Volunteer and Intern | Voluntarios

Thank you for your interest in volunteering or interning with our organization.

Please use the following links to learn about our opportunities, apply for a specific position, record your volunteer hours, and provide us with input after you have finished your time with us. Please feel free to send any questions to Eric Gruen at volunteer@americas.org, and many thanks for your time and interest!

If you would like to volunteer or intern with us, please begin by reviewing the available positions:

• Introduction to our volunteer and internship opportunities

• Administrative: Communications and Community Relations Intern (available May 2012)

• Kitchen Connection: Recipe Intern (not currently available)

• Kitchen Connection: Facilitator (not currently available)

• Kitchen Connection: Intercambio Facilitator (available May 2012, Saturdays 12-2:30pm)

• Kitchen Connection and/or Community Circles: Children’s Activities (available immediately, Saturdays 12-2:30pm)

• Spanish Classes: Curriculum Developer (not currently available)

• Coffee Hours, Movie Nights: Program Support (not currently available)

• Resource Center: Employment Intern (available immediately, Thursdays 3-6pm)

• Resource Center: Referral Specialist Intern (not currently available)

• Resource Center: Resource Center Welcome Desk (not currently available)

• Financial Program: Tax Preparer (not currently available)

• Financial Program: Tax Screener (not currently available)

• Financial Program: Tax Quality Reviewer (not currently available)

• Financial Program: Business Plan Translator (not currently available)
  
  
  

There are two methods of applying for any of these positions:

• You may complete our English/Spanish online application form and email your resume to volunteer@americas.org if you have one.

• You may also call 612-276-0788 ext.7 or visit either of our offices in person to request an English/Spanish paper application.

• We will respond to you as soon as possible after receiving your application, and we do appreciate your taking the time to apply. We will do our best to match you with a position that fits your interests, experience, and availability. However, we sometimes have more applications than positions available, and therefore are not always able to find a position for every applicant.
  
  
  

And while you are volunteering/interning with us, please remember to do the following:

• Record your volunteer/internship hours using our bilingual online form.

• Help us improve the volunteer experience with your feedback and input in our volunteer exit survey.

• Ayudanos mejorar la experiencia para voluntarios con nuestra encuesta de salida para voluntarios en Español.
  
  
  

“If we remember those times and places–and there are so many–where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction. And if we do act, in however small a way, we don’t have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.”

Howard Zinn, Professor, author of “A People’s History of the United States”