Volunteer Opportunity to Raise Awareness of Alzheimer's Disease from the Alzheimer's Association

Alzheimer's Association announces the start of applications for the Alzheimer's Association Promotores volunteer program. Alzheimer's Association Promotores are volunteer community engagers that raise awareness of Association programs, provide basic disease information, and link consumers to resources.

• Represent the Alzheimer's Association at a minimum of 12 events / per year distributing Alzheimer’s Association literature at events or appearances in your local community.
• Offer 20-minute Introduction to Alzheimer’s presentations within your community.
• Promote support groups, education programs, Alzheimer & Brain Awareness Month, Walk to End Alzheimer’s, or The Longest Day using your local connections, bulletin boards, social media and physical displays in your community.
• Connect the Alzheimer's Association to new community organizations and connect people with additional Association services and volunteer opportunities.

The Association is seeking volunteer candidates with:

• Fluency in Spanish is helpful, but not required.
• Self-motivated individual that is comfortable reaching out to individuals, organizations and families in need and connecting them to the Alzheimer's Association.
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills and comfort with computers and email.
• Passionate about the Alzheimer’s Association mission with personal or professional experience with dementia preferred.
• Must be 18 to apply. 
• Background checks are required.

About Alzheimer's Association:-

Alzheimer's Association is a non-profit American volunteer health organization which focuses on care, support and research for Alzheimer's disease. The Alzheimer's Association is the largest non-profit funder of Alzheimer's disease research. The organization has chapters and communities across the USA, with its national office located in Chicago and the public policy office in Washington, D.C. Its mission is to eliminate Alzheimer's disease through the advancement of research; to provide and enhance care and support for all affected; and to reduce the risk of dementia through the promotion of brain health.

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