Volunteer Opportunities Details List

Click on Volunteer Guidelines to read our policies for all volunteers.

 

Monthly Volunteer Needs

For the Months of March, April and May

Job 1:  Oak Farm Art Festival

Volunteers are needed for the Oak Farm Art Festival May 18th from 2:00 - 6:00 p.m.  If you are interested in being a part of this event by volunteering to greet people, helping with setup or cleanup or much more, contact the Volunteer Coordinator. 

Job 2:   Spring Patio Stone Installation

Lower Elementary is looking for parents or grandparents to volunteer to meet with the Lower Elementary students and assist in the construction of a Spring installation of a patio area at the red barn.  These volunteers would work with an area patio crew to level the area for stones with the students, then work with the students in the installation of the patio stones.   A background check will be performed for all persons that volunteer for this position. 

Job 3:  Kitchen Helpers

Parent or grandparent kitchen volunteers are needed for the rest of the school year.  Times available for volunteers every day are:

8:30 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. AND 2:00 p.m. to 3:15 p.m.

This volunteer position consists of food prep, cooking, and cleanup.  This is a sitting and standing volunteer job.  A background check will be performed for all persons that volunteer for this position.  You can sign up for one day, one whole week, one month, or the entire year.

Job 4:  Library Helpers

Parent or grandparent volunteers are needed to assist in book check in and cataloging.  This is a sitting job.  This is a need throughout the school year, for 1-2 hours per month.

Contact Volunteer Coordinator to sign up for these volunteer positions. 

Administration / Office Assistant

If you have computer background in Microsoft Word, Excel or Power Point, like to do filing, copying, collating or binding of manuals, mailing invitations, sending letters, etc. We would love to have you share your talents.

Contact Volunteer Coordinator to sign up for this volunteer position.

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Ambassador to New Parents

Volunteer Ambassador to New ParentsThis is a new committee beginning Fall 2010. An Ambassador Representative or Co-Representative connects new Oak Farm Montessori School families with more experienced ones. The initial role of the Ambassador Representative and Co-Representative is to develop a consistent and effective process by which new families can connect to the OFMS community.

Contact Volunteer Coordinator to sign up for this volunteer position.

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Buildings and Grounds

If you are interested in helping with New Building Projects by using your Carpentry, Electrical, Plumbing, Painting or Drywall skills sign up for this.

If you are interested in Grounds Maintenance with snow removal, raking leaves, mowing or trimming sign up for this category.

If you are interested in Building Maintenance with washing windows, cleaning Gutters and more, we would love your help.

Contact Volunteer Coordinator to sign up for this volunteer position.

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Classroom Support

If you would like to help with Field trips, special classroom projects, material making, sewing or share special skills or travel experiences, this is a category you may want to chose.

Contact Volunteer Coordinator to sign up for this volunteer position.

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Cooks & Kitchen Helpers

 

Volunteer Cooks & Kitchen Helpers

You will be working with our own Chef, Jill Hoffelder. As a volunteer you will help prepare food, cleanup and organize for the next days meals.

  • This volunteer job description involves working in the kitchen from 8:30 -10:30 a.m.
  • You will be standing most of the time.
  • You can volunteer once per week , daily, monthly or even just one time.

Contact Volunteer Coordinator to sign up for this volunteer position.

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Donations / Financial Support

If you or a company you know would like to donate to Oak Farm Montessori School with a monetary or product donation, please:

  • Click on the PayPal link to make a donation online. (Coming Soon!)
  • Or mail a check payable to:

Oak Farm Montessori School
Accounting Department
502 Lemper Road
Avilla, IN. 46710

  • Or for product donations contact or call 260-897-4270 ext. 25204.

All donations are greatly appreciated and are tax deductible. Oak Farm Montessori School is a nonprofit school and is strong due to our generous community. We would like to thank each and every one of you who set aside time (ability to volunteer your time), talent (education, interests or passions) and/or treasures (financial support / donations) to help the students and their school to succeed. Your support last year helped us to host successful events such as the Winter Wonderland Gala and Silent Auction, Acoin Drive and Annual Fund. With the monies raised we were able to support our scholarship fund, purchase materials for the classroom, provide additional teacher professional development programs and send the children on many educational field trips. Thank you for your continued support.

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Events

We would love your help with our annual events:

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Fund Development

Volunteer Classroom SupportThank you for your continued support in making your child's school a positive and academic rich environment. We are all very fortunate to be a part of this community. However, this type of environment doesn't just happen. It grows and flourishes with active parents, like you, who want the very best academic experience for their children and who understand that it takes both their volunteer and financial assistance.

Over the years many private schools have found that to sustain their organization for the long-term, they must shift their "fundraising" efforts to a strategy of "fund development". Based upon the actual proceeds that the school receives, it takes quite a few fundraisers to raise enough money to positively impact a school's budget. Many schools have found that allowing parents and grandparents an opportunity per year to "give" to the school, yields much higher dividends: human resources are centralized to one "ask per year". Parents and grandparents have the confidence in knowing they will not be asked to purchase various items throughout the year and best of all 100% of the donation benefits the school. For these reasons ,Oak Farm Montessori School has chosen a Fund Development approach to our sustainability through the "Go Nuts for Kids" Annual Fund Drive and thru the student "Acoin s for Education" Drive.

The Oak Farm Parent Organization has provided its student body and teachers with amazing benefits with the monies raised through the Acoins for Education, Annual Fund Drive and Winter Wonderland Gala. Field trips, books, classroom and playground purchases and all-school performances or sport programs have all been provided to all students, regardless of the involvement of each family.

Each family is strongly encouraged to participate at the level that they can. Popular Fund Development events such as the Acoins for Education, Annual "Go Nuts for Kids" Fund Drive and Winter Wonderland Gala are all volunteer- dependant and your ongoing involvement is very important.

Click here to Donate online.

We are very appreciative of your volunteer spirit and continued support.

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Gardening

Designed to attract interested gardeners or newcomers, you will volunteer to work with the Property manager or Gardener, individually to help enhance and improve the gardens around the school. This may include weeding the Volunteer Gardeningvegetable and herb beds, planting flower beds, summer garden watering, helping to harvest vegetables and tending the Victorian house flower planters.

Contact Volunteer Coordinator to sign up for this volunteer position.

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Library Volunteer

We were looking for volunteers to help shelve books and complete other small library related tasks. Some knowledge of how a library works would help, but we'll provide training, if necessary.

Contact Volunteer Coordinator to sign up for this volunteer position.

Library Volunteer

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Product Labels

As a means of raising extra funds, we participate in several on-going programs, that involve saving labels, receipts and box tops and other similar activities. These "fundraisers" do not require you to sell a product, nor does it cost you anything to participate. Simply save the UPC labels and boxtops from products your family already purchases. We hope everyone in our school community will take the time to support these programs. These items can be collected year round and can be sent to school with your student, or you can drop them off yourself. There is a collection box for all the programs outside the school office. We appreciate everyone's help and cooperation in this worthwhile effort. Please ask relatives and friends to save for you as well. If you would like to volunteer to cut, count and submit box tops, Tyson labels and Campbell's UPCs, please let me know. These tasks can be done at home as time allows though there are strict deadlines for submission that must be followed.

The following is a brief description of each of these programs. Thank you in advance for your participation in these worthy programs.

 

Campbell's Labels for Education Program

 Click Here to Go To Campbell's Web Site for More Information.
 
The Campbell Soup company has a program whereby our school can earn points to purchase items including sports equipment, musical instruments, office and classroom supplies and much more. We simply need to save the UPC codes from participating Campbell's products including all Campbell's soups, Spaghettios, V8, Prego, Swanson, Pepperidge Farm and more.
 
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For this program, please clip the 1 point or 5 point UPC coupon on the label. Some products do not have an actual coupon; in this case, just clip the UPC code with the Labels for Education if it is present near the UPC code. If you are unsure, please send in the whole label including the UPC. Also, for V8 prodcuts, just save the cap.
 
We use the points earned from this program to select items from the Campbell's program catalogue that will benefit our school and students including items for the classrooms, gym classes, library, and staff workroom.

 

General Mill's Box Tops for Education

Click Here to Go To General Mill's Web Site for More Information.
 
The Box Tops for Education program involves schools collecting and submitting Box Tops from a variety of General Mills products. Brand names such as Cheerios, Juicy Juice, Betty Crocker, Cascadian Farms, Pillsbury, Cottonelle, Ziploc, Hefty and more are included.
 
Click here for a List of Eligible Products.
 
Each coupon collected is worth 10 cents to the school. Based on our submissions, General Mills issues two checks per year, to the school and our school can use this cash to purchase whatever is needed to benefit our students.
Please keep in mind that Box Tops have an expiration date and therefore should be routinely turned in to the collection box.

 

Tyson's Project A+ Program

 Click Here to Go To Tyson Foods' Web Site for More Information.
 
Tyson Foods also has a program in which collecting labels from Tyson product boxes and bags can earn money for our school. products included in this program are Any'tizers, all 100% Natural products, Skillet Creations, all chicken products, dinner meats and more.

Click here for a List of Participating Products.
 
The labels are located at the end of the box or bags and clearly state "Project A+ Support Your School." The entire label is required and is about 1.5" x 6". Each label is worth 24 cents so start collecting today.

 

 Target Stores Take Charge of Education

 Click Here to Go To Target Stores' Web Site for More Information.
  
Target Stores reward your shopping by donating a portion of your purchases to the school of your choice. If you have a Target credit card, go to the website listed above and click on "Enroll". You can link Oak Farm School to your credit card and the school will receive 1% of your purchases in cash. If you don't have a Target card, you can go to Target, make a large purchase and apply for a credit card upon check out (and save 10% on your order as a bonus!). Don't forget during to ask about designating Oak Farm School as the recipient of this and all your future shopping.

Contact Volunteer Coordinator to sign up for this volunteer position.

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Publicity & MarketingVolunteer Publicity & Marketing

If you have an interest or background in media representation (TV, radio, newspaper connections, publicity artwork (posters, t-shirts, etc.), we could use your expertise.

Contact Volunteer Coordinator to sign up for this volunteer position.

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Web Page Support

Facebook
Wikipedia
Twitter

We are looking into web sites as a further way to provide information to our families, teachers and staff, as well as for use by new families moving into the area. The persons who volunteer for this responsibility would help to keep
the school's web site up-to-date so the school can provide information to the community via the internet.

Contact Volunteer Coordinator to sign up for this volunteer position.

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Year Book Collaboration & Photographers

Photographers - Volunteers are needed to take photos throughout the year and forward them to the Parent Volunteer Coordinator. Also, there is a need to investigate other yearbook ideas for a future Oak Farm Yearbook. Oak Farm is considering a yearbook.

Contact Volunteer Coordinator to sign up for this volunteer position.

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