You: Lots of experience, brains, and expertise, a little or a lot of time, small commitment or large, temporary or permanent, willing to work solo or leading or participating in a fun, creative, team environment. Working or retired managers, doctors, nurses, lawyers, counselors, teachers, techies, empty-nesters all welcome and needed.

Us: Flexible, start-up, non-profit educational community with lots of opportunities, pro-bono to paid. Our mission: to spearhead the national movement developing meaningful professional and civic engagement options for baby boomers in transition.

• Volunteer Coordinator – recruit, interview, train and place volunteers (or any portion thereof)
• Developing Country Consultants - Are you an executive or retired executive who would like to give back on an international scale?  Use your corporate or private enterprise expertise to help third world countries develop faster and more efficiently, and without having to re-invent the wheel.   This  program pairs highly experienced executives in the United States with executives in other countries in a “pen-pal” or cyber consultancy relationship to provide business advice and support to developing countries and their leaders.  
• The Social Entrepreneurs' Center - help us incubate ideas from local executives that enhance the community and empower it's citizens.  Opportunities for contribution include project management, strategic planning, researching opportunities, fundraising, developing business plans
• IT Professionals to help with our data base, computer and website
• Fundraisers - to directly solicit operating and project funds from companies and foundations, research potential sources of funds and develop prospects
• Grants writers - to develop ideas into workable grants, research the grants field, find sources of money for Boomer-related programs and projects
• Membership Manager/Team - solicit memberships, develop membership programs and benefits
• Marketing and Public Relations Manager/Team - help develop a long-term marketing plan, write press releases, design brochures, promote events.
• Event Planners - help to find locations for events, produce the event, including coordination of promotional activities
• Speakers Bureau Manager/Team - represent Boomerz at local meetings, groups, network with groups with related interests, maintain a calendar of speaking opportunities
• Newsletter writers and editors - develop copy for monthly newsletter, develop design that can be e-mailed to recipients, 
• World Affairs Council Committee - help develop and promote programs of international interest and importance.
• Intergenerational Committee Member - help the committee develop programs that serve to link the generations
• Reality Check Coordinator – find entrepreneurial opportunities that boomers can shadow – for a few days, for a week – beds and breakfasts, bookstores, art stores, restaurants, etc. so they can “try before they buy.”
• Career coaches, peer mentors and supervisors – coach boomers in transition, or supervise and train the coaches
• Wellness coaches, supervisors – if you have medical or athletic experience you can help couch potatoes get in shape or those in shape to a higher level, or supervise those that do.
• High-tech mentors – provide help by phone or in person to boomers having trouble figuring out how to use their latest high-tech toy.
• Travel program coordinator – be the middleman between our customers and travel programs. Select travel opportunities to feature on our website, help to market those opportunities
• Archivists – video, still, and print. Help us archive our progress and programs and capture the stories of success from our customers in written or visual form. Writers, photographers, videographers needed.
• Hosts and hostesses for public events
• Strategic planners, project coordinators – help us think through our long term strategies, goals, objectives, and time-line.
• Web coordinator – help us turn the website from a money pit to a self-funding entity
• Evaluators – develop, administer, score questionnaires given to our customers and tell us how we are doing.

Training for staff and volunteers is an eight-part process that lasts 7 - 10 hours. This includes orientation, observation, guided practice, reading material with discussion, role-playing scenarios and a period of shadowing/mentoring with an experienced staff member resulting in employees and volunteers who provide responsive, caring interaction.

Some people think that only children who have a problem can call Phone Friend. Not true! Phone Friend can help with personal or homework problems, but we are also available to any child who would like to just talk, play a game, or hear a story. Phone Friend is open before and after school during the regular school year to any child under the age of 18.

Staff and volunteers are selected based on the amount of time they have worked with school-age children and the amount of formal education they have in the area of child development, family studies, psychology, education or a related field.

For more information, give us a call at 480 829-0500, extension 105, or visit www.asccaz.org/1_phone.html