Take Steps Walk 2016 - Rochester, NY

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Take Steps Rochester will be held at Monroe Community College on Saturday, September 17, 2016. This is a Walk event with food, games, entertainment and informational tables for about 300 participants. There is a large festival celebration to kick-off the actual walk. We need help with set up, event day activities and clean up. We ask that volunteers work a minimum 4 hour shift.

• Estimated Ask for Volunteers: 50 people
• Set-up 11:00 AM - 3:30 PM
• Festival 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
• Walk Route & Spirit Crew 5:00 PM-7:00 PM
• Event Breakdown 7:30 PM-8:00 PM

*Times and responsibilities subject to change.

Set-up - 11:00 AM-5:00 PM

• Aide with unloading the supplies and materials
• Arrange boxes in proper tents/area & position barricades around event
• Aide with set-up & decorating for event
• Arrange balloons, hang banners, set-up tables and other decorations
• Assist hanging event signage
• Set-up display materials in information tents
• Assist vendors get their materials and tents set-up
• Troubleshoot festival kick-off to ensure all set-up is complete

Festival - 3:30 PM-5:00 PM

Arrive before festival kick-off to learn layout and get into assigned activity which can include:

• Assist with KID ZONE
• Monitor and facilitate children activities including face painting, spin art, a bounce house and various other activities
• Assist at the banner & sign making tent
• Act as "walk route guides" along the walk route cheering and guiding walkers along the way!
• Help distribute T-shirts and incentives
• Help distribute food in food tent
• Help distribute informational materials from Mission Tent
• Help usher participants from Registration/Check-in Tent into the festival
• Mediate the GI Doctor Tent with visitors and questions

Walk Route & Spirit Crew - 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Event Breakdown - 8:00 PM-9:30 PM

Upon arrival, you will be helping to aid in wrapping-up the activities of the festival.

• Once all participants leave for the Walk, all stations begin to get broken down
• Rented tables, chairs, etc need to be grouped together for pick-up.
• Bins, boxes and materials need to be loaded into rental truck.
• All signs, balloons, trash need to be collected and properly either packed or thrown away.
• Leftover food must be ushered to the front table for distribution to returning walkers and then after the last participant returns the food will be the last thing loaded into the truck for delivery.
• There will be a separate finish line area - participants begin to return back from the walk route around and your purpose will be to welcome back the walkers across the "finish-line" by cheering them on and giving them a feeling of team "spirit!"

You can sign up for one or all of the available times!

Please contact Carolyn Romanski at cromanski@ccfa.org or call 904-307-4494 to sign up.

"Take Steps for Crohn’s & Colitis" is CCFA’s largest fundraising event dedicated to raising awareness and funds for the 1.6 million American adults and children affected by Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis - that’s one out of every 200 people!

In 2016, we will walk in more than 120 local communities across the country and work to raise more than $11 million to continue our critical work.