BISA Needs Volunteer Support

  • Help to develop a national structured mentoring program

  • Help distribute CFC flyers; gala flyers; and exhibit flyers

  • Monitor seniors (weekly telephone call; list will be provided)

  • Make monthly visits to select senior women

  • Help with transportation for senior women to special events

  • Help prepare senior pre-thanksgiving dinner and serve seniors and their guests (November)

  • Make monthly contacts with scholarship students across America. Contacts may be made by card, telephone, or visit with students

  • Help review students' records for scholarship awards

  • Help make home visits as part of the review process

  • Help mail out "thank- you letters" to CFC donors

  • Help mail our calendars to distinguished black women and sale requests for calendars, books, posters, scholarship applications

  • Help sell calendars, books, posters at vending events with members and independently

  • Help develop a national marketing plan!

  • Help implement BISA's annual gala luncheon in April

  • Sell gala tickets, obtain sponsors -- private, public, individual donors; help obtain door prizes and gifts for gala

  • Contact alumni groups within the DC, MD, VA area to assist students from the 15 colleges and/or universities to attend gala (April in Wash., DC)

  • Help write vignettes and edit the annual calendar of distinguished black women; help do layout for printer
    Help recruit additional volunteers, members

  • Help set up annual exhibit of distinguished black women in the Martin Luther King Memorial Library; stock handouts weekly

  • Help file in BISA's office; place photos in binders, monthly records, check computer files, sort directory listings, check address lists -- update students, seniors, membership

  • HELP BISA to develop a business plan!

  • Help write and mail out the quarterly newsletter (The Black Woman)

  • Volunteers to go on speaking engagements for BISA

  • BISA is a national organization -- help organize additional BISA affiliates across America: we need help to mentor more young women while they are attending college

    We also welcome your special brand of support for BISA's programs (your special brand of volunteerism).

BISA THANKS YOU!

Should you wish to volunteer, you may reach

us at 202-543-6013 or info@bisa-hq.org.