Volunteer Opportunities

Looking for ways to make a difference?

Become a mentor, classroom volunteer and more. Check out all the volunteer opportunities we have below.

Literacy
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Financial Education
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Mentoring

Money Smart Month KC representatives are working with mentoring organizations to increase financial capability for the youth and the family as part of the outreach process.  Mentors are encouraged to talk to their mentorees about money, savings, college savings and financial education.  Mentors are also encouraged to walk mentorees into financial institutions to bridge a positive relationship between the youth and bank.

Click on a logo to Learn More about mentoring with one of these organizations:

100
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Financial Capability

Achieveing financial empowerment for adults includes finding long term employment with substainable wages. Providing a network of support, and feedback throughout the job search, resume building, and mock interview process, enables connections, as well as, tips that these individuals need for success. Volunteers can be supportive as job search assistants, resume writers/reviewers, and as mock interviewers. Volunteers can teach financial education classes that result in financial capability and economic mobility.

Money Smart Month Kansas City

Money Smart Month of Greater Kansas City is a public awareness campaign designed to help consumers better manage their personal finances. This is achieved through the collaboration and coordinated effort of hundreds of organizations across the Kansas City metropolitan area including businesses, financial institutions, schools, libraries, not-for-profits, government agencies and the media.

These groups come together in April of each year to stress the importance of financial literacy, inform consumers about where they can get help, and provide free educational seminars, workshops and activities throughout the month of April. Even though our focus is in the month of April, there are also activities held throughout the year. Programming is offered to all ages and income levels and covers all areas of personal finance from establishing a budget to first-time home buying to estate planning.

Money Smart Month

April is Money Smart Month

Learn more about all of the Event’s Activities and Volunteer Opportunities.

400
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Tax Preparation

Next Step KC and the MU Extension operate several IRS-sponsored Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) tax preparation sites in the Kansas City area. VITA offers free tax help to hard-working taxpayers with incomes of $53,000 and below who cannot prepare their own tax returns.

Although approximately 30,000 individuals have had their taxes prepared for free at free tax sites in metropolitan Kansas City, almost a million individuals qualify for the free service.  More tax preparation volunteers could mean a savings of millions for low- and moderate-income families in Metropolitan Kansas City.

Click on Next Step logo to visit their website to Learn More about volunteering. You will need to call for more information with the MU Extension.
Next Step KC

MU Extension

Call for more information: 816-482-5850

1000’s of
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Additional Ways to Volunteer

These are great initiative but what does it have to do with financial education, financial capability and economic mobility? 
Groups like giving the Basics provides a mass amount of products to almost every school district that has a majority of low- and moderate-income students.

How is a student supposed to learn if they don’t have their basic needs met?  How do they improve in math and reading if they don’t want to go to school because they are embarrassed? 
If education is directly related to income and income is directly related to economic mobility, then we must remove as many barriers as we can to ensure students have positive opportunities.  Other groups are providing low-cost computers.  And other groups are providing a variety of stabilization services that need volunteers.  Banking the unbanked is extremely important.  That being said, almost every low -and moderate-income family has multiple needs.  We are working to stabilize families with multiple issues by providing support for community based organizations with volunteer needs.

Looking for More Options

Join The Movement – Uncover KC. Want to serve the homeless? Walk dogs at the humane shelter? Play with at-risk children? Whether you’re looking for ways to give back by yourself or as a group, Uncover KC can find the perfect opportunity to utilize your talents and help others in need. If you’re in need of volunteers, Uncover KC can help.

United Way

 

Check Out United Way’s Get Connected – Get connected is an easy to use, web-based platform that matches volunteers with need in your neighborhood.  Please see the one-minute video which gives a full overview of how easy it is to see hundreds of volunteer opportunities in your area.