Volunteer

Swap Volunteer info 🎉🎉🎉 

We're currently between swaps! Reach out if you'd like to help in anyway - craftsupplyswap@gmail.com or fill out this form!

🔔 We also need volunteers for our organizational home - Creative Reuse Montana - which emerged from the swap and will be provide ongoing organizational and financial support to make the swap happen! 

Typical Craft Supply Swap Volunteer Needs 🤝

In general this, we need this help to make the Fall and Spring swaps happen. An hour or two or offering transportation is great! Swap Day is fun... so is volunteering!

1. Be a greeter or sort and arrange supplies as they arrive! Bring your knowledge to setup - help identify supplies, get a preview of donations, and meet other swappers!

2. Offer supplies and extra support (signups closed 🎉) that add swap magic - from food to bookends! 💖

3. Help us transport tables and early drop-offs (signups closed 🎉) to the Old Lumberyard in Livingston, and help with returning loaned items.

4. "Shop" using wishlists for programs and groups - bring your skills and knowledge to select materials that meet the needs of local programs and groups

DROP-OFFS: 1-2 hours

• Old Lumberyard Early Drop-offs - Wednesday, Thursday, Friday week of Swap

  • Be a welcoming person, sign-in swappers (so they get early entry)

  • Help bring in supplies, if needed and you can

  • Setup tables

  • Sort items

  • Identify mystery treasures

• Community Early Drop-offs - currently Clyde Park, Big Timber, Emigrant, Gardiner

  • Host an early drop-off spot in Gardiner, Emigrant, or Clyde Park to make the event more accessible to folks outside of Livingston

  • Transport empty and full tubs between Livingston and early drop-off sites (can be one-way!) so they get to Livingston in time for the swap

• Transport tables from our generous loaners to the Old Lumberyard

• Move furniture inside the venue on Monday & Tuesday to make room for our treasures

SWAP DAY, Saturday: 1-2 hours

• During the Swap - 11-3:30

  • Greet and make folks feel welcome

  • Sort drop-offs (11-12)

  • Help arrange and display arriving supplies in categories so folks can browse. (12-3:30)

  • Identify mystery treasures

• Breakdown Begins!- 3:30-4pm

  • Begin sorting supplies for donations and transportation

  • Breakdown snack and drink area

TIDY UP CREW, Sunday: 1-2 hours (this goes fairly quickly)

• Old Lumberyard: 2-5pm

  • Clean and breakdown tables

  • Sort and collect supplies for donations

  • Leave the space looking like it did when we arrived!

• Transport tables back to our generous lenders

• Transport leftover supplies to donation sites

SUPPLIES - in-kind preferred

• Still looking for these to keep and call our own

  • 20 small but strong magnets

  • 10 metal bookends (with the magnets, these hold our category signs)

• Need these every swap

  • Break area to chat, rest, mingle, and get back in there!

    • Coffee (1 bag caf, 1 bag decaf), tea assortment

    • Cream/milk, sugar

    • Water dispenser

    • Lil surprise snacks to thank our volunteers and swappers - there are a lot of supplies to take in!

  • Cash or gift cards for any of these items is also great

  • Hang a poster, tell a friend!

  • Share with your local groups and organizations!

• We borrow these and could use more or backups if things change!

  • 15 tables - loan or donate

  • plastic storage tubs/totes with lids to store leftover supplies (clean inside)