Get Involved

The Solar Community Needs:

• Organization Liaisons:

  Another great way to meet like-minded people locally or around the state.

• Chapter Leaders:

  Lead a chapter, schedule speakers for regular meeting programs, notify media outlets of meetings, help set up the meeting room, greet attendees, answer questions, clean up after - doing any one of these tasks helps spread the effort and makes the meeting run more smoothly. There's literature available to set out and retail items, if interested.

  NMSEA currently has chapters in Alamogordo, Albuquerque, Las Vegas, Los Alamos, Santa Fe, Silver City and Taos.

  In particular, Santa Fe is looking for someone to replace Bob Kreger, who with Gary Anderson, started the Santa Fe Chapter last year. Busy with his own solar business, Gary will continue to help, but needs a key player take the lead. We wish Bob the best with his other priorities and look forward to his return.

  There has also been interest in Las Cruces, Deming, and we're starting to make contacts in the southeastern part of the state. Do you have a few hours a month to donate to setting up programs?

• Chapter Coordinators:*

  A great way to meet like-minded people around the state, the Chapter Coordinator administratively supports Chapter Leaders around the state.

Events

Community events enable NMSEA to meet people on an informal basis around the state. Volunteering to talk to the public at these events and coordinating the set-up, event and takedown are important parts of fulfilling our mission.

• NMSEA Event Coordinator*

  This position is very important to NMSEA's outreach in communities around the state. Requests for our presence at events are directed to this person. The Event Coordinator gets the particulars about the each event, distributes notice of the opportunity to members and volunteers, and schedules folks to table at the event. In addition to NMSEA's events - the Solar Village at Taos Solar Music Festival and Thirsty Ear Festivals, Synergy Fest and the Solar Fiesta - NMSEA also has a presence at Earth Day events and throughout the year. An assistant and many volunteers are willing to serve. Our heartfelt gratitude goes to Deena Klein for filling and developing this position over the last several years.

• NMSEA Volunteer Coordinator*

   

• Solar Fiesta Committee

  Solar Fiesta takes many minds, hands and strong backs to pull off. We had a great Solar Fiesta Committee last year as well as plenty of volunteers for the first time in several years! Whether you are interested in donating a few hours at the event, interested in a coordinator role or some level of commitment in-between, please contact the office to offer your services.
  Volunteer for the weekend of the Solar Fiesta - click here for weekend volunteer opportunities.

  • AV Coordinator

    This person will manage all aspects of AV for the Solar Fiesta workshops: contact orgs for donation of equipment - mainly laptops and projectors, schedule AV in the workshop classrooms for presentations, coordinate equipment during the fiesta and return equipment after the event.

  • Kids Area Coordinator

    We have lots of action in the Kids Area. The Coordinator coordinates the preparation for and implementation of the Solar Scavenger Hunt and the Kids' Raffle. The Coordinator would also help with placement of student exhibits.

  • Silent Auction Coordinator

    This person will contact various organizations to solicit silent auction donations; create signs for the silent auction booth and for donor exhibits, make bidding sheets, set up at the fiesta, manage the bidding throughout, call the winners, collect payment, contact absent winners and provide accounting for the auction.

  • Solar Oven Chef Coordinator

    Do you like cookies? How about baking them in the sun? NMSEA's newly refurbished Solar Oven will be at this year's Solar Fiesta. We'd like someone to coordinate the supplies and bakers throughout the Solar Fiesta.

  • Technical Sessions Coordinator

    On Sunday of the Solar Fiesta, we provide a Professionals Track in our workshops. Within the Professionals Track, we have a segment called the "Technical Sessions". These sessions are comprised of 20-minute presentations by professionals and other technical folk for their peers and the technically-minded public. This program is a return to the origins of the organization itself.
    We are looking for someone to issue a Call for Papers, accept papers, have them reviewed by an advisory committee, and select and schedule the presentations during the Solar Fiesta.

• Event Volunteers

  Set up and maintain a presence at events such as Earth Day, Taos Solar Music Festival, Synergy Fest, events at museums and places like Whole Foods and La Montanita, etc. Give out literature, encourage people to join, gather e-mail addresses of folks who want to know about events. Handle sales of Kill-a-Watt meters, Solar Professional Directories, T-shirts, Solar House Plan CD, etc.