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Lake City DIRT is a community-based organization.  You help us define what community means.  Whether you are full-time resident, a second home-owner or a repeat visitor, we want your help.

• Consider donating your valuable time
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Volunteers make a difference throughout the country every day.  Lake City DIRT is no different.  More than 14,000 volunteer hours have been contributed so far.  Consider helping us today.

Virtual Volunteer Opportunities:

Economic Restructuring

• Research successful affordable housing models in other rural communities.
• Interview Lake City business owners and write “biographies”.
• Draft short, informative pieces on the benefits of Buying Locally in Lake City.
• Lake City has a high percentage of “senior businesses” – businesses that have been owned for more than 25 years by the same owner.  Research the impacts of this on our future and identify ways other communities have addressed this.
• Identify additional outreach opportunities to bring teleworkers to Lake City and further distribute DIRT’s teleworking materials.
• Gather ideas from other communities for Economic Restructuring planning meetings.

Promotion

• Solicit vendor registrations for the Third Street Market.
• Solicit vendor registrations for the Wine & Music Festival.
• Interview Third Street Market vendors and write paragraphs for our website and outreach materials.
• Gather ideas from other communities for Promotion annual planning retreat.

Organization

• Solicit business sponsorships for the Wine & Music Festival.
• Write grants and Letters of Intent to specific funders.
• Help gather photographs and develop layout for a proposed Engagement Calendar.
• Write thank you notes to volunteers and donors.
• Gather ideas from other communities for fund-raising events, volunteer recruitment & management, and nonprofit management.

Design

• Identify sources of financial support to accomplish beautification projects.
• Remotely help raise funds for the Youth Corps.
• Assist with research and writing of interpretive signs, brochures, and displays.
• Gather ideas from other communities for design and historic preservation.

Overall DIRT Work

• Assist with organizational reviews and updating documents.
• Collect & compile data for Downtown Colorado, Inc. reports.
• Assist (remotely) with marketing and outreach for the Third Street Market, Wine & Music Festival, History Month, and other events.
• Gather ideas from other Main Street communities and rural towns for best practices.

Lake City -based Volunteer Opportunities:

• Assist with Third Street Market set-up and tear-down on Saturdays.
• Sign up to host the DIRT booth at the Third Street Market.
• Help with set-up, clean-up, and wine serving at the Wine & Music Festival.
• Volunteer to work alongside the Youth Corps during work projects.
• Interview potential Youth Corps participants.
• Assist potential Youth Corps participants with resume writing.
• Distribute invites to the monthly Coffee & Conversation.
• Assist with business surveys and distribution of springtime packets to all businesses.
• Gather specifics for potential work projects for the Youth Corps.
• Volunteer assistance is always needed with special events (making snacks and desserts, set-up and clean-up, and coordinating other volunteers with logistics).