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Take advantage of opportunities to gain valuable leadership experience through Greater DC Cares.

We offer three types of leadership training programs:

Train to lead a project

• Flexible Volunteering Project Coordinators
• Servathon Project Leaders and Project Managers

Train to be an emergency response volunteer leader

• Emergency Volunteer Leader Trainings

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E-mail or call 202-777-4447. We’re here to help!

Train to lead a project. You can lead projects throughout the year, and you can also lead projects during our marathon days of volunteering during Servathon.

1. Project Coordinators. Individuals who serve as Project Coordinators lead individual monthly Flexible Volunteering events. As a PC, you can work at the same project month-to-month or select projects on a more flexible basis. We’ll provide training on how to recruit volunteers, coordinate a project, manage volunteers and evaluate the project’s success.

We send you all the materials you need. We also publicize your event in our monthly calendar and weekly email updates. Volunteers sign up directly with you. Greater DC Cares offers PC training every other month for individuals who have attended our orientation.

Orientations take place weekly at our headquarters at 1725 I Street, NW, DC 20006. We can also hold an orientation at a time and location of your choice as long as 15 volunteers participate. To become a Project Coordinator, sign up NOW for orientation.

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2. Project Leaders and Project Managers. During Servathon, our annual marathon days of community service in May, Project Leaders manage individual projects. Project Managers oversee several projects at one site. You don’t have to go through our regular orientation to serve in these leadership roles, but shortly before Servathon we hold special trainings to prepare you for these roles. Use the contact information below to learn more about these leadership opportunities.  

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Train to be an emergency response volunteer leader:

3. Emergency Volunteer Leader Trainings. Gain leadership experience by becoming a volunteer leader during an emergency or disaster as part of Greater DC Cares’ Emergency Preparedness and Response Program. As a volunteer leader, you’ll help coordinate and mobilize Greater DC Cares’ 2,000+ emergency volunteers.

Getting started. To become an Emergency Volunteer Leader, you’ll need to complete our one-hour orientation. Sign up NOW.

Once you’ve completed orientation, you can participate in our in-house training that covers:

• How to be personally prepared for an emergency.
• Greater DC Cares’ role in an emergency.
• Information on our partner agencies.
• Specific volunteer leader duties, including how to manage both satellite registration intake and Greater DC Cares’ volunteers at the emergency location.

We offer this training every other month at our headquarters building at 1725 I Street, NW, Washington, DC. When you sign up for this training at orientation, we’ll notify you when the next training will take place.

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