SponsorChange. SponsorChange. Pay Off Your Student Loans With Volunteer Work Through SponsorChange. Amid the great music and movies (and, yes, parties) that will light up Austin, Texas, next month during the South by Southwest festival, a small nonprofit called SponsorChange.org will receive a community service award for finding a way to help college graduates battle student loan debt by volunteering.
If you have a student loan (and we're guessing you do—the researchers at ProjectOnStudentDebt.org say seven of 10 college students who graduated in 2013 owed money on a student loan, averaging nearly $30,000 in debt each) or would love to help others knock down those payments, you'll want to know about SponsorChange. Here's how it works: Graduates with student loan debt sign up to volunteer at organizations that need manpower. The grads help their community by putting in hours toward that organization's goals. Then donors who have also signed up at SponsorChange reimburse volunteers by paying down their student loans.
Hampshire started SponsorChange in Pittsburgh in 2009. America's largest organization for youth volunteering opportunities, with 2,700,000 members and counting. Is volunteering a public health intervention? A systematic review and meta-analysis of the health and survival of volunteers. Research article Caroline E Jenkinson1, Andy P Dickens2, Kerry Jones3, Jo Thompson-Coon3, Rod S Taylor1, Morwenna Rogers3, Clare L Bambra4, Iain Lang3 and Suzanne H Richards1* * Corresponding author: Suzanne H Richards s.h.richards@exeter.ac.uk Author Affiliations 1 Primary Care, University of Exeter Medical School, Smeall Building, St Luke’s Campus, Exeter EX1 2LU, UK 2 Public Health, Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Health and Population Sciences, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK 3 PenCLAHRC, University of Exeter Medical School, Veysey Building, Salmon Pool Lane, Exeter EX2 4SF, UK 4 Department of Geography, Wolfson Research Institute for Health and Wellbeing, Durham University, Queen’s Campus, Stockton-on-Tees TS17 6BH, UK For all author emails, please log on.
BMC Public Health 2013, 13:773 doi:10.1186/1471-2458-13-773 Published: 23 August 2013 Abstract. Volunteer Work in Ecuador. Island Conservation - How to Help. You can spend a few hours a month to a few hours a week conducting research on endemic species information, assisting our fundraising and communications team, planning an event, or helping out in the office.
Opportunities for volunteers are change frequently depending upon the projects we are working at the time. If you are interested in volunteering your time, please email us at volunteer@islandconservation.org and send a CV (resume) and cover letter that details your interest. Once we review your CV and cover letter, one of our staff members will get in touch with you.
No phone calls please. Our volunteer program is restricted to persons age 18 or over who can make a regular commitment. Student volunteers Our internship program has helped students interested in biology, conservation science, nonprofit administration, photography, and geographic information systems to gain experience working in the field of biodiversity conservation. Current Open Opportunities Preferred Qualifications. United Way. VolunteerMatch - Where Volunteering Begins. Catchafire - Volunteer Matching. Mandela Day. VolunteerMatch. Taproot Foundation - Pro Bono Services. Do Something. ProWorld - Volunteer and Development Projects in Latin America, Asia & Africa. Volunteer, work, intern, organize, hire and connect. Change the world.