Additional assistance is needed for many activities during
Chicago Group’s exciting Year of Living Responsibly.
The Chicago Group is seeking members with specific skills or
the energy and willingness to take on new projects. The jobs
to be filled include:
Water Committee Chair and Members
Chicago Group’s Water Committee is multi-faceted.
Committee members do hands-on work like water quality testing
in Lake Michigan and beach cleanup monthly from April through
October at Montrose Beach. The biggest event of the year is in
S e p t e m b e r, when as many as 150 members and friends
work to clean-up Montrose Beach and assist in habitat
restoration in the dunes, all part of International Coastal
Clean-Up Day. The Water Committee also follows
political/regulatory developments and acts as a clean-water
advocate on a wide variety of water issues in Chicago. A chair
is sought
coordinate the committee’s work and members are needed to
perform a variety of tasks. The time commitment for the chair
is several hours per week; for members, several hours per
month.
Print and Web Graphic Designers
Chicago Group will be redesigning its communications with
members and the outside world in all media this year and
talented graphic designers are needed to accomplish the goal.
Ideally, we’d like to find several professional designers who
want to volunteer their talents to create graphics that will
make Chicago Group’s conservation message both inspiring and
compelling. The time commitment may be significant initially
and scale back to several hours per month in the second half
of the year.
Fundraising Committee Chair and Members
Chicago Group’s ambitious 2008 agenda requires additional
fundraising. Several fundraisers are planned for this year
that need coordinators, including two or three Cubs games (a
total blast to plan AND attend!), a non-motorized outing to a
summer Ravinia concert and a year-end raffle to win a fabulous
Sierra Club outing. A chair is needed to coordinate
money-raising activities and party-loving, people
people are needed to handle logistics for these and other fun
events. The time commitment for the chair is several hours per
week; for committee members, several hours per month,
depending on the activities happening during a given period.
Membership Committee Members
Volunteers are needed to assist in welcoming new members
as well as in developing activists from within Chicago Gorup’s
9,000 membership base. Duties include
contacting new members by mail, e-mail or phone to welcome
them to Sierra Club, providing them with information about
forthcoming activities and gauging their interest in becoming
more active in conservation, outings, political, lobbying or
administrative
activities. Time commitment: several hours per month.Also
see the Chicago Group Volunteers
Needed page for additional positions that might fit your
volunteer interests.
Got your attention yet? Ready to
pitch in? If you’re interested in volunteering, please contact
Christine Williamson, Chicago Group chair, at
773-935-8439 (evenings) or
birdchris@aol.com.
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