There’s many ways to get involved with Bike Farm! The following is a list of shop jobs and positions we frequently need help with! For more info contact us at volunteer@bikefarm.org
SHOP JOBS:
Laundry – Laundry needs to be done 1-2 times a month; all rags need to be taken to the Laundromat and washed in one machine and dried in one machine.
Make signs for shop procedures. Examples: safety, proper tool use and care, basic fixes (flat and tire replacement), wheel truing, etc.
Wheels need to be sized and broken or extremely worn wheels should be set aside for Erik Biornstead. The same thing goes for other unusable bike parts.
Lost and found needs to be sorted and found a place for.
Tires need to be recycled regularly. We need to find a recycler and make trips every other month or dependent upon how many used tires we have.
It is everyone’s job to watch inventory levels and note shop trends so that we can plan to have things consistently in stock. Please also write down broken tools on our want list as soon as you find them or break them.
SHOP POSITIONS:
Donations – The grant writer seeks out and writes grants for bike farm, brings a list of applied to grants to meetings and follows up on grant status.
Our bike shop contact gets in touch and stays in touch with bike shops around the Portland area, tells them about our program and solicits donations of tools and parts for the shop.
The non-funds seeker’s job is to find food, copies and other free stuff for Bike Farm and our volunteers.
Community Outreach – Though we have a community outreach coordinator, everyone should be just as active in getting the word out. Jennifer is our go-to person for information on events and community involvement, but we still need people to help with flyering around the city and tabling for events.
Administration – We would like to have an up to date member database that stays caught up. That way we have a list of contacts and people involved in the event we need to contact substitute mechanics and so people can use Bike Farm on resumes, etc. and we have documentation of their involvement.
All volunteers need to be signing in on the hour sheet. It’s attached to a clipboard on the main table. Please log your hours and have either a core mechanic or a core volunteer sign off on them.
Media – Media coordinators help make flyers for events and copies as needed. Our media coordinator should also want to take pictures of the shop on a regular basis and upload them to our website and help with site updates.