The Boulder Democratic Party is an all-volunteer organization, and, as this new election cycle develops,
there are many opportunities for people who want to help. Based on what we learned during the last campaign cycle,
we know there are a lot of you out there with a great deal to contribute.
Below, you will find sections describing a wide range of current opportunities.
Click on the contact name at the end of the section to send
an email to that person indicating your interest.
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Get In Touch
If you are interested in volunteering, please fill out a
volunteer form
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Manage Your Own Information
If you have filled out a volunteer form in the past,
you can update your own information by following the instructions at:
Volunteer Corner
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You can also contact headquarters directly:
303 442-3423.
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If you don't have time to spare (or even if you do!), you can
make a financial donation to the Boulder County Democratic Pary.
And keep checking this page!
You might not find a good match for your skills and interests right now,
but who knows when the perfect job will come along? We look forward to hearing from you.
Work in our field organization (Get Out The Vote) doing these and other jobs:
- Precinct Volunteers - Helps get the voters out
- Precinct Leaders - Organizes precincts
- Area Coordinators - Coordinates groups of precincts
- House District Team Leaders - Oversees all precincts in a House District
We need volunteers to help throughout Boulder County.
There are 5 House Districts and 234 Precincts in Boulder County. Within each Precinct,
we need neighborhood volunteers to make phone calls, distribute election materials,
serve as election judges or poll watchers, etc.
Each Precinct needs one or two Leaders to recruit and organize volunteers.
Precincts are organized by State House Districts,
which are lead by one or more House District Team Leaders.
One or more Area Coordinators, who are responsible for specific groups of precincts,
assist each House District Team Leader.
Time Commitment: Variable
Contact:
Candace Bowie
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We are expanding our Boulder Dems HQ office hours as we get closer to Election Day and need more people to cover the 3 hour shifts.
Duties include answering phones, greeting visitors, looking up information on the internet, copying, etc.
The top-notch training you will receive now will help reduce chaos closer to Election Day!
The office is located at 1725 Walnut St in Boulder.
Time commitment: 3 hrs/shift/week.
(We also need good substitutes, so those who can't commit to a shift per week are nevertheless encouraged to sign up.)
Contact: Office Team,
office@bouldercountydems.org,
303-442-3423.
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Come hand out campaign literature, bumper stickers, buttons, and register people to vote at fun festivals and events throughout the summer.
Time commitment: Variable.
Contact: Dorrel Edstrand,
specialevents@bouldercountydems.org,
303-862-7808.
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Join your fellow Democrats by walking in local parades, waving signs and flags to show your support of local and national Democratic candidates!
Time commitment: Variable.
Contact: Dorrel Edstrand,
specialevents@bouldercountydems.org,
303-862-7808.
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Put your creativity or construction skills to work by joining a team to design and build
floats for upcoming local parades. No experience necessary!
Time commitment: Variable.
Contact: Volunteer Coordination,
volunteer@bouldercountydems.org,
303-440-1321.
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Contact IT Coordinator with
your name, phone, cell, e-mail and a summary of your skills if you are
interested in any of the opportunities below.
.NET IT Specialist:
You would be familiar with building web page applications with .NET to back up our current web master.
You would help train IT staff in .NET as well as mentor further development.
3 hrs/week.
Data Analysis Team Leader:
We have people interested in analyzing voting and demographic data, but need a manager to run meetings,
define and track various projects and move things along. Experience or familiarity with project management,
data analysis, GIS, voting data, surveying, and statistics would be useful. Much communication would be via email.
3 hrs/week
PHP IT Specialist:
You would have good knowledge of PHP and help maintain open software applications we are installing on our
server and well as help create simple PHP web pages for output from database queries.
Postnuke experience would be helpful.
You would also help train our IT staff in PHP and act as a mentor for PHP development.
3 hrs/week.
Web Designer:
You would be experienced in website look and feel, graphical design and multimedia.
We are very proud of Bouldercountydems.org but would like to get advice to make it easier to use,
look better, and have a more effective impact on the viewer.
You would produce prototypes either using a graphic media or HTML and we would implement it
using templates and cascading style sheets.
Estimated time ?
Multimedia Team Leader:
We are looking at using video and audio both on our website and in meetings and need to
develop production and distribution capabilities. We need someone to manage the overall effort.
This involves recruiting and managing the work of volunteers who can handle the various jobs:
camera operators, editors, video and audio media experts, web site creators who have experience
with multimedia and streaming media etc. This is a team leader job although anyone with any of
these skills should also contact us.
Contact: it@bouldercountydems.org
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Event Participation:
You're always welcome to attend events that we've
listed on this Web site.
We look forward to meeting you!
BCDP Newsletter:
Sign up to receive our electronic BCDP Newsletter sent out once a month or so (maybe more during election season) and
you'll know what is going on, including how you can help keep the Party strong.
Just click on
newsletter
to sign up.
Speak out:
You can do this one yourself! Write a letter to the editor or call in to a talk show!
See our
Democratic Voices Page for more info on this.
Links:
If you are interested in a particular issue, look on our
Links
page for
Initiatives and other organizations which focus on certain groups
(e.g. Latinos, women, Longmont Dems, college students, GLBT).
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Do you or your organization need help from Boulder County Dem Volunteers? Use
our Volunteer Opportunity Form.
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