America Responds With Love® welcomes you to consider volunteering your time to help our non-profit organization help people truly in need throughout the United States.
Environment Program Volunteer Positions
Respond With Love Employment Enhancement Volunteer Community Service Project
Goals:
To encourage 30 non-profit organizations and governmental entities to participate in the Respond With Love® Environment Program of America Responds With Love® by planting flowers in gardens in Louisiana during Year 2009. These Respond With Love® Gardens would be designed to help enhance the environment.
Concept:
To utilize flower bulbs and other flowering plants that are donated to America Responds With Love to help enhance the environment of the United States. The flower bulbs and other flowering plants are considered excess inventory and would likely be thrown away. Instead, they will be planted in public gardens.
Examples of Respond With Love Gardens include public gardens in such communities as Valley Forge, Pennsylvania; Lucedale, Mississippi; and Reading, Pennsylvania.
Each participating non-profit organization and governmental entity will have to meet certain responsibilities to each receive flower bulbs from America Responds With Love.
The flower bulbs can be planted in Respond With Love Gardens in public parks, schools, community centers, senior citizen centers, libraries, police departments, fire companies, ambulance facilities, hospitals, cemeteries, shelters, and other sites controlled by governmental entities and non-profit organizations as well as at sites that enhance the local neighborhood. The Respond With Love Gardens can be planted on lands along sidewalks, highways, railroads, and other transit lines to enhance the local neighborhoods.
Participating organizations will be expected to pay a program service fee of $600 to $1,000 to cover the related program and logistics costs, plant the flower bulbs in their community, provide maintenance of the new Respond With Love Gardens, and cooperate with America Responds With Love to highlight the enhancement of the environment to the general public.
Who We Are:
America Responds With Love, Inc. is a national 501(c)3 non-profit organization that provides products and services to people truly in need in communities throughout the United States. A few examples of its activities include housing more than 103,000 people in emergency need when no other resources were available, planting more than 1 million flower bulbs to enhance the environment, and providing diapers and other basic necessities to families of military veterans as well as others truly in need. From the Iron Range of Minnesota to the Piedmont of North Carolina, from large cities like Los Angeles to small towns like Lucedale (Mississippi), and from the foothills of the Alleghenies in northwest Pennsylvania to the Gulf Coast of Louisana, many communities have benefitted from the activities of America Responds With Love.
Requirements:
18 Years of Age or older.
High School Graduate.
Citizen of the United States of America.
Ability to pass a criminal background check.
Skills Needed:
Ability to communicate clearly in standard English through the telephone.
Ability to read the English language
Ability to write text in Word documents in an efficient manner.
Ability to prepare databases in Excel spreadsheets in an efficient manner.
Ability to navigate the internet in an efficient manner.
Ability to be a self-starter.
Ability to work independently.
Ability to manage your time.
Ability to be detail-oriented.
Ability to be organized.
Ability to be disciplined.
Previous Helpful Employment Background:
Business Development Management
Business-to-Business Sales
Home Builder
Home Mortgage Finance
Horticulturalist
Landscaper
Nursery Management
Real Estate Agent
Real Estate Development
Researcher
Social Worker
Teacher
Waste Management
Equipment Needed by Volunteer:
Computer (desktop or laptop) that has access to the internet and to a printer.
Telephone and telephone service to receive and make telephone calls.
Supervision:
Volunteer community service will be done from your home or from a place of your choosing.
All prospective non-profit organizations and governmental entities will be reviewed and approved by America Responds With Love prior to initial contact.
All communications to non-profit organizations and governmental entities will be reviewed and approved by America Responds With Love prior to disbursement.
All news articles to news dissemination sources will be reviewed and approved by America Responds With Love prior to disbursement.
All text and photographs for inclusion on the internet will be reviewed and approved by America Responds With Love prior to being placed on websites.
Team Approach:
Each participating individual will be part of a team of three people focused on the same community service project. These individuals will coordinate their joint efforts to achieve the goals in an efficient manner.
Schedule:
Hours will be set by volunteers in consultation with America Responds With Love.
Volunteer community service will include 20 to 30 hours each week during the hours of 8 AM and 8 PM during Mondays through Fridays for a 3 to 4 month time period. The time limit is subject to review by America Responds With Love.
The specific schedule will take into account the fact that both telephone and electronic communications will need to be done during regular office hours of 9 AM to 5 PM.
Potential Skills To Be Learned:
Confidence:
You’ll learn to build confidence through your community service efforts.
Electronic Communications:
You’ll learn how to prepare and send professional email communications, including attachments such as word processing documents, database spreadsheets, and photographs. You’ll learn how to prepare pages detailing the Respond With Love Gardens on Facebook, MySpace, and other electronic forms of communications. You’ll learn how to prepare a personal page on Facebook highlighting your search for a permanent job. You’ll create the components a YouTube video highlighting your skills, your community service efforts, and the type of job that you’re seeking.
Environmental Education:
You’ll learn how to educate people on ways to enhance the environment through re-utilization of flower bulbs, land, water, water tanks, and other equipment. You’ll learn how excess inventory of products could be utilized to help enhance the environment. You’ll learn how people are less likely to throw trash into gardens as compared to open grass areas.
Interpersonal Skills:
You’ll learn how to communicate in a professional manner with a variety of types of individuals as you coordinate efforts to create Respond With Love Gardens.
Organizational Skills:
You’ll learn how to coordinate different activities to create Respond With Love Gardens. These accomplishments will be examples of your success at bringing people together to achieve results.
Patience:
You’ll learn that the achievements you seek will not come immediately. Perseverance, though, will likely result in successes.
Public Speaking:
You’ll be given opportunities to speak at public meetings to discuss your community service efforts. You’ll learn how to prepare a brief speech that highlights your efforts to help America Responds With Love and how you’re hoping to gain new permanent employment in the career area of your choice.
Sales Skills:
You’ll learn how to sell intangible ideas to people. You’ll learn how to encourage people to consider different ways to work together to enhance the environment. You’ll learn not to take a “no” or a “no answer” as a personal statement about you. You’ll learn that the “no” and the “no answer” responses are more common than the “yes” responses. You’ll learn that sometimes, you will not be successful in your activities.
Teamwork:
You’ll learn to work together with others to succeed in common goals.
Written Communications:
You’ll prepare weekly reports detailing your community service activities. You’ll prepare a presentation detailing the accomplishments achieved through your efforts.
Enhancements to Job Search Campaign:
Your resume will be placed on the website of America Responds With Love.
After the initial 60 days of community service, a webpage will be placed on the website of America Responds With Love to highlight your specific accomplishments in community service for the non-profit organization. A news release will be issued by America Responds With Love announcing the webpage. This news release will be targeted to news publications, news broadcast outlets, and news internet sites that focus on your chosen career area. There is no guarantee that the news release will be printed, broadcast, or streamed.
After the initial 90 days of community service, a YouTube video will be created to highlight your specific accomplishments in community service for the non-profit organization. A news release will be issued by America Responds With Love announcing the YouTube video. This news release will be targeted to news publications, news broadcast outlets, and news internet sites that focus on your chosen career area. There is no guarantee that the news release will be printed, broadcast, or streamed.
Severance Notice:
You’ll provide two weeks (10 business days) notice to America Responds With Love when you secure permanent employment. This is to allow a smooth transfer of volunteer community service activities to others within America Responds With Love.
You’ll coordinate with others within America Responds With Love during those two weeks (10 business days) of transition.
How To Apply:
If you're interested in volunteering with America Responds With Love, please contact the non-profit organization
America Responds With Love
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