Category: Volunteers

WHHS Volunteers

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575 Grocery Bags Assembled For Spring Break

On February 27, 2023,  Alliance volunteers built 575 grocery bags to provide to students at WHHS, as well as Leonard, Luella Merrett and Waverly Park middle schools during Spring Break. Additionally, LVTRise built grocery bags for Western Hills Elementary and Western Hills Primary schools.

Thank you to LTVRise for financing the cost of the groceries, and the WHHS JROTC, Band members, Cheerleaders, Soccer team, student volunteers and alumni who came early at 7am to help setup the food line. Way to go Cougars!

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Lady Cougars Football Team Provides School Supplies

Our Lady Cougars Flag Football Team in collaboration with The Mercantile, Dallas Cowboys and Cougar Pride Alliance dropped boxes and boxes of school supplies and over 300 backpacks to Waverly Park and Luella Merrett Elementary Schools. The customers of The Mercantile along with their vendors and The Album in Benbrook (55+ Living Apartments) donated school supplies.Thank you to everyone who donated to this event. The schools were more than grateful!
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2022 Christmas Break Bag Distribution

This is our 6th school year and families continue to need help feeding kids over the holidays. Again, we had the right amount of bags. We had so many helpers getting bags inside the school. JROTC, Student Council, Trainers, Athletes and Coaches. Everyone pitched in, including our volunteers and alumni volunteers. Wishing all of our Cougars, Faculty & Staff, Alumni and Community Volunteers, a wonderful holiday season.

 

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Volunteer Account/Bookkeeper Wanted

The CPA Operations Leadership Team is looking for a Volunteer Account/Bookkeeper, a position we need to fill to make our future financial support sustainable.  CPA uses Intuit QuickBooks® as its bookkeeping software.   A summary of the position is as follows:

  1. Scanning and uploading receipts monthly and saving to Dropbox folder.
  2. Matching receipts to payments in QuickBooks and coding to appropriate accounts.
  3. Reconciling bank account to QuickBooks register monthly.
  4. Running monthly financial reports.
  5. Filing 990 report with IRS or preparing records for CPA to file

Total time commitment for this volunteer positions is expected to be 8-10 hours per month.  The position will report to Board Director Saralyn Vance Carrillo.

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Lead Grant Writer Volunteer Wanted

The CPA Operations Leadership Team is looking for a volunteer to be our lead grant writer, a position we need to fill to make our future financial support sustainable.  A summary of the position is as follows:

  1. Research online databases to develop a target list of 10-12 North Texas-focused foundations most likely to fund a non-profit like ours with material grants of $10k or more per year.
  2. Develop a schedule of grant application deadlines spaced out to create a reasonable work load for a lead writer and board reviews.
  3. Be the lead writer on any grant applications green-lighted by the board.
  4. Make the phone calls to the target foundations to create an improved understanding of the selection criteria and to establish rapport with the donor organization.
  5. Process comments and input from the board and make the official submittals in accordance with any and all application deadlines.
  6. Prepare a 3-6 bullet monthly summary of grant pursuits for the board that depict deadlines, decisions, and upcoming pursuits.

Total time commitment for this volunteer positions is expected to be 4-8 hours per month.  This position will report to Board Chair Shawn Doherty.