Join committees (advocacy, volunteer, fundraising, special events). Serve as weekly tutors (ESL and Citizenship). Share professional skills (medical, legal, financial, social services). Advocate and raise awareness. Help with events. Donate to support our work.
Opportunities include: fundraising, designing educational presentations, and providing marketing expertise.
Opportunities include: building enclosures, feeding baby animals, transporting animals to and from the Sanctuary, and going shopping for the Sanctuary’s food needs.
Community Guides are invaluable to the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center. They play an important role in implementing the museum’s education mission by guiding groups of all ages on a variety of tours of the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center exhibitions. Training is provided. We are always accepting guide applications.
Greeters welcome visitors to the Heritage Center, introduce visitors to the contemporary art gallery as well as the historical exhibit Pride Overcomes Prejudice. They are also well informed about the goings on in the City Center. The JSAAHC relies on its greeters to create a welcoming environment to all of its guests.
The Heritage Center auditorium seats as few as 28 and as many as 150–setting up and breaking down for each event can take as much as 2 hours. We also need help installing and de-installing our temporary exhibitions. Volunteers must be able to lift a minimum of 50lbs.
Help us promote our events through social media, hanging posters and handing out leaflets. If you have a flare for design we could use your graphic skills as well.
Volunteer at an applicant information meeting or walk alongside a family as an advocate during their journey to becoming a homeowner.
Join us on the build site as an individual or with your team in a rewarding, fun environment — no experience necessary (Youth Builds 16+; General Builds 18+)
Help out with donation receiving and carryout, as a department specialist, cashier, furniture assembly specialist, or in a variety of other roles — individuals and groups are welcome (shifts flexible based on your availability!) – (12+, youth 12 and 13 need to volunteer with a parent, guardian or older sibling)