Volunteer With Us!
We need your help to make textbooks free and better!

Open Volunteer Positions!

Join us for 6-weeks in one of our three starter volunteer roles and repeat volunteers will have the option to take on specialist roles or additional roles and projects every 6 weeks.

Duration: 6-weeks
Dates: TBA
Application Deadline: TBA
Commitment: 1–9 hours per week (varies by role)
Technical Writer

Help write/edit our textbooks using our scientifically backed and student-friendly text-design that makes textbooks worth reading and keeping!

Training provided!

After quickly going through the training, select the textbook (Physics, Calculus, Chemistry, or Biology) and concept(s) to work on!

No degree or experience required! Learn as you go!

Use your perspective as a learner, to create student friendly explanations!

Learn a new and superior way to take notes!

Open Source Contributor

Help build the platform for our textbooks! It's built in JavaScript and PHP!

Learn as you go!

After being introduced to the project, select the feature or tasks you'd like to work on for that week!

70% of the work is already done!

Flexible commitment!

Business Research Analyst

Help us with market research and creating competitive analysis reports on other companies!

Receive all the feedback you need!

We'll provide you with a template and example of what a competitive analysis report looks like! And we'll always be here for questions.

Learn and implement market research skills!

Build on your organizational skills!

A competitive analysis template for you to keep!

Check out our Organizational Chart!

This gives you a bird's eye view of where to the starter volunteer roles lead to.

Enrollment Process

Just four steps until you can join the team!

Phase 1: Application Phase

You're interested in becoming a volunteer with us, I see! That's great to hear! Completing the application is the very first step to getting the process started.

Here's the link to the application:
https://forms.gle/2iCxHEHx9CqAzjkJA
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We'll ask you basic info questions and then three free-response questions.
You will receive an email of your responses as a submission confirmation after submitting your application.

Phase 2: Evaluation Phase

After submitting your application give us seven (7) business days to review your application and send you an email of our decision on your application. Those who get accepted will move onto the next phase!

Phase 3: Training Phase

There's one more step before being accepted as a volunteer and receiving invitations to the community and workspaces. In the same email that you will receive with your acceptance, it will include the links to your training.
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We have a general training that all of our volunteers go through which includes info about our project and how everything will work.
Here you will also complete the training specific to the volunteer role(s) you're interested in.
This can take 2-3 hours to complete. We recommend putting the videos at 2x speed.
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We decided on potential volunteers doing their training before receiving invitations to our community and workspaces because we want to make sure that all of our volunteers can actually volunteer. :)

Phase 4: Invitation Phase

After letting us know that you've completed your training, we'll invite you to our Discord, our Notion Workspaces, and our GitHub repositories if you're an Open Source Contributor. Just a few emails.

We'll also send you an email with all the links and your next to make things simple đź‘Ť.

Benefits from working with us!

We are blessed with volunteers like you, so we want to try to give back as much as we can. Anything to help you in your academic and professional career.
‍CourseHero Unlocks
Get free CourseHero unlocks to aid in completing your school homework!
Badges
Receive badges for every milestone and skill you achieve and gain!
‍Experience
No experience? No problem! This is a great place to start and get some.
Connections
Network or find teammates for competitions or hackathons!
‍Advice or Guidance
We all want to see you succeed! Reach out and let us know!
Work Samples
Showcase your work in a portfolio or in any of your future opportunities!
‍Curated Events
We share events happening with other organizations and share them with you!
Curated Opportunities
We find competitions and other programs that can help you build your resume!

Frequently Asked Questions

What's the commitment?

This is a 6-week experience and volunteers can request to volunteer in the next batch or long-term after having participated in at least three (3) batches.
On a single task, volunteers can spend 1–3 hours (technical writers), 1–6 hours (open -source contributors), or 9 hours (business research analysts).
You'll assign yourself one of the available tasks, and you'll have 2–3 weeks to complete it.
Within the 6-weeks, volunteers are expected to complete 5 tasks (technical writers), 2 tasks (open -source contributors), or 1 task (business research analysts).

What's in it for me?

This is a volunteer role, and we are a nonprofit without funding (yet). Though we do want to give back as that is what this entire project is about. We'll provide mentorship, experience, training, connections, a community, and academic opportunities that might help you in your journey. You can find a more exact list in the benefits section of this page.

Who's eligible? Qualifications?

Anyone anywhere can apply to any of our volunteer roles! It doesn't matter what country you're from or what grade you're in. All of our volunteers receive training. We only care about two things, our volunteers having time to volunteer and having the ability to express yourself and communicate. That's that the application is for.