Special Events

Are good at blowing up balloons, making signs, decorating tables, or moving tables and chairs? Are you looking for a fun, creative way to make new friends and participate behind the scenes in important Habitat events?

At various times during the year, Habitat hosts one-time and annual events, such as bike rides, home tours, building blitzes, or other fundraising events. As a special events volunteer, you could help in different ways during different events.

The exact tasks involved in volunteering with a special event depend on the particular nature of the event in question. Generally speaking, however, we can use help before, during, and in some cases, after an event; and the work that is done before the event itself may take place over a span of days, weeks, or even months.

Special events volunteers must be at least 6 years old, and some tasks (such as directing traffic) are limited to older volunteers.

Here are some examples of how you might help with special events...

Each spring (sometime between March and May), we will need volunteers to work on our annual  breakfast with more than 400 friends and family of Habitat. Tasks will include: helping to plan the event, decorating, greeting people, and/or serving refreshments. (This year's breakfast is scheduled for April 29, 2008.)

In June 2008, we will have a Builders Blitz. Volunteers from different construction companies will build several houses in five days. You can set up tables, chairs, and refreshments for construction volunteers; serve meals and bottles of water; and take photographs.

In October 2008, we will have a Halloween 100 Benefit Bike Ride. You could bake cookies for the cyclists, hand out food to the cyclists, or cheer for the cyclists as they get to the finish line.

In addition, you could sing with Habitat Harmony, a diverse choir that performs occasionally at special events. And you could attend events to raise money for Habitat...and spread the word about them to other people, too!

If you would like to volunteer with such special events, please contact Roxanne Hall, Development Coordinator, at 682-0516, extension 113, or [ email ]. You can also contact Roxanne about serving on the Special Events Committee, which meets once a month to plan these events.

We at Habitat also take part in community events, for example, by having a booth at a fair or an exposition every now and then.