Areas of Interest for Volunteers

FaithAction Services

Please review these volunteer opportunities and consider where your interests lie in serving with us!

Language Programs

ESOL Classes: We recruit volunteers to serve as ESOL instructors, class assistants, and childcare assistants for our various ESOL classes that we provide free of charge to the immigrant and refugee community.

Language Exchange: We partner those looking to improve their conversational English with those looking to improve fluency in the home language of the other partner.

Conversation Clubs: We regularly hold Spanish and French conversation clubs with volunteer club leaders facilitating the discussion. This is a free activity at FaithAction.

Immigrant Assistance Center

Immigrant Legal Services to provide low-cost assistance to immigrants: We have obtained official recognition from the Board of Immigration Appeals to provide legal assistance for immigrants going through immigration proceedings and are just beginning this program.

Assist immigrants in obtaining employment through resume assistance and with an online skills bank: We offer resume assistance and job searching help/basic information for job-seekers.

Collaboration with other organizations around worker/labor issues or campaigns: We work with day laborers and other immigrant workers to provide information about workplace rights and safety as well as assistance on wage theft cases and worker’s compensation.

Sponsor public events focused on immigration reform and related issues: We work on immigration reform issues, both nationally and locally to draw attention  to the current broken immigration system and organize and facilitate immigrants and refugees to participate in events around these issues.

Prepare immigrants to advocate for their rights and fulfill their civic responsibilities: We conduct Know Your Rights presentations, mainly about immigrant rights and what to do in cases of emergency, but also around housing, labor, citizenship, and other issues.

Work for more just local immigration policies: Through documentation of human rights abuses, public events, Know Your Rights materials, and and ongoing campaign to end the local program of “Secure Communities,” we strive for more just local policies affecting immigrants.

Tenant and housing issues: We educate immigrants and refugees on their rights as tenants and work with other agencies to ensure fair and safe housing.

Seasonal Spring Projects

Co-Sponsor the Pilgrimage for Justice and Peace: This is an annual inter-faith week-long event that focuses on justice through different issues in NC. We have co-sponsored the event for the past few years when they have been in Greensboro and have focused on immigrant rights issues. This event takes place during “Holy Week” (the week that preceded Easter).

Community Events

World Religion Day:World Religion Day observances, held in almost 100 countries around the world on January 16th, are dedicated towards encouraging the leaders and followers of every religion to acknowledge the similarities in each of our sacred Faiths. In January,  we co-sponsored the Greensboro World Religion Day celebration with Beth David Synagogue.

Multicultural Thanksgiving Dinner: We gather as a united community of many cultures, giving thanks through food, fellowship, and artistic performance. We coordinate a potluck dinner and special presentations to everyone affiliated with FaithAction.