OIC offers an enormous range of opportunities for volunteers. Here are ways you can help.

• Join in making the Annual Awards Banquet a truly outstanding community event. Here are some of the activities that require volunteers:
• Planning the event
• Soliciting sponsors
• Soliciting items for the silent auction
• Promoting table sales and sales of individual tickets
• Designing the invitation and the program. Making arrangements for printing
• Updating the mailing list. Making appropriate additions
• Promoting the Banquet. Getting publicity
• Helping/heading with the function arrangements. Preparing table assignments and name badges. Greeting the guests and making sure they are accommodated
• Helping with the decorations
• Help with the same functions for the Kelly Miller Smith Memorial Prayer Breakfast in the fall as for the Annual Awards Banquet in the spring
• Write articles for the newsletter and assist in other ways
• Help maintain the web site. Keep it alive and vibrant
• Help maintain www.givingmatters.com, information regarding OIC that is registered with the Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee
• Serve on the Building and Grounds Committee
• Serve on the Development Committee, which raise the money that makes GED preparation and job training and placement possible
• Help with public relations
• Enhance relationships with partners such as St. Luke’s, Magdelene, Monroe Harding and the YMCA. Help develop new partners
• Assist with the Summer Youth Program. Help raise funds to support it
• Help students by tutoring and mentoring
• Recruit members for the Board and for the Advisory Council
• Assist in maintaining the student database, which tracks performance, and the files that support it.
• Assist with arrangements for the Strategic Planning Sessions in the spring