[cf-announce] Need BIG volunteer teams for LoveFest and Summer Music Conference

[Scott Nelson Windels]

Please email responses to Lauren.segal at nextaid.org


Hello San Francisco friends (and LA supporters in need of some San 
Francisco love…J)

We have an active month coming up! NextAid is involved in both *LoveFest 
(Sept 23) and Summer Music Conference (Sept 28-Oct 1*) just around the 
corner! So….we are getting our awesome volunteer crews together and hope 
you can be a play a part at either or both events.

For *LoveFest *(aka Love Parade) NextAid will earn a min. of $15 per 
volunteer hour, this time working the gate, (no pouring beer J) – our 
role is to collect donations while educating people that LF is a 
non-profit event and a % of whatever they donate will go to the 
community partners, including us! The more they donate, the more can be 
given away. 3-4 hour shift would be good. John Wood (head of LF) will 
also need help in production/set-up and recycling. We will also have a 
booth in Civic Center Plaza.

And for* Summer Music Conference* (www.summermusicconference.net 
<http://www.summermusicconference.net/>), we are 1 of 3 official 
non-profit partners, earning $2 on every pass sold. We will also have a 
table to sell merchandise at the Technology EXPO/. /Our commitment to 
SMC is to promote pass sales and provide 10 volunteers on Thursday 
(28^th ) and Friday (29^th ) for 4 hour shifts 10:30-2:30 or 2:30-6:30, 
we will be helping at check-in, setting up for panels, greeting and 
directing people, etc. More here about NextAid’s relationship with SMC 
here 
http://sfsmc.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=32&Itemid=40 
<http://sfsmc.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=32&Itemid=40>

Please let me know your availability, /we really need people to do both 
days,/ and we need people at the Expo booth. You will get the *SMC All 
Access Pass* which provides entry into all conference panels & 
presentations, Technology Expo, the InGrooves A&R Contest, 6 Months FREE 
subscription to Remix Magazine, discounts to all SMC Events 
www.nitevibe.com/smc <http://www.nitevibe.com/smc> and Backstage Pass 
for the SMC Festival on Saturday September 30th, 2006....FREE drinks 
from 1pm to 6pm ONLY with your SMC All Access Pass.

We are also presenting an awesome *panel session on Thursday the 28^th 
at 4:30pm *called “*music as a tool for building social activism.” * 
Panelists include Darian Heyman (Exec Dir. of Craigslist Foundation), 
Brad Olsen (peacetour.org), Michael Gosney (Green Century Institute, 
Digital Be-Ins), Jennifer Otter (Music for America), Lauren Segal 
(NextAid), and Tania Martinez as moderator (Current TV).//

Lastly, we are going to approach the SMC party promoters about putting a 
cool, branded donation box for NextAid at their events or even make 
their party a benefit for NextAid, committing to at least $1 a head, 
this way we can truly maximize our fundraising potential. If you have 
friends throwing parties, please see if they are open to this. Thank you 
so much!

Please forward to your interested world-changers, mover ’n’ shaker 
friends, we need a total of about 30-40 people to comfortably cover all 
the shifts, depending on how many hours each person works of course.

Please email your response to Lauren.segal at nextaid.org 
<mailto:Lauren.segal at nextaid.org>.

Love and Activism!

Lauren Segal
Co-Founder, NextAid
lauren.segal at nextaid.org
mobile 818.516.6959
www.nextaid.org