Silver Circle Volunteer Opportunities

ACS Volunteer Opportunities

• Become a Career Consultant
  Contact the Department of Career Management and Development for more information.
• Be a Project SEED Coordinator
• Senior Chemists – An Untapped Resource
  Former ACS President Eli Pearce presented the opportunities available for senior chemists through ACS and elsewhere.
• Community Outreach
  Explore volunteer resources for National Chemistry Week and Chemists Celebrate Earth Day.
• Local Sections
  Get involved and stay involved in your Local Section.
• Host a Project SEED Program through Your Institution
  Serve as a mentor through Project SEED.

Other Volunteer Opportunities

• Big Brothers Big Sisters
  The largest and oldest youth mentoring program in the US, serving more than 200,000 children
• Mentoring.org
  Training and additional resources for mentors
• The Points of Light Foundation
  A national network and volunteer center with a wealth of information
• Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic
  Lists volunteer opportunities nationwide
• RE-SEED
  Program that trains retired scientists and others to provide classroom assistance to K-12 science teachers
• ReSET
  A Washington, DC-based volunteer organization partnering retired scientists, engineers, and technicians with elementary school teachers to help improve science motivation and literacy. Volunteers do hands-on experiments in the classroom with the students. Learn more through the website or contact Harold Sharlin via email at harold.sharlin@verizon.net.
• USA Freedom Corps
  Earn $1,000 scholarship for a child you designate