Mickaboo

Email to volunteer: volunteer@mickaboo.org  

Administrative Staff

• Help with office and administrative duties, like processing applications and data entry
• Help with our screening process, doing phone screens and home visits
• Join one of our species teams, helping with bird intake and finding foster homes. Right now, we need:
  • Eclectus Coordinator
  • Finch Coordinator
  • Additional volunteer admins to join our Macaw, Cockatiel and Conure teams
• Follow up on adoptions and get updates on foster birds

Fundraising & Development

• Join our fundraising team to work on fundraising initiatives, plans and grants
• Help staff our presence at rescue/animal events
• Help with flyer and poster distribution for fundraising events
• Help with organizing our bi-annual fundraiser online auctions and soliciting items & donations

Technical Team Needs

• Development assistance for our production databases and website
  Required: Drupal, Perl, Mysql, Apache & Linux/UNIX knowledge)
  (Bonus: JSP/Java knowledge)
• General technical assistants to help create accounts, manage membership, etc
  (Required: Some technical experience or fast learner)
  (Bonus: Experience w/ UNIX command line)

Education/Consultation

• For those with bird experience, share your knowledge with groups or provide advise to new or current bird owners  
• Become a teacher for one of our basic or advanced bird classes
• For those with writing skills, help add information to our website, or write stories and articles for our Newsletter

PR/Outreach

• Take Mickaboo flyers to pet stores, vet offices, and animal shelters on a regular basis
• Help create public service announcements for television and radio stations
• Create, update, and print flyers for fundraising efforts, special events, classes, educational purposes, and so on
• Help organize fundraising efforts and/or collect donations of supplies or equipment to help Mickaboo Companion Bird Rescue

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