Want to get paid for doing community service? It's easy!

Tell your friends (and their parents) about how we help people pay for college without going broke and earn $100 for each family who joins our NCCP family.

We're helping students get into some of the best colleges in the country, saving their parents thousands of dollars every year, and educating hundreds of others on how to have a fighting chance planning for college. All of these are valuable services to the community! And by helping us help more of them, you are performing community service too - and getting some extra cash in the process!

Here are some ways you can help spread the word:

• Tell your friends (you do have friends, right?) about your experience as a client of ours - DISCOVER, resume prep, essay critique, interview prep, help with applications and financial aid, etc.


• Talk to your counselors, teachers, coaches, and principals and ask them to invite us in to speak to the school staff and the parents during a financial aid night. - It's FREE!


• Make sure everybody in the clubs you belong to knows about us. Have them mention your name with they get in touch.
  
• Make up some flyers and post them around campus, at Starbucks, or wherever you hang out - make sure we can tell who to credit for the referral or we won't know it was you!


• Chat us up on Facebook, Twitter, etc. Tell them to mention your name when scheduling an appointment with us.
  
• Text your friends and tell them to mention us to their parents the next time they start talking about college - ask them to check out the website www.YourCollegePlanners.com.


• Talk to your youth pastor at church and ask him to let us come do a free educational workshop for them on how to make college affordable for everybody.

Of course there are many more way to get the word out, but you're smart - be creative and have some fun with it. There's no limit to what you can earn! You can literally add thousands to your pocket while helping people save a fortune (and becoming their hero in the process!). Can you do that at your job now? No way!

So are you up for the challenge? Let's start a movement and see what can happen!

Take Advantage of Volunteer and Community Service Projects

One way to "beef up" your resume and to gain insight into possible majors and careers is to work in a volunteer or community service capacity over the summer. Taking up a service project for a few hours, days or weeks will help you to get a feel for what a particular career involves and will also allow you to give back to your community. The two degrees of volunteering are Active and Passive.

Active volunteering is when a student creates and leads a project and carries it through to the end. For example, a student from Minnesota started a non-profit organization that collected used computers and refurbished them. The computers were then donated with internet access to economically disadvantaged families in the community. This experience required hours of investment and energy.

A Passive volunteer experience is donating time to different experiences on a smaller level. An example of this type of volunteering is a walk-a-thon where only a few hours are served or helping in a hospital or summer school program. Although possibly a passive volunteer experience, it will help students to understand the positions offered at these institutions and may influence their decision to pursue these types of careers.

Also, in addition to building character, on-going community service and volunteerism shows a commitment that many colleges value. It could give your application the extra edge over competition that you may need to be admitted to the college of your choice. There are also many scholarships available based on community service.

Finally, if you cannot find a way to volunteer in a setting of your choice, you should commit to spending a few hours chatting with someone in a position you are interested in to gain some valuable extra insight into that field.

Recommendation Letters

Recommendation letters are often used by students during the college admission and job application processes. Some graduate schools may even require prospective students to have at least two letters of recommendation during their admissions process. Writing a recommendation letter for someone else is a huge responsibility and getting everything just right is important. If you are hoping to get a shining recommendation from a teacher, employer or mentor, here are some tips to guide you in the process.



1) Make sure you choose a person to provide your recommendation that knows your strengths.

2) Give information to the teacher, employer or mentor about who will receive the recommendation and why they are writing it. Few people write outstanding recommendations well, either because they don't know you well enough or because they don't want to be bothered. If you help them by providing answers relating to it, they will feel more comfortable in the process.

3) Make sure you give the recommender plenty of time to write up the recommendation.

4) Lastly, thank the person for the outstanding recommendation.


Hope you found this information helpful.