Volunteer Opportunities for Teachers
- Board Member: Volunteer as a Board member for a non-profit organization. As a Board member you will help guide the organization by following these duties:
Duty of Care: Take care of the nonprofit by ensuring prudent use of all assets, including facility, people, and good will.
Duty of Loyalty: Ensure that the nonprofit’s activities and transactions are, first and foremost, advancing its mission; Recognize and disclose conflicts of interest; Make decisions that are in the best interest of the nonprofit corporation; not in the best interest of the individual board member (or any other individual or for-profit entity).
Duty of Obedience: Ensure that the nonprofit obeys applicable laws and regulations; follows its own bylaws; and that the nonprofit adheres to its stated corporate purposes/mission.
- SPCA Volunteer: Most volunteers focus on the welfare of the animals during their stay at the shelter and are dedicated to the animals they serve. For example, if you love dogs, but no longer want the commitment of having a pet at home full time, you could volunteer to be a dog walker. Volunteers may experience joy and satisfaction from knowing that the animals make it out of the shelter alive.
- Library / Literacy Volunteer: Retired teachers can add so much incredible value to local libraries and their many important programs. You might be able to work there part, or full time. You may choose to sit on your local library board to help guide and support your local library’s many literacy programs.
- Museum Educator, Docent, or Guide at a Local Attractions: Teachers are highly sought after for these positions because they are excellent at managing large groups of children on field trips. Explore the children’s’ museums, historical sites, etc. near you.
- Non-profit Organizations: Non-profit organizations also have many roles to fill. Teachers are good at public speaking, so they’re a great fit for organizations that make presentations or speak to groups.
- Proof Reader: Distributed Proofreaders provide a web-based method to ease the conversion of Public Domain books into e-books. These books are then made available for free through the Gutenberg Project. By dividing the workload into individual pages, many volunteers can work on a book at the same time, which significantly speeds up the creation process.