Service Links

From the Carolina Center for Public Service

Paid Post-grad Service Opportunities

AmeriCorps

Offers paid volunteer opportunities through its State & National, VISTA, and NCCC programs

• AmeriCorps*State and National members work with different local and national non-profits throughout the United States to complete direct service.
• AmeriCorps*VISTA (Volunteers in Service to America) members work with different local and national non-profits throughout the United States to complete indirect service.
• AmeriCorps NCCC* (National Civilian Community Corps) members address the pressing needs of the communities in which they serve.
• AmeriCorps- Helping to Rebuild Communities in the Gulf Coast members complete direct and indirect service to help rebuild communities in the gulf coast that were affected by Hurricane Katrina

Benefits of AmeriCorps membership include:

• Modest living allowance
• Potential to choose either a stipend or an education award
• Ability to put your student loans in forbearance or deferment
• Free health coverage plan
• Some opportunities provide you with housing
• Work and life skills are learned, gained, and used

www.americorps.org

 

Various Opportunities

NC Campus Compact
www.elon.edu/nccc/

AmeriSpan Study Abroad : Offers volunteer placements and language immersion opportunities throughout the world. www.amerispan.com

City Year - a corps of diverse young adults, who dedicate at least a year to civic engagement and transformative service in communities across America.
http://www.cityyear.org/

Fund for Public Interest Research - helps progressive groups wage campaigns that help preserve our environment, protect human rights, clean up politics, and challenge corporate power. Offers a number of full-time positions across the country as well as summer jobs.
http://www.ffpir.org/

Green Corps - yearlong, full-time, paid Environmental Leadership Training Program.
www.greencorps.com

Jesuit Corps - offers women and men an opportunity to work full-time for justice and peace.
www.JesuitVolunteers.org

Lutheran Volunteer Corps - provides essential services in the areas of education, public safety, human needs, and the environment. Many programs offer the opportunity for hands-on direct service while others involve coordination, development and management of projects.
http://www.lutheranvolunteercorps.org/

Peace Corps - Volunteers work in the following areas: education, youth outreach, and community development; health and HIV/AIDS; agriculture and environment; business development; and information technology
http://www.peacecorps.gov/

Public Allies - allies work four days each week for ten months at a local nonprofit organization where they strengthen their community by working in areas such as youth development, community development, public health, and economic development.
http://www.publicallies.org/

Student Conservation Corps - offers college students, as well as other adults, extraordinary opportunities to serve our nation's most prized public treasures: its natural and cultural resources.
http://www.thesca.org/

Teach for America - recruits the most outstanding graduating college seniors and recent college graduates to teach in low-income communities across the country. Teach for America participants will be the future leaders in fields such as business, medicine, politics, law, journalism, education, and social policy.
www.teachforamerica.org

Cerificate Program in Nonprofit Management
www.learnmore.duke.edu/nonprofit/

Congressional Award
http://www.congressionalaward.org/congress/

Corporation for National and Community Service
www.nationalservice.org

Idealist.org
www.idealist.org

Institute for NonProfits
http://www.chass.ncsu.edu/nonprofit/

National Campus Compact
www.compact.org

National Service-Learning Clearinghouse
www.servicelearning.org/

NC Center for Non-Profits
www.ncnonprofits.org

NC Commission on Volunteerism and Community Service
www.volunteernc.org

NC Civic Education Consortium (at UNC's School of Government)
www.sog.unc.edu/programs/civiced/index.html

USA Freedom Corporation
www.usafreedomcorps.gov