Difference between revisions of "Service Learning Volunteers"
m (Category:volunteer) |
(supervisor is now receiving staff) |
||
| Line 10: | Line 10: | ||
==Steps to becoming a service learning volunteer at Free Geek== | ==Steps to becoming a service learning volunteer at Free Geek== | ||
# '''Take our tour''': come in at noon or 6pm any Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, or Saturday. Sign up as a general volunteer at the end of the tour. You don't need an appointment for the tour, and the whole process should only take about 45 minutes. | # '''Take our tour''': come in at noon or 6pm any Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, or Saturday. Sign up as a general volunteer at the end of the tour. You don't need an appointment for the tour, and the whole process should only take about 45 minutes. | ||
| − | # '''Talk to | + | # '''Talk to the person in charge of Receiving''': He/She will be able to tell you if there's room for more service learning volunteers in our program, sign your initial paperwork, and tell you when to sign up for your volunteer shifts. You'll be volunteering with her/him most of the time, and will be the one filling out your short evaluation at the end of your volunteer term. In other words, he/she will be your Free Geek supervisor, your man with the plan, your go-to woman. |
# '''Sign up for your shift, come in and volunteer, and log your hours after every shift''': Rinse and repeat as necessary. | # '''Sign up for your shift, come in and volunteer, and log your hours after every shift''': Rinse and repeat as necessary. | ||
Revision as of 15:38, 22 March 2006
If you've arrived at this page, you probably need to do 10-20 hours of volunteer service for your school program. If this sounds just about right, read on. If not, send an email to volunteer[at]freegeek.org with your needs.
Some general info
Just to let you know, we only take 10 service learning volunteers at any one time. So you might not be able to do your hours here. Sorry if we can't accommodate you, but we can only do so much. You're always welcome to join our ranks as a regular volunteer, but then we couldn't fill out any paperwork on you. No initial signing of agreements or super-short evaluations of your performance. Sorry.
If you're hoping to learn to build computers with us, or become a Linux geek, you're welcome to: it will take 60-80 hours of your time to do this, though. We call it the Build Program, and we ask our build volunteers to take the time to learn about hardware and software and troubleshooting and build 5 or more boxes for us. As you might guess, this takes time. Ask your tourguide about this (see below) if you're interested.
If you come here as a service learning volunteer, you'll disassemble computers, receive equipment donations from individuals, move stuff to where it needs to go within the building, and/or do some basic data entry. All of these tasks help us reuse and recycle computer hardware, and are important to us!
Steps to becoming a service learning volunteer at Free Geek
- Take our tour: come in at noon or 6pm any Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, or Saturday. Sign up as a general volunteer at the end of the tour. You don't need an appointment for the tour, and the whole process should only take about 45 minutes.
- Talk to the person in charge of Receiving: He/She will be able to tell you if there's room for more service learning volunteers in our program, sign your initial paperwork, and tell you when to sign up for your volunteer shifts. You'll be volunteering with her/him most of the time, and will be the one filling out your short evaluation at the end of your volunteer term. In other words, he/she will be your Free Geek supervisor, your man with the plan, your go-to woman.
- Sign up for your shift, come in and volunteer, and log your hours after every shift: Rinse and repeat as necessary.
Pretty simple, huh? I hope you have a great time volunteering at Free Geek. If you have any other questions, feel free to send an email to volunteer[at]freegeek.org.
Shawn
Volunteer Program Coordinator
Free Geek
http://www.freegeek.org