Vipassana Santa Cruz Volunteer Form

For many of us, serving our sangha by supporting its many programs and activities has become an integral part of our practice. If you are interested in donating your time, energy, and skills to our center, please fill out this form. It will be automatically forwarded to the volunteer coordinator. You can expect to hear from that person by email or phone sometime soon.

Press here to see a list of current volunteers

Currently we have a special and immedaite need for volunteers to do the following:

Rest assured that we will not share your information with any third parties. When you have completed the form, press the SEND button below.

Your contact information:
Name:
Email Address:
Phone (day):
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Phone (evening):
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Phone (cell):
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Please check the areas of volunteer work in which you would like to participate:
Taking Care of Our Center:
 Cleaning the meditation hall
Grounds maintenance beautification
Carpenter maintenance skills
Communications:
 Information technology
Recording Talks
Creating Flyers
Distribute Flyers
Taking Care of our Sangha:
 Preparing Food
Special Event Manager or Contact Person
Programs:
 Potluck Coordination and Assistance
Forming a Dharma Friends Group
Assisting in Family Programs
Assisting with Special Events
Managing Our Center:
 Assisting with Tape and Book Library
Opening/Closing the Center Once a Month
Altar Team
Delivering Donated Items to Homeless Shelter
   
Details about your offer:
List any skills that you would like to offer to VSC
How long have you been practicing with VSC?
Other meditation experience:
When do you practice with VSC?
 Tuesday Noon
Wednesday Morning
Thursday Evening
Sunday Morning
Family Practice
   
Anything Else You Would Like To Tell Us?
 
    

Volunteer Coordinator. The Volunteer Coordinator's job consists of recruiting volunteers and matching them with sangha needs. Press here to read more about this position.

If this or any other volunteer opportunity sounds interesting to you, please complete the volunteer form.

Distribute flyers around town. All practitioners are invited to spread the dharma by picking up a flyer announcing sits or special events, and posting it at frequently visited places, such as the library, coffee shop, cafes, food stores, yoga classes, community bulletin boards and other friendly places.

If this or any other volunteer opportunity sounds interesting to you, please complete the volunteer form.

Dharma Friends Coordinator. Practitioners at Vipassana Santa Cruz are welcome to begin or attend Dharma Friends groups, thus having the opportunity to extend your circle of friends in the sangha and have fun! A list of the existing Dharma Friends groups is here, and we welcome more activities.

The Dharma Friends Coordinator would perform the following tasks:
  • be the contact person for anyone in the sangha who would like to start a Dharma Friends Group
  • send this request to our web master, post it at the Center and make announcements about it at sits when appropriate
  • Time: Approximately 1 hour once a request to establish a Dharma Friends Group is made

    • If this or any other volunteer opportunity sounds interesting to you, please complete the volunteer form.

    If you would like to deepen your practice through service to the sangha, but are unsure of how you want to help, please fill out the on-line form or the orange paper at the Center. You will see that a variety of opportunities are available, ranging from very simple and quick to very complex and more time consuming tasks. Please join our group of VSC Volunteers and meet more dharma buddies!

    Current VSC Volunteers: