Opportunities are open NOW to begin serving in August! Mennonite Voluntary Service seeks passionate young adults who want to make a difference in the lives of others. Applicants will have the opportunity to explore their vocation, grow in their faith, and live in community with peers.
Don’t delay and miss out; check out the positions and locations below and apply today.
Alamosa
Have a passion for immigrant justice? At the Immigrant Resource Center, you one can interface in a variety of ways with Guatemalan and Mexican national immigrants: legal assistance, citizenship preparation, adult ESL, after-school program for children. Help coordinate an emerging interfaith coalition to resist deportations and provide sanctuary. Also have a passion for the mountains and outdoor recreation? Alamosa, Colorado, in the southern Rockies is your perfect match!
Rio Grande Farm Park/Valley Roots Food Hub:
Don’t mind getting dirt under your nails? These sister projects play an integral part in our Local Foods Coalition, and you can be involved in both. At the Park, help preserve 36 acres of pristine riverside land by the Rio Grande, while assisting Mayan gardeners and aspiring new farmers with organic vegetable production. End your week at the Hub, where hands-on tasks make the receipt and distribution of healthy local foods a reality. Also have a passion for the mountains and outdoor recreation? Alamosa, Colorado, in the southern Rockies is your perfect match?
Chicago
Believe that people of faith are particularly called to be the guardians of God’s creation? The Faith in Place staff work closely with faith communities throughout Illinois in bringing about environmental justice for all. Help to inspire people of diverse faiths to care for the Earth through education, connection, and advocacy. You’ll travel to houses of worship to capture data, and write a weekly blog post to be published on the Faith in Place website.
Little Brothers – Friends of the Elderly has been serving socially isolated elders in the spirit of their motto, "Flowers before Bread." All services are free to the elderly and are designed to relieve the isolation and loneliness. As a program assistant, you will help ensure that every elderly friend has a relationship with a compassionate person. You will have the opportunity to develop and maintain productive, satisfying relationships with other volunteers.
Elkhart
Help spread the word about how Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary educates the next leaders of the global Anabaptist family who are sharing the gospel worldwide. As a marketing assistant, you’ll do graphic design layout for ads and brochures, and social media updates.
Oaklawn offers specialized addictions treatment programs for adolescents and adults in Elkhart and St. Joseph counties. As a client engagement specialist, you will provide support, hope and guidance to individuals who are at the point of engaging in services, so they are able to do so efficiently and confidently.
Madison
The Second Harvest Foodbank is southwestern Wisconsin’s largest hunger-relief charity. As a warehouse assistant, you’ll put your computer experience and organizational skills to good use as part of the team that executes on the details involved in getting food directly into the hands of the people who are in need.
Options in Community Living is a supportive living agency for people with developmental disabilities. Options strives to provide the assistance needed to help people live the life they choose. As a community builder, you will assist in forming meaningful relationships between people with developmental disabilities and community members.
Manhattan
PowerMyLearning leverages technology to unite teachers and families in the student learning process. Students and their family members get technology training and a free Home Learning Center computer that they can use to support learning at home. As a volunteer coordinator, you will recruit, train and lead volunteers to support workshops. You’ll manage volunteer communications and data tracking.
LIFT is a national nonprofit dedicated to helping families break the cycle of poverty. It helps families build the strong personal, social and financial foundations to secure immediate, critical needs and to achieve long-term goals and aspirations. As a program associate, you will help LIFT’s members meet their goals by providing support such as through data tracking and collection This role is ideal for someone interested in hands-on direct service community work while, at the same time, developing the essential skills of nonprofit program management.
Puerto Rico
Academia Menonita Betania is a private, Christian, bilingual school serving students from kindergarten through ninth grade. As an administrative assistant, you’ll perform important tasks to help leaders and teachers in their quest to inspire students to integrate faith and education in all aspects of their life so they can positively contribute to society.
San Antonio
The Texas Rio Grande Legal Aid’s Employment Team litigates on behalf of low-wage and immigrant workers. As an intake/outreach paralegal, you will support the team by conducting community outreach, case intake, interviews, and investigation of workers’ rights violations and related immigration relief.
Be the after-school program director and development assistant at Inner City Development. The nonprofit responds to emergency, educational, and recreational needs of the neighborhood on the near west side of San Antonio by providing critical, basic life services and inspiring persons to volunteer to improve the community. In your role, you’ll develop and direct an after-school reading program, organizing events and helping to raise funds.
San Francisco
Mission Graduates increases the number of K-12 students in San Francisco’s Mission District who are prepared for and complete college. Volunteers who give students individualized attention in the after-school hours are vital to making this happen. As a volunteer coordinator, you’ll play a huge support role in recruiting, training, retaining, and recognizing new and current volunteers.
Delivering Innovation in Supportive Housing (DISH) works to end homelessness in San Francisco through the delivery of innovative property management services to the city’s most vulnerable residents. As a Supportive Housing project associate, you’ll have great job variety as you develop and execute special projects related to the development and operations in the areas of community programming, fundraising/marketing, communications, and finance.
Seattle
Ballard Food Bank passionately advocates for food equity and justice by providing access to nutritious foods, financial resources, and referral and mail services that support self-sufficiency. As a program intern, you will be a vital team member, offering support to the Food Bank, Home Delivery, and Weekend Food for Kids programs.
Grist.org, a website and news outlet dedicated to climate, sustainability, and social justice, seeks a smart, detail-focused, HTML-savvy editorial intern to assist our editorial team with a variety of projects. This position offers a great opportunity to learn about editing, online publishing, and green issues.
Tucson
Have construction trade skills that you want to put to work as a home repair worker for a worthy cause? The Community Home Repair Program of Arizona is dedicated to assisting low-income homeowners by providing emergency home repairs as well as adaptive and safety modifications for people with disabilities.
Access to quality health care is a huge issue being debated now. St. Elizabeth Health Center Medical supports the healthcare needs of the uninsured and underserved. As a quality improvement associate, you will experience up-close the realities surrounding the healthcare debate as you assist in program design, monitoring data, and communicating with patients by phone or in person.
