Volunteer with Arts For Life!
When you volunteer with Arts For Life, you are joining hundreds of people across the state and together, making a profound difference in the lives of young patients and families battling illness. We value your gifts, talents, commitment, service, and - above all - your passion for helping our community's children in need. AFL's volunteers help make our programs possiblein a variety of ways, and all are vitally important to Arts For Life.
Read on to learn more about Arts For Life Teaching Volunteers and Community Volunteers!
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Our Teaching Volunteers: have skills in the arts and a love for working with children. AFL Teaching Volunteers:
- Teach visual arts, creative writing, and music to patients;
- Help organize exhibits of the patients’ artwork;
- Make art kits;
- Develop lesson plans and activities;
- Lead art workshops for AFL kids and families as well as other AFL volunteers, staff, and interns.
We accept Teaching Volunteer Applications year-round!
However, we only interview and train new volunteers a few times a year. When you submit your application, we will let you know when the next round of interviews/training will be.
Download Volunteer Form
Teaching Volunteer FAQs
What do you mean by 'interviews'?
We always meet with potential volunteers first, not just to make sure that you are a great fit for Arts For Life, but just as importantly, that AFL is a great fit for you. Consider it an informational interview - we tell you all about our programs, what it's like to volunteer, and the training process, and you tell us more about yourself. If it's not the best fit to teach art at that time, we can tell you about the many other volunteer opportunities we offer at AFL.
What is the time commitment for teaching volunteers?
If the time is right and you have found the perfect volunteer opportunity with AFL, we ask for a weekly commitment of 3-4 hours. We also hope you will make a minimum nine-month commitment. If you cannot make that commitment at this time, we may have other teaching opportunities available on a periodic basis!
I'd like to teach art. Can I start next week?
Many of our volunteers are surprised by how long it takes to simply be able to teach art in the hospital! The overall process can take between 1 and 2 months to complete, from initial interview with AFL to your first solo teaching shift.
We send all of our volunteers, Fellows, and staff through hospital volunteer training in addition to our thorough Arts For Life training. This includes a hospital orientation and interview, immunizations check and TB testing, background check, and hospital training - and that's not including AFL's training sessions and shadowing!
We want you to be fully prepared for this special opportunity to work with our young patients and families. We offer lots of support to our volunteers, through training and preparation to ongoing programming and emotional support.
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Our Community Volunteers: are invaluable to our work and enable Arts For Life’s funds to go directly to the kids and to our programming.
These volunteers help with:
- Event Planning and implementation;
- Website work (Web Design and Maintenance, creating e-card and online reports);
- Writing (press releases, feature articles, etc.);
- Fundraising and donor development;
- Selling Arts For Life Art Prints & Greeting Cards;
- Work in the Community (Organizing Talks/Presentations, Helping with exhibits/displays of patient artwork, Organizing a house party, art sale, or other small fundraiser);
- Administrative tasks such as stuff envelopes, folding newsletters, etc.
- Program Support: preparing projects for use at art tables in the hospital
If you are interested in volunteering with Arts For Life, please download our volunteer form and mail it in to:
Arts For Life Volunteers
P.O. Box 788
Weaverville, NC 28787
We truly look forward to hearing from you. Thank you for your interest in joining the Arts For Life team! |
