River District Association

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Volunteer Needs
River District Association's volunteer needs

Preservation Committee

•	Looking for people who like to do research and analysis for things like; zoning, building codes, design standards; determining if changes or additions are needed; working with city officials; history and architecture for Historical Walk-Abouts; assisting with writing tour guide script; fact checking for Historical Walk-Abouts’ existing information
•	Organize and transfer existing historical information into electronic format for archival and website purposes
•	Tour guides for Historical Walk-Abouts (once a month, Saturday mornings, April – October, 2 hours plus script study time)
•	Coordinator for trash pick ups prior to Historical Walk-Abouts plus other dates (plan route, procure supplies, recruit volunteers and work with community groups)
•	Work with City of Gardens on beautification projects such as hanging baskets and flower planting around River District (promote basket sponsorships to businesses, recruit volunteers for flower plantings, help with planning, go to COG and RD Presv. Com. meetings)
•	Attend Preservation Committee meetings once a month

Membership Committee

•	Plan and organize membership recruitment projects
•	Help with collating membership packets
•	Work at RD events to promote membership
•	Assist with member surveys
•	Attend Membership Committee meetings once a month
•	Identify new benefits for members; assist with distributing benefits to members
•	Recruit businesses to offer member discounts and specials

Business Liaison Committee

•	Research and write about financial incentives for existing/new businesses/property owners for compilation into a how-to/users manual
•	Be a Mentor (existing business/property owners mentor potential entrepreneurs)
•	Identify and become familiar with available commercial properties
•	Seek potential entrepreneurs
•	Assist with case studies of successful businesses (interview and document story)
•	Work on façade rebate program
•	Work on business retention program

Residential Committee
(This is a new committee. Additional tasks will be identified later.)

•	Assist with identifying prospective residents and documenting their needs for potential and existing residential property owners/landlords
•	Research and document tasks, financial incentives, and more for compilation into a how-to/users manual for potential property owners
•	Plan and organize Development Networking Tours
•	Gift Bags for New Residents – coordinate communication with residential property owners, recruit items for the bags from businesses

Finance Committee

•	Assist with budget planning
•	Research and procure new funding sources
•	Research and write grants
•	Plan and organize sponsorship opportunities and benefits; identify and procure sponsors

Marketing Committee

•	Develop the River District brand
•	Develop/Implement public relations initiatives
•	Establish joint partnership opportunities
•	Create special promotions
•	Develop radio and TV PSAs
•	Create River District collateral material
•	Review and identify needed updates for website
•	Conduct market surveys
•	Work on newsletter, Crossings

Planning Committee

•	Identify and determine needs for infrastructure changes (signage, traffic, parking, etc.)
•	Help with public meetings – set up, check-in, tear down, documentation
•	Block Analysis – work with City of Rockford on analyzing selected blocks of downtown area identify elements of each block, potential code violations and concerns, recommendations, and other related information.

Heart of Rockford Awards

•	Plan and organize ceremony and dinner
•	Create theme for event, invitation design, decorations
•	Promote event
•	Coordinate ordering of awards
•	Work at event – set up, check-in, tear down, clean-up
•	Nominating Sub-Committee – Identify nominees for each award category; Research and document information about each nominee; Promote effort to procure nominees in the community; Prepare visual presentation of each nominee for review by the award jury

Mixers

•	Volunteer Coordinator – recruit volunteers and coordinate tasks for food pick-up/delivery, set up, check-in, tear down, clean-up, and membership table
•	Beverage servers
•	Identify host locations and work with committee chair to coordinate host responsibilities

Red Ball

•	Plan and organize dinner, sponsorship packages, raffle
•	Identify and coordinate other fundraising opportunities for event
•	Work at event – set up, check in-in, tear down, etc.
•	Decorations

Groove Walk

•	Work on event planning committee
•	Work a shift at event – admission
•	Site Supervisor – recruit and oversee volunteers for one establishment River District Ice Cream Booth at On the Waterfront Festival
•	Help with set up on Friday morning and tear down on Sunday night
•	Work a 3 hour shift – take tickets, make soft serve ice cream cones Office - Clerical – filing, database entries, make copies, answer phone, collate membership recruitment folders and member packets, organize and file newspaper clippings, make website calendar entries, other as needed.

River District Ice Cream Booth at On the Waterfront Festival

•	Help with set up on Friday morning and tear down on Sunday night
•	Work a three hour shift – take tickets, make soft serve ice cream cones

Office/Clerical – filing, database entries, make copies, answer phone, collate membership recruitment folders and member packets, organize and file newspaper clippings, make website calendar entries, other as needed.