Opportunities From: Tri County Community Action

Want to know you are making a lasting effect on the community around you and bettering the lives of others? Join TCCA with the United Way’s Money in Your Pocket program as a certified tax preparer!

In partnership with United Way Capital Region, TCCA will be providing tax services through the Money in Your Pocket or VITA program. To make this opportunity a success we will need volunteers to help us! As a tax preparer for the 2026 tax season, you will be helping low to moderate income families do their taxes. There is NO EXPERIENCE NECESSARY and ALL TRAINING IS PROVIDED. Returns are prepared with an easy to use computer software. Volunteers will receive IRS tax training and certification, which can help in both their personal and professional lives!

This opportunity is available every Tuesday and Thursday starting on Tuesday, February 3rd, 2026 and ending Tuesday, April 14th, 2026 from 6:00 – 8:30 PM. We would love to have the same weekly tax preparers, however, we appreciate any and all support!

Sign up our information session on November 12th! It is REQUIREDfor all volunteers! If you can't make November 12th but want to be involved, send an email to adatesman@cactricounty.org.

Are you bilingual (Spanish & English) and enjoy working with the public and making an impact? Become a MIYP Translator!

In partnership with United Way Capital Region, TCCA will be providing tax services through the Money in Your Pocket or VITA program. To make this opportunity a success we will need volunteers to help us! Money in Your Pocket Translators will help anyone who is unable to speak Spanish effectively communicate with our Spanish speaking community! As a translator, you will NOT be preparing taxes. There is NO EXPERIENCE NECESSARY and ALL TRAINING IS PROVIDED.

This opportunity is available every Tuesday and Thursday starting on Tuesday, February 3rd, 2026 and ending Tuesday, April 7th, 2026 from 6:00 – 8:30 PM. We would love to have the same weekly translators, however, we appreciate any and all support!

Sign up our information session on November 12th! It is REQUIREDfor all volunteers! If you can't make November 12th but want to be involved, send an email to adatesman@cactricounty.org.

Do you enjoy working with the public and making an impact? Become a MIYP Greeter/ Screener!

In partnership with United Way of the Capital Region, TCCA will be providing tax services through the Money in Your Pocket or VITA program. To make this opportunity a success we will need volunteers to help us! As a Money in Your Pocket (MIYP) Greeter/Screener, you will make a huge impact by ensuring families feel welcome and have the necessary documents during the intake process of tax preparation. There is NO EXPERIENCE NECESSARY and ALL TRAINING IS PROVIDED. As a greeter or screener, you will NOT be preparing taxes.

This opportunity is available every Tuesday and Thursday starting on Tuesday, February 3rd, 2026 and ending Tuesday, April 7th, 2026 from 6:00 – 8:30 PM. We would love to have the same weekly greeter/screener, however, we appreciate any and all support!

Knowing Spanish is not required, but would be a huge plus!

Sign up our information session on November 12th! It is REQUIRED for all volunteers! If you can't make November 12th but want to be involved, send an email to adatesman@cactricounty.org.

A Poverty Simulation is a true-to-life role playing experience for groups and organizations to experience first-hand the challenges, decisions, and life of someone in poverty. We are looking for volunteers who can help act out various institutions that groups and organizations will interact with during the simulation. Simulations will last approximately three hours. 

Groups will be faced with daily decisions ranging from how to get the kids to school on time, find or maintain employment, visit the assistance office or church, pay your bills, and keep a roof over your head...all in the span of a few hours. Each 15 minute period of time accounts for exactly one week, and within that week and the three that follow, groups will learn what poverty really looks like and how it can impact every daily decision to be made. 

Poverty Simulations are thought provoking and lead to powerful conversations, and they help us all realize that it takes a community to end poverty.

Volunteers are needed to help with the following parts of the poverty simulation:

Portraying one of our services. Our simulations portray people interacting with housing agencies, financial institutions, schools, community health centers, and infrastructure providers. Our volunteer actors will be briefed on their role prior to the event with instructions on how to effectively act out their part.

 

*Please include your availability (days of the week, morning/afternoon, etc.) in the notes section of your signup.

*Once you signup for this opportunity you will be sent a link with the days and times of poverty simulations currently scheduled and given more information. The list will be continually updated, and you will receive a notification when new simulations are scheduled.

*Poverty simulations will take place throughout our tri-county region of Cumberland, Dauphin, and Perry Counties.