Volunteer to save YOUR environment today!

The Sierra Club is a national organization, but our effectiveness is largely in part to our volunteers at the grassroots level. This is especially true in your local Northeast Florida Group, where all of us are volunteers, spending what time we can to helping make our neighborhoods a better, safer, and more environmentally-friendly place to live.

If you are interested in our activities or issues -- and you must be, since you're visiting us online -- please look over the list below for our immediate volunteer needs. All you have to do is contact the lead volunteer on a particular project, and you will be on the road to involvement, enriching your life and improving our environment! If you have talents or are aware of something that isn't on this page, please contact our chair, Tom Larson, and talk to him about how you'd like to get involved with the Club.

We like to save the environment AND have fun -- Please contact us today. Contact our Group Chair, Tom Larson, at 247-1876 to volunteer, or fill out the form below and email it to Tom Larson .

Immediate volunteer needs are as follows, with contact information. (All area codes are 904).

August 13, 2009 - Publicity Chair - needed ASAP

Job Description and Duties for advertising Sierra Club programs and events:

Advertise monthly programs and other events, such as educational and nature outings.

Disseminate press releases.

Maintain and update bi-yearly a list of media sources: televison, radio stations, magazines, newspapers, and other publications.

Maintain list of deadlines for submitting to individual media; for example, bi-monthly, every 3 weeks or monthly.

The information on media sources is kept in computer data such as Microsoft WORD or EXCEL. In addition, an email Contacts Directory is maintained for sending periodic announcements. These files must be updated whenever there are changes.

Followup calls should be made, if possible, to find out if the announcements reached their targets and whether the media contact persons would publicize them.

If YOU can do these tasks, please contact janet.larson@florida.sierraclub.org. ____________________________________________________________________________________________

Interested in local conservation issues but don't know where to start? Visit a Conservation Committee meeting! We meet every third Wednesday at the Northeast Florida Regional Council building, 6850 Belfort Oaks Place, Jacksonville (Southpoint area) at 6:30 p.m. Contact Conservation Chair Linda Bremer for more information.

Be an Outings Leader! Do you like to explore the outdoors and meet new people who share your interests? Then you can lead outings for the Sierra Club! Contact Brian Paradise.

Communications Committee
Use your skills and get published as a news or features writer for our newsletter, the Sierra Sentry. Write short features about our members, or keep our members in touch with what our committees, such as the conservation committee, are working on. Contact Newsletter Editor Bill Armstrong, 880-7702 (Jacksonville).

Volunteers are needed to secure advertising for our newsletter, the Sierra Sentry. Even one or two ads would make a huge difference on defraying the cost of printing and mailing to members. Will require following up on the payments. Contact Bill Armstrong, 880-7702 (Jacksonville).

Fund Raising Committee
Organize a fund-raising event! We're a grassroots organization that has to raise a lot of its own money. If you have experience and a great fund-raising event idea that can benefit the Northeast Florida Group, please volunteer! You'll have lots of help and support. We even have some ideas, so if you have experience organizing events but aren't sure what would be appropriate, please step up. Contact Group Chair Tom Larson, 247-1876 (Jacksonville).

Looking for someone organized who can help keep track of sales and inventory of items such as our Sierra Club t-shirts. Contact Tom Larson, 247-1876, if you are that special person!

The Programs Committee
We're always looking for new ideas for interesting monthly programs in Jacksonville or St. Augustine. Contact Janet Larson if you can help secure even just one speaker for a monthly program. We also need help with any or all of the tasks below:

Set up A/V equipment for speakers at our monthly meetings. The volunteer will need to arrive 20-30 minutes before the meeting
Calling person to schedule a program, get a bio of the person and a synopsis of the program, and possibly ask for a picture of speaker for the newsletter, ask if they will need any equipment, and give them directions if needed
Disseminate program info to publicity person for newspaper
Provide program information to ExCom for monthly meeting
Update website regarding program specifics
Before meeting, make sure room is set up; rearrange room at close of meeting to how we found it
Introduce speakers or give introductory info to meeting host
Send thank you notes to speakers
We need several volunteers to bring snacks to our monthly meetings and set up in kitchen. You can also help by cleaning-up after the meeting and taking out trash!

Contact Janet Larson if you'd like to participate on the Programs Committee.

Be part of our Membership Committee! Looking for volunteers who will meet and greet new members and guests at our meetings. May also include providing membership information at our outings and at our community events. The membership team is the ambassador for Sierra Club and engages the community. Please join us! Our meetings are on the second and/or third Monday of each month at 7 p.m., in both Jacksonville and St. Augustine. Contact Membership Chair Karen Kempf, 482-5352 (Jacksonville).

Don't see something that interests you on the list, but you'd like to volunteer? Fill out the form below, and we'll add you to our Potential Volunteer Database! Just copy the text below and paste it into an e-mail -- then send the e-mail to Group Chair Tom Larson.

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