Volunteer Opportunities
LAS NEEDS OFFICERS, AND COMMITTEE CHAIRS AND MEMBERS
Education – If you'd like to volunteer to be on our Education Committee, please click here for more information. New Education Committee Co-Chairs are Linda Valle and Michal Goddard.
Hospitality - Our Hospitality Committee provides snacks for LAS’s program meetings. We welcome volunteers to help with setting up for the pre-meeting social half hour. If you are interested, please contact our current Hospitality Chairs Dave and Patty Sawyer at sawyerpd@charter.net.
Fundraising/Fall Fund Drive - We need one or more volunteers to coordinate the LAS Fall Fund Drive for 2016 and assist with mailing the Fund Drive solicitation, collating and tracking donations, and sending out thank you notes. We are always looking for volunteers with innovative ideas for other fundraising events or campaigns throughout the year. If you are interested, please contact Jacque Lowery nevadabird@charter.net.
Field Trips - Be a field trip leader for LAS to a local birding spot of your choice. Most trips are half-day trips in our area, but all-day field trips and even two-day field trips are possible. OR volunteer to assist a field trip leader on one or more field trips to register participants, coordinate the group, and assist with questions from trip participants. OR help our Field Trip Chair to coordinate with field trip leaders to get field trip reports to post on our website. If you are interested, contact Bill Grossi mary.bill@charter.net
Truckee Meadows Bird ID Classes - We hold our Bird ID Classes yearly in the spring, once a week for five weeks. We are always looking for presenters or co-presenters for one or more of the series of classes (introduction to birding, backyard birds, mountain birds, wetland birds, raptors, or the field trip). Coordinator for the classes, Is Linda Valle lindasvalle@gmail.com
Volunteer Coordinator - We need someone with great organizations skills to compile information on volunteers and connect them to the appropriate Committee Chair or Board member. The Volunteer Coordinator would maintain a database of volunteers, their contact information, and volunteer interests and/or skills. If you want to volunteer for this rewarding position, please contact Linda Valle, lindasvalle@gmail.com. For information about becoming a volunteer who helps make LAS the fabulous organization it is, click here.
Communications Committee - The LAS Communications Chair oversees the LAS email notification list, the LAS website and Facebook page, and publicity for LAS and for LAS special events. Our current Communications Chair is stepping down in July. We would like to get a new Communications Chairperson in place as soon as possible.
As LAS has grown, the responsibilities for communications have expanded. We expect to divide the Communications Committee into three or four sub-committees. We need volunteers to head up some of the sub-committees and also help out with communications duties described below.
We need a volunteer to take over the LAS email notification list, which is used to remind members about field trips, meetings, events, and other activities.
We need volunteers to assist with publicity for LAS events and functions, and to coordinate spokespeople for LAS when the media requests comment. Duties would include coordinating with newspaper columnists for the local newspapers and with local television and radio reporters to publicize our Bird Identification Classes, LAS educational events, and other LAS activities and special events.
Please, if you are interested in chairing the Communications Committee, heading up a sub-committee, or volunteering for specific jobs on a subcommittee, contact Kathy Oakes at oakesy@sbcglobal.net.
Hospitality - Our Hospitality Committee provides snacks for LAS’s program meetings. We welcome volunteers to help with setting up for the pre-meeting social half hour. If you are interested, please contact our current Hospitality Chairs Dave and Patty Sawyer at sawyerpd@charter.net.
Fundraising/Fall Fund Drive - We need one or more volunteers to coordinate the LAS Fall Fund Drive for 2016 and assist with mailing the Fund Drive solicitation, collating and tracking donations, and sending out thank you notes. We are always looking for volunteers with innovative ideas for other fundraising events or campaigns throughout the year. If you are interested, please contact Jacque Lowery nevadabird@charter.net.
Field Trips - Be a field trip leader for LAS to a local birding spot of your choice. Most trips are half-day trips in our area, but all-day field trips and even two-day field trips are possible. OR volunteer to assist a field trip leader on one or more field trips to register participants, coordinate the group, and assist with questions from trip participants. OR help our Field Trip Chair to coordinate with field trip leaders to get field trip reports to post on our website. If you are interested, contact Bill Grossi mary.bill@charter.net
Truckee Meadows Bird ID Classes - We hold our Bird ID Classes yearly in the spring, once a week for five weeks. We are always looking for presenters or co-presenters for one or more of the series of classes (introduction to birding, backyard birds, mountain birds, wetland birds, raptors, or the field trip). Coordinator for the classes, Is Linda Valle lindasvalle@gmail.com
Volunteer Coordinator - We need someone with great organizations skills to compile information on volunteers and connect them to the appropriate Committee Chair or Board member. The Volunteer Coordinator would maintain a database of volunteers, their contact information, and volunteer interests and/or skills. If you want to volunteer for this rewarding position, please contact Linda Valle, lindasvalle@gmail.com. For information about becoming a volunteer who helps make LAS the fabulous organization it is, click here.
Communications Committee - The LAS Communications Chair oversees the LAS email notification list, the LAS website and Facebook page, and publicity for LAS and for LAS special events. Our current Communications Chair is stepping down in July. We would like to get a new Communications Chairperson in place as soon as possible.
As LAS has grown, the responsibilities for communications have expanded. We expect to divide the Communications Committee into three or four sub-committees. We need volunteers to head up some of the sub-committees and also help out with communications duties described below.
We need a volunteer to take over the LAS email notification list, which is used to remind members about field trips, meetings, events, and other activities.
We need volunteers to assist with publicity for LAS events and functions, and to coordinate spokespeople for LAS when the media requests comment. Duties would include coordinating with newspaper columnists for the local newspapers and with local television and radio reporters to publicize our Bird Identification Classes, LAS educational events, and other LAS activities and special events.
Please, if you are interested in chairing the Communications Committee, heading up a sub-committee, or volunteering for specific jobs on a subcommittee, contact Kathy Oakes at oakesy@sbcglobal.net.
Truckee Meadows Parks Foundation
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Garden of Speakers
Join our "Garden of Speakers" at Metropolitan Gardens. LAS has teamed up with Catholic Charities of Reno to provide senior education and outreach for the residents of Metropolitan Gardens, an apartment complex for Seniors just south of UNR. Residents of the Gardens are all over 60 (some even in their 90’s). They have been looking for some kind of intellectual stimulation beyond just monthly bingo, so Alan Gubanich is coordinating it! The response has been remarkable and the program has taken off. The residents are inquisitive, actively participate with the speakers, and are just plain fun to be with.
Many more engaging presentations are scheduled--if you want to join in, these fun talks can be found on our calendar! LAS would love to have you participate--maybe even offer a presentation yourself some day on a topic you think the Seniors would enjoy. They all say they want to learn more about Nevada and Reno, since most have moved here from out of state. Come join us during one of the talks and meet the folks. Contact Alan Gubanich if you want more information. Metropolitan Gardens is located at 325 East 7th Street, between Record Street and Evans, just south of the UNR campus and on the south side of I-80.
Many more engaging presentations are scheduled--if you want to join in, these fun talks can be found on our calendar! LAS would love to have you participate--maybe even offer a presentation yourself some day on a topic you think the Seniors would enjoy. They all say they want to learn more about Nevada and Reno, since most have moved here from out of state. Come join us during one of the talks and meet the folks. Contact Alan Gubanich if you want more information. Metropolitan Gardens is located at 325 East 7th Street, between Record Street and Evans, just south of the UNR campus and on the south side of I-80.
