# of people: 2+ people (current members).

Desired Results:

• YAGers have visible opportunities to be involved in social action and volunteer activities.
• A record of past events is kept so they can be recreated.
• YAGers who want to host social action events have people to give them encouragement and useful info/advice.
• This job aide is up to date.

• Commit for at least 4 months. Let wheel committee know in advance of desire to step down.
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• Keep in mind our mission statement and our UU principles.
• Document information or wisdom learned from doing job on this job aide

• The Wheel Group.
• The Calendar Facilitator
• List of past social action events in the calendar

• The Wheel Group.

• The social action people would probably want to organize some volunteer events, but not to the point where it becomes a chore or at times where they don't have time to do it. A big part of their role should be encouragement and support of others hosting these events and recordkeeping/documentation (see below).

• Research involved has been a big obstacle to YAG doing volunteering in the past. Ideas of records to keep
  • Places volunteered at and details including quality of experience, contact person, URL.
  • Potentially good ideas we come across, simple descriptions of the organization and what help they need, URL, etc.
  • Places we decided not to volunteering at because it was not a good match and the reason.
  • List of resources for finding volunteer ideas.
  • Come up with tips for what types of volunteer activities are popular with YAGers.

• Communicate with communication facilitators desires for content on YAG social action page info on website ideas include:
  • Information on upcoming, ongoing, past events
  • How the facilitators can help support YAGers who want to set up volunteer activities

• Boston Volunteer Fair held every September at Copley Marriott http://www.bcae.org - click on Volunteer Fair Link
• Boston Cares - a Boston area volunteer clearinghouse, produces calendar of one off volunteer events.
• http://www.volunteersolutions.com - Volunteer clearinghouse site maintained by United Way
• http://www.volunteermatch.com - Volunteer clearinghouse site
• Official City of Cambridge volunteer page.
• Cambridge Tab and other of the Tab/Chronicle papers' listings. Click link to "community calendar on the right and scroll down to "volunteer opportunities" section.
• Opportunity Nocs
• For writing to politicians, list of names/addresses: http://www.senate.gov/contacting, http://www.house.gov/writerep/, http://www.progressivesecretary.org/

When setting up a volunteer activity:

• Setting up a date and working out details often involves some back and forth emails/phone calls-it is sometimes a good idea to set up the date in a month before the related planning meeting occurs so that date can be reserved.
• Determine from volunteer organization contact a range of desired volunteers and if we need to commit to having a certain number. Keep this in mind when typing up blurb for calendar/reminder emails
• Once a date is set, contact the communication facilitators to reserve it on the calendar.

• Keep an eye out for what social action First Parish is doing. Maybe we could get involved.
• The Brookline church has a large amount of social action activities. We may be able to join them on some of theirs or learn from them.
• Be ready to describe YAG, First Parish and Unitarian Universalism to the organizations we volunteer at. We represent YAG and First Parish. Due to the small size of our religion and misunderstandings about what we are about, instances of contact with other individuals and organizations are often are cases of us representing our religion too.
• Volunteer events could involve us teaming up with other groups, inside or outside the church.