This is an ideal opportunity for those interested in learning more about the award-winning planned community of Reston. It's an appealing position for anyone aged 18 to 90+ years - from retirees and empty-nesters to college students who want to fulfill requirements for community service.

To volunteer, e-mail Reston Museum Volunteer Coordinator, Shelley Mastran, at shellmast@comcast.net, or leave a message at Reston Museum, 703-709-7700.

Museum /Shop Volunteer

These volunteers work in the storefront museum welcoming visitors, answering questions, and ringing up sales. Training on sales and consignments will be provided. This is a great opportunity to meet a great deal of people and learn about who are patrons are.

Inventory Volunteers

We need a volunteer (or team of 2 or 3) to commit a few hours each week to tracking the shop inventory. This entails labeling new items with appropriate pricing and tracking numbers as well as assisting in the actual tracking of inventory.

Administrative Volunteers

The museum regularly has mailings it needs to get out; new members who need to have packets assembled and sent to them; and data entry of member, donor, and volunteer records. Many of these functions can be performed in groups, at the museum, or at your home! Packet stuffing party anyone?

Special Event Volunteers

The museum regularly puts together special fundraising and special recognition events where we need strong volunteer support. Volunteer functions for these events can include mailings; sponsor recruitment; ticket taking; crowd control; post-event clean-up, etc. These are generally one-time events in the evening or on a weekend, perfect for the working volunteer that is looking for a way to contribute, but who does not have the schedule to permit a regular schedule at the museum.

Program Volunteers

Here is another opportunity to volunteer as a group to share the workload. The museum has regularly scheduled programs that need volunteer support in the form of set-up and clean-up crews; greeters; and general support. We'd like to have this organized as a committee of people who can be called upon as we schedule our evening and weekend programs.

Fundraisers

The museum occasionally hosts intensified fundraising campaigns. We'd like to build a group of volunteers who are experienced with or interested in fundraising. We need volunteers to actively help in the fundraising process, which can entail planning events; writing letters or making calls to friends, colleagues, and the business community urging support for the museum.

Museum Committees

The museum has a number of committees that need support of interested members who can help plan for the museum for upcoming years. Committee involvement includes a willingness to attend regular meetings; brainstorm ideas for the upcoming work plan and take leadership roles in implementing those plans. Some examples of museum committees are Development Committee; Volunteer Committee, and Program Committee.

Technical Volunteers

The museum is always in need of technical support with website content and programming as well as computer support of their network configuration at the storefront museum.

September Class: “Reston History” ... presented by Chuck Veatch, Reston Historic Trust Vice President, Photographer, Planned Community Archives Vice President, 1998 Best of Reston Honoree

October Class: “Collections, Publications and Copyrights”, “Introduction to Photo Restoration” ... presented by Jan Hilton, Award-winning Art Director, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

November Class: “Events, Funding, Education Services and Programs”, “Photo Restoration, Part II” ... presented by Jan Hilton, Art Director, (ASCE)  **cancelled**