Volunteers Welcome!
GLAMA is a volunteer organization, and volunteers are essential to meeting GLAMA’s mission by planning and implementing programs, activities and events.
If you enjoy acoustic music and are willing to share your time, enthusiasm and talent to promote it, please consider becoming a GLAMA Board or Committee Member.
As GLAMA increases the number of fun activities we provide, we definitely need member help! That’s where you come in.
We are building committees to help with Cooper’s Glen, as well as to help make sure that our regular monthly events have all the support we can provide!
Here are some specific roles that we need help with. If you think you could lend a hand once in a while, please reach out and let us know so that we can contact you.
GLAMA Cooper’s Glen Committees:
Entertainment: Help recruit and hire artists for GLAMA-sponsored events such as concerts and educational workshops. Duties include contacting artists and/or their management, negotiate for contracted services, support and assist the artists during their time with us.
Facility: Handle various aspects of staging a GLAMA event. Duties include arranging for sound, lighting, seating, and safety including operation of the stage and all its components, and return of all rented or borrowed equipment. Also may help with arranging event signage.
Advertising and Sponsorship: Assist in aspects of marketing Cooper’s Glen. Creating signs, promoting social on traditional and social media, and reaching out for sponsors who can help promote our event.
Vendors: Help us connect with vendors and food resources for Cooper’s Glen.
Regular Event Volunteering:
Are you a regular at Village Stage Live? This event always needs folks who can show up a little early to help with chairs and the stage setup or stay a little late to help with tear-down and clean up.
Is there a jam session that is a part of your month? We often need to have a reliable backup who can help make introductions and get things started if our board members are spread thin. We’d love to have help MCing the events!
GLAMA Board Member Positions and Responsibilities/Job Descriptions
President: Develop, maintain, and support a strong Board of Directors; seek and build Board involvement with strategic direction; schedule and conduct regular Board of Director meetings; actively engage and energize volunteers, board members, committee members, alumni, partnering organizations and funders; lead, coach, develop and support GLAMA activities and programs; communicate GLAMA activities and events via e-newsletter as needed; initiate regular evaluations of program components.
Vice-President: Assist President with duties and responsibilities; actively engage and energize volunteers, board members, committee members, alumni, partnering organizations and funders; lead, coach, develop and support GLAMA activities and programs
Secretary: Record minutes of board meetings; email minutes to all meeting attendees; keep all approved minutes in a paper file. Collect mail at Post Office box (downtown Kalamazoo branch). Bring other mail, including invoices, to GLAMA Board meetings.
Treasurer: Track financial expenses and income with assistance of GLAMA accountant; oversee GLAMA accountant/bookkeeper in filing 1099 forms; develop performer and vendor contracts; send invoices for advertisements; renew insurance policies; file state and federal government forms; register GLAMA as a non-profit annually; acknowledge and send donor receipt letters. Deposit any monies/checks received into GLAMA PNC Bank account with detailed explanation of deposit sent to accountant.
Board Member at Large: Attend GLAMA meetings; actively contribute to various committees and tasks; volunteer to help other board and committee members with specific tasks based on personal skills and needs of GLAMA.
Desirable Skill Sets/experience for GLAMA Volunteer Board and Committee Members:
Public Relations and Communications; Website and Social Media; Fundraising/Grant writing; Accounting
