We need your support! Check out upcoming opportunities to learn new skills, volunteer and be in community with ACLU-D.C.
Here, on our new Volunteer Hub, you can always check in to see the many ways you can join us to help build a more just and free D.C. Below you'll find opportunities to help us table, canvass, build a club, become a Community Ambassador, or join our courtwatchers. If you're already loving the opportunities so far and want to tell a friend, have them sign up here on our volunteer interest form!
Read more about our volunteer opportunities below or connect with us so we can match your interests with our volunteer needs.
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Volunteer Orientation and Skillshares: In the Archive Previous materials from our sessions on Effective 1:1s, Storytelling, and Research meetings are archived here.
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Know Your Rights for Stop and Frisk, March 21st, 6-8pm at Emery Heights Community Center
Please feel welcome to invite neighbors to Know Your Rights for Stop and Frisk at Emery Heights Community Center. Participants will learn about the context of policing in DC, descalation techniques, key phrases to protect ones legal rights, and where to reach out to if rights are violated. Please register here to reserve a seat: acludc.com/kyr032024. Email volunteer@acludc.org if you have any questions. If you can't make this presentation but would like use to host one for your community, please signup on our KYR website.
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Interested in bringing ACLU-D.C. issues to your local Advisory Neighborhood Commission, civic association, rec or senior center, school campus, place of worship, or other group?
We are looking for volunteers to be Community Ambassadors who connect communities to our issues. We are especially focused on deepening ties with communities that have been under-resourced, over-policed, or have faced other issues ACLU-D.C. could help with.
SIgnup to become a Community Ambassador
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Founded and led by formerly incarcerated Black women and powered by Black abolitionist group Harriet’s Wildest Dreams, Courtwatch DC is a community-based mutual aid program that trains people to observe, document, and address injustice in local courts. Volunteers may oberve as courtwatchers or support the work through our working groups. Weekday and weekend options are available. the first step is to join a training. The next trainings are March 2nd and 16th.
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The D.C. Crisis Response Coalition formed to create a crisis response system that provides care, not punishment, to people going through a mental health crisis. Follow the campaign and learn how to get involved!
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Legal Volunteers
Legal Cite Checker: We are seeking a lawyer, law student, or paralegal to assist our paralegal with checking the citations in our legal briefs and other filings. You will receive training about how to check a citation and the requirements of confidentiality. Learn more and indicate your interest in this volunteer position here.
Intake Volunteer: We are seeking a volunteer to assist our intake team in calling back people who request our legal help. With training, this volunteer will return calls to either ask for details about the who/what/when/where of their legal complaint or to suggest other organizations that may be able to help. Learn more and indicate your interest in this volunteer position here.
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Volunteer Socials
We would like to meet our volunteers where they are! Typically following the Skillshares, we meet for a picnic in the neighborhood, with food and drinks provided by ACLU-D.C. We’ll also bring the fun, but you can bring that, too! If you have ideas of where we should host the next picnic, please get in touch with KT. We will plan to host the next social in October 2023.
If you are loving these opportunities and think a friend would too, feel free to invite them into the work. They can complete our ACLU-D.C. volunteer form here. Thank you for all you do and please email if you have any questions.
