Our friends at Rock for A Remedy asked us to put the word out to our volunteers about a chance to help them with food drives on the current Indigo Girls tour. Info is below - a great chance to make a big impact on poverty in your community. Plus, the crew at RFAR are good people too!
From RFAR:
As you may have already heard, Indigo Girls have partnered with Rock for a Remedy for the duration of their Spring/Summer '09 tour! RFAR will be hosting food drives at each of the tour stops beginning on April 8th in Asheville, NC!
We are looking for a few good volunteers! Read on to find out how YOU can help, and in turn, see IG for free in your town!
A little background info for you all:
Rock for a Remedy, Inc (RFAR) is a non-profit organization that partners with local food relief organizations and national touring artists to both gather food/monetary donations and encourage youth and adults to better their communities through charitable efforts.
RFAR's mission is to not only alleviate hunger in North America, but to also encourage and motivate concertgoers to volunteerism
and develop sustainable altruistic participation in the music industry at large.
Audiences have passionately responded to the food drive revolution, providing now over 100 tons of food over RFAR’s six-year history.
Each food drive directly benefits the community in which the concert is held.
Here's where YOU come in!
If you are interested in volunteering in your town, please fill out this survey http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=0UGGPnI9jOjtQEFDgb7OfQ_3d_3d
An RFAR Team member will get back to you to let you know if you made the cut!
**MAY volunteers for McDonald Theatre, HOB Anaheim, Lensic, Stubb's and Tiptina! We need you!**
As an RFAR volunteer, you will be expected to help our organization collect canned food donations at the show as well as help educate fellow concert goers about hunger issues in your community. Your duties will talk place pre-show and you will be able to enjoy the concert when you're done with your assignment.
Please visit Rock for a Remedy's website to learn more about our mission! http://www.rockforaremedy.org
Monday, May 11, 2009
Thursday, March 12, 2009
Fight poverty and climate change in your community – join the Oxfam Action Corps
Our friends at Oxfam sent us a note asking us to help spread the word about their Action Corp program for this year. Deadline is fast approaching - check out the link below for more information!
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Concerned about poverty and hunger on a global scale, but not sure how to make a difference at the local level? The Oxfam Action Corps provides a way to change the big picture, starting with your local community, and we’re looking for committed people from your area to join today!
The Oxfam Action Corps is a group of dedicated volunteers in more than a dozen US cities who campaign with Oxfam in their neighborhoods, at town events, and concerts. Anyone can join! In addition, two volunteers from each city will come to Washington DC for an Oxfam training in advocacy and organizing.
The Oxfam Action Corps is based in the following cities: Albuquerque, NM; Austin, TX; Burlington, VT; Chicago, IL; Columbus, OH; Kansas City, MO; Los Angeles, CA; Miami, FL; Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN ; New York City, NY; Palo Alto/San Jose, CA; Philadelphia, PA; San Francisco, CA
To sign up, go to: http://www.oxfamactioncorps.org/oxfam_action_corps_application
The deadline to apply is Saturday, March 14.
This year, Oxfam Action Corps volunteers will mobilize around one of the greatest challenges of our time: climate change and its impact on the world’s poorest communities. While Climate change affects us all, it is having a disproportionate impact on people in poor communities. From floods in Bangladesh, droughts in Uganda, and hurricanes on the US Gulf Coast, Oxfam America is enacting solutions and calling for an equitable response to the global crisis.
Here is what previous Oxfam Action Corps organizers said:
“As an activist, I had done fundraising. But the Oxfam Action Corps was about public education and raising awareness, and I found people really appreciated my work.” Khadija, Mechanical Engineer, Pennsylvania.
“My work with the Oxfam Action Corps has helped immensely in building organizing and mobilization skills. It was a great way for me to start reaching out and getting to know the people in the community.” Julie, Assistant Human Resources/Office Manager, Colorado.
What are the ways that I can get involved?
- Apply to be a Corps organizer for your city and also become eligible to attend the Oxfam training in Washington DC. As a Corps organizer you will help convene local activities and inspire others to get involved, all with ongoing training and coaching from dedicated Oxfam staff.
- Sign up to volunteer with the Oxfam Action Corps in your city, to help out as needed with planning and participation in activities. All levels of experience are welcome!
Can you tell me more about the training?
The Oxfam Action Corps training will take place in Washington DC, April 18-21, 2009. The training is free, including your travel and related expenses. The two Corps organizers selected from each city will attend the training.
During the training you will:
- Meet amazing activists and learn from seasoned professionals in policy and campaigning.
- Learn how to engage people in your city
- Gain experience lobbying on Capitol Hill
- Prepare for a year of campaigning in your home city
Your support will be critical to promoting policies that could help lift millions of people out of poverty. You really can make a difference!
Sign up now at http://www.oxfamactioncorps.org/oxfam_action_corps_application
The deadline to apply is Saturday, March 14
Thank you for your support!
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Concerned about poverty and hunger on a global scale, but not sure how to make a difference at the local level? The Oxfam Action Corps provides a way to change the big picture, starting with your local community, and we’re looking for committed people from your area to join today!
The Oxfam Action Corps is a group of dedicated volunteers in more than a dozen US cities who campaign with Oxfam in their neighborhoods, at town events, and concerts. Anyone can join! In addition, two volunteers from each city will come to Washington DC for an Oxfam training in advocacy and organizing.
The Oxfam Action Corps is based in the following cities: Albuquerque, NM; Austin, TX; Burlington, VT; Chicago, IL; Columbus, OH; Kansas City, MO; Los Angeles, CA; Miami, FL; Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN ; New York City, NY; Palo Alto/San Jose, CA; Philadelphia, PA; San Francisco, CA
To sign up, go to: http://www.oxfamactioncorps.org/oxfam_action_corps_application
The deadline to apply is Saturday, March 14.
This year, Oxfam Action Corps volunteers will mobilize around one of the greatest challenges of our time: climate change and its impact on the world’s poorest communities. While Climate change affects us all, it is having a disproportionate impact on people in poor communities. From floods in Bangladesh, droughts in Uganda, and hurricanes on the US Gulf Coast, Oxfam America is enacting solutions and calling for an equitable response to the global crisis.
Here is what previous Oxfam Action Corps organizers said:
“As an activist, I had done fundraising. But the Oxfam Action Corps was about public education and raising awareness, and I found people really appreciated my work.” Khadija, Mechanical Engineer, Pennsylvania.
“My work with the Oxfam Action Corps has helped immensely in building organizing and mobilization skills. It was a great way for me to start reaching out and getting to know the people in the community.” Julie, Assistant Human Resources/Office Manager, Colorado.
What are the ways that I can get involved?
- Apply to be a Corps organizer for your city and also become eligible to attend the Oxfam training in Washington DC. As a Corps organizer you will help convene local activities and inspire others to get involved, all with ongoing training and coaching from dedicated Oxfam staff.
- Sign up to volunteer with the Oxfam Action Corps in your city, to help out as needed with planning and participation in activities. All levels of experience are welcome!
Can you tell me more about the training?
The Oxfam Action Corps training will take place in Washington DC, April 18-21, 2009. The training is free, including your travel and related expenses. The two Corps organizers selected from each city will attend the training.
During the training you will:
- Meet amazing activists and learn from seasoned professionals in policy and campaigning.
- Learn how to engage people in your city
- Gain experience lobbying on Capitol Hill
- Prepare for a year of campaigning in your home city
Your support will be critical to promoting policies that could help lift millions of people out of poverty. You really can make a difference!
Sign up now at http://www.oxfamactioncorps.org/oxfam_action_corps_application
The deadline to apply is Saturday, March 14
Thank you for your support!
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Coldplay
We got the opportunity to spend a few nights out with Coldplay earlier this summer, helping our our partners at Oxfam. Lokahi has really expanded the training component of our organization over this past year, and likewise we were excited to be invited by Oxfam to help train their on the ground touring team. During our nights out on the tour, we helped create
systems, volunteer trainings and other mechanisms to ensure that the field efforts over the course of the tour would maximize Oxfam's ability to engage as many fans as possible in their campaigns, encouraging them to sign up, take action, and get involved!
As always, these trainings also provided us with the bonus perk of a chance to be on the ground, working with volunteers and supporters, which is by far the most rewarding part of this work! Having ran the field efforts on the 2005 Coldplay tour for Oxfam, it was also pretty cool to see the impact our efforts made some three years on. We had a great time meeting and working with volunteers in Los Angeles and San Jose, and talking to fans about the amazing work that Oxfam is doing around the world.
You can check out our photos from the Coldplay shows here, and learn more about our training programs on our website.
Coldplay
lokahi outreach
oxfam
concert outreach
systems, volunteer trainings and other mechanisms to ensure that the field efforts over the course of the tour would maximize Oxfam's ability to engage as many fans as possible in their campaigns, encouraging them to sign up, take action, and get involved!
As always, these trainings also provided us with the bonus perk of a chance to be on the ground, working with volunteers and supporters, which is by far the most rewarding part of this work! Having ran the field efforts on the 2005 Coldplay tour for Oxfam, it was also pretty cool to see the impact our efforts made some three years on. We had a great time meeting and working with volunteers in Los Angeles and San Jose, and talking to fans about the amazing work that Oxfam is doing around the world.
You can check out our photos from the Coldplay shows here, and learn more about our training programs on our website.
Coldplay
lokahi outreach
oxfam
concert outreach
Monday, September 01, 2008
Back on the road with Warped!
Brian and I got to hit the road a few weeks back now, doing work on the California dates of the VANs Warped Tour. In addition to building support for our friends at ONE and Oxfam, we also registered voters and spread the word about our newest partner, Face AIDS, an amazing student led organization doing work to fight AIDS in Africa. Our Face AIDS volunteers in Mountain View, in fact, were quite adept at adopting the Warped Tour aesthetic, as you can see by the evidence below:
I've always loved working Warped - this was our 7th year out in some capacity - it seems to always remind me of why I got into doing this work to start with. Talking to people, especially so many young people, about these issues, and knowing that they might not have gotten informed or inspired otherwise is incredibly rewarding. I always go back to thinking about how music was what politicized me in a lot of ways, and how cool it is that someone could go to a show and literally have their life changed because they talk to one of our volunteers - as I always tell our volunteers, it might seem like what we are doing is simple, but it makes a big impact!
By the end of the week Brian and I had gotten several thousand people signed up to learn more and (hopefully!) get involved. A big thanks to all of you who came out to help, and do keep checking back here for updates and more ways you can get involved!
If you are not yet on our volunteer list, by the way, please be sure to get signed up for ways you can be involved.
Thanks!
-Brande
I've always loved working Warped - this was our 7th year out in some capacity - it seems to always remind me of why I got into doing this work to start with. Talking to people, especially so many young people, about these issues, and knowing that they might not have gotten informed or inspired otherwise is incredibly rewarding. I always go back to thinking about how music was what politicized me in a lot of ways, and how cool it is that someone could go to a show and literally have their life changed because they talk to one of our volunteers - as I always tell our volunteers, it might seem like what we are doing is simple, but it makes a big impact!
By the end of the week Brian and I had gotten several thousand people signed up to learn more and (hopefully!) get involved. A big thanks to all of you who came out to help, and do keep checking back here for updates and more ways you can get involved!
If you are not yet on our volunteer list, by the way, please be sure to get signed up for ways you can be involved.
Thanks!
-Brande
Monday, August 11, 2008
Upcoming volunteer opportunities
There are several upcoming volunteer opportunities we wanted to let you know about!
California Warped Tour Dates!
We’ll be at the following Warped Tour dates this week doing outreach for ONE, Face AIDS and a few other organizations, and still have space for volunteers to join us! Volunteers at Warped arrive at 10:30 or 11 and usually stay until about 3 or 4pm.
Warped Dates :
August 13th in Fresno
August 14th in San Diego
August 15th in Mountain View
August 16th in Sacramento
August 17th in Los Angeles
Music Builds!
The ONE Campaign is taking part in the upcoming Music Builds Tour
( http://musicbuildstour.com/ and http://www.one.org/blog/2008/08/01/music-builds-one-rocks/ for more information!) and needs volunteers to help reach out to fans and get more people involved in making poverty history. ONE will be out at all dates of the tour, and needs volunteers to arrive around 4pm at most shows.
The Music Builds dates are:
8/21 Detroit, MI
8/22 Indianapolis, IN
8/23 Chicago, IL
9/07 W Palm Beach, FL
9/11 Cleveland, OH
9/12 VA Beach, VA
9/13 Holmdel, NJ
9/14 Washington, DC
9/18 Birmingham, AL
9/19 Raleigh, NC
9/20 Atlanta, GA
9/21 Nashville, TN
9/25 Phoenix, AZ
9/26 Irvine, CA
9/27 San Diego, CA
9/28 Sacramento, CA
10/02 Dallas, TX
10/03 Houston, TX
10/04 San Antonio, TX
10/05 Oklahoma City, OK
10/10 Minneapolis, MN
10/11 Kansas City, KS
10/12 Denver, CO
Both Music Builds and Warped are unique and really rewarding opportunities to reach out to your community and help build the movement to fight extreme poverty.
To volunteer for Warped or Music Builds, send us an email ASAP, and we’ll put you in touch with the organizers of each tour. Be sure to let us know what date/tour you are interested in volunteer for.
HeadCount is still out on the road!
Our friends at HeadCount are still out on the road and need volunteers to join them in registering voters! We’ve had some AMAZING shows this past week with the Dave Matthews Band, Jack Johnson and OAR – to volunteer with HeadCount, visit their website and register as a volunteer:
www.headcount.org/volunteer.asp or email us for more info.
Thanks for your on-going support and hard work. Organizations like ONE and HeadCount couldn’t do what they do if not for the commitment and dedication of volunteers like you!
California Warped Tour Dates!
We’ll be at the following Warped Tour dates this week doing outreach for ONE, Face AIDS and a few other organizations, and still have space for volunteers to join us! Volunteers at Warped arrive at 10:30 or 11 and usually stay until about 3 or 4pm.
Warped Dates :
August 13th in Fresno
August 14th in San Diego
August 15th in Mountain View
August 16th in Sacramento
August 17th in Los Angeles
Music Builds!
The ONE Campaign is taking part in the upcoming Music Builds Tour
( http://musicbuildstour.com/ and http://www.one.org/blog/2008/08/01/music-builds-one-rocks/ for more information!) and needs volunteers to help reach out to fans and get more people involved in making poverty history. ONE will be out at all dates of the tour, and needs volunteers to arrive around 4pm at most shows.
The Music Builds dates are:
8/21 Detroit, MI
8/22 Indianapolis, IN
8/23 Chicago, IL
9/07 W Palm Beach, FL
9/11 Cleveland, OH
9/12 VA Beach, VA
9/13 Holmdel, NJ
9/14 Washington, DC
9/18 Birmingham, AL
9/19 Raleigh, NC
9/20 Atlanta, GA
9/21 Nashville, TN
9/25 Phoenix, AZ
9/26 Irvine, CA
9/27 San Diego, CA
9/28 Sacramento, CA
10/02 Dallas, TX
10/03 Houston, TX
10/04 San Antonio, TX
10/05 Oklahoma City, OK
10/10 Minneapolis, MN
10/11 Kansas City, KS
10/12 Denver, CO
Both Music Builds and Warped are unique and really rewarding opportunities to reach out to your community and help build the movement to fight extreme poverty.
To volunteer for Warped or Music Builds, send us an email ASAP, and we’ll put you in touch with the organizers of each tour. Be sure to let us know what date/tour you are interested in volunteer for.
HeadCount is still out on the road!
Our friends at HeadCount are still out on the road and need volunteers to join them in registering voters! We’ve had some AMAZING shows this past week with the Dave Matthews Band, Jack Johnson and OAR – to volunteer with HeadCount, visit their website and register as a volunteer:
www.headcount.org/volunteer.asp or email us for more info.
Thanks for your on-going support and hard work. Organizations like ONE and HeadCount couldn’t do what they do if not for the commitment and dedication of volunteers like you!
Saturday, June 14, 2008
HeadCount hits the road...
The past few weeks have been busy over at HeadCount – as part of our partnership with HeadCount, Lokahi is helping the organization organize, structure and manage their touring outreach efforts. We are very excited (and a little tired...) about the fact that HC's touring teams have hit the road in full force, getting hundreds of people registered to vote and involved with HeadCount along the way!
Erin, Ashley, Stephanie and Ethan are the HC Dave Matthews Band touring team for the first leg of the tour. They got started two weeks ago in Pittsburgh and have been braving rainstorms, heat and long drives ever since. Bad weather hasn’t gotten them down though – they’ve gotten well over a thousand people registered to vote just a few weeks into the tour and are getting more and more people involved every night! They’ll be in Hartford this weekend, and working their way to Darien Lake and Boston next week.
HC's Pearl Jam tour kicked off this week in Florida. Amanda is their touring rep, hitting the road with the band in style as a part of their touring crew! Her and her volunteer teams got the tour off to a great start in Palm Beach and Tampa, getting hundreds of PJ fans registered to vote and informed about Headcount. A big ‘register to voter with Headcount’ shout out from Eddie Vedder was also a nice bonus and unexpected surprise for us!
Also hitting the road this week was the Jack Johnson team of Nicole and Johanna. They got their tour started in Indianapolis, braving rain with their hard core volunteer crew and getting over a hundred Jack fans registered to vote on their opening night.
Joining HC's touring teams on all of these dates are local Headcount volunteers – the Team Leaders, Regional Cordinators and local volunteers, all of whom are coming out in full force and really helping to get thousands of people registered this summer.
There are lots of dates ahead of us – check back as ‘on the road updates’ will start to roll in, check out HeadCount's photos here, and be sure to sign up to volunteer if you haven’t done so yet!
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