Volunteers for Office Tasks Needed

And we’re looking for yet more folks who would like to help out in the office.  Each day, we have morning and afternoon volunteers helping with a variety of office tasks.  Some answer the phone and take requests from clients.  Some do special projects related to other organization events.  We’ve tried to think in an organized way of what tasks need to be done, and have posted a list of them on our “Volunteer Central” bulletin board. Office volunteers can read the various jobs and projects that are in search of a volunteer, and help with those that fit their interests and skills. 

Some of the items on the list of ongoing volunteer projects call for organizational skills:  assembling packets for new client home intake visits, or scheduling prospective volunteers for orientation sessions and keeping track of the related incoming paperwork.  Some jobs need computer skills: updating the log of services requested by clients, or recording the time and mileage spent by volunteers on those services.   One job uses the internet, as we order many of our supplies online these days, and could use someone’s help in getting our order put in week by week.  Some computer jobs might be done at home, and returned to the office on disk or by e-mail.

And we’ll have another important, although hopefully short-term, project soon.  We will be installing new database software, and transferring our existing records to a more capable system.  Most of that transfer will be done for us with the help of the company that created the new system, but there is always data entry clean-up to be done.   If you are computer-comfortable, we’d certainly like to know if you have any time for us.