We are so grateful for our amazing team of volunteers and can't wait to have you at Storybridge!! We want to make it fun and convenient for you to come get your hands in the work. To accommodate your schedule and skills, we offer multiple opportunities to get involved:
Read more about the kind of help we need below the pictures.
If you're here to sign up for Book Sorting (3 opportunities/month) or Kinderbridge Playgroups (6 opportunities/month), click on the Sign Up Genius icon below.
If you'd like to help with something else, just email sara@storybridgeama.org with your questions about volunteering for us! With all our hearts, THANK YOU!!
- Book Sorting
- Kinderbridge Playgroups
- New Book Stickering
- Book Distribution
- Book Drives
- Storybridge LIVE Event Prep and Support
Read more about the kind of help we need below the pictures.
If you're here to sign up for Book Sorting (3 opportunities/month) or Kinderbridge Playgroups (6 opportunities/month), click on the Sign Up Genius icon below.
If you'd like to help with something else, just email sara@storybridgeama.org with your questions about volunteering for us! With all our hearts, THANK YOU!!
Book Sorting:
We need your help sorting books donated to us from the community. These volunteers assess book quality and then place the book into the appropriate age range (by interest, not reading level):
0-3 years old
4-6 years old
7-9 years old
10-11 years old
Book Stickering:
When we purchase a shipment of new books, this team makes sure those books get a Storybridge sticker. This is an easy job for adults as well as supervised kids 6 and up! Sometimes we have a lot of new books to sticker, and sometimes we're all caught up. If you have a group of kids under 15 that want to pitch in at Storybridge, email Sara to see if we have enough new books to make a job for them.
Kinderbridge Playgroups:
We need dedicated volunteers to assist with our Birth-5 guided playgroups 6 times/month. These volunteers need to be physically able to play with small children on the floor and react quickly to keep them safe. The groups are Monday mornings and Tuesday mornings and take 2 hours of volunteer time (setup + 90 minute sessions). The session includes 30 minutes of parent coaching while volunteers play with the kids, and then 60 minutes of whole group activity. Volunteers are needed for the 30 minute playtime without the parents and setup and clean up of supplies and toys.
Storybridge LIVE:
This is our annual fundraiser event at Hodgetown involving 10-12 book characters for kids to meet, face painting, balloon animals, special activities based on well-loved stories, and more! It takes a great volunteer effort (picture: 100 volunteers!) to make this event magical for kids and we are so grateful for all who want to help. Email Sara if you want to add an individual or group to this crucial group of helpers! Some volunteer needs will be:
Miscellaneous Events:
Storybridge is frequently asked to attend a community-based event or celebration to give books to kids. Sometimes, we bring the Storybridge Book Trailer to these events and the kids can walk through the trailer to browse the selection and choose what they want most. Sometimes we simply set up a table with books available and sign up eligible children for Dolly Parton's Imagination Library.
Dolly Parton's Imagination Library:
This program is extremely low-maintenance for us to manage since the books are all shipped directly from Tennessee. But we do use a small team of volunteers to enter data in the Book Order System when we have new children enroll. This team is responding to parent requests to change their mailing address when they've moved as well as contacting parents when our system has detected a problem with the address.
We need your help sorting books donated to us from the community. These volunteers assess book quality and then place the book into the appropriate age range (by interest, not reading level):
0-3 years old
4-6 years old
7-9 years old
10-11 years old
- There is usually some bending and lifting involved in this job. Sometimes the boxes get pretty heavy.
- You don't have to be a certified teacher or librarian to do this job, but it does take some experience with young readers to be able to sort books by age-appropriateness, so we like our book sorters to be at least 15 years old.
Book Stickering:
When we purchase a shipment of new books, this team makes sure those books get a Storybridge sticker. This is an easy job for adults as well as supervised kids 6 and up! Sometimes we have a lot of new books to sticker, and sometimes we're all caught up. If you have a group of kids under 15 that want to pitch in at Storybridge, email Sara to see if we have enough new books to make a job for them.
Kinderbridge Playgroups:
We need dedicated volunteers to assist with our Birth-5 guided playgroups 6 times/month. These volunteers need to be physically able to play with small children on the floor and react quickly to keep them safe. The groups are Monday mornings and Tuesday mornings and take 2 hours of volunteer time (setup + 90 minute sessions). The session includes 30 minutes of parent coaching while volunteers play with the kids, and then 60 minutes of whole group activity. Volunteers are needed for the 30 minute playtime without the parents and setup and clean up of supplies and toys.
Storybridge LIVE:
This is our annual fundraiser event at Hodgetown involving 10-12 book characters for kids to meet, face painting, balloon animals, special activities based on well-loved stories, and more! It takes a great volunteer effort (picture: 100 volunteers!) to make this event magical for kids and we are so grateful for all who want to help. Email Sara if you want to add an individual or group to this crucial group of helpers! Some volunteer needs will be:
- Blowing up balloons
- Setting up supplies
- Mascots
- Mascot guides
- Line management
- Ticket taking
- and more...
Miscellaneous Events:
Storybridge is frequently asked to attend a community-based event or celebration to give books to kids. Sometimes, we bring the Storybridge Book Trailer to these events and the kids can walk through the trailer to browse the selection and choose what they want most. Sometimes we simply set up a table with books available and sign up eligible children for Dolly Parton's Imagination Library.
Dolly Parton's Imagination Library:
This program is extremely low-maintenance for us to manage since the books are all shipped directly from Tennessee. But we do use a small team of volunteers to enter data in the Book Order System when we have new children enroll. This team is responding to parent requests to change their mailing address when they've moved as well as contacting parents when our system has detected a problem with the address.