Thank you for your interest in volunteering with us!

As a volunteer for Convalescent Aid Society, you are important to our effort to serve the community.

Time Commitment

One year is divided into four quarters. We ask all volunteers to commit to one quarter at a time. Typically, volunteer shifts are 3-4 hours long with a commitment to a least one day a week. Currently, we ask that the volunteers work no more than eight hours a week, unless given permission by management.

What CAS expects from you as a volunteer?

To bring a positive attitude
To be honest and trustworthy
To be reliable
To respect the confidentiality of all information regarding CAS clients and donors
To share your suggestions on how we may improve our programs

What you can expect from CAS?

To be treated professionally, with courtesy and respect
To treated as a valued member of CAS team
To receive the appropriate training, feedback and supervision
To work in an atmosphere that is friendly and cooperative
To be trusted with the necessary resources and information to do your duties

Volunteer Assignments

Customer Service

Answer and direct incoming phone calls
Assist new clients completing the iPad applications
Make 6-month follow-up phone calls to clients who have items on loan.
Enter relevant information in our database.
Process equipment being returned
Accept donations and provide donation receipts
Translate CAS literature into other languages
Keep literature displays well stocked with brochures and fact sheets

Community Outreach

Represent CAS at health fairs
Provide CAS literature to libraries, retirement communities, senior centers, hospitals, medical groups, etc.

Warehouse

Clean and repair durable medical equipment
Assist clients who are borrowing or returning equipment
Assist customer service staff in locating equipment ready to loan
Help keep warehouse neat and orderly

Administrative Services

Office filing for Office Manager and Volunteer Coordinators
Write and/or proof-read correspondence
Send sympathy cards to recently-deceased clients
Provide reports requested by staff using Excel spreadsheets

FileMaker Pro Database

Find and merge duplicate client files
Correct errors in capitalization, spelling and punctuation
Fix other errors (fields with missing data, incorrect addresses and zip codes, etc.)

Other

Organize historical documents
Scan historical documents
Organize original material in acid-free archival files.
Special projects to be determined

Volunteers for the Annual Event

Planning and Preparation

Volunteers are needed for the following jobs prior to the annual event:

Soliciting restaurants for food donations
Soliciting for opportunity drawing donations
Recruiting and training volunteers for the day of the annual event
Keeping track of tickets sold to individuals
Connecting with sponsors to add their guests to the ticket list
Assisting with gathering items for the day of event

Annual Event Day

Volunteers are needed for the following jobs on the day of the event

Set Up

Put out parking signs, sponsor and food posters, and directional signs
Prepare the check in area with lists of attendees, checkboards, opportunity and menu cards, nametags and pens
Prepare the opportunity drawing area with opportunity drawing items and boxes for tickets
Prepare the music/program area with microphone and amp
Put the Digital program in a player on site or set up a player for the digital program

Parking

Direct traffic to the parking site and into a parking spot
Direct attendees to the site of the Annual Event

Greeting

Stand near the entrance to the site
Greet attendees as they come to the site
Direct them to the check in tablet

Check in

Check off attendees on the list as they come in
Hand them an opportunity drawing/menu card
Show them where they can fill out a name tag
Answer question
Hand lists to Deborah at the end of the evening

Opportunity Drawing

Circulate around the party selling tickets for the Opportunity Drawing
Put half of the ticket in a corresponding box
Answer questions and sell tickets at the Opportunity Drawing table
Assist with the distribution of opportunity drawing items at the end of the evening
Give all forms to Deborah Lewis

Handraise

Watch for people who raise their hand during the program
Take the pledge form to them
Take their donation on the square or take the pledge form
Give all forms to Deborah Lewis

Clean Up

Gather all materials that were put out for the event: signs, checkboards, cards, opportunity drawing boxes and tickets, microphone and amp
Gather plates, cups and extra food and take it into the kitchen
Fold table cloths, fold and stack tables, and take down the bar