There are many ways for you to connect with and support our mission.
Job Opportunities
None at this time.
Volunteer and Intern Opportunities
The Welcome Project seeks volunteers and interns in a variety of areas to help advance our work. Potential roles include tutoring or mentoring a student, helping in our community garden, and assisting with communications and events.
Curent volunteer openings:
- Volunteer ESOL Teacher. The Welcome Project seeks an experienced volunteer teacher to assist and teach an ESOL class 4 hours a week during 2011-12. Our students are mostly from Central America, Haiti, and Brazil, as well as other countries, and range in age as well as education level. We currently have openings for volunteers during morning and evening classes.For a full description of this volunteer position, click here.
- Volunteer English Program Assistant. The program assistant position is 5 – 10 hours per week. The assistant has the opportunity to observe classes if desired, and gets to be part of a dynamic organization working towards multilingual justice.Responsibilities include calling students from all TWP classes who have missed two classes in a row, entering data and payment info, maintaining student files on paper, placement intake, and assessment informaiton, issuing invoices for paying substitutes, and meeting regularly with program staff. For a full description of this volunteer position, click here.
Please mail cover letters and resumes for these volunteer positions to Lisa Gimbel at esol.somerville@gmail.com, or call 617.500.7436.
Make A Donation
Your contribution, large or small, can make a big difference in what we achieve through our programs for immigrant families. Donations enable us to
- run English classes for more than 100 Somerville residents working hard to learn a new language
- provide training for bilingual high school youth in language interpretation, and then use those skills to help others at community meetings throughout the city.
- provide support to youth from immigrant families who would be the first in their families to attend a US college.
- facilitate a parents group to enable immigrant parents to be better able to navigate the school system so that they can support their children's educaiton.
Please donate online or mail your pledge to the address below:
The Welcome Project
530 Mystic Avenue
Somerville, MA 02145
