Volunteer Opportunities at the North Star Museum
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Have time to spare? Looking for volunteer hours to meeting Scouting requirements? Want to help out? Fill out our volunteer survey and we'll contact you. The North Star Museum has many opportunities for you to contribute whether you can commit once a week or once a year. |
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Immediate Opportunities
Committee Memberships
Overnight at the Museum
Seeking volunteers who are excited about this innovative concept of "night at the museum" to assist with activities and set-up/tear-down of this weekend long event. This includes sleeping overnight in the museum.
Docent for a Day
Seeking volunteers to open and close the museum on Saturdays (and possible Sundays). This includes staffing the front desk, greeting visitors and giving tours.
- Membership: A lively committee focusing on increasing museum memberships.
- Development: A strategic committee that is seeking fundraising ideas, and major gift connections.
- Exhibits: A creative committee that works on the creation of exciting and engaging exhibits for the museum.
- Collections: A thoughtful committee that works on assessing artifact donations/make recommendations to the board of what we should keep.
- MarComm: Marketing/Communications committee seeks volunteers who have community connections and are savvy with ways to reach out to our community and promote the museum.
- Program: A committee that creates and executes engaging programs for the museum.
Overnight at the Museum
Seeking volunteers who are excited about this innovative concept of "night at the museum" to assist with activities and set-up/tear-down of this weekend long event. This includes sleeping overnight in the museum.
Docent for a Day
Seeking volunteers to open and close the museum on Saturdays (and possible Sundays). This includes staffing the front desk, greeting visitors and giving tours.
On-Going Opportunities
- Data Entry Specialist: Enter information about recent donations, catalogue museum collections, or membership information into a user-friendly database. Training provided.
- Exhibit Builder: Create and maintain current displays.
- Exhibit Interpreters Travel with and transport exhibits to off-site events during the year. Share your love of Scouting history with the world.
- Grant Writer: Write resource sharing proposals to individuals, corporations and foundations.
- Graphic Designer: Prepare museum publications like the Museum News and the Annual Report for publication. Contribute to exhibit designs. Experience in design and layout a must.
- Living History Interviewer: Help the museum save Scouting stories! Interview former Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, and leaders about their scouting experiences. Equipment will be provided.
- Office Assistant: Provide administrative assistance to the executive director. Tasks may include preparing bulk mailings of newsletters, fundraising material, and membership campaigns; program requests; and filing work.
- Photographer: Use your photography skills to document museum activities and events. Own equipment required.
- Writer: Write articles for the museum newsletter, copy for exhibits and promotional material.
Join the Fun
The North Star Museum is growing by leaps and bounds and we are at a critical stage of growth. Dreams, ideas and wishes are coming to fruition. We are doing more, offering more and more people know about us. That means we have had more demands for our resources. Without your help...our growth will come to a screeching halt. Please, consider one (or more!) of the many options listed above, or on this page.
These opportunities are FUN and enriching. We’d love to have you share your many talents with us! Contact 651-748-2880.
These opportunities are FUN and enriching. We’d love to have you share your many talents with us! Contact 651-748-2880.