Matching Your Skills and Our Volunteer Needs
Check where your skills, interests, or experience meet our volunteer opportunities
Your skill, interests, or experience | Our volunteer opportunities (just examples - ask us if you don’t see a relevant application for your skills, interests, or experience) |
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Administrative | Designing and maintaining chapter records, filing necessary state and Federal documents |
Business practices – general | Developing policies and procedures, writing letters, helping with the general office work |
Graphic arts | Designing logos, signs, pamphlets, and special announcements for us |
Landscaping | Helping us to keep our grounds attractive, generate ideas for new development opportunities |
Library | Help us make our library more customer-friendly, cataloging existing documents and media |
Marketing | Help us tell the world about us |
Mechanical | Work on restoring our rolling stock and static displays as well as needs in our buildings |
Meeting people | Leading special groups, being a train conductor or brakeman, lead educational sessions for school visitors |
Project management | Lead new development projects of all kinds and sizes |
Record keeping | Help us maintain volunteer, inventory, equipment, attendance, financial records and many more |
Restoration – vehicles, structures, documents, | Help our on-going restoration work on nearly everything. |
Retail experience | Help us with ticket sales, souvenir sales, and inventory control while maintaining the best customer service possible |
Stone work | Opportunities for decorative landscaping and other stone-related work |
Strategic planning | Help us develop and refine our plans for the future |
Teaching or sharing historical events | Teaching visiting school groups or special interest groups |
Website | Helping us keep it current and relevant – maybe start a blog for visitor comments |
Wood working | Like “stonework” above, there are opportunities for decorative signs as well as working on restoring railroad cars – interior and exterior – and periodic maintenance on our building |
Working outside | Help maintain our grounds, track, and track beds |
Writing or journalism | Help us expand our newsletter to members – maybe even add one to local middle and elementary school teachers. |
What else? | You tell us what interests you and we’ll try hard to find it here |