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Financial Empowerment Associate

The Free Tax Preparation Campaign is a community-driven effort to provide free tax help to low- and moderate-income households in King County, WA. We know there are powerful anti-poverty tax credits – like the Earned Income Tax Credit, Child Tax Credit, and Education Credits – written into the tax code that provide critical economic stability, reduce racial wealth disparities, and increase public health outcomes, particularly for communities of color. However, each year many millions of dollars go left unclaimed by eligible taxpayers due to the complex nature of our tax code. Further, the high cost of tax preparation means individuals and families in our community are paying upwards of $300 to $400 to have their taxes prepared. The Free Tax Preparation Campaign seeks to address these problems and more, by providing free, high-quality tax preparation services, at absolutely no cost to the community. Last year alone, across 32 tax sites, this campaign prepared 21,975 tax returns, brought $30.1 million brought back to the community in tax credits and refunds, and made over 4,000 connections to additional public benefits and resources.

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Member Duties : The Financial Empowerment AmeriCorps Member will serve internally at United Way of King County and will also support efforts on community and technical college campuses in partnership with United Way’s Benefits Hub program. This is a unique opportunity where you will gain a mix of tax and personal finance expertise, direct service experience, and non-profit programmatic professional skills. Phase 1: Executing on grassroots and high-level volunteer recruitment strategies to recruit and train over 1,300 volunteers. Phase 2: Performing community outreach for free tax preparation services and directly providing client services by managing one tax site on a community or technical college campus. Phase 3: Facilitating financial empowerment workshops on community and technical college campuses and maintaining post-season tax preparation services.

Program Benefits : Education award upon successful completion of service , Stipend , Training , Health Coverage .

Terms :
None

Service Areas :
Community and Economic Development , Community Outreach .

Skills :
Social Services , Communications , Computers/Technology , Conflict Resolution , Team Work , General Skills .

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SUMMARY
Program Type:
AmeriCorps State / National

Program
Financial Empowerment Associate

Program Start/End Date
08/31/2020 - 08/25/2021

Work Schedule	Full Time

Education level
High school diploma/GED

Age Requirement
Minimum: 18 Maximum: None

Program Locations	WASHINGTON Seattle/Tacoma/Bremerton

Accepting Applications
From 07/01/2020 To 09/08/2020

Contact	Jake Janesch
720 2nd Ave
Seattle WA 98104
2064615098
jjanesch@uwkc.org

Listing ID	90126


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