Call for Volunteers and Organizational Support: CCEJ needs You!

Want to reconnect with us? We need community volunteers to help strengthen and restructure CCEJ.

CCEJ has a number of volunteer opportunities for individuals or groups who are interested in working for environmental justice. These opportunities cover a wide spectrum of tasks and projects, from day-to-day administrative work to long term, campaign-specific projects. We also periodically have internships available for undergraduate and graduate students, depending on the time of year. Opportunities are updated on a regular basis, so keep an eye out for opportunities you’re interested in!

If interested in student internships or long-term service learning projects, please contact Jenni Conrad (see below) with your time availability, skills and topic interests

If you do not live in the Seattle area but would like to volunteer, or if you do and would like to help us from home, telecommuting is also an option!

Current Volunteer Opportunities

We are seeking volunteers willing to make a weekly or bi-weekly time commitment in these areas:

Clerical/Administrative:

Tasks: Update our mailing list, file, copy, create bulk mailings and documents, assist with electronic newsletter publishing, update website, scan the news for environmental justice articles, miscellaneous research. Skills: Knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel, Access and Publisher a plus, basic HTML knowledge.

Grassroots Campaigns:

Tasks: writing and interpersonal skills for research, outreach, meeting logistics, administrative support for two campaigns: Northwest Climate Change Indigenous Alliance Initiative and Toxic Beauty Campaign. For the Toxic Beauty Campaign in South Seattle, we are specifically looking for women of color interested in outreach work with nail salon workers & clients. Skills: Public speaking, a willingness and desire to learn about environmental justice in South Seattle; fluency in Spanish, Vietnamese, Somali, Mandarin Chinese, Cantonese Chinese, Ethiopian languages a plus.

Fundraising:

Tasks: skills and experience in grantwriting or fundraising (especially with nonprofits) and/or strong knowledge of CCEJ?s history and work. Skills: Research skills, knowledge of Microsoft Word and Excel.

Translation/Interpreting:

Tasks: Translate CCEJ written materials into the following languages: Spanish, Vietnamese, Cantonese Chinese, Mandarin Chinese, Somali, and Ethiopian languages. Skills: Written and oral proficiency in any of these languages; knowledge of Microsoft Word and Publisher

Toxic Beauty Campaign volunteering

In the toxic beauty campaign CCEJ will utilize our community outreach expertise to educate consumers about the human health impacts of toxic chemicals in nail salon beauty products. The specific target group will be women of color because we are the largest nail salon patrons in the target areas. Outreach will be composed of the following components:

1. Identify and locate alternative products. Meet with distributors of non-toxic nail polish to obtain samples to provide to business owners.

2. Outreach to women of color who visit nail salons. Direct outreach will be conducted by the outreach worker to women, with permission of the business owner, while they are at the shop ? as they are getting their nails done. We will also distribute information to women at beauty product ores in the neighborhood.

3. Follow-up on impacts of outreach to salons AND effectiveness of education efforts.

4. Door-to-door outreach. Conduct outreach directly to residents in the target neighborhoods with outreach support from area youth. The outreach program will focus on human health aspects of beauty products and household products and will provide information about alternatives. Postcards to manufacturers (postage included) requesting information about phthalates will be given to residents for them to fill out and mail.

5. Tabling and outreach at community events. The outreach worker will attend community events for the purpose of consumer education about phthalates and other toxic chemicals in beauty products. A display board along with example phthalate-free products will be set up. Manufacturer postcards, as described above, will be distributed at these tables.

If you are interested in helping with our toxic beauty campaign, please contact Secret Charles, toxic beauty campaign coordinator. Phone: (206) 720-0285, Email: Secret_Charles@antiochsea.edu

Board Members

CCEJ is currently recruiting new board members who can commit to CCEJ's mission and that have strong business, legal, and/or fundraising skills.

If you would like to volunteer, please call board member Jenni Conrad, Volunteer Coordinator, at (206) 335-2775 or email: jenni.conrad@gmail.com.

Please fill out the Volunteer application and send back the completed form to the volunteer coordinator via mail, fax and/or email.
Thank you.