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Earth Day Festival Volunteer Opportunities (Balloon Fiesta Park)
April 21 @ 7:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Contact: Leader, Larry Benson, L.Benson@nmvfo.org, with any questions.
Description: The City of Albuquerque will be hosting New Mexico’s first major Earth Day Festival on Sunday, April 21. For an overview of all the planned activities and participants, you can visit the festival’s website: https://earthdayfestivalnm.com/. The festival’s activities will take place from 10 AM until 4 PM, but putting on this event will require a significant number of volunteers to perform a variety of tasks (i.e., volunteer opportunities) before, during, and at the close of the festival. These include: directing traffic and parking: checking in vendors: helping set up tables, booths, barricades, recycle bins, and other amenities: greeting and assisting visitors: distributing programs; answering questions; and cleaning up at the end of the festival. It is hoped that NMVFO can provide a good number of these volunteers. In addition to signing up as a festival volunteer as described below, NMVFO members must sign up on the button below for us to have a record of attendance so you can later get credit for your volunteer hours.
To volunteer for the event, your first step is to go to the Festival’s Volunteers page at https://earthdayfestivalnm.com/volunteers/. This describes the various ways volunteers can contribute to the festival in three separate drop-down sections. The City of Albuquerque’s volunteer network, known as One Albuquerque, is managing the signup process. So, the next step is to volunteer as an individual by clicking on the One Albuquerque signup form toward the bottom of the page. It shows ten different volunteering opportunities with details about each, including any special qualifications required and various shifts (times) from which to choose. Experienced NMVFO project leaders might be well qualified to volunteer as crew chiefs. (To begin the signup process, you will first need to register with One Albuquerque.) You can choose multiple shifts and even more than one Volunteer Opportunity, and when not working can attend activities, see displays, and visit the vendors at the festival. Please sign up no later than April 19th. Remember to also sign up with the button below, to tell NMVFO which volunteers we sent to the Earth Day Festival, and we will record the actual volunteer hours later. (The line next to the signup button indicates the event lasts 10 hours, but individual volunteer shifts are considerably shorter.)
The festival will take place in and around Balloon Fiesta Park’s Sid Cutter Pilots’ Pavilion, which is located at the southeast corner of the balloon launching field as shown on this map. Volunteers will be directing parking upon arrival.
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Group Size: Unlimited
Cost: Free for volunteers
Please read our Volunteer Guidelines before signing up for this project. On the signup form please leave the "Number of Volunteers" at 1. If you would like to sign up additional volunteers please submit multiple signups.