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Ultra Verba, Lux Mentis is an Oregon-based 501(c)(3) public charity. We welcome thoughtful people who want to help shape public education, ethical technology, nonprofit governance, research, accessibility, community partnerships, and sustainable systems for the common good.
The opportunities currently described on this page are volunteer-based and unpaid. An expression of interest begins a mutual-fit conversation; it does not guarantee placement, appointment, academic credit, compensation, or a particular project.
Choose a possible path
Start with the kind of contribution that fits your experience and goals.
You do not need to fit every category. Select the closest route and use the email builder to explain what you hope to contribute, learn, or explore.
Volunteer Board Service
For people prepared to help protect UVLM’s mission, provide strategic and financial oversight, review policy, identify risk, support resource development, disclose conflicts, and accept fiduciary responsibilities.
- Board, committee, finance, legal or compliance experience
- Education, research, community, communications or technology
- Reliable meeting preparation and active participation
- Formal nomination or election under UVLM’s bylaws
Volunteer and unpaid governance role.
Founding Volunteer Fellowship
For college, graduate, certificate, technical, or recent-graduate learners seeking defined, real-world nonprofit work in business, technology, education, ethics, research, communication, design, or related fields.
- Possible 8–12 week project period
- Often about 3–5 hours per week
- Independent or small-team work
- Potential portfolio item or documented service
Volunteer and unpaid fellowship pilot.
Project or Community Volunteer
For people who want to contribute to one project, periodic outreach, public education, writing, research, design, operations, event support, accessibility, or another bounded need.
- One-time or recurring participation
- Virtual, in-person, hybrid or asynchronous options
- Defined scope and supervision based on capacity
- No expectation that every volunteer becomes a board member
Current opportunities are volunteer-based and unpaid.
Professional, Faculty or Research Partnership
For advisers, educators, researchers, organizations, mentors, and subject-matter experts interested in a committee, research, curriculum, practicum, capstone, public program, or professional collaboration.
- Faculty and institutional partnerships
- Professional advising or mentorship
- Research, curriculum or public-interest collaboration
- Scope, attribution and responsibilities agreed in advance
No compensation or partnership outcome is implied by inquiry.
Areas of contribution
We need more than one kind of intelligence.
UVLM values professional, educational, cultural, community, technical, creative, and lived experience. Applicants are not expected to have experience in every area.
Portfolio work, documented volunteer hours, references, letters, authorship credit, public acknowledgement, certificates, or presentation opportunities depend on the actual project and completed contribution. They cannot be guaranteed in advance.
Role details
Read only the sections relevant to your possible path.
Volunteer Board Member — responsibilities and selection
Board service is different from serving only as an adviser, volunteer, or project contributor. A board member may be expected to protect the mission, attend meetings, review materials, provide strategic and financial oversight, identify risks, support partnerships and resource development, maintain appropriate confidentiality, disclose conflicts, and act in the organization’s best interests.
Scheduled meetings, advance review, important communications, at least one committee or work area, and additional time during planning or fundraising periods. Specific expectations are discussed before nomination.
Whenever practical, UVLM prefers to become acquainted with a prospective board member through volunteer, adviser, committee, faculty, community-partner, or supporter activity before formal appointment.
The candidate process may include an inquiry, introductory conversation, review of mission and bylaws, discussion of experience and availability, conflict disclosure, reference or background review where appropriate, formal nomination or election, and orientation.
Founding Volunteer Fellowship — possible work and learning value
Fellows may work on defined business, technology, educational, research, communications, design, accessibility, or interdisciplinary projects. Examples include outreach planning, grant research, donor communication, budgeting, program evaluation, website improvements, cybersecurity planning, databases, information systems, software prototypes, ethical AI research, public educational resources, and nonprofit technology strategy.
Approximately 3–5 hours per week for 8–12 weeks, with regular check-ins, a defined deliverable, and a final report, presentation, or portfolio item. Projects may be adjusted for academic schedules and organizational capacity.
Real-world nonprofit work, interdisciplinary collaboration, project leadership, mentorship, portfolio development, and documented service. Any reference, recommendation, credit, or acknowledgement remains contribution-dependent.
Previous nonprofit experience is not required. Strong candidates demonstrate curiosity, dependability, respectful communication, willingness to learn, and the ability to complete agreed tasks.
Accessibility, supervision and participation
UVLM welcomes varied backgrounds, perspectives, abilities, learning styles, schedules, communication preferences, and expressions of intelligence. Applicants may describe the format, technology, pacing, supervision, feedback, scheduling, or communication support that would help them participate.
A diagnosis or private medical history is not required. Describe the practical support rather than sensitive health information. No accommodation should be treated as confirmed until UVLM and the participant agree that it can be provided responsibly.
Volunteer status, compensation and academic credit
The opportunities currently listed are volunteer-based and unpaid. UVLM is pursuing grants, donations, sponsorships, and charitable funding, but future compensation cannot be promised. Academic credit, practicum placement, service-learning approval, internship classification, or faculty sponsorship depends on the participant’s institution and UVLM’s current supervision and project capacity.
No applicant should assume that an inquiry creates an employee, contractor, intern, fellow, board, partnership, or academic-credit relationship. Any formal relationship must be separately defined and confirmed.
What happens next
An inquiry is a candidate connection—not an appointment.
The process should make expectations visible before either party takes on obligations.
Send an interest email
Share your route, background, contribution areas, availability, goals, and any practical participation needs.
Initial review
UVLM considers current organizational needs, supervision capacity, applicant qualifications, timing, and possible mutual fit.
Introductory conversation
A possible match may lead to a conversation about scope, expectations, boundaries, schedule, access, and next evidence.
Written confirmation
A role, project, fellowship, committee, board path, or partnership exists only after its scope and responsibilities are explicitly confirmed.
Guided interest email
Tell us enough to begin a useful conversation.
Complete the fields that are relevant. The page will assemble your answers into an editable email to info@ultraverbaluxmentis.org. Nothing is sent to UVLM merely by typing here.
Common questions
Know the boundaries before you apply.
Are these paid jobs?
The opportunities currently described on this page are volunteer-based and unpaid. UVLM is pursuing charitable funding, but future compensation is not guaranteed. Any paid opening would need its own written terms and public description.
Do I need experience in every listed area?
No. Select the areas that genuinely fit. UVLM is looking for complementary forms of expertise, reliability, ethical judgment, curiosity, and willingness to collaborate.
Can the fellowship provide academic credit?
Possibly, but not automatically. Academic credit, practicum, internship, capstone, or service-learning arrangements depend on the institution’s requirements, a suitable project, supervision capacity, timing, and written approval.
Can this page attach my résumé or CV?
No. Browser mailto links cannot reliably attach files. After the generated draft opens in your email application, attach the file there. Do not email sensitive records without first requesting an approved transfer route.
Is my application stored on this webpage?
This code does not submit the answers to a website database. It assembles them locally into an email draft. Your browser, device, email provider, and any extensions may have their own behavior, so do not enter information you would not place in ordinary email.
What happens after I send the email?
UVLM may review the inquiry and, where there appears to be a possible current fit, invite an introductory conversation. Placement depends on organizational needs, available supervision, qualifications, timing, screening where appropriate, and mutual fit. No response or appointment is guaranteed.