Matchbridge seeking volunteers

MatchBridge, a United Way of the Bay Area Community Project, is seeking volunteers who are fluent in at least one of the following languages:  Mandarin, Cantonese, Vietnamese and/or Spanish on Monday, February 8 from  4:00 to 6:00 pm at United Way offices at 221 Main Street in San Francisco. Volunteers are needed to  assist with determining the language fluency level of MatchBridge youth who are applying for Language Translator positions with United Way’s Earn it/Keep it/Save it (EKS) program. EKS provides free incomes tax preparation to families who qualify throughout San Francisco.

 MatchBridge youth applying to be Language Translators will assist non-English speaking families having their income taxes prepared at various Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) sites throughout the City. MatchBridge youth applying will be screened for language fluency and interviewed by EKS and MatchBridge staff on Monday, February 8, 2010.

Volunteers are needed to help determine the language fluency level of youth applying for the translator positions (glossary of commonly used “tax” phrases, sentences  and words will be provided by EKS).  A short ‘training’ will be provided to volunteers at 4:00 before the youth arrive at 4:30.

Please contact Emily Linaman at elinaman@uwba.org or 415.808.4313 if you are interested in volunteering as a language fluency assessor for MatchBridge youth.