Volunteer Opportunities

• Volunteer Match- - There are hundreds of ways to help out. With VolunteerMatch, it's never been easier to find a rewarding way to give back and make a difference.

• Washington Trails Association- - Volunteer Vacations for high school students

• YMCA of Seattle- - Help make your community a better place through the YMCA. By giving your time, you join seven generations of visionary citizens who have helped the YMCA to address our community's evolving needs.

• The Road Less Traveled- - For fifteen years they have educated youth to believe in themselves and their individual and collective abilities to shape the future

• The Seattle Aquarium- - The High School Volunteer Program has been a part of the Seattle Aquarium for the last 25 years and over 500 high school students have come through our program in the last decade. Our High School Volunteer program is designed to help students with an interest in marine science see what it takes to work in an aquarium as well as teach job readiness skills to be used later in life.

• The Woodland Park Zoo- - Zoo Corps recruits interested teens from diverse backgrounds to help the zoo provide conservation education for all ages, especially young children. Public speaking, performance skills, and an interest in educating younger children and families about animals, nature and conservation are desirable. Training in these areas is provided.

Financial Aid

• GET Program (Guaranteed Education Tuition Program)--www.get.wa.gov

GET is Washington state's 529 prepaid college tuition program. With GET, the state of Washington guarantees that the money you save for your child's college education will keep pace with rising college tuition.

The governor and Legislature created GET to help families like yours save for college. Today GET is the nation's fastest-growing prepaid college tuition program, with 79,000 accounts worth nearly $1 billion.

• FAFSA (Free Application for Federal Student Aid) All students interested in financial aid for college will need need to complete this form.

• CSS/Financial Aid PROFILE--Many of the member colleges, universities, graduate and professional schools, and scholarship programs use the information collected on PROFILE to help them award nonfederal student aid funds.

•  Western Undergraduate Exchange

• Pacific NW Scholarship Guide. Local scholarship sources.

• Scholarship Resource Network Express for private scholarships

• www.discovernursing.com Links to nursing scholarships

• Gates Millennium Scholarship Program

•  AmeriCorps national service program. Tuition assistance.

•  NW Education Loan Assoc, great source for scholarships,etc.