volunteer opportunities

["Kathie Brosemer" <kathie@cleannorth.org>]

Members E-News

Yes, I know this is three messages in two weeks, but if you respond to 
this one, I promise to go back to one a month or so...

This is a serious call for volunteers.

I’m going to list a whole lot of volunteer opportunities, so please take a 
peek and see if you can fit in some time to help with any of these.  Some 
are recurring, some are a one-time thing.  You should know that at this 
time, there is no paid staff person running the storefront office.  I’m 
trying to lessen the load on myself so that I can spend some time writing 
grant proposals.  Right now, I have no time for that while keeping up 
with the day to day business of the office.

First, a time-limited one: 

1) Interested in lawn pesticides?  We need a person to go to the 
Envirothon activity day on November 18th, and bring our pesticide kit, 
and answer questions.  We have seventy of these kits that need to get 
into people’s hands, and we figured the Envirothon youth would be a 
good place to do that.  I can give you complete details if you’re 
interested.  

Next, some office details:

2) filing clerk - two hours per week, to straighten out our filing system 
and keep it that way!  We have some ideas about how we’d like it to 
work, but no time to go and sort it out, and the filing is backing up a bit.  
Can you help?  Please make our work more efficient...

3) banking help - twice per month, somebody to prepare the bank 
deposits and go and take them to the bank.  Not a big chore, but it has to 
be done regularly, so are you the reliable type?

4) librarian - two hours per week, to enter new information into the library 
system.  There’s a manual, you don’t have to figure anything out!  Just 
be the person who’s making consistent decisions about assigning call 
numbers, etc.  We’ll describe it all to you...

5) general office help - four of us are volunteering to open mail, answer 
the phone, talk to drop-ins, write the cheques, and keep the membership 
database up to date.  Can you join us?  It’s a very pleasant space.  One 
works two hours a week, another works eight, so whatever time you want 
to spend, we could use your help!  You decide what hours, and let us 
know.

6) office deal-maker - do you have an organized mind?  We need 
someone to sort out the best long distance deal for us, figure out the 
best insurance deal, etc.  We’ll give you the files on this, it’s up to you 
to make the phone calls, work out the ins and outs, and give us a 
recommendation. I have this in “ongoing” because it seems there’s 
always something that needs sorting out this way.  After insurance and 
phone, maybe get a donation of carpeting, or some software donated, or 
get our Cable fees reduced, or something like that... 

Then the one-time things:

7) Help stuff the mailing for the fundraising letter.  We’ve drafted a letter, 
brainstormed a list of people to send it to, and found their addresses and 
put it in a spreadsheet for mailing labels.  Now we need people to fold the 
letter and stuff envelopes.  One-time work party, the end of next week.  
Time and date still TBA.

8) Christmas tree chipping site supervisor(s) - we need about twelve of 
you.  This year we’re adding bicycles to the collection, for the new 
Community Bicycle Workshop.  And we could use your ideas about 
other improvements.  But we also need site supervisors, the people who 
offer to take a shift or two at the site, and supervise the other people who 
come to help.  You will need to come to one evening meeting where we 
will go over the details so you’re prepared to be the boss.  Shifts at the 
site are about three to four hours, and we supply the volunteers to throw 
trees, squash cardboard, etc.  
											

So, if you or anyone you know is interested in doing any of these jobs, 
please reply to this email!  We will love getting to know you better!

Kathie


Work is love made visible.  And if you cannot work
with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should
leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms
of those who work with joy.  -- Kahlil Gibran

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