Rewarding Career and Volunteer Opportunities with South Florida Non-Profit Organizations

The greater Miami-Fort Lauderdale area in South Florida offers many rewarding career and volunteer opportunities with non-profit organizations.

The Unicorn Childern's Foundation, headquartered in Boca Raton, helps children and young adults suffering from Autism, traumatic brain injuries, and a wide spectrum developmental, communication, and learning disorders.

They help build greater awareness of these disorders through educational programs ... develop new techniques and treatments for early identification of symptoms associated with ADHD, autism, bipolar, dyslexia and other learning disorders ... foster communication and relationships between parents, professionals and government officials ... and supply professional training and resources.

Unicorn offers professional employment and volunteer opportunities plus a variety of fundraising events and other ways to help. Contact them at 561-620-9377, or at www.unicornchildrensfoundation.org.

Feeding over 2 million poor people around the world every day, Food For The Poor, headquartered in Coconut Creek, Florida, ranks as the third largest international relief and development charity in the United States. Their programs provide housing, health care, education, water projects, emergency relief and economic development assistance to the poor throughout Caribbean and Latin America.

Food For The Poor has a variety of employment opportunities in finance, operations, marketing, fundraising and other areas, as well as volunteer opportunities. For additional information contact Food For The Poor, Inc., 6401 Lyons Road, Coconut Creek, Florida. (954) 427-2222 www.foodforthepoor.org.

The Association For Retarded Citizens of South Florida (ARC) protects and provides for the needs of developmentally disabled people of all ages throughout the region. They offer a variety of individualized assistance programs that help these people live a more meaningful and satisfying live. Both employment and volunteer opportunities are available. For complete information visit www.arcsofla.org.

The Broward Center For The Performing Arts in Fort Lauderdale, Florida meets the artistic, entertainment and educational needs of South Florida's diverse cultural community. It offers a full calendar of multicultural theater, music and other live entertainment throughout the year for both children and adults. A variety of employment opportunities are available in customer service, sales, operations, technology, marketing and fundraising. See their web site www.browardcenter.org/about/employment.aspx for a complete list of employment and volunteer opportunities.

The Humane Society of Broward County in Fort Lauderdale, Florida is an independent non-profit organization that provides shelter, aid and adoption services for over 10,000 pets a year, as well as community education programs for adults and children. They have interesting volunteer opportunities available. Contact or visit them at 2070 Griffin Road, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33312 or call 954-989-3977.