VOLUNTEER
OPPORTUNITIES
1. Attend meetings regularly.
2. Bring a guest to a meeting.
3. Give the Executive Committee feedback on programs, ideas, locations for meetings, etc.
4. Help with the local section web site. (See Joyce Yeager or Eric Branson)
5. Volunteer for Kids in Chemistry. (See Doris Davis)
a.) Train for giving demonstrations to kids’ groups
b.) Give demonstrations to kids at schools
c.) Participate in the Saturday Academy activity during National Chemistry Week.
6. Volunteer for National Chemistry Week (NCW). (See Kara Jackson)
a.) Demos at local schools.
b.) Demos at organized events.
c.) Participate in activities at local museums.
d.) Help with media relations during this event.
e.) Help document the events of this week by taking pictures of the events, helping with the paperwork for documenting these events, etc.
f.) Help organize events during the week.
g.) Spread the word to co-workers, bosses, friends and family during NCW that Chemistry is positive and beneficial to our society and inform them about the ACS.
7. Volunteer for Industry Outreach: (See Russ Johnson, Joyce Yeager or Abby Parrill)
a.) Call members in local industries.
b.) Give presentations to local industries.
c.) Inform your company about ACS and ask them for support of their employees for payment of membership, active involvement of going to meetings, and super-active involvement of giving time out of work for demonstrations, etc.
d.) Let your company know how they can get involved (sponsorship opportunities for meetings, NCW, etc.) and how this would benefit them (media coverage, networking, community exposure, etc.).
8. Volunteers for Membership Participation (See Russ Johnson or Joyce Yeager)
a.) Call other members to solicit their participation in the local section.
b.) Call other members for their e-mail address for more timely reminders of meetings, etc.
c.) Call other members for volunteering for any of these ideas.
d.) Volunteer to head up a Membership Committee
e.) Greet new members—call up new members to welcome them, answer any questions they might have and personally invite them to a meeting. Greet new members at a meeting.
9. Volunteer to start any new programs or committees for the Memphis local section. Possible suggestions are: Project SEED (minority student coop situation), Minority Affairs, Women’s Committee and Young Chemists’ Committee. (See Russ Johnson)
10. Help to plan and/or organize the Southeast/Southwest Regional Meeting that our section will host in 2005. It’s closer than you think! (See Russ Johnson or Abby Parrill)
11. Volunteer in Governmental Affairs
a.) Join the ACS Legislative Action Network by sending your name, email and ACS membership # to grassroots@acs.org. You will receive monthly updates on science issues in the legislative process related to science education, R&D funding, the environment, etc.
b.) Learn more about your federal legislators and key science issues currently under debate at http://congress.nw.dc.us/chemical.
c.) Sign up to be the Governmental Affairs coordinator for the Memphis Section. (See Russ Johnson)
12. Help a local student affiliate group keep organized.
a.) Suggest ways the students can help with the local section activities
b.) Host a student affiliate group at your work or arrange to go to their school and answer questions about the job market, working in industry or academia, etc.
13. Help find local talent to give a lecture for a regular meeting. (See Russ Johnson, Abby Parrill or the Program Committee)
14. Help find local talent to nominate for local section elected positions. (See Russ Johnson)
15. Volunteer for visits to local museums to promote Chemistry and the ACS. (See Kara Jackson or Doris Davis)
16. Accept a nomination to be on the Executive Committee of the Memphis section. (See Abby Parrill or Russ Johnson)
17. Assist with the National Historical Landmark program—Nominations, organization of paperwork, etc. (See Kara Jackson).