AGO Worcester Wishlist
Last Updated 1/2017
Worcester AGO has had a rich history and active membership in our 63-year history. We are proud of the contributions throughout the years of folks like you who have offered their time and talents as well as financial support to promote the good word of organs and organists to our colleagues and the Central Massachusetts area.
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More than ever before, we are presented with important and interesting volunteer opportunities for AGO members (or anyone!) to help with the ongoing work of the chapter in implementing our chapter initiatives. “Post it(on our wishlist) and they’ll volunteer” is our hope for filling these needs. Here are some typical generic roles that might resonate for how you can contribute:
- Network or share information or offer a connection based on information or acquaintences that you know. A simple email in response could go a long way to achieving one of our goals.
- Assist in an existing effort - donate an hour or two (on the phone, in person, on the web/email) to fill a need.
- Lead an effort - contribute your organizational skills to carve out the steps to achieve success for a given project.
- Offer your skills and talents that will provides th knowhow to accompish the tasks ahead of us.
- Offer moral support and cheerleading. Send a thank-you or a note of encouragement.
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Specific Volunteer Efforts
Networking: Do You Know Someone? Do you have Connections? Can you call in some favors?
- Donated Gift Certificates: Do you know a local business who could offer a gift certificate? (in the range of $25-100) to offer as prizes for various promotions/contests within our membership)
Businesses might include:
- local music businesses (Union, Kurlan, Robinson) (Surely SOMEONE is a customer who can ask the manager? Your dean cannot do it all)
- Music score vendors (Lois Fife, etc.) (Cliff Hill Music has already agreed- it was a simple question and he said yes immediately for a second year in a row)
- local music groups/series (Music Worcester, Hanover, Worc Chorus, Salisbury, Assabet Valley, Worc Chamber, etc.) for the purpose of donations of gift certificates or tickets
- other business willing to donate (for instance, bookstores or dunkin donuts gift cards).
- Please ask those with whom you do business to donate a gift certificate – it’s simple: Adapt this phrase or make up your own:
"Would you consider offering a $25 or $50 gift certificate to be used
by the Worcester AGO to promote its membership (or other) goals?
You will receive implicit advertising because of the publicity
surrounding the various chaper initiatives."
- Sponsors for upcoming POE
- Anyone know a liaison or connection for:
- Hanover Theater Pipe Organ project
- OHS Organ Database Project (we connected but then no response/interest)
- Investigate OUSCDB database
Project Leaders for Initiatives - raise your hand to take on an effort
Volunteers to Help in any capacity (even one-time)
- Organ Specs database - collect and enter organ specs (a.k.a. organ registry); add to this pictures and soundtracks (the specs viewer listens to the instrument while reading the specs and history)
- Placements/Substitutes collaborative - network with neighboring chapters to pool information for a regional database of musicians availability and search by churches. (See sub search form)
- Elder buddy: befriend elderly AGO members (Ronna's newsletter delivery-buddy idea), engage experience help from elders (perhaps similar in concept to "SCORE"(senior core of retired executives) - no pun intended for the music overlap of their acronym!)
- Serve on various chapter committees. See: http://worcesterago.org/about-ago/committees/
- Chapter Social Networking - WorcAGO Facebook page, or initiative to get Worc member to join the Natl LinkedIn AGO group (it's free!)
- TAO Chapter Events (assist) submission person (you don't have to write it, just remind and collect and send in)
- Chapter Historian - add to history list that stopped around year 2000. We have a stack of documents that just need summarizing for our events.
- Membership Coordinator (assistance) - encourage membership to invite colleagues/neighbors/enthusiasts to concerts/programs, and hopefully lead them to become members.
See idea list resource: 100 Ways to Encourage...Membership
- Help your dean with emails and contacting folks for various topics/tasks
- Endangered Instruments List - Help discover Central Mass. instruments that are on the way to the heap - our planned list will help raise awareness and hopefully save or find a new home for some great and historic instruments!
- Social committee - help a few times/year with cookies for receptions
- Chapter History
- Organs, organbuilding/how-it-works/education on the web
- Coordinator/liaison for our Organ Library at Holy Cross
- Newsletter editor - help is welcomed from all areas: formatting (WORD), collecting/suggesting, editing, sending, etc.
- Social Networking editor/coordinator
- Assisting Program Committee with specific events
- Help sort organ scores/books
- Help catalogue and disseminate scores/books
- Organize sale of scores/books either/and/or on the internet or at various events. We have BOXES and BOXES of music awaiting buyers. Some organizations make $1000/year via online sales.
- Help launch CONTENT for the following database resources - note that the technical work is done, just need someone to fill in the information
- Musician/Vocalist hiring network: free resource in the style of "Craigslist" where musicians list themselves (like our Substitute List) and venues/church musicians find a needed/last-minute soprano or trumpeter. See the current SEARCH (LOCAL) MUSICIAN DATABASE
- Similar for artist management for Organists/Performers for (inter/national organists/musicians) SEARCH (INTER)NATIONAL ORGANIST/MUSICIAN DATABASE FOR CONCERTS/PERFORMANCES
- Current and Historical search database for musicians/churches/positions-held. Ex: Who have been the list of organists at Wesley or All Saints? Where & what years did T Charles Lee work at which church
- Help organize/catalogue/sort books/scores for the HC AGO Organ Library
Material Needs
- Filing cabinet for chapter archives/documents to be housed in the Organ Library at Holy Cross.
OnGoing Opportunities to Donate Money
Consider a donation in memory of, or in honor of someone special to you.
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