Communications Volunteer: Newsletter, Mailing List, & Social Media

About us

Anything Helps is a peer led nonprofit in Seattle. Most of our staff have lived experience of homelessness, and we serve people across the Puget Sound. Our case managers help people experiencing homelessness, housing insecurity and unemployment pursue and retain their stability - however they might define it. We work alongside the people we serve, because most of us have been where they are.

What we need

We tell people's stories badly right now, mostly because nobody owns the job. We are looking for one person to take our outward voice and amplify it by managing a monthly newsletter, our mailing list and our social media accounts. You would be the person who decides what this process looks like and how these systems work, so there is real ownership in this role, and you'd be working directly with our Executive Director.

What you would do

• Write and send a monthly newsletter to our supporters, donors, and partners. We have a lot of pre-written content already that you will be given access to as well.
• Own our mailing list: keep it clean, grow it, and know who is on it and why
• Post regularly on our social accounts and answer what comes back
• Pull stories out of the organization by talking to staff and, where people provide their consent, to the participants we serve
• Keep a simple calendar so we stop publishing in bursts and then going quiet

What we are looking for

• You can write clearly for ordinary people, not for a communications department
• You have run a newsletter or a set of social accounts before, anywhere: a nonprofit, a small business, a band, a campaign, etc.
• You are comfortable with the tools, or comfortable learning them
• You can handle a story about a person's hardest year with care and empathy, and you understand why consent and privacy matter
• Lived experience of homelessness, housing instability, or recovery is genuinely valued but is not required

Time commitment

Roughly 5 to 8 hours a week. Work is remote, flexible and on your own schedule. We would ask for a six month commitment so the newsletter actually becomes a habit rather than a one time favor.

Why this matters

We have the outcomes. People get housed, stay housed, and go back to work. Almost nobody outside the organization knows it, which costs us donors, partners, and the political weight we need to make real changes and address these issues properly.

To apply

Send a short note about yourself and why this opportunity interests you. Include one thing you have written or posted that you are proud of and send to mike@anything-helps.org. No cover letter needed.