VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES

Do you wish you could be more involved with the work Oregon Rural Action is doing? Do you want to be part of a tight-knit group of active community members? Here's your chance to volunteer!

Please look through the following list and contact us if you'd like to be involved as a volunteer. Also, if there's something not on this list that you'd like to contribute, please suggest it to us! This is your organization!

We also have a wish list of things we could use. If time isn't yours to give, maybe something would be... Click here to see our wish list.

If you are interested in volunteering for one of the following opportunities, please contact us at info@oregonrural.org or (541) 975-2411.

• Write an article for the newsletter
• Contribute photos to the newsletter
  
• Help prepare The Furrow for mailing

Renewal Letters

• Help prepare member renewal letters for mailing
• Call members to remind them they need to renew
  

Meeting Reporters

• Attend various community meetings regularly and report back so that we can all stay informed (e.g. commission meetings, land use planning meetings, other organizations' meetings) - great for someone already attending such meetings!
  

Office Organization

• Help to create a more workable office space (especially for displaying literature) - great if beautification, simplification, and organization are your thing!
• Cleaning the office space to make it tidy for visitors
  

Historian

• Clip newspaper articles, take photos, etc

 Annual Spaghetti Fundraiser

• Be part of the planning committee
• Help prepare the meal
• Donate ingredients

Fundraising Committee

• Help create fundraising campaign strategy

Local Meat Task Force

• Help craft campaign strategy
• Build a broad coalition
  

Sustainable Biomass Task Force

• Help craft campaign strategy
• Help refine sustainable biomass criteria
  

Issue Research

• Help research for our issue campaigns
• Collect background information
• Identify key decision-makers
• Assist in creating campaign fact sheets

Accountability Work

• Help craft campaign strategy
• Meet with public officials to hold them accountable 
  

Media Spokesperson

• Help refine campaign messages
• Represent Oregon Rural Action to media

Lobbying

• Participate in occasional "fly-ins" to Salem and/or Washington, DC to lobby on a pressing issue