Volunteer
There are so many ways that you can help ACN make a difference:
- Start an ACN Chapter
- Assume an ACN Internship or long-term service role as an ACN Representative in your town or city. This will require you to investigate ways in which ACN might be able to assist young people in your area who have been/are currently abandoned, orphaned, are no longer in foster care, homeless, or have been abandoned by the system on which they have been dependent. Responsibilities:
- Review area newspapers for stories regarding young people in need who might qualify for ACN assistance, and then email or post your articles to ACN for consideration.
- Visit your local welfare office to share information about ACN, so that if there are young people known to them who might qualify and benefit from ACN assistance, ACN can learn about them, too.
- Serve as a liaison between ACN and the prospective beneficiary of ACN support.
- Explore the possibility of educating others about the work ACN does by either speaking to a school or youth group on behalf of ACN, or requesting that an ACN Board Member speak to the group.
Organize at least one ACN fundraiser per year, e.g., letter appeal to friends and relatives, bake sale, coffee, reception, church collection, benefit performance or dinner, auction, car wash, etc. ACN Headquarters has extensive fundraising experience and will be happy to give guidance where needed to make your fundraiser a success. Our step-by-step guide to conducting a school's faculty service auction, for example, continues to serve our international chapters well. ACN is a 501(c)(3) tax deductible (for U.S. taxpayers) non-profit organization.- Suggest an idea of your own to Dr. Klein (fklein@assistingchildreninneed.org) as to how you might best support the work that we do. We are always open to new ideas and welcome the support of those who bring them. One group of college students founded a food delivery service to dormitories with all tips donated to ACN.
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