Our organization is almost 100% volunteer-run and we need your skills! Volunteering with the Bountiful Children's Foundation is an excellent way to provide much needed service while developing your skill set and resume. We welcome short-term and long-term volunteers. There are many opportunities to volunteer. Please fill out an application, including your interests and skills, and we will help find the position that best suits you.

Ideas for Volunteer Projects Locally or Abroad

• Maintain blogs or start new ones that are country/community specific.
• Update beneficiary database.
• Create or edit videos for each area.
• Create marketing items such as brochures, manuals, flyers.
• Organize fundraisers in US or in host country.
• Maintain donor database.
• Research nutritional supplements.
• Help with accounting and financial issues.
• Create hygiene promotion materials.
• Make and distribute hygiene kits with local members.
• Develop materials to promote hygiene and healthy food preparation that are country specific. This could also included adapting materials already available by changing images to ones that would be acceptable to local cultures.
• Study the effectiveness of education classes on hygienic food preparation and breast-feeding promotion on participant behaviors? Do they increase the likelihood that women will breastfeed longer? Do they increase hygienic behaviors? If not, what are the barriers?
• Conduct focus groups with participants or other community measures regarding community practices, barriers to health promotion behaviors.
• Research grant opportunities and/or write a grant for funding.
• Perform amarket analysis (which foods are available, cheapest, healthiest) to then inform health education messages and cooking classes.
• Conduct cooking classes.
• Make a cookbook that could be used by participants to increase the intake of healthy foods that use products that can be produced by participants or are available locally at low-cost.
• Teach health/hygiene education classes.
• Teach breastfeeding promotion classes.
• Help in screening of children.
• Help at local orphanages.
• Early childhood development study that would use standardized screening instruments to assess the developmental outcomes of children on the program.
• Head growth study on sub-set of children from 6 months through 3 years.
• Create donor communication materials.
• Write quarterly newsletter.
• Develop literacy materials specific to country/language.
• Conduct literacy classes for mothers/families
• Study education system of country and barriers to children attending school. Develop a plan to address these issues.
• Study health programs available in country/how do participants access them if they exist? Are there programs in country that provide supplementation to needy children? If so, what are barriers to children using such programs?
• Create a video of health promotion and breastfeeding promotion materials. This project could include multiple people who would write, film, edit, produce the above video.
• Approach businesses in the US or in local country to seek sponsorship either with monetary donations or in-kind donations.
• Participate in fundraising events.
• Create an advertising campaign for fundraising/awareness
• Create a campaign/materials to spread the word regarding screening.
• Study options for involving program participants in program operations.
• Look at options for involving local people in screenings.
• Perform nutritional analysis of children in each country. This would involve obtaining daily intake of a subset of children on the program and then analyzing the nutritional content of the program.
• Study the course of supplement delivery and intake. Do parents mi it correctly? Does it arrive to the child or is it given to others in the family?
• Create a directory of related health problems of children. Look at long-term morbidity and mortality.
• Be a country photographer and create dynamic photographs for the website and Facebook.
• Help implement gardening ideas to increase food availability.
• Help in infrastructure development of BCF.
• Train local coordinators and evaluate current practices.
• Train volunteers and/or develop materials to do such.
• Translation of manuals/brochures/health education materials into the language of country
• Translation of website into country languages.
• Help BCF participant families with needs--ie help fix home problems, help with illiteracy, help with other educational needs.
• Train Young Adults in helping with program. Mobilize stake resources.
• Help coordinators arrange and set-up Nutritour program/ internship program.
• Arrange course material for interns to learn more about childhood malnutrition.
• Create manuals for Adopt-A-Community program.
• Analyze Adopt-A-Community program
• Open new areas by contacting authorities and screening children.
• Work with local entities, screen children, increase awareness of our mission.
• Look at needs of missionaries prior to leaving on mission. Arrange system in country to have their needs met. Serve as coordinator for this sort of effort.
• Determine best means of importation of hygiene and education kits. What things are needed in such kits in each area.
• Analyze what other things are needed by children/families in an area where the program operates such as shoes, clothing, feminine hygiene supplies, etc. How do we get such things to them. Organize this effort.
• Quality Control study--are the supplements being delivered, given appropriately, etc.
• Customer Satisfaction Study
• Work on collaborative models with other organizations that share similar vision--dental, medical, infrastructure, charity water.
• Be a liason between area governments and BCF. Study barriers to implementation of collaborative programs and develop a plan to address these issues.
• Study legal issues that affect our organization. Develop plan to address these issues. Issues may be country specific.
• Review current methods of gathering epidemiologic data. Study how data could be more effectively and accurately obtained.
• Study the accuracy of measurements of weight and height by coordinators and volunteers.
• Devise methods/procedures to make the screening process flow more easily.
• Enter data and analyze data.
• Study current financial system. Help implement more efficient systems in-country.
• Study ways to produce supplement by locals using local grains and products.
• Work on evaluation of nutritional supplements that are country specific. What supplements are available? What is best in terms of nutritional content, cost, and palatability.
• Help develop nutritional supplements that are country specific and could be easily produced.
• Work with companies to purchase supplies at reduced cost such as supplements.
• Determine best method of providing de-worming to children and barriers to implementation.
• Look at how supplements are delivered to participants. Are there more effective models?
• Work with the University of Piura on our collaborative project. This could involve research with the University. Visiting and evaluating program development in areas where it is administered. Serving as a liaison between the University and BCF.
• Serve as a US coordinator for a country or project.
• Serve in the US in many areas such as fundraising, Internet Technology, volunteer projects to name a few. More ideas for this on our website.

We are glad to consider other ideas that may be of interest to you and us.

Volunteer Positions

• Volunteer Web Developer