Volunteer Opportunities

Office Volunteers

Office Opportunities:

• Clerical Help – A general knowledge of word and excel would be helpful. Currently we need help with preparing mailing for our events and other general mailings.
• Creative Work – We prepare a newsletter twice a year and this would require someone to be familiar with Publisher. Writing and editing skills are a plus. Our current timeline for the newsletter is August-September and November-December.
• In Kind Item Solicitation – Preparing mailings to local businesses to recruit auction items
• Sponsor Solicitation – Prepare sponsorship mailings – this is done through the year. Some mailings use our data base information and a volunteer who may have ties within the community can prepare others. This can be done in the office and can be done at home.

Event Volunteers

Event Opportunities:

• In-Kind Donation & Sponsorship Solicitation – Preparing mailings to local businesses to recruit auction items and sponsors for the fundraising events. This person may be the liaison between a select few companies, so having a few people working on this committee would be beneficial.
• Set Up – Usually arrive early in the day to set up tables, auction items, paperwork and any other on site details for the event. We usually need 10-15 people for setup, depending on event size and location.
• Raffle Leader – Organize a group of 6-8 friends to sell raffle tickets at the event.
• Registration/Checkout – This is the backbone for the accounting aspects of the evening, registering people, maintaining silent, live auction information, as well as preparing paperwork for checkout. An accounting or banking background is helpful. We usually need 6-8 people in this area and in the past have found that bank tellers or accounting reps have made great volunteers in this area.
• Photo Attendant – Works with the photographer capturing names of those in the pictures. If we set up a photo booth, then we need someone who will take pictures and one person to write the log of who is in the pictures. These are two different volunteer opportunities.
• Silent / Live Auction Volunteers – Volunteers are needed to be at all the auction tables, some to walk around live auction items, and some to be runners for both the Silent and Live auction items. This takes approximately 15-20 people for Under the Stars Event.
• Tear Down/Clean Up – End of the evening cleanup crew. We try to pull some of the volunteers from other volunteer areas for tear down/cleanup. The tasks are different depending on the venue. We can manage on having 4-6 people help in this area.

Committee Members

GiveBack

Board Members

Other Volunteer Opportunities

• There are opportunities that you may do from home. You may choose to raise funds by doing a third party fundraising event, a letter writing campaign, or tell their story online and solicit their friends and family to make a donation. If you prefer to not contribute financially, but want to help with recruiting others to participate, you can work on one of the solicitation lists above (in kind or sponsor solicitation)

Seasonal Volunteer Opportunities

• Cleaning cabins (Located at Camp)
• Basic grounds work (Located at Camp)
• Assisting with camper check-ins and check-outs at the Indianapolis Office (Sunday afternoon & Friday afternoon)

Large Projects at Camp for Groups*

• Restoration Projects
• Cleaning cabins
• Basic grounds work
• Small construction projects
• Trail building and maintenance