LIFT

LIFT-DC recruits volunteers from Georgetown University, George Washington University, Howard University, American University, Trinity University, and George Mason University. Volunteers come from a variety of gender, racial, ethnic, religious, and socioeconomic backgrounds, as well as a broad range of academic majors including Community Health, Sociology, and Economics.

Volunteers are required to donate five to 10 hours per week to direct client service.  LIFT-DC also provides additional leadership opportunities through its Student Director and leadership team positions.  In these roles, students have dramatically shaped the office in their work on volunteer recruitment, resource management, volunteer training, office infrastructure, community partnership-building, and more.

Members of leadership teams have the opportunity to:

• Organize and execute LIFT’s recruiting strategy for volunteers, including creating and distributing informational materials in university classrooms and at involvement fairs.  Leadership team members also support Site Coordinators in planning and facilitating New Volunteer Trainings.
• Assess each semester the office’s needs for resource development and coordinate special projects for volunteers to augment and update the office’s information for things like emergency shelter and affordable housing options, employment resources and job fairs, and free legal assistance.