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Volunteer at WWNO
Volunteer
WWNO relies on dedicated people to undertake a variety of duties. Your support ultimately allows us to broadcast quality radio programs here in the New Orleans area. Becoming a WWNO volunteer is a great way to show your support for public broadcasting and all the quality programming it offers. You can really make a difference, while also getting the opportunity to meet other fun and interesting people who enjoy public radio.
Pledge Drives (Individuals)
Pledge drives are WWNO’s most important fundraising effort. Pledge volunteers help us by answering phones or supervising. if you’d like to be contacted for future pledge drives or call (504) 280-7002 or email lhays@wwno.org for more information.
Pledge Drives (Groups)
Companies and organizations are encouraged to come in as a pledge group in exchange for on-air credit. Some of the benefits of participating include verbal acknowledgements, camera pans of the volunteers, table signs, and an on-air graphic slide. Please telephone (504) 280-7002 or email lhays@wwno.org if you’d like to be contacted for future pledge drives.
Daytime Volunteer Program
Our daytime volunteer program provides an opportunity for volunteers to see how WWNO operates by working in various departments within the station during office hours. Many of the projects are clerical. Daytime volunteers are usually scheduled as needed on an on-call basis. .
Special Events
WWNO events include Thursday’s at Twilight, screenings, live productions, and member tours. Duties usually include serving refreshments, greeting and seating guests, cleaning up, etc.
Save the Music of New Orleans
The New Orleans Musicians Clinic (NOMC) is determined to keep Louisiana Music Alive! It is our beacon to soothe our souls. We want to relocate our New Orleans musicians into the Lafayette/ Acadiana community where they can remain a life force! But most of them have lost everything… we must help them rebuild their lives.
They can’t access any of their NOMC accounts. They desperately need money to fund these efforts.
Direct Contact: Kathy Richard (337)989-0001
Send donations to:
NOMC Emergency Fund
SW LA Area Health Education Center Foundation, Inc.
103 Independence Blvd.
Lafayette, LA 70506
desk: 337-989-0001
fax: 337-989-1401
finance@swlahec.com
http://www.swlahec.com/
Please make contributions to relief agencies in need as you can. We urge you to volunteer your services in support of everyone impacted by Katrina. Our region is known for its sense of soul and spirit. It is up to all of us to show the world we are a better place than what we have seen.
Jazz Foundation of America:
We will be addressing the longer term needs of these jazz and blues artists who will have just lost everything.
We will be raising funds and distributing money for the musicians to get a new apartment or room for rent: by giving a first month’s rent, possibly more, for them to start over, a place to live. (This is what we normally do on a daily basis for musicians across the country who become sick and can’t pay their rent, we also keep food on the table and get employment to hundreds of elderly musicians through our Jazz in the Schools program. Our operations normally assist 35 musicians a week.)
As well, we will be attempting to help New Orleans musicians by replacing the thing that matters most and the only way they can ever work again: their instruments.
To those who lost their instruments, like drummers and bassists who could not carry their heavy equipment, and guitarist with their amps, we will be making an effort to work with manufacturers and music stores to replace those instruments for as many as we possibly can.
Remember, New Orleans is only “New Orleans” because of the musicians…
Send donations to:
Jazz Foundation of America
322 West 48th Street 6th floor
NYC 10036
Director: Wendy Oxenhorn
Phone: 212-245-3999 Ext. 21
Other Places to Support Musicians:
NARAS have set up The MusiCares Hurricane Relief Fund specifically for musicians through their MusicCares wing:
https://grammy.com/Donations.aspx?comp=MusiCares
For information on the University of New Orleans, visit www.uno.edu