Your Skills: Our Needs

Matching Your Skills and Our Volunteer Needs

Check where your skills, interests, or experience meet our volunteer opportunities

Your skill, interests, or experience Our volunteer opportunities
(just examples - ask us if you don’t see a relevant application for your skills, interests, or experience)
Administrative Designing and maintaining chapter records, filing necessary state and Federal documents
Business practices – general Developing policies and procedures, writing letters, helping with the general office work
Graphic arts Designing logos, signs, pamphlets, and special announcements for us
Landscaping Helping us to keep our grounds attractive, generate ideas for new development opportunities
Library Help us make our library more customer-friendly, cataloging existing documents and media
Marketing Help us tell the world about us
Mechanical Work on restoring our rolling stock and static displays as well as needs in our buildings
Meeting people Leading special groups, being a train conductor or brakeman, lead educational sessions for school visitors
Project management Lead new development projects of all kinds and sizes
Record keeping Help us maintain volunteer, inventory, equipment, attendance, financial records and many more
Restoration – vehicles, structures, documents, Help our on-going restoration work on nearly everything.
Retail experience Help us with ticket sales, souvenir sales, and inventory control while maintaining the best customer service possible
Stone work Opportunities for decorative landscaping and other stone-related work
Strategic planning Help us develop and refine our plans for the future
Teaching or sharing historical events Teaching visiting school groups or special interest groups
Website Helping us keep it current and relevant – maybe start a blog for visitor comments
Wood working Like “stonework” above, there are opportunities for decorative signs as well as working on restoring railroad cars – interior and exterior – and periodic maintenance on our building
Working outside Help maintain our grounds, track, and track beds
Writing or journalism Help us expand our newsletter to members – maybe even add one to local middle and elementary school teachers.
What else? You tell us what interests you and we’ll try hard to find it here