Why volunteer?

You'll meet new friends and contribute to your community!

Pride won't happen without YOU!

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CAN YOU HELP FOR

a few hours,
a few days,
a few weeks,
or more?

If you can volunteer to do anything in the list on the right, please contact our volunteer coordinator by email:

volunteer-info -at- jerseypride.org

Please put VOLUNTEER in the subject line (otherwise your email may not be read)!

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We need volunteers between now and on the day of the Pride Celebration itself.

In planning over the next few months, we need folks who are available to

Work on the magazine that we produce for the event. This involves both writing articles, and spending some time during our production week proofreading articles, and helping with the layout of the magazine itself. This year, we'll work on the magazine from April 20th to May 2nd.

Get materials together for the event. We keep supplies for the event at our office in Highland Park and in storage areas in central New Jersey. We need to inventory what we have, and to have it organized.

Help staff our fundraisers. Throughout the year there are fundraisers throughout the state.   We can always use volunteers to help out with these.

Make phone calls. Between now and the day of the event, we will need to contact vendors, parade participants, and a variety of folks with final information and the like.

Help out during the weekend of the festival!

Set-up on Saturday - we need to set up the festival grounds. This involves decorating, hanging signs, marking off vendor spaces, and lots of other tasks!

SUNDAY:

Traffic marshals - These are the folks who staff barricades at intersections and control the flow of traffic around the parade.

Lead marchers - The front of our parade has both a rainbow arch and a lead banner, both of which need to be carried by volunteers.

Morning set-up, Sunday - From about 8 - 11, there are always a million things we are trying to get done, setting up tents, sheparding vendors to spots, etc.

During the day, Sunday - During the festival and rally itself, we are always looking for folks willing to commit an hour or two to patrolling the festival grounds. This will help spell some of the Jersey Pride committee members who will by then desperately need a refreshment break.