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Volunteer/Foster

Join our team of volunteers and foster families and be part of a life changing journey. Please fill out the form and we will contact you for an interview.

VOLUNTEER
APPLICATION

Explore our available volunteer opportunities below to find the role that best suits your skills and interests. Once you’ve found your fit, fill out the application form, and we’ll be in touch to schedule an interview.

Together, we can make a difference!

Volunteer Positions

  • Develop promotional materials, advertisements, presentations, or public
    relations initiatives to promote awareness of our services.
  • Edit scripts, audio, video, and other promotional material.
  • Plan and execute advertising strategies for organization on Social Media Channels (Facebook, Instagram, YouTube).
  • Create designs, concepts, and sample layouts based on knowledge of
    layout principles and aesthetic design concepts.
  • Develop graphics and layouts for social media posts, online advertising,
    illustrations for events.
  • Compile and/or develop materials to submit to granting or other funding
    organizations.
  • Contact corporate representatives, government officials, or community
    leaders to increase awareness of organizational causes, activities, or
    needs.
  • Assign, supervise, and review the activities of fundraising staff.
  • Plan and direct special events for fundraising, such as silent auctions,
    dances, golf events, or walks.
  • Develop business relationships with local corporations and organizations.
  • Schedule presentations to show our organization mission as well as our
    needs with a goal of finding new volunteers.
  • Coordinate current volunteers, develop their schedule and monitor hours.
  • Provide housing for one of our dogs in training.
  • Attend weekly training sessions.
  • Perform daily training at home.

 

Note: The foundation covers all of the expenses affiliated with the care of foundation dogs.

  • Prior experience in grant writing.
  • Review application guidelines to determine if a foundation, government agency, or
    corporation is a good match for the FIMH Foundation.
  • Write grants for federal and state government agencies, public/private foundation
    funders and other funding sources when applicable.
  • You will be responsible for ideating, planning, reviewing and owning our content on all social platforms, and foundation website.
  • Interviewing Veterans and their families, writing about their life changing journey.
  • Writing about our dogs and their road to become a service dog.
  • Writing stories about our volunteers, foster families and trainers and their endless
    hours of devotion to the foundation.
  • The media expert will play a key role in the growth of our foundation and will help take us to the next level.
  • Tell stories of our dogs and veterans with photos and videos.
  • Knowledge of professional audio and/or video editing and post-production
    procedures, techniques, and standards.
  • Capture images and videos from our events, training sessions, interviews.

FOSTER FAMILY APPLICATION

Join our team of volunteers and foster families and be part of lives changing journey. Please fill out the form and we will contact you for an interview.