Service Opportunities for Majors in
BUSINESS & MANAGEMENT
Community service involves applying your energy, enthusiasm, skills, and desire to make a difference to social issues that concern you. It is an excellent way to gain hands-on experience, enhance job-related skills, explore career options, and meet real community needs. The following are just a few examples of how you can get involved in a service project related to majors in business and management.

· ACCOUNTING:
Donate your accounting skills to a non-profit organization, a church/synagogue, a day care center, or a homeless shelter; visit schools, nursing homes, homeless shelters, and drug rehabilitation centers and give workshops on personal accounting and money management; help a non-profit organization set up an accounting software package; help residents of a homeless shelter study for accounting courses or the CPA exam; develop a system to help community residents prepare tax returns.

· DECISION & INFORMATION SCIENCES:
Offer free computer courses to shelter residents, drug rehabilitation participants, and people in job training programs; help non-profit organizations set up databases.

· FINANCE:
Help a non-profit organization set up a budget and assist them in developing a financial planning strategy; present workshops in shelters, nursing homes, refugee relief organizations, and drug rehabilitation centers on financial planning and investments; volunteer for non-profit organizations that are concerned with issues of economic justice.

· GENERAL BUSINESS & MANAGEMENT:
Assist a non-profit organization in improving its management style and organization; give workshops on leadership and management; help a homeless shelter or nursing home better utilize the resources of its residents in daily operations of the facility; consult with non-profits on effective leadership and management styles.

· LOGISTICS AND TRANSPORTATION:
Help food banks and food distribution centers with their transportation needs; volunteer with an international food relief organization and work with them to determine the least expensive and most reliable way to distribute food; volunteer to help mass transit authorities design transit systems that meet the needs of the elderly, the disabled, and the residents in inner-cities.

· MARKETING:
Help non-profits set and meet fundraising goals; give workshops for non-profit organizations on marketing and fundraising strategies; help organizations serve people who are homeless and in drug rehabilitation centers; and community advocacy organizations better advertise their services.

· OPERATIONS AND QUALITY MANAGEMENT:
Help non-profit organizations in their planning and control of daily operations; manage the operations of an organization that produces either goods or services; monitor the quality performance of a high-tech or non-profit organization.

American Association of University Women
Washington, DC (202) 785-7792
Contact: Kim Harris, aauwjobs@aauw.org
http://www.aauw.org
Focuses on equity for women and girls. Offers fellowships to women in science and provides a legal advocacy fund for women in tenure disputes.

Call for Action
Bethesda, MD (301) 657-8260
Contact: Carole Schmitt
http://www.callforaction.org
Serves as a non-profit consumer mediation service. Volunteers act on behalf of individuals and small businesses that have been defrauded.

Center for Policy Alternatives
Washington, DC (202) 387-6030
Contact: Sarada Peri, speri@cfpa.org
http://www.stateaction.org
A non-profit, public policy think tank specializing in policy at the state level in the areas of governance, women’s economic justice, sustainable development and public capital.

Citizenship Education Fund, Inc.
Washington, DC (202) 547-3235
Contact: Cathy Gass, cgass@rainbowpush.org
http://www.rainbowpush.org
Promotes participation in the electoral process and provides research and information about the electoral process. Facilitates youth involvement in the public policy debate. Conducts grassroots voter participation camp and publishes resource materials.
Community Tax Aid
Washington, DC (202) 347-4811
Contact: Teresa Hinze, ctavol@aol.com
http://www.gwscpa.org/cta/index.htm
Prepares tax returns free of charge for low-income individuals and families in the DC metro area.

East of the River Community Development Corporation
Washington, DC (202) 561-4974
http://www.ercdc.org
Facilitates business and economic development in Ward 8. Offers technical assistance to small businesses and computer-based training for youth.

Junior Achievement of the National Capital Area
Washington, DC (202) 296-1200
Contact: Sheila Fishlowitz
http://www.myJA.org
Committed to placing volunteers in elementary, middle and high school classrooms in the Greater Washington Region. The JA curriculum focuses on the students’ economic relationship to the world around them.

Maryland Department of Juvenile Justice
Baltimore, MD (410) 230-3105
Contact: Vaughn Samuels, samuelsv@djs.state.md.us
Provides an opportunity for majors of all aspects to be involved with the lives of troubled youth. The Department is committed to ensuring public safety, holding youthful offenders accountable for their actions, and helping them become responsible community members.

Community Service-Learning
1120 Stamp Student Union, University of Maryland, College Park 20742
301-314-CARE—http://www.csl.umd.edu—terpservice@umd.edu

Please Note: Inclusion in Community Service-Learning (CSL) resources is not to be interpreted as an endorsement for any agency or organization listed here. As with any off-campus opportunity, the University is not responsible for any personal injury or loss that might result from your participation. Participants are strongly encouraged to read and implement the Good Questions to Ask and PARE handouts available through CSL. Lastly, be aware of any special requirements or skills necessary to perform the service requested (i.e. construction, carpentry, landscaping) and do not feel compelled to execute tasks which are beyond your capabilities.

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