Commitment begins: September 1 of previous year, is ongoing
Pre-VBC: 5+ hours/week
Split into two different positions, University and Grade School, the Education Coordinators work with area schools and colleges to find ways to combine the classroom and VBC. The realization of this could be as simple as letting schools know about the VBC and inviting them to tour and participate, to as grand as developing curriculum and certified credit for VBC experience. The VBC already has a strong relationship with educational institutions, having past sites and venues at schools. We hope to see this area grow and develop in coming years. Hold weekly meetings and develop strategies to infuse VBC with educational energy.
During VBC: 10+ hours/week
Helps work with teachers and students on field trips.

Commitment begins: Ongoing
Pre-VBC: 5 hours/week
Pick a school to host, speak with teachers and students, develop strategic partnerships, table at events, develop curriculum, create resource lists. All levels of participation welcome.

Commitment begins: September 1
Pre-VBC: 10 hours/week
Develop certification concept, 12/04 . Review concept with educational institutions, 2/05. Compile participation information 5/05. Award acknowledgments and certifications, 6/05. Clarify the knowledge and experience to be gained from the VBC experience. Coordinate with local educational institutions so that students can receive credit for participating in VBC. Coordinate with the Workshop Coordinator to be intentional about giving participants a fulfilling experience. Ensure that participants (who want acknowledgment) communicate how they are participating (i.e., take attendance or something like that). Make sure that participants receive proper acknowledgment for their contributions. Will work closely with Passport Coordinator.

Commitment begins: January, through VBC
Pre-VBC: 20+ hours/week
During VBC: 40 hours/week
Oversees everything having to do with the Venue and the Events that happen there.

Commitment begins: March 1, through VBC
Pre-VBC: 2-4 hours/week
During VBC: Every night of VBC
Primary assistant to E&V Coordinator. Responsible for the logistical aspects of the evening events. This includes directing a set/up breakdown crew, ticket/door people, stage crew, communicating with Event Design committee (attending the meetings) and coordinating with the Performer Coordinator. Since this requires you to be around in the evening, you don’t need to be available during the day for this role (so if you work during the day, you could easily accomplish this role). The time commitment would be 5-7 hours for the next two months, and then more during the event. So if you have good people skills and love to organize/multitask, we want you!

Commitment begins: As soon as we have a venue.
Pre-VBC (through April): 5-10 hours/week
May through VBC: 20 hours/week
Responsible for building the structures (stage, kitchen, etc.) within the venue.

Commitment begins: April 15, through VBC
Pre-VBC: 1-2 hours/week
During VBC: 3-5 hours/day
Hold the space and keep it safe! Coordinate the security crew and run the door at the evening events.

Commitment begins: January 15, through VBC
Pre-VBC: 7 hours/week
During VBC: 20 hours/week
This role involves coordinating the schedule of people who are performing at the evening venue. Responsibilities include scheduling bands, contacting and scheduling speakers, aiding speaker accommodations. Follow up with speakers and performers to make sure they know where to go and we know what their technical requirements when they arrive. Additional duties include making sure independent contractor forms are filled out and facilitating same night payment to performers.

Commitment begins: March 1, through VBC
Pre-VBC (until May 5th): 2 hours/week
May 5th through VBC: 40 hours/week
Coordinate with the Electricians, Plumbers, Lighting Designers, Sound Engineers, Stage Managers, the Event Design team and the Design/Build Coordinator to ensure that we have covered the technical requirements of all presenters and performers and the needs of the events. If you yourself are an electrician, your skills would be extremely valuable in this position.

Commitment begins: February 1, through VBC
Pre-VBC: 5 hours/week
During VBC: 20 hours/week
This role involves soliciting resources and helping meet the needs of evening event design. Responsible for transporting donated materials to the Venue. Must be comfortable and enthusiastic about asking for things. Will work closely with Materials & Logistics coordinator.

Commitment begins: April 1, through VBC
Pre-VBC: 5 hours/week
During VBC: 5-10 hours/week
This person would be responsible for marketing and tracking advance ticket sales, and the role could include creation of a beautiful, desirable and difficult to duplicate ticket for this year’s VBC!

Commitment begins: April 1, through VBC
Pre-VBC: 2-4 hours/week
Organize a way for people interested in selling their artisan goods to have a presence at the VBC evening events. Attends weekly Event Design meetings.
During VBC: Every night of VBC
Collects artist market fees, assists vendors in setup and breakdown.

Commitment begins: February 1
Pre-VBC: 2-5 hours/week
During the VBC, there are several workshops daily, and we need someone to organize these! We have been soliciting suggestions from folks, and your role would be to contact potential workshop leaders, advertise for more workshop proposals, and bring their ideas to the Event Design Committee. Once the workshops are chosen, you would work with Event Design to coordinate and bring about these workshops during the convergence. This position is a good one for those of you who aren’t yet willing to sign your life away to the VBC, but want to be involved in the planning process.
Clarify VBC7 needs for workshops, 2/07. Obtain commitments to do workshops, 3/07. Identify workshop locations and communicate workshop information to Village Builder committee, 4/07.

Commitment begins: March 1
Pre-VBC: 2-5 hours/week
Responsible for telling the story of what is happening at each evening event, this person complies information about all performers and speakers at the venue and creates press releases for the evening events. Attend both Event Design and Publicity Meetings.

Commitment begins: March
Pre-VBC: 2 hours/week
During VBC: One night of VBC
Coordinate with fundraising coordinator to create in-kind donation letters for soliciting donations. Activate VBC core and volunteers to each ask a handful (2-3) business, friends, service providers etc. to donate some item or service to the auction. Pcik up and drop-off of auction items prior to auction night. Create and help activate distribution of a promotional flyer about the auction and some of the ‘hot’ items that will be auctioned off the night of (including larger poster size version of same info to be displayed at the venue on nights leading up to auction night). Create signage and display for each item that describes and or highlights value etc. Coordinate with the venue coordinator for auction display at the venue. Set-up auction display at the venue on the day-of. Coordinate announcement of auction items from stage. Coordinate any clean-up and/or helping to match items with auction winners and collect payment for items.

Commitment begins: March 15, through VBC
Pre-VBC: 2-4 hours/week
During VBC: 2-4 hours/week
Solicit Artists to hang their work in the VBC gallery. Curate art to be displayed in venue. Will attend weekly Event Design meetings to report and check in. Venue location will determine scope of gallery.

Commitment begins: April 1, through VBC
Pre-VBC (through May 8): 2-4 hours/week
May 8 through VBC: 15 hours/week
Love kids? So do we! Help plan fun evening activities for children, so parents can come and enjoy the evening events. Also help sites plan daytime kids’ activities (aka babysitting, or kid swap), enabling out of town parents to have some time to work on a project or help out at the venue, and to plan kid friendly building days, and days for schools to come and help out. During the VBC, schedule volunteer shifts and attend most evening events. It takes a village...

Commitment begins: January 1, through June
Pre-VBC: 5-10 hours/week
During VBC: Every evening of VBC
There are two components to this position, so it could be split into two positions which would work closely with each other.
Sponsorship: Contact potential sponsors and provide information about how VBC will help them achieve their mission. Identify how they will contribute to VBC and what they need in return. Identify and coordinate any role sponsor representatives will play in VBC. Ensure proper acknowledgment is given to sponsors. Ideally initiate contact with sponsors in February with a firm sponsorship commitment by the end of April, in time for publication of Village Builder. Delivery of sponsors’ support, in May. Report to Fundraising, Finance & Grants committee
Tabling: Find people to table for the Village Building Convergence. The tablers might include sustainable businesses, sponsors of the Convergence, tablers from Earth Day, and local businesses. Report to Event & Venue Design committee.

Commitment begins: May
Pre-VBC: 1-2 hours/week
During VBC: Every evening of VBC
Man the City Repair information booth! Find volunteers to do it for you! Coordinate the transport of City Repair informational paraphernalia from CRHQ to the Venue. Track sales of Placemaking Guidebooks and past Village Builders.

Commitment begins: April 15, through VBC
Pre-VBC: 1-2 hours/week
During VBC: Every evening of VBC
Help make the event venue zero-waste! Let’s make sure we can reuse/recycle/compost all surplus produced at the venue. Make sure recycling kiosks are well-placed, emptied and find other creative ways to eliminate waste. Coordinate the team that keeps the venue clean and beautiful during the week.

Commitment begins: May 15
During VBC: 6 hours/day
Want to make the whole thing possible but don’t have any time until May? Coordinate clean-up and breakdown of the event venue. This involves tracking all borrowed items at the beginning of set up and then coming back refreshed to direct the breakdown/cleanup effort.

Commitment begins: January 1, through June
Pre-VBC: 5-10 hours/week
During VBC: Every evening of VBC
There are two components to this position, so it could be split into two positions which would work closely with each other.
Sponsorship: Contact potential sponsors and provide information about how VBC will help them achieve their mission. Identify how they will contribute to VBC and what they need in return. Identify and coordinate any role sponsor representatives will play in VBC. Ensure proper acknowledgment is given to sponsors. Ideally initiate contact with sponsors in February with a firm sponsorship commitment by the end of April, in time for publication of Village Builder. Delivery of sponsors’ support, in May. Report to Fundraising, Finance & Grants committee.
Tabling: Find people to table for the Village Building Convergence. The tablers might include sustainable businesses, sponsors of the Convergence, tablers from Earth Day, and local businesses. Report to Event & Venue Design committee.

Commitment begins: March
Pre-VBC: 5 hours/week
Recycled Fashion is a hot commodity around City Repair. Last year we sold a ton of VBC T-Shirts because they were so cool. Be the one to manage all aspects of this with a team. Works directly with the Event Sales Coordinator. Solicits clothing donations from private individuals and businesses, and arrange for t-shirts to be printed with silk-screen prints.

Commitment begins: March 15, through June
Pre-VBC: 3 hours/week
During VBC: 20 hours/week
During the evening events, we’ll have VBC magnets, City Repair Clothing, T shirts, books and other items for sale. We would like to fundraise on a small scale with shirts and other stuff, plus we could get the VBC word out there on people’s backs. You would be responsible for filling shifts, managing money, and presenting the items in a boutique-style setting at the evening events.

Promote sustainable lifestyles in the VBC by coordinating and encouraging wellness practices.
Commitment begins: January 15, through VBC
Pre-VBC: 2-4 hours/week
During VBC: 10 hrs/week
This is a new position so you can use your imagination. Ideas: get massage therapists and acupuncturists to donate services to dedicated volunteers and builders, create wellness and first-aid packs for sites, organize yoga classes during VBC. Must be knowledgeable of local healing arts community.

Massage therapists, healers, yoga teachers and more – cover 4-hour shifts to receive free entry to the evening event!

Commitment begins: April 1, through end of VBC
Pre-VBC: 5-7 hours/week
During VBC: 40 hours/week
This person will be in charge of soliciting, locating, organizing, and allocating materials for the sites involved in VBC. These materials will be used for natural building, metal work, gardening, mosaics, painting, etc. We are searching for someone comfortable asking businesses and people for donations of materials. We have many people already stepping up with materials to donate, but no one to coordinate this with the needs of the sites. You would need to attend weekly Placemaking meetings. As it gets closer to the VBC, the time commitment may increase. Think of all the cool stuff you will get to collect for these sites!

Commitment Begins: March
Pre-VBC: 2-3 hours/week
During VBC: More as needed.
Seeking a responsible individual to assist in transporting materials to VBC Sites. Individual will be willing to deliver sand/clay to sites with a small 5yd dumptruck (commercial license not required), work closely with materials coordinator, track deliveries and communicate with site hosts. Driver’s license required, access to pickup truck desirable.

Commitment begins: February, through VBC
Pre-VBC: 5-7 hours/week
During VBC: 40 hours/week
Help keep track of solicitations, donations, and forms required so we can keep our non-profit status, and request donations from our sponsors and donors, clearly informing them they are tax-deductible. This role will specifically work with tracking of materials the sites need for constructing their project, and any and all donations made to the project sites specifically.

Commitment begins: March through VBC
Pre-VBC: 2-3 hours/week
During-VBC: 5-7 hours/week
Seeking an individual or two who enjoy scavenging for re-use materials and contacting organizations/businesses to re-use their waste building materials (examples: cast-off lumber from local lumber companies, excess tiles/sample tiles from tile companies for mosaics, etc.). Access to a pickup truck for pickup/deliveries and/or having an area for stockpiling materials is desirable, but not required.Commitment begins: February, through VBC

Commitment begins: May 1, through VBC
Pre-VBC: 5-10 hours/week
During VBC: 30 hours/week
During VBC we will have teams of people going to the sites to help out with on-the-spot carpentry needs, building needs, material needs, etc. We also need people to help move materials (including dirt, sand and clay) and provide muscle power to the sites. This can also include other logistical needs of the sites.

Commitment begins: April 1, through VBC
Pre-VBC: 2-4 hours/week
During VBC: 10 hours/week
Do you get fired up about Biodiesel, bikes, and other forms of transportation? We need a person to find alternative ways to shuttle volunteers and materials around the sites in the VBC for 10 days. In the past cycling co-ops have lent out bikes to be used during the event. Help up find alternatives to gas-fueled vehicles for this year’s Village Building Convergence!

Seeking individuals who have access to a pickup truck to assist delivering loads of materials to VBC sites during the late Apr to late May time frame. This could include activities such as loading, transporting and unloading urbanite to a VBC site, picking up donated materials from a business, etc. Hard-core alternate transportation/bicycle supporters with bike trailers and/or cargo bikes willing to transport materials very locally by bicycle trailer are highly desired; participation in or willingness to setup a bike caravan or two to support a site would be great.

Plan and provide nourishment for all the wonderful builders and placemakers with nightly dinners!
Commitment begins: February 1, through VBC
Pre-VBC: 15+ hours/week
Begin planning menu and calculating recipes based on registration numbers. Solicit donations from grocers and elsewhere with help from food donations coordinator. Holding outreach meetings for food prep volunteers.
During VBC: 40 hours/week
Oversee all meals served for VBC including prep, serving, dishwashing and clean-up. Approve volunteer work trade hours for kitchen work. Also arrange for leftovers and extras to be distributed to sites for lunch via Logistics. Manage kitchen, donations, volunteers, and menu.
Post VBC: Thanks yous

Commitment begins: March 15, through VBC
Pre-VBC: 10+ hours/week
Ensures that donation needs for Nourishment are filled. Coordinates other volunteers to solicit and pick up donations. Thanks food donors. Supports the Nourishment Coordinator role.
During VBC: 20 hours/week
Pick up produce, donated food, run errands, help provide support in kitchen.

Commitment begins: March 15, through VBC
Pre-VBC: 3 hours/week
During VBC: 8-15 hours/week
If you have experience and enjoy running a kitchen, this is the position for you! Coordinate one or more nights of menu planning/food preparation during the VBC. Communicate with Food Donations Coordinator to calculate recipes and choose ingredients. Communicate with Nourishment Coordinator for volunteer needs. Choose a theme for your night(s) if you wish.

Commitment begins: April
Pre-VBC: 10 hours/week
During VBC: Every night of VBC
Spend the weeks leading up to the VBC baking yummy goodies, and then the week of VBC nourishing the populace by === selling these goodies at the venue every night.

Commitment begins: March 15, through May 15
Pre-VBC: 5-10 hours/week
These people coordinate with VBC sites to host dinners as fundraising efforts, throughout April and May. This is a great way to get to know the sites and lots of amazing people in the community early on. Will attend weekly Placemaking meetings as well as Nourishment meetings. Special fieldtrips to site locations may be necessary and fun.

Commitment begins: April 1, through July
Pre-VBC: 10+ hours per work party
Coordinate food for pre-VBC work parties to keep our volunteers and builders fed! Responsible for soliciting donations, finding volunteers to help with food prep, and transporting the food to the work party. Works closely with the Work Party Coordinator and the Food Donations Coordinator.

Cooks, Dishwashers, Servers, Food Runners. Fill 4-hour shifts during VBC for worktrade or free entry.

Commitment begins: February 1, through VBC
Pre-VBC: 6-8 hours/week
During VBC: 20+ hours/week
The Gaian Coordinator is the touchstone for all things landscape & permaculture during VBC. You compile contact lists, meeting minutes, attend weekly Placemaking meetings, seek out partnerships with allied organizations, and field lots of emails from eager volunteers.

Commitment begins: February
Pre-VBC: 4 hours/week
During VBC: 30+ hours/week
Designers work closely with site hosts and participants to facilitate the overall design process and implement permaculture ideals in VBC sites. This includes providing feedback and ideas, fielding questions, and attending weekly meetings. Permaculture Design Certification is ideal, but not required.

Commitment begins: February
Pre-VBC: 4 hours/week
During VBC: 30+ hours/week
Assist the Designers (see above.)

Commitment begins: Late February
Pre-VBC: 2 hours/week
During VBC: 10+ hours/week
Find potential workshop leaders, schedule and manage the on-site permaculture workshops, will work closely with the Venue Workshop Coordinator, the Placemaking Workshop Coordinator and Workshop leaders, responsible for creating and submitting the workshop descriptions to the Village Builder.

Commitment begins: March, through mid-May
Pre-VBC: 15 hours/week
During VBC: 15 hours/week
We need you to find and organize artists, designers, engineers and experts (these are Site Designers and Consultants – see description below) who are willing to donate their time to design, engineer and consult on the project. Be the person to network with local organizations, schools and businesses to see who is interested in offering assistance and then plug them in to the various sites.

Commitment begins: March
Pre-VBC: 10 hours/week
During VBC: 25 hours/week
There are a lot of people who want to help work at sites and plan the Placemaking program. Help support the Placemaking team manage all these wonderful people by working with the site hosts to fill their needs for hands-on help.

Commitment begins: February 1, on-call through end of May and into summer
Pre-VBC: on-call
During VBC: on-call
For those of you with expertise in facilitation, we need you now! As neighborhood hosts begin the process of contacting and talking with their neighbors, they will need some training in consensus forming and facilitation. Later on they may need a professional facilitator as the occasion arises. This responsibility correlates with neighborhood preparation meetings and the resolution of citizen concerns.

Commitment begins: February 1, through May
Pre-VBC: 5-10 hours/week
Artists, Architects, Planners, Designers and Engineers needed to help community visionaries and neighborhood leaders put their plan onto paper and into action. You’ll be attending neighborhood design charettes and offer guidance and ideas on the nuts and bolts of design. If you are ready to really make a difference and create the unique, please join in the fun. Please drop into the weekly Placemaking meetings.

Commitment begins: February 1, through August 1
Pre-VBC: 5 hours/week
This person will be the liaison between the neighborhood hosts/sites and the larger VBC community. You need to be able to attend neighborhood site meetings, potlucks etc. You will be collaborating with a natural building coordinator and other folks who will oversee designs, natural building techniques, and code stuff. You will be trained in or may already have experience in facilitation and the consensus process. You will be a helping hand to the neighbors as they go through the process of creating community in their area. And we will help you with this too! If you would like experience in natural building, permaculture, community building, and facilitation, this is a good way to get involved!

Commitment begins: January 1, through June
Pre-VBC: 2-4 hours/week
Work with sites to obtain permits, and be the general government liaison. Experience with bureaucracy a plus. You will learn tons in doing this. Plan to work with the following: Department of Transportation, Office of Sustainable Development, Parks & Recreation, Office of Neighborhood Involvement. Attends weekly Placemaking meetings and each three of the PDOT meetings held with the City of Portland. Assists site hosts in understanding permit fees, how to arrange a blockparty. Must become familiar with the Intersection Repair Ordinance City Repair has with the City, and rules and regulations associated.

Commitment begins: February 1, through VBC
Pre-VBC: 10-15 hours/week
During VBC: 20 hours/week
Help the sites figure out what their 10-day timeline will be, and develop potential workshops that could occur at sites, or on an off-site location. Help find speakers for evening events based on the thematic theme of placemaking. Responsible for creating and submitting the workshop descriptions to the Village Builder. Work closely with the Venue Workshop Coordinator and the Permaculture Workshop Coordinator.

General labor: help with landscaping, driving materials around, propagation, assisting workshops, etc.

Commitment begins: November 1, through VBC
Pre-VBC: 5-10 hours/week
During VBC: 20+ hours/week
Publicity would like one or two more people to help coordinate flyering, send out press releases, and pick up the smaller but necessary tasks that need to be done on a timely basis. No experience necessary, only positive enthusiasm. Tell the story of VBC to the world!

Commitment begins: Fall
Pre-VBC: 5-10 hours/week
During VBC: 20+ hours/week
Writers are needed for press releases and articles for on-line and print distribution, media distribution via the Internet, list serves, web calendars; Graphic Artists are need for layout for artwork, poster and fliers; and Flier/Poster Distributors to distribute posters and flyers!

Commitment begins: March 1
Pre-VBC: 2-5 hours/week
Responsible for telling the story of what is happening at each evening event, this person complies information about all performers and speakers at the venue and creates press releases for the evening events. Attend both Event Design and Publicity Meetings.

Commitment begins: April, through VBC
Pre-VBC: 5-10 hours/week
During VBC: 20+ hours/week
This person would be responsible for doing the research, setting up and monitoring a webcast of the evening events and speakers which happen at the venue so that people beyond Portland (indeed, the whole world!) can know what is happening at the VBC. Committment to attending evening events and getting the webcast up the following day needed.

Commitment begins: February 1, through early May
Pre-VBC: 5-15 hours/week
We are creating a written guide to the VBC, the Village Builder, which promises to be astounding and brilliant! You will be responsible for organizing the Village Builder Team, compiling all submissions, and getting everything to the printers on time. Also need to solicit local, relevant businesses to sponsor and/or advertise in the Village Builder.

Commitment begins: February 15
Pre-VBC: 5 hours/week
Graphic Designer and Writers, and Publishers: If you have experience making zines or other publications (or if you don’t and are just excited by the project) we need you to plug into creating the annual Village Builder. This will be a written guide to the Convergence in May, and will have maps, resources, history, art, poetry, and much more in it! This is a fun and exciting role that needs help now!

Commitment begins: February 1, through VBC
Pre-VBC: 5 hours/week
During VBC: 10+ hours/week
Document the process of the Convergence at all of the sites, before, during, and after building begins and finishes. Also, this committee will be working to document all the documents! Meaning, we want to archive our creations of flyers, forms, processes, etc. If you have interest or skills in this area, let us know. Photographers and videographers are also needed.
Post-VBC: 5-10 hours/week

Commitment begins: January 1, through VBC
Pre-VBC: 15 hours/week
Manage content updates to the website, work with committee coordinators, works closely with VBC Core, Publicity Committee, and City Repair technology Coordinator, assigns/manages emails for volunteers and coordinators, uploads emails and manages listserves.

Commitment begins: February 1, through VBC
Pre-VBC: 1 hour/week on average, but will come in spurts of busyness
Create, update and manage the VBC Wiki, administration, list serves, field tech questions/problems.

Manage the most important part of VBC – the people!
Commitment begins: January 1, through June
Pre-VBC: 10-15 hours/week
Create and maintain volunteer packets, applications, and contact lists; interview and orient new volunteers; places volunteers in appropriate roles or committees; participate in monthly City Repair volunteer orientations; create weekly list of volunteer needs, attend weekly VBC Core meetings: provide support to committee coordinators; and answer general questions about VBC. This position works closely with the City Repair Volunteer Coordinator, VBC Coordinator, and VBC committee coordinators, and oversees the Registration, Housing, Worktrade, and Workparty process. The Registration and Housing Coordinator positions will be filled (see below for descriptions) by two other individuals as the VBC draws nearer. A final volunteer orientation called People Power! is arranged and held a few weeks before VBC.
During VBC: 25+ hours/week
Oversees the Registration, Housing and Worktrade flow. Manages the Worktrade volunteers throughout the 10 days of VBC. Ensures that all project sites are getting adequate volunteer needs met. Attends most evening events to manage PeoplePower flow.
Post VBC: Create final volunteer database/contact list, work with Placemaking Coordinator to schedule summer workparties, send out thank yous.

The contact person for both in-town and out of town VBCers
Commitment begins: March 1, through June
Pre-VBC: 5 hours/week
Create registration forms. Distribute registration forms via requests and online. Arrange and organize work trade payments and cash payments. Work with Volunteer Coordinator on work trade registrants and hours to be filled. Work with Housing and Transportation Coordinator on housing and transportation arrangements.
During VBC: 25+ hours/week
Register people on arrival to VBC week, pass out badges and registration materials. Answer questions, deal with conflicts and issues about registration and work trade.
Post VBC: Ensure everyone has paid, issue refunds if necessary, send out thank yous.

Match up visitors from out-of-town with hosts
Commitment begins: March 1, through June
Pre-VBC: 2-4 hours/week
Create 2 housing forms: Housing Request forms for people who need housing and Host forms for those can host (the Housing Host commitments are from 5/18-5/29, and Hosts receive an evening pass to the event in exchange for hosting.) Then distribute the Host forms via Publicity, online, and through fliers in order to recruit and distribute the Housing Request forms via the Registration Coordinator. Review all returned forms, match them up, and distribute contact information between each match and ensure connections are made and arrangements finalized.
During VBC: 10 hours/week
Resolve last minute conflicts with alternative housing arrangements. Help with Registration process.
Post VBC: Thank yous to hosts.

Commitment begins: March, through VBC
Pre-VBC: 5 hours/week
During VBC: 25+ hours/week
Help issue passports at Registration (first weekend of VBC)
Works closely with the Registration and Education Coordinators to create and publish the entry passes for the VBC. Corresponding stamps for each project site are created to give VBC’ers an inter-community experience to write home about.

Commitment begins: April 1, through July
Pre-VBC: 20 hours per work party
Coordinate work parties for things such as helping to set up the venue and repair the cob and artwork that was done for previous VBC’s. If you would like to help with People Power, getting supplies, transporting supplies, etc. let us know. You will work with the Work Party Nourishment Coordinator.

Commitment begins: March, through June
Pre-VBC: 5 hours/week
Create sign up sheets, recruit volunteers, arrange PeoplePower! Volunteer Orientation
During VBC: 25+ hours/week
Works with VBC Coordinators to create shift sign-up sheets, assigns shifts with volunteers, checks worktrade volunteers in and out of shifts, develops PeoplePower exchange slips, tracks volunteers’ hours in a workbook log, maintains contact lists of PeoplePower volunteers.
Post VBC: send out volunteer appreciation thank yous

Housing hosts, data entry, phone calling, printing and more.