JENNIFER HIBBARD

Address: 115 Illinois Street #2 Worcester, MA 01603  Phone: 508-579-7297  Eddress: jjhsyrinx@yahoo.com

Objective AmeriCorps volunteer seeks an opportunity to continue working with nonprofits, preferably utilizing past experience as a volunteer/youth coordinator.  Hard-working, enthusiastic, creative, and up-beat.  Also has experience with grant proposal writing, event planning, and day-to-day office administration.

Education 1998 - 2002 University of Wisconsin Eau Claire                                Eau Claire, WI Bachelor of Arts Major: English Literature Minor: French Language Graduated Magna Cum Laude G.P.A. 3.68

Study Abroad Experience Fall 1999: King Alfred's College                                              Winchester, England Spring 2001: Campus Internationale                                               Toulon, France

AmeriCorps Experience Greater Worcester Habitat for Humanity (12/03 - 11/04): Currently serving one year as an AmeriCorps Vista Volunteer in the role of volunteer and youth coordinator.  I recruit and educate new volunteers; foster relationships with businesses, schools, and churshes; maintain the volunteer database; assist in the planning and execution of fundraising events; write grant proposals; assist with committee work; and assist with publicity (such as writing newsletterarticles and PSA's). Dallas Area Habitat for Humanity (8/02 - 7/03): Served eleven months as a construction and volunteer supervisor.  I supervised building sites, scheduled subcontractors, ordered supplies, and created build schedules for individual houses.  I also orientated volunteers onsite, instructed, and supervised their assigned tasks.  A personal project involved creating standarized component lists for each house plan in order to stream-line the pre-build stage of construction.

Work Experience Center for International Education, UW-Eau Claire                               8/01 - 12/01 Position: Peer Advisor Responsabilites:  Prepared students for their study abroad experience. Led students through orientation sessions, sent out weekly informational emails, answered questions through individual appointments, collected and filed paperwork.  Also helped organize the annual Study Abroad Fair. Rockledge Elementary School, Seymore WI                                                     6/00 Position: French Summer School Teacher Responsabilites:  Taught two, three-week summer school courses to elementary school students, ages six to eleven.  Created lessons to introduce students to the French language and culture using games, songs, pictures, yarn, and food.

Volunteer Experience Horizons for Homeless Children: Through this Boston-based NGO, I spend two hours a week at a transitional shelter for women and children, playing fun and educational games with the children in order to give the mothers a much-needed break. L'Ecole LaFayette: While in Toulon, France I volunteered at a French elementary school, helping them learn English.  I also arranged American penpals with whom they could correspond.

Certifications First aid and CPR trainning through the Red Cross Typing speed tested as 75 wpm

My position with the Greater Worcester Habitat for Humanity ends on December 3, 2004.  I really want to stay in the nonprofit world, either in the affordable housing/ poverty field or international study.  And while I am finally starting to tire of moving every year or so and would like to stay in the vicinity of Boston, I have no problem relocating!  I am flexible in terms of pay and benifits, but I would like to make enough to live on for a change ($25,000 to $30,000).  My parents have supported me long enough, and I'd like them to start saving up for their cross country-tour of the national parks.

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