Volunteer Opportunities at the Catharine S. Eberly Center for Women

The University of Toledo
419.530.8570

The Catharine S. Eberly Center for Women (ECW) welcomes volunteers from the University and Toledo area communities.

1.      Resource and Referral Receptionist:  Respond to questions about UT, about ECW programming, groups, and events, about resources for women at UT, and about resources for women in the Toledo community.

2.      General Program Assistants:  Set up the Jane Eager Eberly Conference for Thursday Brown Bag Seminars and other events; post flyers on campus; assist with mailings and the stuffing of “goodie” bags for resource tables; create bulletin board displays; staff resource tables.

3.      Project Succeed and Women in Transition Program Assistants:  Assist with copying and preparing of materials for these groups and programs; conducting follow up phone calls, assisting with orientation, staff resource tables in the community and on campus; assist in groups; and attend CatNet meetings on occasion.

4.      Art Program Assistants:  Help artists hang exhibitions and take down exhibitions, including wall repair; assist the director with hosting opening receptions; assist with scanning slides for the ECW Website Cybergallery; post flyers regarding art openings.

5.      Assistant Archivists:  Prepare ECW materials for the UT Carlson Library Canaday Center archives.  Work with Toledo metropolitan women’s organizations to bring their organizational records to the UT Carlson Library Canaday Center archives.

6.      Student and Community Liaisons:  Link departments, student organizations,  and community organizations with the ECW, including underrepresented groups of women such as women with disabilities, lesbian and bi-sexual women, international women, and women of color.

7.      Ohio Women’s Centers/Women’s Studies Network:  Assist with hosting website for the Network and planning the annual meeting held in different parts of the state during November.

Some volunteer opportunities can be structured for academic credit as independent study, internships, service learning, or as praxis experiences.