VOLUNTEER PROGRAM
Meet the SOAR People Class of 2005
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Future Soar Volunteer |
We need your help. We have lots of volunteers but we do not have enough. We are short-handed in lots of areas and could certainly use you. You could commit as much or as little time as you wish. Anything that you do for us would be a help and it would be very much appreciated.
And you don't have to visit SOAR to help us. We have volunteers working hard for us that do not live in our area so they don't even come to SOAR. If you want to help SOAR we will find work that you can do in your home, wherever your home happens to be. The tasks below indicated by an asterisk do not require proximity to SOAR.
SOAR Teams
We are organized into teams to more efficiently carry out the myriad of tasks that we do. The teams that we currently have are outlined below. We would love to have you join one, or more, of them. If you would like to do so please send us an email or call us on (910) 457-6340.
Administration
Fund Raising
Publicity
Animal Health
Dog Training
Adopters
Note - Tasks denoted by an asterisk indicate those that can be done from afar
- Facility Manager
- Treasurer (currently filled)
- Writing 'Thank You' letters* (currently filled)
- Forms maintainer* (keeping all of our forms up-to-date)
- Maintaining our computer records in an Access database (currently filled)
- Answering voice mail (currently filled)
- Answering email* (currently filled)
- Develop and carry-out fund raising activities*
- Research and apply for grants*
- Develop and carry out-plans for facility improvements. *
- Mow grass
- Maintain buildings and kennels
- Webmaster * - (currently filled but help is always welcome)
- Writers* - We are writing a book of stories about SOAR and its animals. We have lots of stories and are looking for people willing to tell them. You could write some of the stories or, if you have editing and/or other professional writing experience you could edit the stories and work on integrating the individual stories into a book.
- Brochure developer* - We have a brochure that needs updating
- Newsletter developer* - We would like to publish a quarterly newsletter and need people to work on this.
- Photographer - You would take pictures of our animals for publication on our website and print media. (currently filled)
- Maintaining our animal photo board at Walmart
- Health recordkeeping - Maintain records of animal vet visits, vaccinations, etc. - Maintain a tickler so that we know when next actions are due
- Take animals to the vet
- Maintain our catterys so that they stay in sanitary condition
- Dog exercise - Primarily walking and playing with our dogs
- Human contact - Petting and brushing our animals
- Contact vets post-adoption to insure animals we've adopted already are getting proper vet attention*
- Work with our dogs to teach them better manners so that they will make better pets when they find a home
- Work at SOAR to introduce our animals to potential adopters and take applications for adoption. This is almost always on Saturdays
- Screen potential adopters by reviewing applications
- Make home visits, both pre and post adoption, to determine if the right 'fit' is likely to occur. In the case of post-adoption to insure our animals have found good homes.
