Amazon Fair-Trade Craft Assistant at DelFest Music Festival
ORGANIZATION: JCP CACE cc
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The Center for Amazon Community Ecology is a non-profit organization that helps native artisans from the Peruvian Amazon to develop and market innovative handicrafts to create sustainable livelihoods. As a member of the Fair Trade Federation, we pay our artisan fairly and promptly and dedicate 20% of our net sales to support health, education and forest conservation in our partner communities.
We have a great opportunity to sell a wide range of hand-made Amazon crafts in our Amazon Forest Store roadshow at DelFest (http://delfest.com) - a major bluegrass music festival held at the Alleghany County Fairgrounds in Cumberland, MD from Thursday, May 24 through Sunday, May 27.
We need energetic volunteers to help us at this fun and music filled event on one or more days. We most need people to help set up the booth on Wednesday, May 23 as well to pack up the booth when the festival ends on Sunday night (May 27). We would also like help from enthusiastic volunteers to be Amazon Ambassadors to help us sell crafts and welcome booth visitors to check out our videos and engage with our Amazon education activities during the festival. Dates, times and tasks are listed below. We have one or two extra vendor passes we can share with volunteers who help us for several days before and/or during the festival. All volunteers who help us for eight hours or more will get a 20% discount on merchandise at our booth and a free Amazon Forest Store baseball cap as a gesture of our appreciation.
1. Wednesday,May 23: Set up the tent, display materials and crafts at the CACE booth: 11 am - 6 pm. Need 1to 2 volunteers for these critical set-up tasks.
2) Thursday, May 24: Morning - early afternoon. Continue setting up if needed. Afternoon: Help with sales from 4 pm to 10 pm.
3) Friday, May 25: 10 am to 10 pm. Welcome visitors to the booth and help sell crafts. 1 person needed per 6 to 8 hours when booth open. Flexible breaks to listen to music.
4) Saturday, May 26: 10 am to 10 pm. Welcome visitors to the booth and help sell crafts. 1 person needed per 6 to 8 hours when booth open. Flexible breaks to listen to music.
5) Sunday, May 27: 10 am to 2 pm. Welcome visitors to the booth and help sell crafts. 1 person needed per 6 to 8 hours when booth open. Flexible breaks to listen to music.
6) Sunday, May 27: 2 pm to 5 pm. Help pack up the crafts, display materials and tent. 2 people needed to help pack up.
For more information about CACE visit our website at www.AmazonEcology.org. Visit our online store at: www.AmazonForestStore.org.
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About JCP CACE cc
Location:
1200 Market St., PMB# 285, Lemoyne, PA 17043, US
Mission Statement
The mission of the Center for Amazon Community Ecology is to promote the understanding, conservation and sustainable development of human and other biological communities in the Amazon region. Our three strategies are research, community support and education. One of our main goals is to study the ecology and develop the sustainable harvest and marketing of non-timber forest products such as fruits, fibers, resins, and oils. We also work with indigenous and other forest peoples to sustain local resources and support their communities.
Description
The main strategies for achieving our goals are research, community support, and education. This will include investigating the ecology and sustainable harvest of non-timber forest products (like resins, fruits and fibers) and assisting indigenous and other forest-based communities to manage and market them to support local development and conservation. This will require reaching out to and connecting many people and communities in the Amazon and abroad. CACE is a member of the Fair Trade Federation.
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
Alleghany County Fairgrounds11400 Moss Ave,Cumberland, MD 21502
DATE POSTED
May 5, 2018
SKILLS
- Exhibition Arts
- Event Planning / Management
- Marketing & Communications (Mar/Com)
- Public Relations
- Sales Marketing
- Customer Service
GOOD FOR
N/A
REQUIREMENTS
- Help for 6 hours per day; priority 5/23 and 5/27
- For setup/take down: reasonable strength and aesthetic sense; for sales: outgoing personality