VOLUNTEER OPPURTUNITIES
Public Relations Committee:
Created positive attitudes and opinions of the program. Serves as the information link to your community and media (this includes writing news releases, developing personal contact with reporters and responding to requests for information)
Arranges speaking engagements for sister city volunteers with other civic organizations. Prepares newsletters, information brochures, flyers and other printed material. Prepares slide shows and video presentations. Plans and carries out special events.
Fundraising Committee:
Plans and organizes event to raise money. Solicits donations from local organizations, foundations and corporations.
Municipal relations:
Serves as the direct liaison with City Hall ad Municipal Government departments. Establishes and develops relationships with the state and federal representatives.
City selection committee:
Establishes criteria for the selection of future sister cities. Decides whether a proposal for a new sister city meets the program’s criteria
Recommends proposals for a new sister cities to the Board of Directors—Then presented to Mayor and council for approval.
Misato-Bytow Committee description
Youth Chapter:
Encourages active representative and participation of Youth in the sister cities program—one adult advisor for each program. Youth participants set their own guidelines and organize activities with support and assistance from the adult committees. Nominates one representative per affiliation to serve on the SCI Youth Program Assembly. Nominates one member to serve on the Board of Directors of WIFA from each program.
Cultural and exchange programs:
Plans cultural events, such as educational exhibits, photographic displays, musical and theater performances and language classes
Develops cultural exchanges with its sister city counterparts. Highlights and promotes the important role that the sister cities program and volunteers perform in the community in terms of cross-cultural exchange.
Hospitality Committee:
Handles protocol for international Visitors. Arranges tours, cultural outings and homestays for visitors from the sister cities.
Organizes receptions for sister city visitors. Arranges for visitors to meet their professional counterparts.
Education and Youth Exchange Committee:
Serves as the liaison with schools –primary, secondary, colleges and universities in the community. Promotes “sister school” linkages and the introduction of the sister cities program into the city’s educational curriculum. Organizes youth and academic programs and exchanges between the sister cities.