Hardware Grants Instructor Checklist

Hardware Grants Opening Tasks
Check e-mails. Move e-mails needing attention to todo box.
Review phone messages. Return calls, send messages to interns as needed.
Review schedule for pick ups, intern hours, and appointments.
Make sure that gizmos for the day's pick ups is available.
Complete old todos from clipboard.
Check your email for "frontdesk@..." messages. Make calls & edit schedule accordingly.
Wait until just before we open (~10:50 am) to print the daily staff schedule. Color code: prebuild (pink), recycling (green), receiving (yellow) and front desk (orange).
Turn this checklist over so the rest of the team can work on the afternoon tasks that need to be done.

Volunteer Desk Closing Tasks	Initials
Put previous day's staff schedule (3-hole punch, 1st) into notebook
Put previous day's volunteer schedules (3-hole punch, 1st) into notebook
At 6:30 pm, use the telephone pager to announce that volunteers have 15 minutes to come log their hours and that Free Geek is closing
Sharpen the pencils and put pens, pencils, scissors, etc. back where they belong.
Take cups, plates, and food from front desk area to kitchen.
Put all binders back where they belong.
Turn off both computers.
Wipe coffee table; rinse coffee pot

Area Closer: ________________

Volunteer Desk Afternoon Tasks	Initials
Make reminder calls for System Evaluation.
Check to see if there are any new phone messages; return (or forward) phone calls as necessary.
Check your email for "frontesk@" messages; please respond to the list when you have addressed the issue.
Check and add printer paper if needed.
Make the afternoon batch of coffee (just do a half pot if it's a slow day).
Check filing cabinet: print Volunteer Applications, Orientation Packets, and Group Volunteering forms as needed.
Check filing cabinet: print Free Geek Brochures as needed.
Check filing cabinet: print Community Service info sheets and Volunteering for School Credit info sheets as needed.
Check filing cabinet: print Adoption and Build Info Sheets as needed.
Check coffee supplies. Send an email to Liane@freegeek.org when our supplies are low - do not wait until we are out. There is a lag time.
Tuesday afternoon: print pre-assigned groups from the wiki. Pull one weeks' worth of blank adoption schedule from the bottom drawer of the filing cabinet, and use the print-out to block out groups and one-time volunteering groups before adding to the clipboard.
Wednesday afternoon: print two weeks worth of schedule pages for: Pre-Build and Build. File them in the bottom drawer of the filing cabinet.
Thursday afternoon: print out enough Adoption Class pages (8) and Monthly Class pages for the next two weeks.
Friday afternoon: print two weeks worth of adoption schedule pages (legal-sized; kept in bottom drawer of the filing cabinet; use the manual feed tray on Volprint). Put the blank adoption schedule pages in the bottom drawer of the filing cabinet.