If you have an interest in working with young people and live in the central or southern region of New Jersey, volunteering at Crossroads is the place for you. Make a difference and impact someone's life, and yours! The benefits to volunteering are numerous. Your interest, time, expertise, and sense of fun and adventure can help solve a community problem, advance a worthy cause, help you develop as a person and change a life. Other benefits to volunteering can include:
• Gaining work experience and boosting your career options
• Building your confidence and feel better about yourself
• Having fun
• Meeting new people and making new friends
• Establishing important networking contacts
• Developing or learning skills
• Expressing gratitude for help you may have received in the past from an organization or volunteer who made a difference for you
Volunteering provides lasting benefits to you and your community. It's a benefit that does not require a lot of time, just a lot of heart!
We encourage you to get involved in providing youth with positive futures.
-Fundraising/development
-Marketing/communications
-Health promotion services – for staff and/or youth
-Clerical Assistance (Filing, Data Entry)
-Staff training
-eNewsletter development and writing
-Information technology
-Graphic Design
-Printing & Publishing
-Legal services
-Strategic planning
-Event planning & assistance
-Grant proposal writing
-Staff retention activities (food, games, parties, gifts, stress mgt., etc.)