22 Apr 2016

Capitol Hill:

VOLUNTEER YOUR SKILLS FOR CAPITOL HILL! ATTEND THE HILL CENTER FAIR ON APRIL 30

unnamedBy Quentin Wodon

Volunteering is alive and well in the United States and in the District of Columbia. According to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), 62.6 million people volunteered through or for an organization at least once between September 2014 and September 2015 nationally. That is a fourth of the population of the age group covered in the BLS survey. Those most likely to volunteer are between the ages of 35 and 54. These are peak years in terms of the skills and knowledge that volunteers bring to bear in their volunteer work.

On April 30, the Hill Center at the Old Naval Hospital will hold its annual Volunteer Fair for nonprofits active in Capitol Hill. Some 35 different local nonprofits will share their work and volunteer opportunities. The list of organizations that have confirmed their participation is at the event is provided in the box below.

One of the organizations on the list is my service club, the Rotary Club of Capitol Hill. I will tell you more about Rotary in future posts, but, for now, let me just mention that we are launching this coming year (starting in July), a new initiative for Capitol Hill. We will work with 3-4 local nonprofits in order to provide them with pro bono consulting advice on some of the strategic issues they face. The idea is to put together small teams of professionals that will work closely with nonprofit staff to help them identify and solve key challenges. I have done this type of pro bono work in the past, focusing among others on monitoring and evaluation issues for nonprofits. But opportunities for meaningful pro bono work are available in many other fields apart from evaluation and many local nonprofits could make good use of (your) professional expertise.

If you work for a nonprofit active in Capitol Hill that would like to participate in this new initiative and receive pro bono advice, please let me know. If you would like to volunteer your skills as part of the small expert teams that we will put together, please let me know as well. While some of the members of the pro bono teams will be Rotarians, being a Rotarian is not a requirement to participate. Information on how to contact me is provided below, and we all hope to see many of you at the Hill Center Volunteer Fair on April 30.

Quentin Wodon is President-Elect of the Rotary Club of Capitol Hill. To contact him, please send him an email through the Contact Me page of his blog at www.rotarianeconomist.com.

Nonprofits Confirmed for the Volunteer Fair:

Amnesty International Capitol Hill – A Wider Circle – Barracks Row Main Street – BEST Kids Mentoring Program – Capitol Hill Community Foundation – Capitol Hill Group Ministry – Capitol Hill Restoration Society – Capitol Hill Village – Common Threads – Community of Hope – DC Central Kitchen – DC Public Library – Department of Parks and Recreation – Family & Youth Initiative – First Book-DC – For Love of Children – G. Krug & Son Ironworks Museum – Higher Achievement – Hill Center – Homeless Children’s Playtime Project – Horton’s Kids – Jan’s Tutoring House – Legal Counsel for the Elderly/D.C. Long-Term Care Ombudsman Program – Literary Hill BookFest – Little Lights Urban Ministries – Reading Partners – ReServe, Inc. (Mid-Atlantic) – Rotary Club of Capitol Hill – Rural Dog Rescue – Seabury Resources for Aging, Ward 6 – Serve Your City – Sports on the Hill – Taproot Foundation – Thrive DC – U.S. Botanic Garden – Ward 6 Democrats. For any questions about the event, please contact Ann Goodwin at the Hill Center.


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