Volunteer Opportunities

How Can I Support OLLI?

Member participation in OLLI at UC Irvine sustains our ability to offer exciting courses and events at a reasonable cost. What can YOU do to assure our success? Here is a listing of the type of opportunities that OLLI offers its members. If you have a skill or idea that isn't listed, let us know. We need your help!

Curriculum

• Serve on one of the Curriculum Committees
• Become a Developer of a course
• Offer ideas for courses and/or travel
• Edit course descriptions
• Edit final catalog copy
• Become a Facilitator for a course

Finance

• Serve on the Finance Committee
• Assist in the management of budget issues

Fundraising

• Serve on the committee
• Explore ideas to increase OLLI's revenue
• Assist in the planning of fundraising events

Membership

• Serve on the Membership Committee
• Assist in planning of New Member events
• Offer ideas for Open House

Administrative

• Offer technical assistance for Facilitators
• Train Facilitators in use of technical equipment for class presentations
• Assist in alphabetizing membership forms
• Clerical help: copying forms, helping with mailings
• Telephone members to complete documentation of enrollment forms

Newsletter

• Serve on the Newsletter Committee
• Be a reporter or photographer
• Contribute copy for the monthly newsletter

Outreach

• Work with the Director of Outreach to seek areas of collaboration with various community agencies and groups with similar purposes
• Coordinate OLLI publicity to increase recognition of our organization

Academic Liaison

• Become a member of the committee that will reacquaint key UCI faculty and staff with OLLI, seeking potential presenters

Course Developer

• Serve on a Curriculum Committee (Arts & Humanities, Social Science, Science/Math/Technology, Special Events)
• Develop a new course for OLLI

Class Facilitator

• Serve with one other OLLI member to welcome the presenter, greet the students, maintain class roster, hand out and collect forms, and attend a facilitator training class
• Become the technician who assists the Presenter to use OLLI equipment.

Events

• Assist in planning for Annual Meeting in May; New Member Coffee (Sept/Feb); Open House (Aug/Jan).

I Want to Participate!

Send an email to Jeff Elias at jgelias1@gmail.com or call 949-451-1403.