Updated 1.11.24

Current help looking for: (Many things you can do right from home!)

Researchers from Home - Help keep us updated on events and important information from sources that are important to our mission such as The State Ombudsman Office, Office on Aging, Ohio Department of Health, Health and Human Services, Medicare, Medicaid, and any other sources that may be of help to us. Some of the things we need you to look for is events they may hold that EA or the public can attend, new policies, and any helpful articles or information we should know about or may want to pass on to those that follow us. This help is so valuable to our mission!

Flyers Designed from Home - If you have talents developing flyers for different events, we could use your help! This is done at your convenience periodically when we have an event coming up. This would help us get information out quicker! We have a Canva account available for use if needed. This would save us so much time!

Grant Research and Writer from Home - This can be someone familiar with this process or just having a willingness to learn. This would be a big help in moving our organization forward and not having to spend time as much on fundraisers. If we can’t get enough volunteers for the help we need, we could look for grants to help us hire the staff we need so the board can focus more on our mission! Most of us have been willing to learn as we go, what we do not know, to help this important cause. We can start you with easy ones that we know how to do that are pretty simple, then move on to more involved ones. We do have a Score Mentor who is experienced with grants, and will assist our volunteer with learning about the grant process. Our Score Mentor has been waiting for someone she can work with from our organization, will it be you? We hope so!

Events/Fundraisers/ Christmas Gifts for Residents/Appreciation Events (in-person & online)- This is a fun volunteer position working on in- person and online events & fundraisers. Many different openings here! We are happy to say this committee has grown!! We have the most awesome people on this committee. We can always use more volunteers, join this fun group on this committee!

Become a legislative committee member or just research for us - Keep up with the dates of when Ohio’s General Assembly in session, checking weekly legistlation introduced to see if it pertains to our mission and committee activity on bills that we are interested in tracking. Giving reports and updates if something new happens weekly. Educating on current efforts in our newsletter, Facebook Page and Website with reports submitted to board. Help us particpate in Advocacy Days at the Capitol and putting information packages available to hand out to legislators. Paula has seen this type of advocacy as far as visiting the Capitol in Washington, DC to educate legislators on issues we need help. Having your voice heard and speaking for those that do not have a voice is a great feeling!

Website - We would love to have a volunteer familiar with squarespace to help usmaintain our site! We are currently paying someone to do this for us. If we do not have a volunteer for this, we have no choice.

New Opportunities! We could use some help with our new membership program on our website, we need someone to moderate our members closed FB group on the membership, someone to post new articles, welcome new members and track our memberships. We are learning this all together, so it’s a great time to learn with us!