Where To Volunteer, Part 4

I've been rethinking this whole "Where To Volunteer" effort this morning. Because honestly, if you're reading about Irish Fest in April, some 142 days away from opening, you're a hardcore festy and you know exactly where you're going to volunteer. Probably the same area you've working in for years. You probably have your own parking space at Irish Fest. So with one last suggestion, I'll stop the suggestions. But this is a big one. Since I'm preaching to the choir with you, copy, paste and send this to your less motivated slacker friends who still haven't seen the light and joined our volunteer corps:

Dear_______________ ,

Since you’re not nearly as cool as I am, you’re probably not aware that the 2010 Kansas City Irish Fest opens in just 142 days. You also probably don’t know that they need something like 27,000 volunteers to work at the fest. I work there every year myself. If you can even call it work. I have an entire collection of these kick ass volunteer t-shirts that they give you. I never have to pay to get in because I get a free ticket for volunteering. And best of all, as an Irish Fest volunteer, I’m part of the greatest team of people around. We’re like a really exclusive club. Or an elite team of Irish ninja assassins, only so far without the assassinating part. And–and I’m not guaranteeing that you’ll be this lucky–last year I even got to meet Irish Fest vice president Barney Walsh. Yes, in person.

Anyway, I think it’s time that you joined the team. There are lots of different areas in which to work–they’ll all be listed on the online volunteer sign up form when it goes live on May 1st–but here’s what you should do as a newbie: volunteer to work wherever they need you. Then you’re like an ultra-ninja. You can even write that on your name tag if you want, they won’t care.

So mark your calendar. May 1st is the day. Www.kcirishfest.com is the place. And I’ll see you at the fest, in 142 days.

XXOO

Me