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Volunteer Opportunities!

Please look at the volunteer task list and see where you fit in.  Email us to let us know what you'd like to do, and we'll get you started!

Promotion â€‹
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Social Media - putting messages on FB and Twitter and Tumbler, blogging, and spreading the world through social media.

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Public Signage  - 50 volunteers who are willing to walk around downtown the morning of the event handing out info on One Billion Rising RVA and why they’ll be there.



Blogging -share with the cyberworld what we’re doing to make this event happen, what the event will be, why we’re doing it, who’s rising and why, why others should join, anything compelling to interest people in our intention to end violence against women.



Outreach  - let businesses know about us and about the rally so they can spread the word



Business Buy-Ins   - ask companies to give their employees time off to come to the rally

One Billion Rising RVA Rally

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Complimentary Events

​Some of these events will be handled completely by the organizer and/or sponsoring organization.  Others would love to have help.  If you want to create your own complementary event, please let us know.  We will be happy to promote it along with OBR, but we can't offer you any organizing support.  

Poster the Town - we need as many people as are willing to hang posters about our event about town, or even just at the places where you go during the day!



Poster Day- join the rest of the OBR volunteers in a big poster making day to help us with banners and signage at the event



Products - create and have manufactured products such as bracelets (like LiveStrong), T shirts, hats, bumper stickers, etc., distribute them.



​Why We Rise Videos  - make videos of anyone who wants to participate to tell why they’re joining the movement.  Include some educational aspects perhaps like sharing statistics about domestic violence in RVA and VA to help people feel more compelled to join, etc.

Foot traffic, Directing - We need volunteers who are willing to stand outside of the coliseum and in the halls directing people to our event.  Volunteers will be signing up for one hour increments.

 

Public Signage  - volunteers who are willing to walk around downtown the morning of the event handing out info on One Billion Rising RVA and why they’ll be there.



Donations   - we need volunteers who are willing to walk around with donation baskets, buckets, or to guard the donation barrels we set up near the doors.  Volunteers will be signing up for one hour increments.



Clothesline - We need volunteers to work the clothesline table.  They will be helping people make T-shirts and hanging them on the clothesline as a part of The Clothesline Project.  Volunteers will be singing up for one hour increments.

 

Products- we need volunteers to sit at our product table and sell our merchandise - Volunteers will be signing up for one hour increments.



Set up and Clean up- We need volunteers willing to help with set up and clean up - we could never have too many volunteers to make this task quick and easy!



Production Assistants- volunteers willing to help oversee the events and make sure everything comes together efficiently   They will be communicating directly to the stage manager.  This will be a 3 hour volunteer commitment and will involve a brief training including a tour of the space and introductions to the talent -  some of the volunteers will be liaisons to the talent.

One Billion Rising – RVA- Important Dates- Mark Your Calendars

Planning Meetings
Monday & Thursday evenings – meetings from 6:00 to 8:00 pm at the Action Alliance Office 5008 Monument Ave. Suite A Richmond, VA 23230).
Feb 11 – Monday

Poster Making Sessions
We intend to make several dozen posters to hang at the event and to carry as we march down the streets of Richmond to raise awareness of our event and violence against women and girls.
February 10th from 1-4 - Sunday

Location: The Creative Arts Space   

Address:1 East Cary Street, Suite 203, Richmond, VA 23219  - on the corner of Cary street and Foushee street.  There is street parking in front and for $3.00 across the street in the lot.


Video’s – Why We Rise? We will have a video-grapher at our meetings to help us shoot our "Reason To Rise" videos.
A ~ thirty second video, where you will state your name, your connection to the cause, and where you will be rising (with us, and the Richmond Coliseum, February 14th from 11-2).  We will then edit the videos and place them on you-tube, our webpage, our Facebook, Twitter, etc. and we will be sharing them with the main One Billion Rising site.  Being a part of the videos is not mandatory, of course, but we hope you would like to join us in shouting our reasons to rise to the whole world!
February 10th from 1-4 - Sunday


Awareness Marches
Downtown Richmond to increase awareness and invite people to attend the event on 2.14.13 – Meet at Nina F Abady Festival Park- in front of the Richmond Coliseum - 6th St. Marketplace, Richmond, VA 23223
Morning of Rally – Valentines Day February 14, 2013 – 8:00 am
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One Billion Rising Rally & Complementary Events
One Billion Rising – RVA – Rally at the Richmond Coliseum
February 14-2013 –11 am to 2 pm

Women Rise! is an art exhibition celebrating women and our empowerment! February 9 from 1-3 PM at Crossroads Art Center at 2016 Staples Mill Rd. (Entries are being accepted until Jan 25.  See website for entry information.)
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CRANKSRISING by Women's Multisports of Richmond, Inc, February 9, beginning at 10 AM.  Start/Finish:  Richmond Bicycle Studio, 1717 Summit Ave in Richmond City

Beyond Barbie: Four Fridays in February
1. The Heart’s True Scale: An evening of storytelling with Denise Bennett, Friday, February 1, 7:30 pm
2. Breaking Free: Transcending Barriers of Mind, Body and Circumstance, Friday, February 8, 7:30 pm
3. Women in Power: Creating Roadmaps for Others, Friday, February 15, 7:30 pm
4. Sacred Circle Dance, Friday, February 22, 7:30 pm

The Vagina Monologues - V-Day – Late March- tentative dates March 29-31, 2013
Location Gottwald Theatre at Center Stage
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*** Watch Facebook and our website for any changes or additional important dates

Volunteer Resources 

We love our volunteers!  If you would like to share any of our flyers with your friends, family, people you meet on the street . . . please feel free to do so!  Our informational flyers are available right here by simply clicking on one of these buttons!  Thank you for helping us to spread the word about One Billion Rising RVA and for helping us to end violence against women!

 

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