VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES FOR PARENTS

Our education programs depend on you to make them happen.  We are hoping most of our families this year will commit to volunteering 10 hours of their family’s time to the programs and social action opportunities our temple provides.

Please look at the list below and let us know which programs you will be willing to support with your time. If you have any questions, please contact Robin Foster at 310-476-2861 ext. 207.

Thanks,

Avram and Robin

Please let us know in which volunteer opportunities you will participate

You can sign up for a piece of several activities.  Interest in one activity will not entail taking on every detail under each activity. i.e. you could volunteer to stay late to help clean up while still not attending any of the planning meetings.

New Family Greeter: 

This will include making phone calls to welcome new families, inviting the new family over for Shabbat.  You will become a family’s “buddy.”  

Help with Grade specific Shabbats: 

Dates: November 14, January 30, March 27,

-making phone calls to specific classes to remind them about the service.

-Help organize the children once they are here at the Temple. 

-Serve Ice Cream at the Oneg after services

Potluck Shabbat

Dates:  October 10, March 20

-Host a potluck Shabbat dinner in your home

-Facilitate the Shabbat rituals in your home or someone elses

-Attend a potluck Shabbat dinner

Hanukah Family Dinner: 

Date:  December 5

-Attend 1 to 2 meetings before the event.

-Come early to help set up

-Stay late to help clean up. 

 Chinese New Year celebration:

We celebrate the Chinese family’s in our community but eating, learning and being entertained.

Date: January 29

-Attend  3 meetings before the event to organize and plan. 

-Order the food

-Hire the entertainment -Come early to help set up

-Stay late to help clean up. 

Super Bowl Sunday

We combine the secular world with the Jewish world and look at football through a Jewish lense.  We tailgate at 11:40 with a big all-you-can-eat barbeque.

Date:  February 1

                  -Come early to help set up

                  -Come early to help barbeque

                  -Stay after to help clean up

 Field Trip Day: 

Date: February 22

-Make phone calls to remind families about the day, parents must attend with their children.

Purim Carnival:

Date: March 8

-Attend three meetings prior to help plan the event

-Sell tickets in the lobby before and after Religious School on Sundays

-Come early to set up  carnival,

-man a booth

-stay late to clean up.

Breadfest: 

Breadfest happens at the end of Passover.  We come early to Religious School on that Sunday to have a bread and wheat heavy meal.

Date: April 19

-Attend 1 to 2 meetings before the event.

-Pickup breadfest items at Costco the day before

-Come early to help set up

-Stay late to help clean up. 

Bagel Family:

Sunday mornings different familes volunteer to sell bagels to the rest of the parents and students.

Date:  3 Months at a time

This will include purchasing bagels at a bagel store near you. You will be reimbursed.  You will need to arrive on Sunday morning by 9am to start selling the bagels to the students.  You will be finished by 9:40am 

Room Parent:   

Date: Entire School Year

This will include meeting with the Room Parent coordinator several times throughout the year.  You will be making phone calls to parents, helping with classroom activities, helping with grade specific events and having communication with the Teacher and other parents.

Community Retreat: 

Date: April 24-26

-Attend 3 meetings before April to help create and promote the program. 

-Register guests the day of the retreat

-Assemble gift bags

-Communicate with workshop leaders

-lead a workshop for children or adults

Big Sunday:   

The entire city unites to peform acts of Tikkun Olam, fixing the world.  We will need parents to help coordinate specific activities for their child’s grade

Date: May 3rd

-Attend 2 to 3 meetings before the event.

-Recruit volunteers

-Come early to help set up

-Stay late to help clean up.