Midwest Pages to Prisoners Volunteer Call-Out Meeting
Thursday, September 7 - 7PM
at the Midwest Pages to Prisoners Project Space (310 A
S. Washington St., next to Boxcar Books, across from
3rd St. Park)
After a summer of inconsistent volunteer numbers, unprecedented financial stability for the project, and an overwhelming amount of book donations and prisoner book requests, we're looking to redefine and reorganize our project's volunteer goals. If you're interested in being involved behind the scenes in the Midwest Pages to Prisoners Project, please come to a meeting at the Pages space on Thursday, September 7 at 7 pm.
We need dedicated volunteers to commit to just a few hours a week to coordinate and bottom-line a number of simple tasks that are currently covered by a small number of volunteers. These might be things like handling finances, processing returned book requests, processing special requests, filling special requests, taking unwanted book donations to the recycling center, processing, sorting, and shelving donated books, selling some books on the Internet as a fundraiser, coordinating weekly package mailing at the post office, making copies of our forms and literature, staffing the space and training and coordinating new volunteers during our volunteer hours, and much more.
All of these tasks are easy to learn and volunteers responsible for these tasks are encouraged to create a system for doing these things that will help make the Midwest Pages to Prisoners Project a more sustainable, collective, and effective project. That is, we can send more books, to more people in prison, and have more fun doing it.
With the new space, and additional resources, this is a time of great potential for the Midwest Pages to Prisoners Project. With your help, we can make that potential a reality!
See you on the 7th,
Geoffrey Hing
The Midwest Pages to Prisoners Project
