Volunteering at the Rhine Research Center in Durham, NC

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Rhine Research Center
2741 Campus Walk Avenue
Building 500
Durham, NC 27705
Phone (919) 309-4600

Volunteering at the Rhine Research Center

Looking for Volunteers!
The Rhine Center has begun a long term focus upon preserving and organizing their abundant newspaper and magazine articles dating back to the 1930s. Susan Freeman and Pamela St. John have been leading monthly “Archival Work Sessions” in the Rhine Research Center Library since last February, and are looking for more volunteers to join them at the table. We read fascinating articles and label them with date and category. Snacks or lunch can be brought, although we eat them in the kitchen

If you would like to help out during a morning or afternoon session, please sign up with Lisa. Thank you for all your help!

The next gathering will be:
Archival Work Session
Date: July 10th (Saturday).
Time: divided into two sessions;
Session I, 10 am – 1 pm
Session II, 1 pm – 3:30 pm
Place: Alex Tanous Library, Rhine Research Center

Do you have some extra time during the day or afterhours to help develop and promote the Rhine Center’s expanding research and educational programs? Here are some of the current needs—

Handling & Shipping: Help in screening incoming calls, signups for programs and membership, sales and mailings of books and products.

Friendly Greeters: Program registration, hosting and sales activities at the regular evening talks, workshops and yearly conferences.

Publicity Paragons: Preparing notices for email and website posting of programs as well as expanding the overall media contacts to better publicize Rhine Center events...

Book Buddies: Help with general library work such as logging in of new books, adding onto software program, writing selected book reviews for the newsletter, and/or developing a lending library of extra library books.

For the Record: Backup assistance to audiovisual technical staff in audio and video-recording of programs

Historians: Assistance in organizing and preserving archival materials from the Rhine Center past.

Research Acolytes: Occasional assistance to research staff on selected research projects or grant proposals.

Development Demons: Assist in fund-raising and general promotional activities of the Center.

If you are interested, please contact Lisa or call 919-309-4600 during weekday hours.

Volunteer Hours = $$Rhine Dollars$$

For every hour you volunteer at the Rhine you can earn 2 $$Rhine Dollars$$. Volunteers have lots of opportunities to contribute to producing our programs, archival work, office and library work etc.

To keep track of your volunteer hours please pick up a Volunteer Hour Log from Lisa. Each volunteer is responsible for tracking their own hours.

Rhine dollars can be used to attend events, take workshops, or buy books, t-shirts, caps or Zener cards.

Did you know the Rhine Center relies almost exclusively on volunteers to manage and run our operations?

Socialize, Network, Learn, and Contribute!
Our volunteers make up a close community of like-minded people who share a common interest in the fascinating realm of parapsychology and consciousness. Being a Rhine Center volunteer is extremely rewarding and has distinct advantages, such as having the opportunity to network and socialize with world renowned parapsychology experts and researchers and others with similar interests.

Volunteers are offered special incentives including: attendance at Rhine Center programs and social events, and special discounts. Consider becoming a part of one of the oldest and most respected centers of its kind in the world. Please contact Lisa Bennett, our Volunteer Coordinator or call the Rhine Center at (919) 309-4600 for further information.

Volunteers' meetings always take place the third Tuesday of the month. The next one is 07/21/09 at 5:00pm.