LINK Volunteer Intake for 2024-2025

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Interested in joining the LINK team, or coming back for a fresh year at LINK? Get started here!

New volunteers: This intake form collects basic information about you and your interests to get to know you a little better. Once you're accepted, we'll send you a secure form and invite you to a 30 minute introductory call to get you all set for working with the LINK community!

Returning volunteers: Filling out this form each year reaffirms your interests and availability as our life responsibilities evolve over time. It also renews your confirmation to follow LINK's basic principles for healthy collaboration!

All volunteers: One of the great things about volunteering with LINK is that you get to choose the amount of engagement that works for you. Whether that's volunteering at a few workshops per year, all 9 workshops, or supporting background operations and event coordination, all help is appreciated! You can refer to our LINK Volunteer Hub for more participation options.

ABOUT LINK
The AIGA LINK Program has been bringing high school students and artists together to inspire creativity and experimentation since 1994. Volunteers play a vital role in developing an innovative program for our students by participating in monthly workshops, as well as supporting planning and coordination. Without the dedication and commitment of our volunteers, the LINK Program would not be the successful service to our students and community that it is today.

WHAT WE DO
The program provides a series of workshops led by renowned artists, each on one Saturday per month during the school year. It's supported by a team of recurring volunteers, structural volunteers, and a program director. In the spring, LINK holds a gallery exhibition with work by participating students, and distributes college scholarship awards for its eligible graduating seniors.

VOLUNTEER HUB & RESOURCES

Volunteering at LINK is a great way to gain skills while giving back to the community. Visit our Volunteer Hub for more details about individual volunteer roles and information about the program!

Questions? Email our Program Director, Megan Ingalls, at admin@thelinkprogram.org and our Volunteer Coordinator at volunteer.coordinator@thelinkprogram.org.

We're excited to kick off the year with you!

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New volunteers only: What inspired you to volunteer with LINK?

For this year's LINK workshops, I am interested in:

Select as many as you like! See more details about each role on the LINK Volunteer Hub.

Teaching art or design to students

Finding guest artists and introducing them to LINK

Helping to plan workshops

Acquiring supplies for workshops

Acquiring refreshments for the workshop

Setting up on the morning of a workshop

Greeting students and checking them in

Taking photos and videos

Mentoring/encouraging students

Posting on social media

Cleaning up after a workshop

Other:

Outside of workshops, I am interested in:

Select as many as you like! See more details about each role on the LINK Volunteer Hub.

Recruiting students

Social media and newsletter: Strategy/planning/posting

Helping with the annual portfolio workshop (December-January)

Helping with the annual mural workshop (April-May)

Helping with the scholarship review & awards process (May-June)

Helping with the gallery show (May-June)

Coordinating volunteers

Managing equipment and supplies

Website maintenance

Design (postcards/packets/etc)

Video editing

Recruiting sponsors

Other:

[If applicable] Do you prefer to be a specialist at one type of task above (e.g. food management) or would you like to be assigned a different role for each workshop?

I prefer to specialize in one type of task

I prefer a variety of tasks

Not applicable

Other:

In order for the magic of LINK to happen, we rely on kind, prompt communication between volunteers.

To the best of your knowledge, are you able to follow through on volunteer commitments and respond to timely communications within 48 hours?

LINK students and volunteers come from many different cultures, families, and communities. We rely on our volunteers to practice self-reflection, trauma-informed service, and bias awareness to give our students and volunteers the best possible experience at LINK.

Are you able to practice these principles while volunteering with LINK?

Do you speak, read, or write in more than one language, and are you willing to engage with students or other volunteers in this/these language(s)? If so, please list here:

LINK occasionally draws on the input of a low-commitment advisory group to continue strengthening our policies and practices of justice, equity, inclusion, and belonging in the program.

Are you interested in participating in this advisory group?

If you'd like more information before deciding, please select "other" and add any questions below!

Yes!

Maybe [Have questions? Select "other" and share them below]

No, thank you

Other:

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