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Make a Difference by Volunteering with Community Accountants
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Volunteering for Community Accountants will be a significant contribution to your community. Your skills are critical to the success of a nonprofit. The assistance that you provide is the foundation for a charity to provide services effectively.

In addition, you will enhance your professional development by working with different constituencies and exercising your leadership, organizational, managerial and planning skills. You will also meet other professionals through volunteer meetings and events.

Direct Service Volunteers work one-on-one with a nonprofit client to teach the client the accounting tasks needed for the organization to achieve self-sufficiency. Volunteers assist with the very basics of accounting, such as bookkeeping, payroll, and reporting requirements. Volunteers may also present workshops on financial issues for clients or for other volunteers. Volunteers interested in using their professional background on a nonprofit board may volunteer to serve on the board of a nonprofit organization. These organizations realize the value of having a professional with accounting knowledge and expertise as a resource for their board.

Community Accountants’ volunteers are active and retired accountants from industry, public accounting, nonprofit organizations, educational institutions, and government agencies.

Direct Service volunteer assignments can last up to six months in length, but generally may last much less than that time commitment. Work is done at a time and place convenient for both the volunteer and the client.

Community Accountants’ Direct Service clients are small nonprofit organizations that cannot afford accounting services. Many have little or no bookkeeping experience. Clients are located throughout the Delaware Valley. Community Accountants on Boards and Committees clients can be of any size.

Volunteer Stephanie Combs celebrating her volunteer work at Marianne Anderson Historical Society's Black Tie Affair.

Read more about the Benefits of Volunteering from the Practical Acct. Magazine from October 2006.

Why Should You Become A Community Accountants Volunteer?

…because you want to help demystify accounting and finance for people who are trying to improve our community

…because you want to touch organizations that touch people in need

…because you want to network with other like-minded finance and accounting professionals

Community Accountants teaches small grassroots nonprofit organizations financial oversight, accounting, and bookkeeping services to ensure high standards of financial management to help nonprofit organizations move into the future.

Our organization is recruiting volunteers who want to use their business skills to help organizations realize their passions. It is extremely rewarding to see a nonprofit organization grow and develop using the financial expertise that you, the volunteer, provide to them. In the process, you will learn tremendously about the business and social challenges faced by our client organizations. Volunteer in the way that is most convenient for you:

• You can work one-on-one with qualified nonprofits on a short-term project basis to provide specific training on accounting systems and procedures.
• You can facilitate workshops for nonprofits on selected financial issues.
• You can be an "Accountant on Call" who responds to questions received on our hotline.
• You can be placed on a nonprofit board needing financial expertise.

Call today and experience the joy of turning a caterpillar organization into a magnificent butterfl