The RVCC has earned a reputation of excellence. A major contributor of our success is the many choir volunteers. Each family is asked to volunteer in some way each year.
The sign-up for volunteers for the choir year is part of the registration form on Active Network. When you register your chorister, please select 1-3 volunteer committees that you be interested in serving on.
We have a lot of opportunities for service and as always; whether you can help a little or a lot, we LOVE you for it! As a volunteer driven organization, we ask that one parent or grandparent from each family, volunteer each year in some way as a committee member, chaperone, or a committee chair. The RVCC is famous for our Volunteers who make us SPARKLE!!
Description of RVCC Volunteer Committees:
Attendance: Provides support at all rehearsals; takes attendance, distributes weekly handouts, collects forms/monies returned by choristers, assists Director with rehearsal details, answers parent/chorister questions. Chair is responsible for being at all rehearsals and schedules committee members’ assistance. Committee members agree to be at rehearsal when scheduled to perform their duties—on a rotating basis, 1-2 times a month.
A/B Choir Attendance
B+ Choir Attendance
C Choir Attendance
A,B,B+ Local School Tour: (Not active in 25-26) Organizes school tour for A, B, B+ choirs to three local elementary schools in early December; includes distributing information to choristers, arranging transportation, coordinating scheduling with schools.
A,B,B+ Choral Festival: Responsible for all trip details: coordinating with tour group and Director, making travel arrangements, collecting registration fees, arranging chaperone/room assignments.
C Choir Trip: Responsible for all trip details: coordinating with tour group and Director, making travel arrangements, collecting registration fees, arranging chaperone/room assignments. (This works great with a team. Overall Chair, Co-Chairs for registrations and collecting payments, rooming, activities, Travel Book, Busses)
C Choir Cookie Monday: This is for the High School C Choir and volunteers set-up, serve, and clean-up for the big annual cookie event in March!
Costumes: Facilitates new costume orders for newcomers to choir and for choristers who have outgrown their costumes or progressed to the next choir; coordinates costume resale; responsible at performances to assist with costuming needs (needle & thread, buttons, pins, bobby pins, brush, comb, hairspray etc.).
B/B+ Choirs Formal Costumes
C Choir Formal Costumes
Concert Backstage Team: Co-chairs are Concert Manager and Concert Volunteer/check-in/signs and supplies Coordinator. Responsible for all activities involved on site at the Christmas and Spring concerts on rehearsal dates and concert dates; overseeing/chaperoning children backstage; stage management; coordinating with the Concert Decorating chair as needed. Committee members are assigned backstage duties during rehearsal day (prior to concerts) and during concerts.
Concert Clean-Up: Responsible for cleaning the church immediately following the concert.
Concert Round-Up: After-concert duties of gathering left-behind items backstage; cleaning up dressing rooms; transporting some materials back to Bethel Baptist; supervising/assisting choristers waiting to be picked up.
Concert PowerPoint; Responsible for compiling Spring Concert PowerPoint presentation of photos from the current choral year. Also, Senior PowerPoint presentation.
Concert Program Design: Responsible for helping with Christmas and Spring concert program components and compilation; works closely with the RVCC Operations Manager and local printer. Needs experience with Word document formatting and/or graphic design publication programs.
Fall Retreat: Responsible for planning and execution of two-day retreat; coordinating with site and Director; distributing information to choristers, collecting registration fees, arranging chaperone/room assignments.
Fundraising Committees
Personal Account Fundraising: Plans and implements fundraising opportunities for chorister personal accounts; works with Director to choose vendors; distributes information, submits orders, distributes products.
RVCC Fundraiser Event: The fundraising event varies from year to year. The RVCC is hoping to expand this area with a large size fundraising event with full choir participation and also the RVCC board. More information to come! We will need people to gather donations, secure a location, bring baked goods, set-up, serve, clean-up and advertise.
Grandin Christmas Parade (Nov.): (not active in 25-26)
Grant Writing Committee: If you have experience or an interest in writing Grant Proposals, we welcome and appreciate your help in this area.
Music Filing: Organizes, catalogs, files and distributes music to choristers; members meet during daytime hours three to four days per year to sort choristers’ returned music and collate new music for distribution. (Even a few hours on these days are helpful!)
Newcomer Class Greeters: Acts as hosts for Newcomer Music Classes and Auditions. Welcoming and signing in students, keeping order and keeping everyone happy while Ms. D leads classes and auditions. Auditions are typically held 2-4 days in May, also August and December.
Professional Photography: Collects photos from throughout the choir year and prepares them for various forms of display (both digital and traditional). Should be familiar with Photo-shop and other photography programs. Committee members are needed to submit photos of choir rehearsals and events.
Taking pictures at a professional level - Understand settings on a professional camera (the choir camera is a Canon Rebel). Know how to change lighting, ISO, exposure settings, white balance, Lens Focus, aperture, and all general picture settings on the camera.
Editing Pictures - Use a photo editing software to enhance image color/lighting on the computer. There is a free photo editor available online (Zoner Photo Studio). Be able to change contrast, exposure, shadows, black point, saturation, clarity, vibrance, tint, temperature, use clone stamp tool, and add text to image.
Also know how to take pictures off of the memory card, email full size high res photos, know how to use an online resource such as "google drive" or "dropbox" to send pictures to people who need them, know how to download and upload images.
Professional Videography: Taking official video of the Spring and Holiday concerts.
Poster/Flyer Distribution: Responsible for putting up concert posters throughout the valley to advertise concerts.
Social Media Sharing: Helps by sharing Facebook posts from the RVCC page on your personal account to increase views and online audience reach. Also comments and likes RVCC Facebook posts on a regular basis to help increase online engagement.
Scholarship Committee: Reviews scholarship applications; coordinates with Ms. D and our choir treasurer, Michelle Sublett, to manage the gift account for disbursing funds to choristers who need assistance with choir expenses.
Spirit Wear: Responsible for choir t-shirt distribution at choir rehearsals and organizing spiritwear inventory in the storage room.
Strawberry Festival Table (May): This committee needs people to plan the materials and resources needed for having a table and tent at the annual Strawberry Festival. The committee also needs several people to volunteer throughout the day to greet people and work at the table that has been set up.
Patron and Alumni Table at Concert: Welcomes patrons and alumni members at concerts.
Historian: Makes photobooks with choir pictures from throughout the year.
Choir Angels: Individuals can volunteer to be a “Choir Angel” and provide a t-shirt, Sing Legato Book, or formal costume for a chorister in need. Choir angels coordinate their generosity with contact from Ms. Davidson throughout the choir year.
Thank you so much for your help – Our volunteers make our choir SPARKLE!
Ms. Davidson
