Among other activities, volunteers create Festival content, plan and coordinate food-related events, and raise funds. Following are our committees and associated tasks. We expect committee members to share responsibilities.
Please Contact Us if you want to volunteer! Or, drop a note at Info at flatirons@foodfilmfest.org
- Administration
- Arrange speaker travel and accommodations
- Manage internship programs
- Plug up gaps
- Events (planning and coordination)
- Determine event needs, including staffing, setup. decor, and logistics
- Create event plans
- Inventory existing supplies and acquire new ones, if necessary
- Coordinate and carry out event plans
- Manage details of event in motion
- Programs (films, events, speakers)
- Find, evaluate, and book films
- Find and enlist speakers for films and discussions
- Create film-related event concepts
- Work on the children’s program
- Manage the Colorado student film program
- Coordinate film reviewing effort
- Arrange creative collaborations (businesses, nonprofits, and other arts and food-oriented organizations)
- Fundraising
- Create fundraising plan
- Coordination
- Create sponsorship, patron, and individual donor campaigns
- Grant-writing
- In-kind donations
- Marketing
- Graphic design
- Social media
- Copy-writing (website and email content, press releases, newsletters, event pages like EventBrite)
- Digital and print campaigns
- Managing advertising
- Website design
- Coordination
- Meetup group
- Audience surveys
- Outreach
- Attend networking events
- Form relationships with individuals and other organizations
- Volunteers
- Solicit volunteers (Festival event sign-up sheets, public posts, Volunteer Match, Boulder County Farmers Markets tables)
- Organize and orient volunteers
- Assign and manage event volunteers
- Post-Festival volunteers party
- Technology
- WordPress website management
- Technology evaluation, procurement, and implementation