Volunteer Newsletter

CAA Call to Action – September 19, 2017

Did we mention how amazing you are? Truly, CAA could not accomplish nearly so much without its team of dedicated volunteers. Thanks for all you do for the animals.

To everyone who volunteered at Twin Cities Veg Fest, thank you for being a part of the team and for helping to make the festival a huge success.

Our next big event is the 15th Annual Vegan Thanksgiving Potluck on Saturday, November 11. We need planning committee members for that. Sign up now!

Also, look forward to a new format for the next edition of the volunteer newsletter. That’ll go out on October 3.

Best wishes,

Justin Leaf, Communications & Events Coordinator

Volunteer Opportunities

Quick & Easy Social Media Help

Upcoming Volunteer Opportunities

For a complete list of CAA volunteer opportunities, visit the volunteer page on our website.

CAA Call to Action – September 5, 2017

It’s not too late to sign up to help out with Twin Cities Veg Fest, which is coming up on this Saturday, September 9 at Como Park.

Here are the remaining areas that need additional volunteer support:

  • Maintenance/Waste/Compost Management (10:45 – 1:30pm)
  • Maintenance/Waste/Compost Management (1:15 – 4pm)
  • Cleanup/Transport to CAA Community Space (4:45 – 7:30pm)
  • Vendor Assistant/Loading Volunteers (5 – 7pm)

Sign up now and contact Sheri Olson at volunteer@tcvegfest.com if you have questions.

Also, if you can help with loading the truck at the CAA Community Space on Friday around 2pm, please contact Laura Matanah at laura@exploreveg.org.

More information about these and other upcoming volunteer opportunities can be found below.

We hope to see you at the festival on Saturday!

Best wishes,

Justin Leaf, Communications & Events Coordinator

Volunteer Opportunities

Quick & Easy Social Media Help

  • Share about the festival on social media! Check out our Twin Cities Veg Fest Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, and use the hashtags #TCVegFest and #CelebrateCompassion when you share.

Special Events for Volunteers

Upcoming Volunteer Opportunities

For a complete list of CAA volunteer opportunities, visit the volunteer page on our website.

CAA Call to Action – August 22, 2017

Do you want to help make Twin Cities Veg Fest a zero-waste event?

Sign up now to be a part of the Twin Cities Veg Fest waste management team!

With the festival just a few weeks away, we’re doing well with volunteer recruitment but need a few more people to help with waste management.

Please consider signing up for a shift, and then share the opportunity with your environmentally minded friends. It’s a great way to get them involved in our mission too.

Other upcoming volunteer opportunities include Twin Cities Veg Fest postering and swag bag stuffing. More details below!

Best wishes,

Justin Leaf, Communications & Events Coordinator

Quick & Easy Social Media Help

  • Invite friends to Twin Cities Veg Fest using the Facebook event page. It’s less than three weeks away!
  • Share about the festival on social media! Check out our Twin Cities Veg Fest Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, and use the hashtags #tcvegfest and #CelebrateCompassion when you share.

Special Events for Volunteers

Upcoming Volunteer Opportunities

For a complete list of CAA volunteer opportunities, visit the volunteer page on our website.

CAA Call to Action – July 25, 2017

Thanks to everyone who helped leaflet at the Warped Tour on Sunday. With your help, more than 4,750 people received leaflets with information about animal agriculture and vegan food options. That’s awesome!

Now let’s keep the momentum going.

Twin Cities Veg Fest is our biggest event of the year, and together we can make it a huge success! Please sign up now to volunteer at the festival.

You can also help get the word out about the festival by joining us for one of our upcoming postering sessions. Details about those and other upcoming volunteer opportunities are listed below.

Best wishes,

Justin Leaf, Communications & Events Coordinator

Quick & Easy Social Media Help

Upcoming Volunteer Opportunities

For a complete list of CAA volunteer opportunities, visit the volunteer page on our website.

CAA Call to Action – July 11, 2017

Heads up—Twin Cities Veg Fest is just two months away! There’s many ways you can help make this year’s festival a big success.

First, we’ve just launched our Twin Cities Veg Fest fundraiser, and we need your help with getting the word out. We’re trying to raise $12,000 by August 9. The first $6,000 will be matched by a group of generous donors.

Please share this Facebook post and tell your friends what the festival means to you. Ask them to donate and be sure to give them this link: https://tinyurl.com/TCVF17.

Of course, you’re also welcome to make a contribution if you have a few dollars to to spare. Every bit helps us reach our goal.

This year as we take the festival outside to Como Park, we’re very fortunate to have an amazingly enthusiastic and dedicated planning committee led by volunteer Torie Meltzer. They’re doing an awesome job putting things together, but now we really need all of you to get involved. Here are some of the ways you can help out:

  • Support the fundraiser! Make a donation and/or encourage your friends to donate.
  • Volunteer at the festival! A list of volunteer positions and the sign-up form are coming soon.
  • RSVP and invite friends to the festival using the Facebook event page.
  • Follow us on social media and share everything about the festival.

Together, we can make our first-ever outdoor Twin Cities Veg Fest a fantastic success. And meanwhile, we’ve got a number of other upcoming events that need your volunteer support. Scroll down for all the details.

Best wishes,

Justin Leaf, Communications & Events Coordinator

Upcoming Volunteer Opportunities

For a complete list of CAA volunteer opportunities, visit the volunteer page on our website.

CAA Call to Action – June 27, 2017

Thanks to everyone who helped with outreach at the Pride festival! With your generous contributions of time and energy, we were able to reach hundreds of people with a message of compassion, planting seeds of awareness that will grow into the actions that ultimately help animals.

Coming up, we need volunteers for the July picnic potluck on Sunday, July 2. This special event is co-hosted by Animal Rights Coalition and will be a great opportunity to get to know others in the community. Sign up now!

Also, thanks to dedicated volunteers Julie Knopp and Mike Resch, we’ve got a whole bunch of leafleting opportunities scheduled throughout the summer. Sign up today to take action for animals through one or more of these upcoming outreach events.

Best wishes,

Justin Leaf, Communications & Events Coordinator

Volunteer Opportunities

Upcoming Volunteer Opportunities

For a complete list of CAA volunteer opportunities, visit the volunteer page on our website.

CAA Call to Action – Volunteers needed for July picnic potluck

We’re sending an extra Call to Action this month to let you know about an upcoming volunteer opportunity.

We’re teaming up with the Animal Rights Coalition to host a big vegan potluck for the community on Sunday, July 2 from 11am to 2pm at Minnehaha Park. We hope that all of you will attend, but we also need a handful of people to help out.

Sign up now!

This is an excellent opportunity to get to know others in our compassionate community. Coming together, we can do that much more for the animals.

Please consider helping to make this event a big success through your volunteer support.

Best wishes,

Justin Leaf, Communications & Event Coordinator

 

 

Call to Action – June 13, 2017

The Pride Festival is coming up in less than two weeks on Saturday and Sunday, June 24 and 25. We need more volunteers to help out with pay-per-view and virtual reality outreach at this event. Please sign up now!

To help with virtual reality, you’ll need to have attended one of our virtual reality training sessions. There are a couple of those coming up later this week. See the volunteer orientations below for details!

Also, we’re kicking off our summer leafleting tomorrow. Join us at Minnehaha Park for some leafleting and then head on over to Parkway Pizza for some vegan pizza.

Best wishes,

Justin Leaf, Communications & Events Coordinator

P.S. I’d love to see you tonight at Paula and Nathan Heurkamp’s home for our June Potluck: Vegan BBQ! Text me at 612-250-7041 for the address.

Volunteer Opportunities

Special Events for Volunteers

Upcoming Volunteer Opportunities

For a complete list of CAA volunteer opportunities, visit the volunteer page on our website.

CAA Call to Action – May 30, 2017

If you want to take action for animals in the next month, consider helping out at our June Potluck: Vegan BBQ on Tuesday, June 13, and at the Pride Festival on June 24 and 25.

We also need volunteers to share vegan food samples at upcoming Bridges of Respect presentations.

More details about these and other volunteer opportunities are listed below. Also, be on the lookout for leafleting opportunities that will be posted on our website and Facebook page soon.

Best wishes,

Justin Leaf, Communications & Events Coordinator

Volunteer Opportunities

Special Events for Volunteers

Upcoming Volunteer Opportunities

For a complete list of CAA volunteer opportunities, visit the volunteer page on our website.

CAA Call to Action – May 16, 2017

Thanks to all the volunteers who helped out with our most recent events, including outreach at Cinco de Mayo and at the MayDay Festival, as well as at the Vegan Pancake Feed-In last Saturday. Through your efforts, more people are learning about the problems with animal agriculture and how they can make more compassionate food choices. Thank you for that!

Our next big outreach opportunity is at the Pride Festival, which will be the last weekend in June. Sign up now if you’re interested in helping out with that. Pride is a perfect place for effective outreach. In a relatively short amount of time, we can reach lots of people who are very receptive to our message.

In other news, we’ve just shared a summary of where we our with our strategic planning process. Check it out and stay tuned to what’s happening behind the scenes.

Also, we want to be sure you know about the Animal Rights National Conference near Washington, D.C., August 3 to 6. This annual conference is an opportunity to network with others in the movement, and it’s also a place to develop your skills as an effective animal advocate. Register today!

Best wishes,

Justin Leaf, Communications & Events Coordinator

Volunteer Opportunities

Quick & Easy Social Media Support

  • Please visit CAA’s Facebook event pages and invite your Facebook friends. Facebook limits how many people an individual can invite to events, so we need help to get the word out. Here’s how:
    • Go to the event page.
    • Click the “Share” tab.
    • Click “Invite friends.”
    • Using discretion, choose friends who would be most interested in the event, and invite them. (*Note that some of our events are great for people who are new to CAA. Examples of these events would be potlucks, dine outs, Twin Cities Veg Fest, and the Vegan Chili Cook-Off. Other events, especially volunteer opportunities, are more appropriate for those who are already involved with CAA or have otherwise shown interest in animal protection issues.)

Special Events for Volunteers

  • Virtual Reality Volunteer Orientation

    • Thursday, May 18, 7:00 – 8:00pm
    • CAA Community Space, 2100 1st Avenue South, Minneapolis
    • Want to help farmed animals, make friends, develop your leadership skills, and eat great vegan food? Attend this volunteer orientation session to learn more about volunteer work with CAA. This event will also prepare you to conduct virtual reality outreach at Twin Cities Pride, in the community, and at Twin Cities Veg Fest.
    • If you’d like to attend, sign up now!
    • For more information, email Laura Matanah at laura@exploreveg.org.

Upcoming Volunteer Opportunities

  • Bridges of Respect: Vegan Food Giveaway

    • Thursday, March 18
    • Blaine High School, 12555 University Ave NE, Blaine, MN 55434
    • Class times are 11:22am to 12:35pm and 1:13 to 2:20pm. Volunteers will meet with the Bridges coordinator at the front entrance of the school 15 minutes prior to class times.
    • Help share vegan food samples for about thirty students during a classroom presentation.
    • To sign up, contact Shannon Kimball at shannon@bridgesofrespect.org.
  • CAA Camping Trip
    • Friday, May 19 – Sunday, May 21
    • Elm Creek Park Reserve, Rush Creek Group Camp
    • Help out on the trip! Can you make meals, lead activities, and haul equipment to the site? CAA will reimburse you for any costs.
    • Lend a few supplies! Do you have extra tents, sleeping pads, and sleeping bags? Even if you’re not coming on the trip, your extra supplies could be useful for attendees who don’t own their own camping supplies.
    • To sign up, contact Laura Matanah at laura@exploreveg.org.
  • Bridges of Respect: Class Observation
    • Thursday, May 25
    • Blaine High School, 12555 University Ave NE, Blaine, MN 55434
    • Class times are 8:54 to 10:01am and 10:08 to 11:15am. Volunteers will meet with the Bridges coordinator at the front entrance of the school 15 minutes prior to class time.
    • If you’re interested in becoming a humane educator, please take this opportunity to observe a Bridges of Respect presentation.
    • To sign up, contact Shannon Kimball at shannon@bridgesofrespect.org.
  • June Potluck: Vegan BBQ
    • Tuesday, June 13, 6:30 – 9:00pm
    • The home of Paula and Nathan Huerkamp (Email Justin to get the address.)
    • Volunteer positions available:
      • Setup/greeting (2) 6:00 – 7:30pm
      • Cleanup (3) 7:30 – 9:30pm
    • To sign up, contact Justin Leaf at justin@exploreveg.org.
  • Pride Festival Outreach

For a complete list of CAA volunteer opportunities, visit the volunteer page on our website.

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