volunteer teaches music lessons on their instrument(s) under the coordination and direction of the Music Coordinator. This position is grant-funded and can only be used to provide/support music lessons to students. This position is only open to current college students OR college students who graduated between May and December 2021. Duties & Responsibilities Like all staff, the Music Program Lead Volunteer, is responsible for creating and maintaining a safe, welcoming environment for kids, volunteers, and visitors; representing Kid City professionally with appropriate dress, manner, quality of work; and serving as a mentor and guide for kids of all ages, including students in college. On days when the music program is the only active program at Kid City, the Music Program Intern along with the Music Coordinator is in charge of the student's health and safety, and facility and equipment maintenance and clean-up. In addition, the Music Volunteer has the following duties: Provide individual instruction on reading music and varying instruments (winds, strings, piano, guitar, bass, and drums) Choose repertoire appropriate to students' level Assign weekly practice of homework and prepare students for recitals Qualifications This position requires proficiency in one or more instruments taught at Kid City including: voice, piano, guitar, bass, drums, saxophone, flute, clarinet, violin, viola, trumpet, trombone, or tuba Experience working with youth in a nonprofit music program setting Strong commitment to improving healthy lifestyles, college and job readiness of urban youth Ability to work respectfully in collaboration with youth of diverse race, family backgrounds, and income levels Understanding and ability to put into practice program philosophy, including radical welcome, adaptive leadership, and emergent curriculum
Date Posted: Sep 21, 2021
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Flexible Schedule
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Virtual Opportunity
The High School Program Volunteer is responsible for monitoring all high school students. The volunteer is responsible for updating, organizing, and managing data of post-HS students. The intern will assist the program director in planning and organizing events, outings, and workshops for college students. Other duties include a series of administrative tasks, making phone calls, guiding, and encouraging students’ personal and professional success. Responsibilities Create, input, and update files and folders in Google team drive Track and update high school student information in Kid City database Research internships and scholarships available for college students Promote activities, events, retreats, and workshops sponsored by Kid City Generate, organize, and deliver individual student lesson and workshop plans to encourage active learning and support students Assist and support Mentorship program in promoting students’ personal and professional success Develop a list of resources and learning materials for college students Communicate with students via email, phone calls, and social media Attend weekly intern staff meetings Qualifications Possess an empathetic understanding of low-income, first-generation students Is organized, driven, and can work autonomously Ability to communicate both written and orally in an organized and logical manner Capable of following instructions, accepting, and applying feedback with a positive attitude Basic knowledge of office applications- Google Docs, Word Doc, and Excel Possess an interest in higher education and/or counseling
Date Posted: Aug 25, 2021
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Flexible Schedule
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Virtual Opportunity
Basic Info The Communications Volunteer is a critical position that supports Kid City’s programs through its work alongside the Administrative Coordinator in building and monitoring the Kid City and the Urban Foundation websites and donor databases that are hosted within the Nationbuilder platform. Reports to: Communications Coordinator Schedule: To be determined by the volunteer, Communications Coordinator, and the external agency providing the internship (if any). Ideally 7-10 hours per week. Primary Responsibilities Update website: Work alongside the staff to implement website changes and help maintain blogs. Responsibilities may include updating pages, copies, and photos, adding or removing pages, adding and updating staff and volunteer bios Maintenance of donor/alumni data : Help maintain integrity and security of donor and alumni database within Nationbuilder Provide Graphic Design Support: May include designing fliers and branded assets for social media Qualifications : Possess an empathetic understanding of students from various backgrounds including low-income & first-generation students Excellent technical skills and knowledge of web development tools (e.g. HTML, CSS, etc.) Knowledge of office applications such as: Google Docs, Google Drive and/or are open to learning new platforms Experience with Nationbuilder is recommended Training : Kid City will provide the volunteer with training in the Nationbuilder platform as well as continued support from the Administrative Coordinator over the course of volunteering. It is strongly recommended that applicants have previous experience with HTML and CSS, or similar programming languages.
Date Posted: Aug 25, 2021
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Flexible Schedule
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Virtual Opportunity
Basic Info The Website Development Volunteer is a critical position that supports Kid City’s programs through its work with the Administrative Coordinator in maintaining and developing the Kid City and the Urban Foundation websites and donor databases on the Nationbuilder platform. Reports to: Administrative Coordinator Schedule: To be determined by the volunteer, Admin Coordinator, and the external agency providing the position (if any). Ideally 7-10 hours per week. Primary Responsibilities Update website: Work with staff to implement website changes and monitor blogs. Other responsibilities include: updating pages, copies, and photos; adding or removing pages, and adding and updating staff/volunteer bios. Maintenance of donor/alumni data : Help maintain donor and alumni database housed within Nationbuilder Qualifications : Possess an empathetic understanding of students from various backgrounds including low-income & first-generation students to encourage support Excellent technical skills and knowledge of tools for web development Knowledge of office applications- Google Docs, Google Drive and/or open to learning new platforms Experience with Nationbuilder is recommended Training : Over the course of volunteering, Kid City will provide the applicant with training in the Nationbuilder platform and supported by the Administrative Coordinator. It is strongly recommended that applicants have previous experience with HTML, CSS, and/or other similar programming languages.
Date Posted: Aug 25, 2021
