NEWS
You Can Help the Ada Jenkins Center Make a Difference
Start the New Year by making a difference in your community! Join us at the Ada Jenkins Center and help empower local families through your time and talents. 2025 brings new opportunities to collaborate, innovate, and elevate our mission and goals.
Our needs range from volunteering, to donating supplies for our classes, to building a fence. We even have two job openings. Please check our list below.
LEARN Works (Davidson & Huntersville locations)
Weekly Volunteering: Join us for our Spring 2025 session and provide consistent support that changes lives. Click here to apply to volunteer weekly.
Drop In and Volunteer (Jan 6th-17th): Can’t commit weekly? Drop in for a shift any weekday(s) during this window and see the joy of reading in action! Click here to Drop In and Volunteer.
Classroom Snack Donation Sign Up
Ada Jenkins Center: 2024-25 LEARN Works Snack Signup
LEARN Works – Donation Needed: 10 Tech Tub2 Six Chromebook Charging and Storage Tubs
Tech Tub2 Six Chromebook Charging and Storage Tub by Copernicus Educational | NBF.com
LEARN Works – Job Opening
Multilingual Learner LEARN Works Instructor
In-Person, Monday-Friday from 2:00-6:30 pm, from mid-Aug. through mid-May, occasionally extended shift
VITA (Volunteer Income Tax Assistance)
AJC offers FREE tax preparation assistance for individuals and families earning $67,000 or less and we need 15 additional volunteers to meet our goal.
Training is provided and AJC needs greeters and tax preparers on Saturdays for the tax season from February 1-April 30, 2025.
Email Esther Fuentes to learn more at [email protected]
Special Volunteer Project – Fence Installation
Specific skills needed. The AJC playground needs a fence, and we are looking for experienced individuals to lead a team of volunteers and bring this project to life. AJC wants to ensure that our students and community have a safe space to play, grow, and thrive!
AJC is seeking volunteers with construction, fencing, or project management skills. Email Dawne Kakitsis to learn more at [email protected]
Bulletin Board Volunteers Needed! AJC is seeking volunteers to help create bulletin board displays in our hallway to highlight our programs and services. If interested email Dawne Kakitsis at [email protected]
Impact and Engagement Job Opening
AJC is seeking a Community Connections Coordinator to join the Impact and Engagement team.
SAVE THE DATE-January 26th
AJC is excited to host AFC & NFC football playoff events at local businesses in Davidson, Cornelius, and Huntersville on January 26th including raffles and prizes to support the mission of AJC. Locations and times coming soon.
Friend of Ada opportunities. If you have an idea or would like to speak about hosting your own “Friend of Ada” event and impact your community, send an email here!
AJC currently has supply needs to support our cooking classes, street outreach food pantry and more. Please check the following lists if you’d like to hold a drive or simply purchase any of these much-needed items!
- List for our Kitchen/Event Space
- List for LEARN Works