Events Volunteer

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Please fill out our volunteer application here: https://forms.office.com/r/rFLhjkzBss

HeartShare Human Services of New York nurtures and empowers children and adults diagnosed with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

Our events team is searching for volunteers to assist us at our annual fundraising events held across NYC. Volunteers like you are an integral part of our past events successes. These fundraising events enable HeartShare to help children and families who depend on our services. A list of some of our events and the tasks we need assistance with are listed below.

• Assist the events team with several events, ranging from small gatherings to large benefits
• Supporting the events manager with logistical and administrative support
• Helping set up and dismantle events efficiently through to completion
• Ad-hoc duties at events including, but not limited to, guest list management, showing guests to tables and taking coats

A few of our upcoming events:

• Spring Gala/Annual Benefit - Annual Gala held in March in NYC.
  • Volunteers are needed for event set up (step and repeat set up, centerpieces, etc.), guest check-in and registration, assisting guests with accessing the online platform including viewing the silent auction, helping with the live donation and collecting people’s information, assisting with check out, payment, or silent auction item distribution, clean up.
• Buckley’s-Kennedy’s 5k- Annual 5k race is held in Breezy Point, Queens every June.
  • Volunteers are needed for registration/shirt distribution on the days leading up to run.
  • Day of run - volunteers are needed for course set up, registration, set up at end-of-race festival/picnic, water distribution, shirt distribution, carnival games assistance, and clean up

• Golf Outings - We host two golf outings annually, one in Brooklyn and one in Long Island.
  • Volunteers are needed to help with registration, oversee games on the course, help with selling raffles during luncheon, as well as raffle item distribution.