Volunteering with Let Grow: How to Help

Simple and a bit tedious but very important, these projects let you play investigator on the internet. You may be looking for email addresses for a list of people or browsing school websites for a program or keyword. We’ll give you the what to search for, where to record your findings, maybe a deadline, and set you free to sleuth. 

Needed between May 1st and July 1st every year to read short personal essays. We’ve got simple guidelines and you won’t need to judge grammar, spelling, or anything you might have hated as a student. Batches of 50-100 PDF’s are quick to go through and promote to Round 2 or don’t. 

Help us help others to help us. This is an ongoing role for an organizational type comfortable with email, Zoom, and technology. Handle screening applications, matching volunteers with projects, and keeping in touch. On your time, commitment is a few hours a month. Asana experience is a plus!

We’ve got loads of pictures and videos in folders that we need to move into a DAM (seriously, that’s what it’s called) platform. If you’re a visual person and like to organize things, we need your help cleaning out the closets! We’ll need someone who likes to learn new technology and having experience with photo and/or video editing could be helpful.

We’ve posted hundreds of blogs, and some of the oldies are goodies! They just need a little rewrite, updates of some links, statistics, and quotes, and a quick polish so we can recycle them. We need help combing our archives for potentials, and also doing the research and rewrites. If you like to write, have a good eye for valuable content, and can mimic some of Lenore Skenazy’s tone and humor, you could do one or a series of posts.

Our annual Independence Challenge is fun and easy to enter, and we could use help tracking the entries, answering parent questions, and judging the submissions this summer. It runs in July and August we get anywhere from a few hundred to a few thousand entries. If you need a summer project and can learn a pretty simple technology platform, this could be perfect for you. It could also be a great summer internship for a marketing student.

Let Grow is frequently mentioned in the press (like on Bill Maher, Good Morning America, and more) and our founders are regularly interviewed. There’s so much great material out there we want to share but it sometimes comes in faster than we can process it. We could use help from someone who is comfortable with and has access to editing software to pull clips and format them for us to use in social media and other marketing materials.

Let Grow is working hard to expand our reach and we know we need to plant the seeds of our mission far and wide. We have an ambitious plan to gather information, lists of organizations, people, and data for every state in the U.S. We’d love to have at least one Let Grow Liaison  in each state who would do the research and gathering, and be our go-to person to create networks of supporters, help plan outreach or an event, work on a Reasonable Childhood Independence Bill, or host an affinity group. We’ll provide guidelines and formats, and you’ll provide your passion for our mission, leadership skills, and expertise.