Get involved in Asha Chicago
We are actively looking for volunteers to be a part of Asha Chicago. There are various ways in which you can get involved. Asha Chicago offers opportunities to get involved in the grassroots projects we support in India as well in the process of raising the funds to support these projects.
Do not worry if you feel that you might not be able to meet the time commitment that these tasks ask for. Anyone with a desire to help out with a coordination task can help out depending on your aptitude and time availability. Asha as an organization tries to promote a volunteer spirit based on participation and not fixed roles. Every new volunteer is free to take on, define and participate in his/her role within Asha. You can pick a task which you feel you can do justice to and well, let's rock!
Fill out the Join Asha Chicago form or email us at chicago@ashanet.org.
Being a new volunteer, you can appreciate how important it is to have a new volunteer team, especially having a buddy who can guide you through the initial stages of confusion. We at Asha Chicago understand this and therefore ensure that volunteers work as teams and share tasks. For this, you have to have an open mind, an awareness of what Asha stands for and a belief in Asha's ideologies. You have to interact with new (as well as old!) volunteers and gather their feed back, build an understanding with existing volunteers and be a buddy to new volunteers and make them feel welcome to Asha.
What can I do NOW?
Helping out on Event Days:
Chicago Full Marathon Asha Charity Village Tent (need 25 more people)
- Date and Time: Sunday, 11th Oct 2009. 5am - 2pm (various shifts)
- Location: Downtown Chicago
- Duties: Managing food and other amenities at the Asha tent for the 110 Asha runners
- Click here to sign up. and we will get back to you with more information.
Chicago Full Marathon Cheering Squad (as many people as we can get)
- Date and Time: Sunday, 11th Oct 2009. 7am - 1pm
- Location: Downtown Chicago and nearby in the city
- Duties: Being a part of the cheering squad for the 110 Asha runners at the Chicago Marathon
- Click here to sign up. and we will get back to you with more information.
Helping out in the Long Run:
Networking Committee (need 2-3 people)
- Increasing awareness of Asha for Education and Team Asha in the Chicago land area by networking with other organizations and local cultural groups.
- Recruit volunteers and organize resources necessary for the event.
Electronic Marketing group for Team Asha (need 2-3 people)
- Spreading Team Asha message through emails to various groups
- Contacting other local Indian social and cultural listservs and spreading the Team Asha message to their networks.
- Web banner exchanges with other Indian websites in Chicago area.
- Explore the You tube option for web marketing
Merchandise co-ordinator
- Order and maintain Asha merchandise inventory
- Bring the merchandise to the fundraising events
Team Asha Race Day co-ordinators
- Event day co-ordination and organization for Half (Aug 10) and Full marathon (Oct 12). This includes recruiting volunteers to help with the event on the day, organizing food, tent and other supplies.
Volunteering positions open in projects
Support-a-child program
Sponsor relation
Communicates with sponsors, replying to their general queries and keeping them updated about the status of their sponsored child and provide them with electronic reports and updates. Ability to create newsletters, HTML emails, required. Graphic skills would be useful.
New sponsor assignment
Communicates with new sponsor applicants and assigns children from project to new sponsors. Maintains status of new applications.
Fill out the Join Asha Chicago form or email us at chicago@ashanet.org.
