With many options to help the community Volunteering is always a welcome.
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We invite employers, students, and community members to join the UCC team in making a real impact! Whether you're an employer looking to give back through corporate volunteering, a student eager to gain hands-on experience, or an individual passionate about serving your community, there’s a place for you here.
Together, we can create lasting change and build a stronger, more connected community. Volunteer today and help us spread hope and opportunity to those who need it most!
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"Public Safety’s goals of 'Community Engagement' seem like a perfect fit with UCC. Our goals are to engage, assist, uplift, protect, and connect with the community. By food drives, toy drives, enforcing the law, or just simple conversations - we all want to give back to this community not just because we live or work here, but we want everyone to have a fighting chance to succeed."
“My experience doing volunteering work with UCC so far has been a great rewarding experience. It helped me develop social skills, by supporting others and connecting with different communities. It's fulfilling and fun! ”
WE’RE WORKING WITH AmeriCorps VISTA TO HELP US BETTER SERVE OUR COMMUNITY
Our application to the AmeriCorps VISTA National Service Program was recently accepted, and the New Jersey State office will be helping to provide UCC with five VISTA members over the coming year. We are thrilled to be participating in this exceptional national community service program. Since 1965 over 220,000 VISTA members have served with the mission to strengthen organizations that alleviate poverty.
We do a lot for our clients and neighbors, but we know there is much more we can be doing and we want the community’s involvement in how we can better serve them. To that end, the initial task for the VISTA members will be to help us in designing and implementing a Community Needs Assessment (CNA), an important tool that helps organizations to determine the needs of their constituents and to detect any gaps between current services and unmet needs.
The results of this survey will provide detailed information and guidelines for a UCC Development Plan that will readjust and expand to better meet community needs. The Community Needs Assessment will serve as the foundation for a permanent UCC system to gauge community needs on an ongoing basis, so that long after the AmeriCorps VISTA service ends, we can continue to help and empower the low income Newark population UCC was created to serve
United Community Corporation
"Moving people from dependency to self-sufficiency"