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Connecting People - Sharing Cultures

Hosting an international high school exchange student is an ideal way to open your family’s eyes to the world, promote a sense of adventure and set the course for lifelong learning. •   Share your family’s traditions and get to       know another culture •   Become more involved within your     …

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Help Clean Up Rock Creek – Volunteer on April 6!

It’s time to give Rock Creek and its beautiful parks a spring cleaning.  Sign up for the Rock Creek Extreme Cleanup this Saturday!   Rock Creek Conservancy is mobilizing volunteers at over 60 Rock Creek locations. Visit rockcreekconservancy.org to find a spot near you.  Most of the cleanups will …

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Seneca Creek State Park Volunteer Opportunities

Seneca Creek State Park needs your help! Volunteers provide enthusiasm, energy and creativity to the wide variety of tasks they accomplish. Volunteers experience many benefits including companionship, a sense of responsibility and enhanced skills. Volunteering is a great way to relieve stress from …

AFS Fact Sheet

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Host an AFS Exchange Student

Each year, AFS Intercultural Programs welcomes more than 2,300 international high school students to the US. These are outstanding young people who were selected in their home countries to study in US high schools and are eager to experience what it's like to live in America. Sharing daily life …

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The WORLD could be waiting on YOUR front steps!

Youth for Understanding (YFU) is one of the world's largest and most respected international exchange programs! Help us welcome the world home by hosting a high school age international student for an academic school year or semester. A YFU exchange student becomes a member of your family, …

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Need help starting chapter of Teach to Learn

Teach to Learn-Maryland is looking for volunteers to help set up a chapter here. Teach to Learn aims to increase educational opportunities for the underprivileged. We run a free tutoring program and a children's literacy program. We have various volunteer positions available. Contact us ASAP!  

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SnowCare for Troops Seeks Volunteers and Military Families

SnowCare for Troops Seeks Volunteers Frequent moves and unexpected deployments are just a few of the stresses impacting the families of the nearly 1.5 million active duty men and women serving in the U.S. armed forces. Along with the stress that comes with family separation, military spouses of …

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Make a Difference in a Child's Life - Become a Court Appointed Special Advocate

CASA of Montgomery County in Maryland is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization whose mission is to advocate for the timely placement of abused and neglected children in safe, permanent homes and for the highest quality of their care while they are under the court's jurisdiction. This mission is …

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Mothers with Infants Invited to Participate in Two Autism Studies

Description Researchers at the University of Connecticut are looking for pregnant mothers and mothers with infants to participate in two research initiatives that will follow the development of infant siblings of children with autism over the first two years of life. These studies are being …

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Regional Directors

The Borgen Project believes that leaders of the most powerful nation on earth should be doing more to address global poverty. We're the innovative, national campaign that is working to make poverty a focus of U.S. foreign policy. The Borgen Project's Regional Directors serve as ambassadors for The …

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