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Indirect service opportunities provide needed support
in many of our agency’s day-to-day operations, administrative
tasks and fundraising efforts. The majority of our volunteers participate
in these areas. Opportunities include:
- Board and Advisory Committee members offer their
expertise in issues related to governance of the agency and to support
for programs. Board members serve 3-year terms. There is an application
and interview process for potential board members. Depending on the
current composition of the board, the board development committee
is usually looking for individuals with particular expertise or professional
experience. Those interested in serving on the Board of Directors
should contact our Executive Director. Both our Sexual Assault and
Domestic Violence Programs have Advisory Committees that meet once
per quarter. Members of these committees are often part of the professional
community who interact with domestic violence or sexual assault from
another perspective such as law enforcement, the judicial system,
child advocacy or mental health services. If you are interested in
serving on either of these committees, please contact our Domestic
Violence or Sexual Assault Program Coordinators.
- Clerical assistants perform a variety of tasks
in several of our programs. Possible assignments include photocopying,
folding brochures, preparing mailings, filing and data entry.
- Maintenance & construction helpers provide
“handyman/handywoman” expertise for us when we have minor
repair jobs that seem to come up regularly in our 114 year-old building.
Sometime we need help assembling furniture, shelving or toys or moving
heavy items.
- Holiday volunteers help us by distributing food
baskets at Thanksgiving and again in December, volunteer with the
Elgin Community Toy Give-away in December, wrap gifts at Spring Hill
Mall in December, and help with holiday parties for shelter residents
throughout the year.
- Fundraising volunteers are essential to the financial
health of our agency. Our largest single fundraiser each year is our
Annual Benefit Auction. This event requires many volunteers both in
preparation for the auction and for the event itself. For more information,
please click here.
Other possibilities include helping with some of our smaller fundraisers,
collecting used cell phones for our cell
phone recycling program or holding a fundraiser on our behalf.
Various organizations and businesses have hosted golf outings for
us, collected donations of cash and goods from customers or group
members, held silent auctions and special benefit events, or offered
“blue jean days” for employees in exchange for donations
to us. If you are interested in organizing such an activity on our
behalf, we ask that you please contact the Coordinator of our Resource
Development Office so that she can provide you with information and
that we can be informed about and authorize those using the name of
our agency in order to raise funds.
- Volunteers with special skills or professional expertise
offer essential services to us on a regular basis. Medical
professionals might provide training in first aid or information
about significant health issues to our staff members and direct service
volunteers. Artists and graphic designers can help
us with designing items for special events or with improving the look
of our brochures and other widely distributed materials. Those with
sewing skills might make receiving blankets for infants
in shelter or curtains for women in our transitional living program.
Writers might prepare promotional pieces for us or
contribute to our newsletter. Gardeners might share
produce from their garden or provide flowers for our lobby. The volunteer
application provides you with an opportunity to share such information
about yourself. It sometimes takes a while for us to match your abilities
with our needs, but we make every effort to do so when it is appropriate.
- “Reruns” is our volunteer-run resale
shop. All items have been donated, and proceeds return to the Community
Crisis Center to support operating expenses. Volunteers are needed
to sort, price, and sell items from the 72 S. Grove Avenue location
in Elgin. Volunteers may help one day a week or one day a month. If
you’d like more information about working at Reruns, please
call the store directly at 847-931-9494. The store is open Tuesday-
Saturday from 10:00 am – 3:00 pm
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