Real-world experience
Work alongside staff on lending, workforce, and business programs — the kind of hands-on experience that fills a résumé and a grad-school application.
Volunteer
Build your community. Build your résumé.
IDC is one of the best places in Fargo–Moorhead for a college student to do work that actually matters — meeting new Americans, sharpening real skills, and logging hours that count. Flexible around your schedule. Open year-round.
Why students love it
More than volunteer hours.
Cultural fluency
Meet people from a dozen countries and languages. You'll leave a sharper communicator and a more global citizen.
Hours & credit
We sign off on service-learning, internship, and volunteer hours — and we're flexible around class schedules and exam weeks.
Actual impact
This isn't busywork. The hours you give help a real family get a license, a loan, or a first job in their new home.
Ways to help
Bring what you've got.
Tell us your skills and a few free hours, and we'll match you to real work. No experience required for most roles — just reliability and heart.
Tutoring & language practice
Help new Americans practice English and prep for driver's-license and citizenship tests.
Business mentoring
Share skills in marketing, accounting, design, or operations with immigrant entrepreneurs.
Translation & interpretation
Bridge a language gap for appointments, forms, and events (any additional language helps).
Events & outreach
Help run markets, workshops, and community nights at the International Market Plaza.
Media & storytelling
Photography, video, writing, and social content that carries our families' stories further.
Program & admin support
Intake, data, scheduling, and the behind-the-scenes work that keeps everything moving.
Ready when you are
Give a few hours. Change a story.
The application takes about five minutes. We’ll follow up to match you with a role that fits your schedule and strengths.