VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES 

 

Accounting Department

  Filing Assistant (volunteer)

3-5 hours per week during regular business hours (except Wednesdays)      

 

Development Department

Ongoing Needs (volunteer)  

3 hours a week, ½ day during regular business hours, or other flexible hours 

• Help with Real Heroes Breakfast; numerous tasks year-round. Recruit table captains, verify Heroes nominations, use Excel to help plan event, stuff envelopes, work with other committee members.
• “Thank You” letters
• Help present "Saving Lives & More: Learn about your local Red Cross and be inspired." Monthly lunches during which donors and community members learn about the Red Cross.
• Assist in the processing of donations
• Retrieve information from Raiser’s Edge, our donor database system. (Computer skills required)
• Help with mailings

 

Disaster Services

 

Disaster Action Team Members (DAT) - (training provided)

Help clients recover from local disasters of all types and sizes. This position will be on the front line of service delivery, working

directly with clients and volunteers. This is a volunteer position that requires flexible on-call availability of specified shifts (i.e.

evenings one week a month or days one week a month). Come in & check it out - DAT meets every second Tuesday evening at the

Chapter! 

 

Disaster Services Administrative Assistance (volunteer)

2 days a week for 4 hours a day during regular business hours

 

Assist Joyce Adams with clerical/computer work. Tasks may include assembling class materials, updating the DS trainin

database, and making phone calls to clients to assess the quality of our service delivery.

Service to the Armed Forces  (training provided) (volunteer)

6- 8 hours per week during regular business hours

• Take calls referred during a specified shift (typically one day a week)
• Maintain confidentiality of caller and service member
• Conduct an interview to obtain relevant information needed to process the request.
• Verify information received from the families.
• Complete necessary documentation.
• Route the message to the appropriate Red Cross authorities.

 

Health and Safety Department

 

First Aid CPR   3-6 hours per week during regular business hours

 

Volunteer needed to help clean CPR manikins on Mondays (9 a.m. -12 noon) and another volunteer to set up for weekend classes

on Fridays (2-4 p.m.).

 

Save the date for our annual volunteer event:

CPR Saturday Volunteers: March 12, 2011, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Sebastopol

 

CPR Saturday is a free event that trains members of the community in CPR. Training for approximately 500 men, women and children in both Spanish and English. Time commitment will vary. You may volunteer for part or all of the day, or assist with planning and presenting the event for one to three months ahead of time.

 

 

VOLUNTEER HANDBOOK: Lots of great information for our volunteers

For the Volunteer Application Form, click here. 

For the American Red Cross Code of Conduct, click here.

Click here to view our newly revised volunteer handbook (Adobe Acrobat is required on your computer in order to be able to read this document). If you do not have Adobe Acrobat on your computer, just click here to download it free.

All volunters must sign the signature pages of the handbook to let us know that you agree to the terms of volunteering for the American Red Cross.

To do so is as easy as 1-2-3:

1. Click here to see a Microsoft Word copy of the signature pages (click 'open' in the warning message);

2. While the pages are viewable, print them out on your home computer printer, then sign and date as indicated. When you click "print" on your home computer, ALL the necessary signature pages will print at one time;

3. Fax (543-8523), mail (5297 Aero Drive, Santa Rosa, CA 95403) or bring them in to Maggie O'Brien at the Chapter at your first opportunity.