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| Big Sisters of Philadelphia, Inc. |
BIG SISTERS of Philadelphia is a comprehensive human service organization specializing in services for girls, young women, and thier families with particular emphasis on those in at-risk situations. BIG SISTERS of Philadelphia is dedicated to addressing the unique needs of girls through advocacy education and direct services including the development of one to one mentoring relationships. The Agency’s goals are: 1)To enable girls who are in at-risk situations to reside in positive, nurturing environments by providing services that increase the level of functioning in the family; 2) to empower girls in at-risk situations to become independent, constructive adults by helping them to develop positive self-esteem and the skills to make positive life choices; 3) to enable girls in at-risk situations and thier families to maintain family stability and prevent foster care or residential care placement by providing intensive services to the whole family. BIG Sisters of Philadelphia, Inc. provides services to girls and their families living within the Philadelphia Metropolitan Area. |
The organization asks that volunteers work 2-3 hours a week for one year. Students must be interviewed and screened, have a criminal check and abuse clearnace, and be trained. The focus of the mentoring relationship will be tutoring and acting as a role model. Big sisters has an active support staff. |
Physically Challenged
Arts/Culture
Children/Youth
Domestic/Family/Cultural Violence
Education
Substance Abuse/ Rehab
Other
Women's Issues |
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| Citywide Youth-A-Rama, Inc. |
Citywide Youth-A-Rama was organized in 1990. They work very closely with young people. They are committed to the preservation of our youth and the revitalization of our community. This is a community-based organization comprised of our youth and adult volunteers. The organization works to help keep young people off the streets, away from drugs and illegal activities. They offer basketball, tutoring, charm class, drill team, etc. The agency teaches the youth to help senior citizens and to help the needy through community projects. |
The organization needs immediate help with basketball on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays from 3:30 to 6:00 PM. Sometimes they have programs on Saturdays, and they need support with clerical work and computer knowledge. The organization also needs tutors for homework hours from 3:00-4:00 PM on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. |
Children/Youth
Arts/Culture
Domestic/Family/Cultural Violence
Education
Health Care/Medicine
HIV/AIDS
Homelessness/Housing
Hunger
Literacy/Adult Education
Senior Citizens
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| Communities in Schools - Philadelphia, Inc. |
This organization was created to address the critical issues of at-risk youth such as school attendance, literacy, job preparedness, teenage pregnancy, drug and alcohol abuse, teen suicide, and school violence by developing public/private partnerships designed to coordinate the delivery of appropriate existing education, health, social, and other support services at education sites, in a personal and accountable manner. |
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Children/Youth
Education
Health Care/Medicine
Mental Health/Counseling
Women's Issues
Literacy/Adult Education |
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| Community Education & Development Centers, Inc. |
This agency is a non-profit social service assisting youth and disadvantaged community residents to strengthen their lives by providing educational assistance, job training, job placement and assistance with available food, energy, and housing. CEDC’s purpose is to provide community vocational, educational, academic and recreational training through classes, workshops and tutorials. The CEDC encourages students to learn the practical application of the technical information which they learn in school. The recipient of our services is the community at large, however CEDC targets at risk youth who need positive role models and mentors and the homeless. The organization is directly involved in renovating abandoned houses while it provides job training for youth, the homeless and able-bodied persons who are wiling to restore communities. |
Volunteers are needed for tutoring, grant writing, computer instruction, development of informational and fundraising campaigns, writing and researching proposals, identifying funding and resources, and promoting special events. Volunteers can assist in rebuilding housing and serve as a role model, mentor, big brother or sister to a deserving youth. Volunteers should have good communications skills, adaptable to a multi-cultural and diverse soci-economic population. Presently one day projects are available to assist with the selection and relocation of books in Drexel University’s old library to CEDC’s library. Ongoing volunteers are currently needed to renovate CEDC’s building in South Philadelphia. Opportunities for tutoring , mentoring and a serving internship with our educational institution are also available. |
Arts/Culture
Children/Youth
Diversity/Race Relations
Education
International Issues
Hunger
Homelessness/Housing
Legal/Civil/Human Rights
Social Justice |
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| Diversified Community Services, Inc. |
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| Energize, Inc. |
Energize, Inc. is a for-profit consulting, training, and publishing firm that specializes in volunteerism. We conduct six training workshops across the U.S. and internationally. Our mail order catalog offers more than 65 books and other resources on volunteer program development. We also have an active web site. |
Volunteers are involved in direct-mail marketing and some preparatory aspects of consultation. Students are also needed to research ways to use the Internet to market volunteerism materials. A weekly commitment of at least three hours per week for one semester is required. |
Arts/Culture
Children/Youth
Criminal Justice
Diversity/Race Relations
Domestic/Family/Cultural Violence
Education
International Issues
Hunger
Homelessness/Housing
HIV/AIDS
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| Groundwork, USA\RHD |
The primary mission of this organization is to produce and distribute a monthly youth-oriented news publication. This publication includes news stories, features, poetry, photography, and graphic art all produced by a culturally and racially diverse youth staff. The agency was created to give voice to the future. The corporation serves youth from various cultures and communities who seek a public platform for sharing and expressing their thoughts and concerns about their world. |
Opportunites are available year-round, six times per week from 9am-5pm. The organization seeks volunteers with journalism, community organizing, and research backgrounds. They prefer commitments of no less than a month, but occassionally schedule one-day projects. |
Arts/Culture
Children/Youth
Criminal Justice
Diversity/Race Relations
Domestic/Family/Cultural Violence
Social Justice
Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual Issues
Literacy/Adult Education
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| Maternity Care Coalition, Inc. |
Maternity Care Coalition works to improve maternal and child health and well-being through outreach to high risk communities and advocacy at the local state and national level. MCC views pregnancy and parenting as an opportunity for growth and designs its programs to support mothers and fathers in being the best parents they can for their children. MCC’s MOMobile Programs are community-based outreach and family support programs that use mobile outreach vans (MOMobiles) and door to door canvassing to identify pregnant women in neighborhoods known to have high rates of infant mortality, teenage pregnancy, poverty, child abuse and neglect. MOMobile Advocates are recruited from the communitiies they serve and become role models for their neighbors, educating them about the importance of good prenatal care. |
Volunteers are needed for both ongoing and one time projects, such as assembling and distributing Maternity Care Packages and help in the MCC office. Opportunies available in the MoMobile Family Gift Connection, arranging drives (sororities and fraternities), mailing parties, and outreach activities. Help is also needed during the holiday season to plan celebrations at various MoMoblie sites. |
Health Care/Medicine
Women's Issues |
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| Nature Conservancy, The |
The Nature Conservancy is the largest land conservation organization in the world. Its mission is to preserve the plants, animals and natural communities that represent the diversity of life on earth by protecting the lands and waters they need to survive. Across the hemisphere, the Conservancy has protected 10 million acres of ecologically significant land, including more than 40,000 acres in Pennsylvania. Pour your heart and soul into our lands and waters. Volunteer today! |
Volunteer opportnities vary from fieldwork to clerical office work. Call Lynn to be added to the volunteer mailing list.
Upcoming field days include the October 27 Volunteer Orientation, November 17 grassland restoration and December 15 invasives removal. Please visit http://nature.org/pennsylvania and click on “Volunteer Opportunities” for details. |
Environment/Animal Rights
Other |
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| Philadelphia Science and Space Club, The |
The Space program is an outreach of the University of Pennsylvania to provide interests in science and astronomy to local students. Professors within the university, as well as outside specialists, lead space-based lectures and projects. |
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Education
Children/Youth |
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| Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education, The |
The Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education is a non-profit urban facility providing innovative environmental resources and information, teacher enrichment and curriculum development, as well as community service programs. The center maintains 500 acres of open space as a “living classroom” for teachers and students, prekindergarten through graduate school. The mission of the Schuylkill Center is to promote, through environmental education, the preservation and improvement of our natural environment by fostering appreciation, understanding and responsible use of the ecosystem; by disseminating information on current environmental issues; and by encouraging appropriate public responses to environmental problems.
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Volunteer opportunities include one day special events such as the Spring Celebration, Halloween Hikes, Winterfest Envirothon, and Ecomeet. There are also opportunities for those interested in leading field trips and/or weekend programs for children, and additionally, for those willing to participate in bird or butterfly counts and/or care of bird boxes. |
Environment/Animal Rights |
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| Unity, Incorporated |
Unity, Inc. is an advocacy organization concerned with issues affecting the African-American community in general, with a specific focus on the needs of gay/bisexual/transgendered men of color in the Delaware Valley. It is the leading organization that focuses on HIV/AIDS sensitivity among gay/bisexual/transgendered men of color. Many of UNITY’s programs focus on those among this population who are affected by HIV and AIDS, or who are at risk for exposure to HIV, and families of persons with AIDS. Specifically, the agency engages in activities that: reduce homophobia within the general population; promote healthy lifestyles among gay/bisexual/transgendered men of color; promote HIV/AIDS awareness in racial and ethnic minority communities in Phildelphia; and work towards improved care and treatment, including case managment, of people living with HIV and AIDS. |
Volunteers are needed Monday-Friday from 9am-6 pm to help with typing, filing, and outreach/education. |
Children/Youth
Diversity/Race Relations
Education
HIV/AIDS
Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual Issues |
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| Wellness Community of Philadelphia, The Suzanne Morgan Center |
The mission of The Wellness Community is to help people with cancer fight for their recovery by providing free of charge psychological and emotional support--an integral part of conventional medical treatment. They have a small full-time staff of three people with several part-time employees. Licensed psychotherapists facilitate the groups. Qualified professionals teach the programs. Their programs are available to cancer patients and their families. |
Volunteers are needed Monday through Friday 9:30-8:30p.m., sometimes Saturdays on a n ongoing basis. Special projects could be any day of the week. They need volunteers to receive and greet participants, help with data entry, research, maintaining and organizing our delivery, setting up for participant events, answering phones, brochures, and general administrative work. If you can give one hour or more of your time, it makes a huge difference. If you are interested in volunteering please call: Jennifer Moy at (215) 879-7733 or email her at Jmoy@twcp.org.
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Education
Health Care/Medicine
Mental Health/Counseling
Physically Challenged
Senior Citizens
Women's Issues |
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| WHYY, Inc. |
WHYY is a public broadcasting station, television and radio. It is a nonprofit organization offering programs and services to the community in children's services, lifelong learning, telecommunications, and education.
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WHYY offers unpaid internships to undergraduate college students every semester. Interns usually work two days a week from about 10 am until 5 pm. Internship positions are described on our website www.whyy.org under Internships. Most students are English, Communications, Broadcast, Journalism, or Marketing majors. |
Arts/Culture
Children/Youth
Education
International Issues |
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| Women of Excellence, Inc. |
The mission of Women of Ecellence, Inc. is to address the needs of women in recovery from substance abuse through couseling, job training, housekeeping skills, and personal development. Concentrating primarily on inner-city women, ages 18-45, Women of Excellence will provide a Christain-based residential facility for women and up to two children. |
Volunteers are needed Monday to Friday from 9am to 4:30pm. Length of commitment is unlimited. Opportunities are available for volunteers with skills in writing, computer grant writing, newsletters, and marketing. |
Homelessness/Housing
Women's Issues
Substance Abuse/ Rehab |
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| 40th Street Artist-in-Residence |
40th St. Artist-in-Residence seeks to make West Philadelphia a center for visual art by giving free studio space to emerging artists in the area, and in exchange asking them to perform an outreach project (e.g. a public art piece, a workshop, or a class) in the local community. Our organization is supported almost entirely by volunteers (the director, the artists, and members of our advisory board donate time). We have worked with local schools (Bryant, Penn Alexander, Powel), community organizations (Police Athletic League, Urban Tree Connection), and galleries (Esther M. Klein Gallery) and our advisory board includes Penn faculty, neighborhood artists, and members of arts organization such as the University City Arts League and the Paul Robeson house. |
We need an individual to serve as Community Outreach Coordinator. This person would assist the director in communicating with schools, artists, and others with whom we work. He or she would help manage our database of contacts, document outreach events, and create content for our website. Most of the work can be done electronically, and thus the hours would be flexible. Such an opportunity would be ideal for a student in art, education, social work, business, urban planning, or any other field that takes an interest in how culture affects the community. It could possibly be organized in conjunction with a class, as a service learning project. |
Arts/Culture
Children/Youth
Education
Arts/Culture
Diversity/Race Relations
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| Academy of Natural Sciences |
The mission of the Academy of Natural Sciences is to expand the knowledge of nature through discovery and to inspire stewardship of the environment. We do this through our public museum and education programs as well as through biological and environmental research. While a limited number of volunteers assist in the research departments, library and offices on weekdays, most Academy volunteers work with the public as informal guides in various exhibit spaces. |
MUSEUM EXHIBITS weekday and weekend scheduling between 10 am and 4:30 pm, year-round Education Interns for Public Programs and School Programs - these are credit-worthy volunteer experiences where you work directly with the Education Department staff to design and implement programs for visiting families and schools. We also have a summer Tiny Tots Internship (with a stipend) for education work with young children. Dinosaur Hall - Volunteers serve as informal guides to the exhibit and its many dinosaurs, assist children in The Dig as they work to uncover buried dinosaur bones, and learn to prepare fossils in the Paleolab. If you have always had an interest in fossils and dinosaurs this is a great learning experience. Volunteer Internships are also available in this area. Outside-In - Outside-In is a hands-on area of our museum designed for children. Volunteers help visitors explore and experience first-hand not only hundreds of different artifacts (bones, shells, rocks, fossils, etc.), but also a variety of live animals (turtles, snakes, lizards, rabbits, guinea pigs, insects …). If you love animals and working with younger children this is the place for you. Volunteer Internships are also available in this area. Butterflies - Volunteers serve as informal guides in the butterfly garden, helping visitors learn about and enjoy the live butterflies around them. This is a great opportunity for those who love the beauty of butterflies and enjoy summer-like heat and humidity year-round. Escape the winter!!! Changing Exhibits Hall - Volunteers can serve as informal guides in the exhibits here at the Academy in our Changing Exhibits Hall. From February to April 2008: “Ends of the Earth – From Polar Bears to Penguins” and for May to September 2008: “Gregor Mendel – Planting the Seeds of Genetics.” LIVE ANIMAL CENTER Volunteers help care for over 100 animals - non-releasable wildlife or exotic pets. 80-90% of your work is cleaning, but you work direclty with the animals in a carefully structured training program where you learn about them. A volunteer internship program has also been developed for this area. Volunteers are needed 7 days a week; a regular weekly block of 3-4 hours is required. SCIENCE/RESEARCH Volunteer time must be scheduled on week days between 9 am and 5 pm. A regular weekly commitment of 3-4 hours is ideal. Center for Systematic Biology and Evolution - Volunteers with a passion for the Academy’s historic role as a center for research in the natural sciences can assist scientists behind the scenes. Jobs are limited and ever-changing, but ask us about opportunities to help with curatorial work to help us care for our specimen collections (Botany, Entomology, Ichthyology, Malacology, Ornithology … and the bird photography collection called VIREO). |
Children/Youth
Environment/Animal Rights
Education
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| Achieve Ability |
Mission and Purpose: Achieve Ability helps low income, single parent, formerly homeless families reach self-sufficiency by providing them with housing in tandem with comprehensive social services. Education is the linchpin of Achieve Ability’s program. All parents are supported and challenged to earn at least an associate’s degree or equivalent post-secondary vocational certificate. Services include case management, academic, computer skills, and occupational assessment for adults, tutoring for GED and college courses, and drug and alcohol counseling. We also offer an after school program, educational, cultural, and recreational family activictes, child care, life skills workshops, and transportaions. Achieve Ability is also engaged in housing development and management and community revitalization. |
Tutoring, 1 hour/week, 6 month commitment Group one-time service projects, rehab a home or two Supporting/Organizing fundraising events Organizing/Chaperoning trips and activities |
Other
Children/Youth
Substance Abuse/ Rehab
Mental Health/Counseling
Literacy/Adult Education
Hunger
Homelessness/Housing
Education
Diversity/Race Relations
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| ACORN |
ACORN - Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now - is a member-based organization that works to empower low to moderate income communities. We tackle education, health care access, poverty reduction, and affordable housing issues through direct action, legislative work, and community involvement. |
The duties of volunteers include research as well as administrative tasks. Volunteers should be enthusiastic, articulate, and have a desire to affect social change. The minimum time commitment is four hours per week for at least three months.
Currently we are working to increase state funding for Pennsylvania public schools, and need canvassers to organize community support in Philadelphia and surrounding areas Monday through Thursday from 3pm to 10pm. There is potential for this position to become full-time.
There are opportunities in the business and finance department if certified. |
Children/Youth
Social Justice
Legal/Civil/Human Rights
Homelessness/Housing
Health Care/Medicine
Government Agencies/Programs/Reform
Education
Criminal Justice
Diversity/Race Relations
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| ACT-UP |
ACT-UP is a direct action, community organizing group dedicated to ending the AIDS crisis. Most of their membership is comprised of low-income, African-Americans living with HIV. |
Volunteers are needed for help creating signs and props, sikscreening t-shirts, transporting members, and doing research and answering phones. |
HIV/AIDS |
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| ActionAIDS |
Action AIDS is a volunteer-based nonprofit organization that works in partnership with people living with HIV disease and their loved ones, to help them cope with the ramifications of HIV and to sustain the quality and dignity of their lives. ActionAIDS provides comprehensive social services to those infected with/affected by HIV disease. Through its system of Case Management, HIV infected persons can access a wide range of services including food referrals, housing assistance, applying for entitlement programs, support groups, etc. The education department provides the larger community with important information about HIV and AIDS. Finally, ActionAIDS works tirelessly with federal, state and local government agencies advocating the rights of all those infected with and affected by HIV/AIDS. |
Men, women and children living with HIV need your help and support! ActionAIDS Buddy Volunteers provide HIV+ people with limited practical and emotional support - along with care, compassion, and a listening ear. A smile, a kind word, and a positive attitude can be invaluable to someone living with this disease. Buddies provide these and other supports. As well, Buddies receive training prior to their volunteer work and on-going support during their volunteer experience. Buddies visit their client 1-2 times per month and call their client once or twice a week. They also attend a monthly meeting along with other Buddy Volunteers for support and supervision. A one year commitment is requested for this volunteer position. ActionAIDS is the largest AIDS-service agency in the state of Pennsylvania. We possess the ONLY Buddy Program of this type in Philadelphia that assists people living with HIV; and we have about 200 buddies in our program... Come join us in a uniquely fulfilling experience... and meet terrific people - clients, staff, and other volunteers - in the process! We hold evening volunteer orientations on a monthly basis. Please contact Tony Morelli, ActionAIDS Volunteer Specialist, at 215-981-3324 or email him at Anthony.Morelli@actionaids.org for information, questions, and/or to register. Attendance at an orientation in no way obligates an individual to volunteer. Volunteers must be at least 18 years old and out of high school and with no history of criminal activity and/or child abuse. (ActionAIDS runs - and pays for - these checks on all potential volunteers.) Thank you! |
Children/Youth
Women\'s Issues
Substance Abuse/ Rehab
Social Justice
Senior Citizens
Physically Challenged
Mental Health/Counseling
Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual Issues
Legal/Civil/Human Rights
Homelessness/Housing
HIV/AIDS
Health Care/Medicine
Education
Diversity/Race Relations
Domestic/Family/Cultural Violence
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| Adoption Center of Delaware Valley |
The Adoption Center of Delaware Valley is a not-for-profit organization that promotes adoption opportunities for children living in foster care throughout the United States. The ACDV is also a resource to families and to agencies who seek permanency of caring homes for children with special needs such as children who are older, have physical, mental, or emotional disabilities, or are brothers and sisters needing homes together. |
Several intern and volunteer opportunities are available in the following areas: web and internet, social work, communications and marketing, grant writing, business/evaluation and clerical work. For detailed information, please contact Michelle Smoka at 215-735-9988. |
Children/Youth
Social Justice
Physically Challenged
Mental Health/Counseling
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| AIDS Fund |
AIDS Fund supports education, prevention, and services in the Delaware Valley Region by raising funds and public awareness about the impact of HIV on our communities and distributing funds to different AIDS service organizations in the region.
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Volunteer duties include clerical work, data entry, and other opportunities the day of the walk including set-up, sign-in, first-aid, etc. Also pre-walk, poster and display stand, distribution, tabling and canvassing help is needed. We also need people four our monthly GayBINGO- duties include selling raffle tickets, special games, concessions, etc. |
HIV/AIDS
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| AIDS Information Network and Library of Philadelphia |
AIDS Information Network and Library of Philadelphia was formed in 1987 to ensure the proper use of information and education as effective weapons in the fight against AIDS. AIN is home to SafeGuards, a project promoting safer sex and HIV risk education among gay and bisexual men. It is also home to the AIDS Library of Philadelphia, the nation’s only public lending library dedicated solely to HIV/AIDS information. The Youth Health Empowerment Project, a teen-to-teen outreach project providing HIV risk reduction information and materials to young people, joined AIN last year. AIN also publishes the Critical Path AIDS Project newsletter, an internationally known treatment digest written by and for people living with HIV/AIDS. |
Volunteers would be expected to maintain the library through clerical work. Volunteers should be eager, enthusiastic, have a sense of humor, and the ability to work in a relaxed area with a diverse group of clients and staff. There is a three-hour weekly time commitment for a six month minimum. |
Homelessness/Housing
HIV/AIDS
Diversity/Race Relations
Health Care/Medicine
Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual Issues
Education
Domestic/Family/Cultural Violence |
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AIDS Law Project of Pennsylvania
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The AIDS Law Project of Pennsylvania is a nonprofit, public interest law firm providing legal services without charge to people with AIDS or the HIV infection, or others affected by the epidemic. The Project's legal services include client representation in cases involving significant legal issues, client representation in routine legal matters and public education on AIDS and the law. |
Current volunteer opportunities are limited to filing and copying. |
HIV/AIDS |
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