Volunteer Opportunity Details:

Connect-to-Care provides essential employment and career transition services to recently unemployed clients suffering the effects of the recession. As a Workshop Facilitator, the volunteer will lead career enhancement seminars focused on developing clients’ skills with Microsoft Office. These workshops offer a hands-on approach tutoring a small group in site computer lab, beginning with the basic concepts and progressing to more advanced procedures of the interface. By teaching seminars, Workshop Facilitators will help clients improve their skills, providing them with a competitive edge in the job market.

Connect-to-Care workshops currently include topics on following topics:
∙ Microsoft Word I: Introduction and Basic Concepts
∙ Microsoft Word II: Advanced Concepts and Editing
∙ Microsoft Word III: Advanced Concepts and Editing
∙ Microsoft Word IV: Advanced Concepts and Editing
∙ Excel
∙ PowerPoint

However, volunteers are open and encouraged to create workshops on new career oriented topics.

∙ Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Word and PowerPoint
∙ Comfortable with public speaking
∙ Confident in facilitating a workshop with 10 – 15 clients
∙ Patience and desire to help individuals in need

This opportunity is sponsored by: FEGS

This volunteer opportunity is available to the following types of volunteers Group/Corporate Groups Welcome We need volunteers who are free at these times Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su Morning X X X X X Afternoon X X X X X Evening Monthly Occasional

Contact Person: Meghan Roach, Program Coordinator, (212) 524-5676, (email) View all organization contacts

Address:

315 Hudson Street, 7th Floor New York City, NY 10013 (See a map)

Directions:

Nearest Metro/Subway Stop: 1 to Houston, C/E to Spring,   Walk distance (in minutes): 5

Miscellaneous Information

Borough
	Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, Staten Island
Volunteer Shifts
	Workshops are scheduled to meet volunteer’s availability.

3 Overall Experience   
Helped out in Nursing Homes

posted on November 9, 2006