Greater Hartford Take Steps for Crohn's & Colitis

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The Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation of American (CCFA) is seeking volunteers to assist with a variety of tasks at their upcoming Take Steps Walk. The Walk is scheduled for Sunday, May 15 at Rentschler Field in East Hartford. Volunteers are needed to assist with set-up, registration, T-shirt distribution, water stations, children’s activities, and clean-up and to serve as parking monitors, greeters, cheerleaders, and route monitors. Volunteer hours range from 7:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. depending on your assigned/chosen role(s). To volunteer, please contact Mary Kate Doherty at 203-376-4336 or mkdoherty@ccfa.org . For more information about the Greater Hartford Take Steps Walk please visit http://www.cctakesteps.org/greaterhartford2016

VOLUNTEER ASSIGNMENT DESCRIPTIONS:

Set-Up 7:30-10:00 AM

Volunteers will help set up the festival by unpacking boxes, setting up tent stations, covering tables with tablecloths, hanging banners, setting up barricade perimeter, etc.

Food Tent 8:30-1:30 PM

Manage food tent. Keep area clean and well-stocked. Use gloves. Keep water on ice.

Parking Attendant 9:30-11:30 AM

Help safely guide participants through the parking lot/garage. Help direct traffic when vendors need to unload in the festival area.

Photographer 9:30-1:30 PM

Capture images throughout the duration of the event, from set-up to clean-up. Must provide your own camera and be willing to upload to a shared site and grant use of all images to CCFA in perpetuity. A desired shot list will be provided but we also encourage creativity!

Registration Tent 9:30-12:00 noon

Check in participants in main monies tent. If you need to leave this tent for any reason, you need to get a replacement. An armed guard will be present at all times. There will be separate check-in for people pre-registered and people registering at the event.

VIP Lounge Tent 9:30-noon

This tent is reserved for individuals who have personally raised $1,000 or more! (They will receive a special bracelet which gains them access to this tent.) Manage the crowd to make sure these are the only participants entering this tent, facilitate top fundraiser photos inside the tent, and help teams to take their team pictures with the photographer directly outside the VIP tent. Mingle and troubleshoot.

Prize Drawing Area 9:30-1:00 PM

Encourage participants to purchase raffle tickets for chances to win great prizes. Monitor the prizes. Walk the festival area to drum up sales. Pull winning tickets once walkers return the festival area at the end of the walk. Work with emcee to announce winners.

Mission Tent 9:30-1:00 PM

Introduce participants to CCFA’s mission and all corresponding CCFA materials. There will be sign-up sheets in this tent for CCFA email alerts and participation in our Power of Two program. Free brochures and information on other upcoming events will be available. Answer questions and encourage people to take things home.

Camp Oasis Kid’s Tent 9:30-1:30 PM

Facilitate games, crafts and activities with children and their families.

Greeter 10:00-11:30 AM

Give a warm welcome to all participants and serve as a front-line customer service point of contact for answering questions. Help direct dignitaries to the staging area.

Banner Making Area 10:00-11:30 AM

Encourage participants to make team banners and assist them in making the banners by handing out blank banners and providing markers to decorate. Encourage teams to take a team picture in front of the VIP tent with their banner, and to walk with them.

Route Guide 11:00-12:30 PM

Cheerlead and guide participants along the walk course. Spread excitement and make noise with maracas, guiding walkers to the next turn. Route guides will leave the festival area when the speaking program gets going- around 9:45 AM to find their spot along the walk route.

Turn-Around Guide 11:00-12:30 PM

Volunteers will be positioned at the turnaround point to send walkers back to the festival area to partake in additional activities and entertainment. Hand walkers a bottle of water and congratulate them for making it halfway!

Spirit Line/ Breakdown 12:30-2:30 PM

Participants begin to return back from the walk route around 12:30 p.m. and your purpose will be to welcome back the walkers across the "finish-line" by cheering them on and giving them team "spirit"! Assist in packing up all leftover materials and clean up the area. Pack all boxes, seal with tape and stack by the registration tent. Deflate and dispose of balloons and all trash. Break down tables and chairs and stack in front of registration area.

Come for the whole day or just a couple hours!

Students are welcome and we will gladly sign community service paperwork. Chaperones required for groups of 5 or more who are under the age of 16.

To sign-up, email Mary Kate Doherty, mkdoherty@ccfa.org , and let her know your top two choices within the time frame you are available.

www.cctakesteps.org/greaterhartford2016