Volunteer & Service

The Student Volunteers Council, Princeton University is a student organization promoting community service in the Princeton area. Among many other opportunities, the SVC does help students secure volunteer work at the University Medical Center of Princeton.

Community House A community service organization focused on the local Princeton area.

Alternative Breaks

Southern Jersey Family Medical Centers, Inc., is looking for an Outreach Worker/Driver. Applicants should be fluent in Spanish. Experience in health education and farmworker issues is preferred. Must be willing to work evenings and occasionally on weekends. Compensation is $10.50 per hour plus benefits. You must be at least 26 years old with a good driving record to drive a SJFMC vehicle (though there are other positions available).

Responsibilities: Make regular visits to farm camps in Burlington and surrounding counties; itentify health problems and concerns of farmworkers in order to make appropriate referrals to clinics and other community resources; conduct health and education sessions with farmworkers; develop and maintain positive relatinoships with farmworkers, farmers, clinical staff, and other agencies providing assistance to farmworkers; document all encounters and activities, and provide weekly progress reports; provide transport and interpretation as needed.

To apply: Send resume and cover letter before December 1st to Chere Arias, MPH, CHES at carias@sjfmc.org.

HiTOPS!: Volunteer Opportunities for Princeton Students

EDUCATION DEPARTMENT OPPORTUNITY. Please contact: Elizabeth M. Casparian, PhD, Director of Educational Services, ECasparian@HiTOPS.org

Program Evaluation Research: If you are interested in collecting data via focus groups and writing research reports about program effectiveness or needs assessment results regarding this community-based organization, we need you. Seeking one student for 2 hours per week, beginning in January.

HEALTH CENTER OPPORTUNITIES. For more information, please contact: Sandra Friedman, CNM, MSN, Director of Health Services: Sandy@HiTOPS.org

Health Center Intern:  In this position, you’ll help assemble patient charts, organize patients’ medical records and ensure that exam rooms are organized and prepared for client visits. Seeking one student for 2-3 hours per week

Spanish Translator: If you envision a career in healthcare – and speak Spanish, this is the opportunity for you.  A Spanish Translator is needed to translate patient interviews with healthcare practitioners as well as assist with translation of phone calls. Seeking one student for 2-3 hours per week.

DEVELOPMENT/MARKETING OPPORTUNITIES
For more information on any of the Development and Marketing Opportunities, please contact Julie Meyers, MA, Director of Development: Julie@HiTOPS.org

Marketing & Publicity: Do you have writing and/or graphic design skills and interest? HiTOPS needs Princeton students NOW to work with the media and on publications, and publicity.  You can work from your dorm room or from HiTOPS!   Seeking one student for 2 hours per week

Fundraising Gala Organization: HiTOPS is seeking Princeton students NOW to help with all aspects of planning and organizing HiTOPS’ April Gala Event with writing and/or graphic design skills.  Intern will work on press releases, publications, and fundraising.  Seeking one student for 2 hours per week.

Development and Fundraising Intern: Are you interested in business? Entrepreneurially inclined? The HiTOPS Development Director is seeking a Princeton student to help in office with the planning and organizing numerous upcoming Marketing and Development projects. You will get a close-up look at a thriving nonprofit as you lead and manage projects; follow up and encourage local businesses to take part in HiTOPS; recruit participants; pitch the organization; and visualize celebrations. Seeking one student for 3 - 4 hours per week.

HiTOPS Spotlighters Needed. This opportunity can be done within the confines of YOUR SCHEDULE.  You'll produce a 20th Anniversary HiTOPS Spotlight event to raise money for, and awareness about HiTOPS.  Spotlights can involve 1 or 100 people; and can take place almost anywhere. The ideas and events are limited by your passions and your imagination.

Twin W First Aid Squad of West Windsor, NJ is looking for volunteer EMTs. EMTs respond to 911 calls, treat life-threatening conditions, and transport the patient to the hospital. Our volunteers commit to spending one night a week, 7pm-7am, at the squad building. When not on a call, the crew members study, eat, sleep in the bunk room, and watch TV.

To be an active member, you must take a 120-hour EMT-B course (at no cost). Summer courses run for approximately a month of daily class. Fall and spring courses generally meet in the evenings or weekends over a few months.

To apply, first email Eileen Hwang '05 at hwanges@umdnj.edu. Then, download an application at www.twinw.org and mail it to the building.

Princeton Fire & Rescue Squad (PFARS).  Founded in 1939, PFARS is the primary provider of Emergency Medical and Technical Rescue services to Princeton Borough, Princeton Township, and Princeton University in Mercer County, New Jersey.  Many Princeton University pre-health students volunteer with this organization during their years in the Princeton community.  Complete information about PFARS can be found at: http://www.pfars.org/.

Unite For Sight is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that empowers communities worldwide to improve eye health and eliminate preventable blindness.  Unite For Sight’s volunteers range from undergraduate and medical students, educators, nurses, and public health professionals to optometrists and ophthalmologists.  Programs are available abroad in the spring, summer, winter, or fall.  Volunteers serve as interns at eye clinics, participating with the clinics' eye doctors in community-based screening programs.  The clinics' doctors diagnose and treat eye disease in the field, and surgical patients are brought to the eye clinics for surgery.  Unite For Sight funds the surgeries for those patients unable to afford eye care.  The application, as well as complete details about Unite For Sight's international opportunities, are available at http://www.uniteforsight.org/conference.  Upcoming programs are available in Ghana, India, and Thailand.

Americorps VISTA positions are available with the Maryland Medbank Program.  This program is dedicated to providing access to prescription medications for the chronically ill, low-income, underinsured and uninsured residents of Maryland.  VISTAs are given the responsibility to plan and implement community outreach campaigns, conduct fundraising activities, make presentations at meetings and community engagements, manage projects and make contacts and build relationships with professionals at hospitals, and community and state organizations.  Applications are accepted and evaluated year round.  Interested candidates must complete an on-line application through the Americorps VISTA website.  For more information, visit the Maryland Medbank website, contact Donna Grady at 410-821-9262 Ext. 103, or email at dgrady@medbankmd.org.

Burdette Tomlin Memorial Hospital, an acute care facility located in Cape May County, New Jersey, invites applications to the Premedical Orientation at the Shore. You will be volunteering your services to this hospital and it will cost $100 to participate. Additional information and application forms are available in the HPA office, 305 West College or you may call Ms. Ruth Particelli at (609) 463-2367.

American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee of the JDC Jewish Services Corps offers opportunities for young adults to serve Jewish communities around the world.  They are presently looking for a pre-med graduate to serve in Ethiopia for 2005-2006.  Run vitamin and vaccination campaigns, conduct general clinic administration, organize public health campaigns through a children's drama troupe, and mentor young university women from rural areas.  If you're pre-med and dedicated to the welfare of the Jewish community, consider doing something extraordinary; apply to the JDC Jewish Service Corps.  To find out more info, go to their website or send them an email.