Get Involved - Become a Board Member or Volunteer

With YWA your smallest efforts can have big effect! Volunteer energy powers YWA. It is the reason Lane County youth have the opportunity to work with professional writers, share their voices with the community and engage in lively literary enrichment. Can you help?

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CHOOSE THE VOLUNTEER ROLE THAT FEELS RIGHT

LIGHT AS COTTON: Add your name to a call list so we may contact you to schedule occasional help, such as: 
~data gathering/entry
~transcribe student work
~take pictures during school residencies
~take pictures during after school writing groups
~take pictures during summer camps in July
~fold/label UpStarts Creative Writing Journal

STRONG AS DENIM: Participate in an energetic enterprise with an action committee:
~UpStarts Creative Writing Journal
~POETRY POSTS in late summer/early fall
~After-school writing groups
~Mixed Voices monthly radio spot
~Scary Writing Contest & SCARE-A-THON
~SWEET EVENING FUNDRAISER
~YWA House Parties & Work-Place Presentations
~Glitterary Word Festival & creative writing contest

VERSATILE AS SILK: serve on YWA’s project-based Board of Directors:
~monthly meetings, plus one action committee/project
Meet the director to discover the details & ask questions
Attend a YWA board meeting to check us out
Decide if it’s right for you