Benefits to volunteering with NJveg include:
- Promoting a plant-based diet and vegan values
- The satisfaction of working with an organization that shares your ideals
- Meeting and having fun with like-minded people
- Access to limited-admission events
Some of the ways you can volunteer for NJveg (please note that some of these may not currently be needed):
- Educational Outreach: Educate the public on the benefits of a plant-based diet by handing out literature and speaking to people at festivals and other venues
- Volunteer Work Days: Help animals at sanctuaries, and more
- Vegan Chef Challenge: Recruit restaurants, deliver material, recruit donors, and more (both in-person and remote)
- Social Media: Post about the group and relevant information to social media sites
- Volunteer Coordinator: Reach out to members (and others) who have indicated an interest in volunteering
- Solicit Member Discounts: Talk to restaurant owners and other vendors to solicit discounts for NJveg members
- Newsletter/Website Content: Contribute to our newsletter and content on our website
- Website Assistance: Help update and maintain NJveg’s website
- Outreach Planning: Find libraries, festivals, and other venues for outreach and speakers, and find films, etc. for the venues
- Organize Restaurant Trips: Organize a trip to a veg or veg-friendly restaurant
- Event Assistance: Help find venues, set up, run, and clean up at NJveg potlucks and other events
- Distribute Business Cards: Place NJveg cards in health food stores, veg-friendly restaurants, and other places
- Vegan Bake Sales: Bake vegan desserts for fundraisers to support various animal welfare organizations
- Fundraising: Help raise funds to support outreach fees and literature, including designing t-shirts, etc.
- Nonprofit Support: Work with features from Google, Facebook, and more; write grant applications, etc.
- Restaurant Outreach: Help convince restaurants to add plant-based menu items
- Affiliate Programs: Find affiliates and other ways to earn money to fund NJveg’s outreach activities
- Crosslink: Get NJveg listed on other websites
- Activity Development: Come up with contests, games, etc. (especially for children) for our outreach and social activities
- Have an idea? Is there something else you’d like to volunteer for? Please let us know!