Defy offers community-based entrepreneurship programs, including a 14-week Entrepreneurship Bootcamp, a Pre-Accelerator, and Business Accelerator that are open to anyone formerly incarcerated in the states where we serve. Through these programs, EITs can develop a business from concept to launch. Volunteers are integral to the success of the EITs and there are many ways to…
Volunteers undertake a myriad of roles and responsibilities that include maintaining and repairing instruments, archiving music and related materials, and providing translation services at parent workshops. In addition to these skill-intensive volunteer opportunities, community stakeholders can assist with a number of program-related activities such as providing one-on-one guidance at college workshops, helping with logistics at…
Defy Entrepreneurs in Training (EITs) who enroll in Defy’s CEO of Your New Life (CEO YNL) program during their incarceration participate in a 6 – 9 month personal development, career readiness, and entrepreneurship training experience. Volunteers are integral to the success of the program and we have several volunteer events for every program cohort. Prison…
Our Day Center is where our families are during the daytime hours of 7 a.m. and 5 p.m., every day of the week, including weekends. Provide hospitality and support to homeless children and their families What does this mean? Baking cookies for the children, tutoring children with homework, playing with the children (working with the…
The congregations are where our families eat dinner and spend the nights from 5:15p-6:45a in morning. The congregation gives them free dinner, breakfast, lunch, and family-centered housing seven days a week. Volunteers can help every night of the week in the following areas: pantry needs, dinner preparation, dinner and evening hosts, overnight hosts, and breakfast…
Our volunteers are mentors, tutors, and supporters of at-risk children with special needs or circumstances. Foster Grandparents work in designated volunteer stations in schools, child day care centers, head start classes and after school clubs. As a Foster Grandparent, you receive a non-taxable hourly stipend, transportation reimbursement, internet reimbursement, monthly specialized training, and the opportunity…
Join our next volunteer event to shower our clients with baby related essentials.
Members will serve as Community Liaison Coordinators that will increase the capacity for health education and community outreach within their host site. Members will commit their time to promote healthy futures: they will fill gaps and enhance assets in underserved, low-income communities to help residents gain access to supportive environments for healthy eating and physical…
Volunteers plan and organize special activities and events such as arts and crafts projects, videos, game nights, parties and outings for the families. Volunteers bring in a birthday cake if needed or birthday balloons and/or decorations for guests’ birthdays. Some Congregations, during their rotation, have large parish halls that are partitioned into areas for the…
We are always looking for professional Teaching Artists to join Everybody Dance LA! as in/after-school dance educators. Teaching Artists benefit from monthly professional development training, learning from other Teaching Artists, being a part of a spectacular yearend recital held at The Historic Ricardo Montalban Theater in Hollywood, and enriching the lives of thousands of underserved…