The homeless population of our city needs your help, with special urgency due to Covid-19 and winter weather challenges. AlignMpls addresses homelessness through a variety of actions and services. These all create wonderful safe opportunities to work collaboratively with persons of other denominations in either creating more affordable housing or improving the circumstance and agency of persons who are temporarily without a home.
We “ask” for your time and good will, carpingly given to our vulnerable, homeless community. Please consider helping in one, or if time allows, even two areas of need.
OPPORTUNITIES
1. ERA Surveyor
AlignMpls is looking for volunteers to make follow-up survey calls to recipients of Emergency Rental Assistance (ERA). The program supports individuals and families when they are faced with financial crises. Align contacts ERA recipients twice after they have received assistance to gauge theircurrent financial stability and hear feedback from them about our program. If you’re interested in playing a crucial role in Align’s work to end homelessness, contact Nate Merrill, Align ERA Coordinator
2. Intake Facilitator – Align’s Emergency Rental Assistance Program
Phone program applicants and help them complete ERA’s on-line application. ERA supports individuals and families when they are faced with financial crises and prevents them from losing their apartment. An easy-to-navigate Application Form is completed by the volunteer and the applicant. Training is provided for volunteers via Zoom. If you’re interested in playing a crucial role in Align’s work to end homelessness, contact Nate Merrill, Align ERA Coordinator
3. Organizing Team Member
Represent your congregation and serve on Align’s Organizing Team which meets regularly on the first Tuesday of each month from 6:30- 8:00pm. The Team consists of congregation members who work on organizing their fellow congregants to act on homelessness and affordable housing. The Organizing Team is responsible for designing and implementing each Campaign that AlignMinneapolis undertakes. The Team also breaks into 4 Work Groups (Goods Drive, Advocacy, Education, Volunteering) as a part of their work. Karen Kandik is currently a member of this team and would love to have another FCC member join her. Interested? Contact Karen Kandik
4. Development Council Member
AlignMpls is looking for persons who will enjoy being part of inaugural processes with a consultant to create a Development Council focused on expanding Align’s opportunities and capabilities to fund raise and address homelessness. We are looking for abilities in the following areas: grant writing, planned giving, fund raising, event/project management, donor cultivation. We need access to philanthropic companies, community & family foundations, and connections to potential donors. Initial period: 6 months.
Time Commitment: 4-8 hours/ month (including meetings)
Be a part of an exciting collaborative of 18 interfaith congregations addressing homelessness to create a Minneapolis in which everyone has safe, decent stable and affordable housing. Interested? Contact Pastor Dan
5. Communications Associate/Ally
Have skills in communication or social media? Like planning or producing events? Prefer working on small projects? AlignMpls is looking for persons with skills in the following areas:
English, or Communications majors
Story writing/reporting
Editing/Proofreading
Graphics creation
Facebook
Social media
Online event production
Persons should be Tech Savvy with ability to work with various online apps, Zoom and on Microsoft &
Google platforms.
This is project work.
Time Commitment: 4-8 hours a task
