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Volunteer Engagement and Management
United Way of Kaw Valley has opportunities for agencies, businesses, groups, and individuals looking for more ways to make a difference. Find your volunteer listings through our hosted platform:
KawValleyVolunteers.org
Get started by creating your new account. Your free account lets you browse or search volunteer opportunities, learn more about local nonprofits and even create and maintain your own Volunteer Resume.
In addition to coordinating volunteers community-wide, we also have a number of programs and initiatives that involve volunteers. For those who want to make a real impact in our community, volunteering can be a great way to give back, in addition to making monetary contributions to our funds.
If you are having issues logging in please reach out to Jacquie Lightcap.
On April 10, 2024 United Way of Kaw Valley merged our two online volunteer management systems (TopekaVolunteers.org and VolunteerDouglasCounty.org) under one license that serves all four of our counties. While the merged system uses the same vendor and looks and functions in a similar way, we rebranded the platform as KawValleyVolunteers.org for the entire service area.
As always, if you have any questions not answered here, reach out to anyone on the Volunteer Engagement team at United Way of Kaw Valley.
Ongoing Volunteer Opportunities with United Way
United Way of Kaw Valley has several councils and committees for funding investments, for volunteer engagement, communications, finance and resource development.
Donors may also be interested in joining affinity groups that pursue their own educational, volunteering and fundraising initiatives. Find out more.
Nancy Perry Day of Caring is a capacity-building opportunity across Shawnee County, even expanding into Douglas and Jefferson counties. Find out more.
Ad Astra Honors recognizes community members who continually go above and beyond the call to support our neighbors in need. Find out more.
Capacity Building
Unrestricted Donor Designations
Donors can chose to send all or part of their United Way donation (minimum of $50) to aligned local nonprofits. United Way of Kaw Valley does not restrict these dollars and there are not reporting requirements. Designations do not affect the amount of the impact Grant dollars a partner may also receive.
Professional Development for the Nonprofit Community
UWKV understands the challenges of finding the time and money to allow nonprofit staff to learn new skills and expand their personal and professional development. We activity seek to create affordable development opportunities. These include a short seminar before our annual volunteer expo, serving staff who are there to table at the event, and our MLK Day of Service seminar that focuses on nonprofit capacity building and volunteer management topics. In the coming year we will be adding collaboration and training centered on successful storytelling.
Fiscal Agency and Backbone Support
UWKV is uniquely positioned to support large or small coalitions and provide structure and support for local and regional collaborations.
The United Way of Kaw Valley is Service Enterprise Certified and is a part of the top 11% of
high preforming nonprofits nationwide.
