October 30, 2025
We’re so happy you’re here! Volunteer applications for 2026 are open and will be accepted from September 15, 2025, through March 6, 2026. The first volunteer training sessions for 2026 will be held on March 25 and March 26.
The second round of training will take place at the end of June, and the third and final training will be held in mid-October. More specific dates will be shared in early 2026.
Please note that RCP welcomes new volunteers and offers training three times a year.
We are energized by people who are ready and excited to be in community with displaced families who are working to rebuild home here in Carrboro-Chapel Hill and Durham. We believe that those who are closest to the problem are in the best position to determine its solutions, and do all of our work from the bottom up. Shared ownership is a guiding principle of RCP, where refugee families, volunteers, staff, and Board members together shape the organization.
We take a person-centered, relationship-building approach to our work. We believe that help giving relationships are far more powerful when they are understood as mutual, reciprocal partnerships, where both parties are experts in their own experiences and have an abundance of skills, gifts, and wisdom to offer one another, rather than a charity-based relationship. We contextualize our efforts within an analysis of structural and social power and use that lens to forge relationships of true interdependence and solidarity between neighbors.
By completing this form you agree that you:
- are 18 years old or older
- are interested in providing in-person services located in Orange and/or Durham county
- consent to a Criminal background check
- If you are an international student, you may obtain a background check from your university and submit it in place of a new one.
After this application, if you have any specific questions, please contact volunteer@refugeecommunitypartnership.org
Our volunteers are the heart, hands and feet of this work.
Continue on to submit your interest in joining this big community!