Thank you for beginning the process to become an Avodah placement for the 2023-2024 Service Corps year. This application contains questions that will help us determine what our partnership will be in the year to come. There are some short answer questions, longer essays, and a place for you to clarify the job that you hope to have a Corps Member fill.

Please make sure to save your application often. When you save your application, you will receive an automated email with instructions on how you can return to complete it. For longer essay questions, we suggest you draft them in a location outside of the actual application and then copy/paste them into the spaces below.

Organizational Background

Organization Name

Street Address

City

State

Zip / Postal Code

Website

Mission Statement

Briefly describe the history and goals of your organization and projects that you work on.

Briefly describe the population(s) that your organization serves.

What services and/or programs does your organization provide?

Describe your organization's governing body and staff structure.

As Avodah works to move our internal organizational culture towards greater accessibility and inclusion, we are similarly invested in how our partner placements commit to this work, too. Please share some additional information with us below on how your organization is integrating these kinds of efforts into your internal work culture.

Has your staff and organizational leadership team (Executive Team, Board, etc.) been trained on cultural competency and DEIJ (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Justice) work including LGBTQ-affirming workplaces?

Do you have written anti-bullying policies and/or materials that address harassment in the workplace? How do you plan on ensuring that Corps Members have this information?

Do you have experience working with staff who are neurodivergent?

What are the accessibility accommodations available to staff in your office?

Would you or your staff be interested in being connected to training that strengthens your organization's accessibility and DEIJ work?

Please indicate for how many years the following people have been employed on your staff:

Executive Director:

Director of program/department where Avodah Corps Member will serve:

Avodah Corps Member's direct supervisor:

Average number of years other employees have worked in this program/department:

Average number of years employees have worked at this organization:

Additional Questions

Do you have any Avodah Alumni on Staff?

How long have you served as an Avodah Placement?

Account ID

Returning Placement

Please note that the information provided here will be given to the candidates with little editing or reformatting. Once a role is approved, any changes to the job description at any point must be mutually agreed upon by Avodah, the Corps Member, and the Placement.

Volunteer Role Description

Title of Corps Member role:

Specific responsibilities of the role:

Characteristics needed for the role:

Please indicate where the Corps Member role falls along the following spectrums: Mostly teamwork or mostly independent work; more of a structured role or unstructured role; responsible more for initiating projects or implementing projects; amount of contact with the public; more of a changing pace or steady pace. Feel free to add any other information about the characteristics of the role.

Orientation and training to be provided:

Will you provide sexual harassment prevention training for the Corps Member?

Other important considerations (e.g. unusually early or late service hours, language requirements, lengthy daily commute, car needed, frequent service-related commuting, challenging physical service or service conditions, specific challenges to interacting with the population served, etc.):

Location/ Neighborhood(s) Served

Service Environment

Approximately how many hours per week do you estimate the Corps Member will directly serve community members as part of their role at your organization?

In what capacity will the Corps Member be directly serving the community(ies) your organization engages?

Please outline an average week for this role. For example, where will the Corps Member serve? Will they travel between sites? Will they do home visits? Will they visit jails/detention centers? How many hours of intake, teaching or client clinics would they have? What are the regular meetings a Corps Member is expected to attend? etc.

Given the changes to workplace expectations as part of the ongoing COVID pandemic, please describe your organization's plan for in-person/virtual work for your Corps Member. How flexible is this schedule? How will the schedule be determined? What technology needs will your Corps Member have should they work from home?

Corps Members live communally, if there is a COVID exposure or test positive case in their home, what are you expectations around returning to work and or shifting to remote work to meet the CM needs?

Is this an entirely new volunteer service position? If so, what will the Corps Member's role be in developing the position?

What is your plan for supervision of the Corps Member?

Additional skills needed:

Financial Information

Avodah Site

Annual Placement Fee: This fee paid to Avodah is a nonrefundable one-time fee that is used to defray Avodah’s costs to recruit, place and support the Corps Member. The Annual Placement Fee is calculated on a sliding-scale basis according to your organization's budget.

Please enter your organization’s total expenses for salaries and benefits in the most recent completed fiscal year. Your fee will automatically calculate below:

$

Please enter numbers only without any symbols.

For the 2023-2024 Partnership year, the placement fee per Corps Member is:

From the chart above, the Annual Placement Fee this year will be:

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From the chart above, the Annual Placement Fee this year will be:

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From the chart above, the Annual Placement Fee this year will be:

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From the chart above, the Annual Placement Fee this year will be:

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Fee to send to Salesforce

Housing Fee to send to Salesforce

Organization Contacts