Volunteering For The Stuyvesant Town Peter Cooper Village Tenants Association:

Volunteers are the lifeblood of the ST/PCV Tenants Association.  This organization is run by a small few group of dedicated volunteers each with their own busy lives, commitments, and jobs.  No salaries are paid, and fiscal prudence with membership dues is always at the forefront of the Treasurer's mind.

What are the roles of a Volunteer?  Volunteering can be as simple as showing up for the one of the many RGB meetings, distributing handouts in a building, phone banking, talking and educating neighbors.  Other more complex duties involve attending community board meetings, performing administrative tasks or serving as an officer/trustee of the association.  See the full list below.

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To volunteer download and complete our Volunteer Response Form available in PDF format or call the Volunteer Line toll free at (866) 290-9036.

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Basic but Vitally Important Roles    Dedicated Meeting Attendees Volunteering in this way means to participate in or show up for a meeting where the higher the tenant turnout the better for the Tenant Association's key goals.  A meeting attendee is a person that is making a commitment to attend a meeting or an event designated as important by STPCVTA.  Your head is counted in targeted actions.  The larger the Dedicated Meeting Attendees pool is, the fewer the times you should be called upon.  When you are called upon it is important that you give strong consideration to clearing your schedule for that event.

Letter Campaign Writers Designated Campaign Writers will be called upon to write one or more letters to politicians or candidates for office.   Letter writing to elected representative office holders and candidates, is still an effective means of political persuasion.  By nature we are busy people and so long as we are barely content we don't bother to sit down and write a letter.  Politicians know this, and thus pay higher attention to hand-written "in your own words" style letters.  This is a good way to give time if your not comfortable on the phone or in person.  In this capacity, a senior can be a giant help.  Seniors are have more  time to write.

E-Mail Campaign Writers  Sending e-mail is easy, fast, and powerful.  Designated E-Mail Writers will be called upon to write one or more e-mails to politicians or candidates for office.  Elected representative office holders and candidates recognize this new trend, have adapted to it and expect it.  Each e-mail piece counts. Did you know that by counting the number of yea and nay e-mails received on a given subject a politicians decision is often influenced favorably?  Some even deploy analysis software to ensure the e-mails are unique and go so far as to produce tallies for quick assessment by their support staff.

Fax Bank Volunteers A variation of the Letter Campaign Writers, Fax Bank Volunteers can help fax scores of the hand written and e-mail letters to elected representative's offices.   Fax Bank Volunteers will be called upon to send messages deemed as important to fellow members and volunteers that can not be reached by e-mail or phone or prefer to be contacted by fax..

Phone Bank Volunteers Dedicated Phone Bankers are people that are comfortable on the phone and enjoy calling people.  This can be a tough job due to some people's distaste for telemarketers.  Phone bank volunteers would be called upon to rally others, pass on important messages to those that lack e-mail, or participate in active phone banking of targeted political messages.

Building Leader Building Leaders are the key part of the communications arm of the organization.  Building Leaders help coordinate  TA activities such as distribution and membership drives.    Back up Building Leader Building Leaders may be away, need time off, get sick etc., so it will be important to have a back up Building Leader.  This can be the Building Leader from next building or someone from a different building.    Building Group Manager A Building Group Manager is responsible for about 7-10 buildings.  A Building Group Leader's main responsibility  is to organize his/her group of buildings by ensuring that each of their buildings has a Building Leader and at least one flyer distributor.  The Building Group Manager also is a drop off distribution point for complex wide communications.  By breaking the two building complexes into smaller groups this large task is distributed across 12 people instead of just two or three.

Volunteer Development and Membership Services  Committee    Co-Chair - Volunteer Development A person responsible for managing the overall volunteer recruitment process.  Also has administrative responsibilities for volunteers.  Ensures timely placement of Section Leaders and continuous development of the volunteer pool.    Volunteer Coordinators These will primarily be Section Leaders.  Section Leaders are a critically important part of the organization and are expected to meet on a regular basis (currently every two weeks until the network is completely in place.    Fund Raising  Volunteers Persons will be responsible for managing the fundraising effort and be responsible for implementing new internal fundraising programs and external fundraising sources.    Co- Chair - Membership Services A person responsible for managing membership service activities.  Primary responsibilities are membership renewal campaigns,  communication with the membership, and documentation of complex wide complaint trends.     Assistant to the Treasurer  This person will assist the Treasurer with processing new member donations, receipt processing, membership renewal notices, and inquiries.

Communications/Public Relations Committee    Chair A designated leader that coordinates the actions of the committee.  Also has responsibility for final communications leaving the organization.     Copy Editors/Writers Persons responsible for  writing, rewriting, editing, proofreading content for newsletters, newspaper ads, flyers, or other communications.    Public Relations/ Press Liaison Persons responsible as the single spokesperson for the organization for the press.     Proofreader - Website Proofs copy posted by content editors.  Ensures web site is accurate and up to date.              Content Editors - Website          Responsible writing new content for the web site and posting of news and events.      Page Layout Designer Topographers and page layout designers to assist in the creative development of print communications.   Input for the web site design may also be provided.    Graphics Art Designer Graphics designer will be responsible for raising the organizations visibility though graphic art.  Responsible for the organizations print and web communications.  The creation of theme and rally logos.  Tee-shirt and other clothing art design would be helpful..

Legal Counsel Volunteers Two hours a week are sought from pro-bono attorneys to develop legal strategies and do the legal footwork needed to further the organizations goals.

Information Technology Committee    Chair This person will be responsible for oversight and direction of the Information Technology strategy for the organization.    Web Programmers Pro bono help is needed for adding dynamic features, applets, voting counters, etc, to the website.    Database Programmers Pro bono help is needed for further enhancement, automation, and refinement of the key databases.

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