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Earth Day Volunteer Orientation and Training (CABQ Balloon Fiesta Park)
March 30 @ 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Contact Leader(s): 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 (which will be covered in a separate NMVFO project description on that date). For an overview of all the planned activities and participants, you can visit the festival’s website: https://earthdayfestivalnm.com/. It includes a section describing the various volunteer opportunities in detail at this link. To help recruit and familiarize volunteers in preparation for the festival, its organizers are hosting this orientation and training program on the afternoon of March 30. Attending this preliminary meeting will be helpful but is not a prerequisite to volunteer for the festival, which can be done up until mid-April.
Putting on this event will require a significant number of volunteers to perform a variety of tasks (known as volunteer opportunities) such as 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. Volunteers will register with the One Albuquerque volunteer network to choose and sign up for specific jobs and shifts on April 21. These are listed and described in this section about Earth Day volunteer opportunities. Experienced NMVFO project leaders are encouraged to sign up as volunteer crew chiefs.
For volunteer orientation and training, we will meet at 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. Using the south entrance to the park, take Alameda Avenue to Balloon Museum Drive, go north for about a mile past the Balloon Museum to where Balloon Museum Drive makes a hard left turn, and continue down a short distance to the Sid Cutter Pavilion (shown in the above photo) and park nearby.
Those attending must sign up on the button below for NMVFO to have a record of attendance and record volunteer hours.
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Group Size: Unlimited
Cost: Free!
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.