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Our goal is to foster meaningful and fulfilling volunteer experiences. As a volunteer, you will serve as an important partner in empowering people living in poverty to reach economic stability and self-sufficiency. You will also have the opportunity to learn new skills and bring your unique expertise/perspective to our work.

At Community Action, you WILL change lives. Please consider our volunteer opportunities.

 

Please note: If your volunteer experience will require you to have direct contact with our program participants, we'll require State Police and Child Abuse clearances, along with FBI fingerprinter PRIOR to your service. You may also be required to complete a Motor Vehicle clearance. Our staff will determine if any clearances are reqiured, and if they are, we'll obtain them at our cost.

Current Internship & Volunteer Opportunities

Northern Dauphin County Van Driver

In Northern Dauphin County, transportation is a huge concern for many residents. Our Northern Dauphin County Van program is standing by to help people who have no other transportation to get to non-emergency medical appointments, to and from work, and to access healthy food. We have the van ready, but we need one thing – volunteer drivers. 

If you are between the ages of 18 and 69, and have a valid license and good driving record, you can join our team! Volunteer as few or as many hours as your schedule permits, Monday to Friday, 8 AM to 8 PM. Any time you give will enable people to visit their doctors, earn a living, and feed their families.  

Research 

We need help seeing places where we are successful, and where we can improve. We need people who can:

  • Conduct and compile client satisfaction surveys.
  • Dig deep into community indicators of poverty and financial growth and analyze the results.
  • Research how much vacancy and abandonment of buildings costs the city in terms of lost taxes from tax delinquency, diminished property values, code enforcement, public works cleanup etc. 
  • Analyze the costs of implementing and ongoing maintenance of reseeding vacant lots with low-maintenance alternatives and installing fencing, compared to the maintenance and cleanup costs of a traditional lot. Also investigate other potential reseeding benefits such as crime reduction, adjacent property improvements, and increased property values.

Communications/Marketing

People are our purpose, and we want to share their stories!

  • Client Storytelling: interviewing program participants to help us better tell their story, their struggles, and celebrate their successes.

Human Services

  • Human Services Study: Spend time in each of our programs, learning how and why relationships are important to achieve lasting success. This is a great volunteer position for someone wanting to work in the direct social services field.

Organizational Management

  • Help to develop and prepare standard operating procedures for agency functions. This is a great volunteer opportunity for someone going into social services administration, or who has social services administration experience. This opportunity will allow you to learn about the behind-the-scenes work that make our programs possible.

Group Volunteer Opportunities

If your group would like to volunteer at one of our community events listed on our events page, please contact us - we would be glad to have your help!

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