VOLUNTEERS

Volunteers -- located throughout the United States -- distribute information about the foundation's various programs to organizations and individuals who are in their areas of the country. Area coordinators send emails to the Foundation about the activities of the volunteers in their areas and tell the volunteers what the steering committee is planning.

If you would like to volunteer to distribute literature or to be an area coordinator,
please send an email to us:
 

or call 202-824-0824

Part of the Original Steering Committee
(Washington, DC/Virginia/Maryland)

Over 340 Area Coordinators

List of Coordinators' Cities/States (See below.)

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You can volunteer now -- with no long-term commitment.  If, for any reason after you volunteer, you cannot perform at least one of the tasks below on a periodic basis, you can lower your commitment. We need you, even if it's for only 30 minutes per year.

You choose your way of volunteering.  As a volunteer, you can do as much of the following as you care to do:

• Distribute literature about the Foundation and African American Reunion registration forms to individuals and genealogical clubs, as well as to civic, social, religious, governmental and other organizations, and everywhere else.

• Photocopy the forms for you or for someone else to distribute.

• Set up tables during local functions to have people fill out their Ancestry forms.

• Pass out sign-up forms for others to become volunteers.

• Organize volunteers in your city.

• Organize Black History Month, Juneteenth, and other celebrations.

• No time to organize celebrations? Then, just tell us where someone else's celebrations will be, the dates, the contact person, and their telephone number. We'll help to publicize for them.

• Fill out Ancestry forms for those who cannot do so for themselves by going to their homes, community centers, prisons, churches, or anywhere that you care to go.

• Use your computer to go online to help others (who do not have computer access) to search for their relatives (when the online database becomes available on this web site -- eventually).

• Choose another way of assisting that is not listed. Let us know.

The following is the for the most dedicated volunteers
who will take the time to
RECORD OUR HISTORY FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS!

Begin a campaign that lasts for months to locate thousands of elderly African Americans living within your area and interview them. Get a team of people (individuals and organizations) and then contact us. We'll help to get your local newspapers and television and radio stations involved.

(1) Fill out their Ancestry forms.

(2) On a note pad, write their memories of what their relatives told them about slavery.  Include masters' names, plantation locations (near which city), and everything that they can remember.  Include all of the details that they mention.  Pull as much information as possible from them.  Write it in their own words. Do not edit.  Do not change their phrasing.

(3) Write in detail about events that made a personal impact on their lives because of segregation.  Write it in their own words. Do not edit.  Do not change their phrasing or grammar.

(4)  Have them sign a release form if they agree to let the Foundation use their information on this website -- WITHOUT including their addresses and/or telephone numbers.

(5) Take photographs of the interviewees (and of the interviewees' relatives), if you can.  If you take the relatives' photos, indicate their names, addresses, and telephone numbers, such as: Photo #1 through #6 is Sally Jenkins, #7 is Mary Jenkins, and so on.  Get a release for them, also.)  The Foundation will reimburse your for the cost of your printed photos -- or you may send undeveloped film and we'll have it developed. PLEASE NOTICE:  Let us know before you photograph the above.  Our budget is not unlimited.  We will need your original receipt(s).  (Maybe you will waive part of your costs as your donation to the Foundation.)

(6) Tape record or video record, if possible.  The Foundation will reimburse you for the cost of your tape(s).  PLEASE NOTICE:  Let us know before you record the above.  Our budget is limited.  (Maybe you will waive all or part of your costs as your donation to the Foundation. If not, we will need your original receipt(s) in order to reimburse you.)

(7) If your printed handwriting is clear, you do not need to type the interview, but typed submissions would be a blessing.  Mail all information to: American Slaves Foundation, PO Box 76622, Washington, DC 20013

• Locate elderly descendents of slave owners and follow 2-7 above.

If you can think of other ways to help the Foundation, please tell us.

Please volunteer now by sending an email.

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We currently have over 340 multi-cultural area coordinators
in the following cities:

ALABAMA Birmingham ARIZONA Jacksonville Phoenix CALIFORNIA Altadena Berkeley Compton Fresno Gardena Inglewood Los Angeles Oakland Pasadena Piedmont Richmond San Bernardino San Diego San Francisco San Gabriel San Jose San Pedro CONNECTICUT Bloomfield Hartford Waterford DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Washington FLORIDA Fort Lauderdale Jacksonville West Palm Beach GEORGIA Atlanta Columbus IOWA Desmoines ILLINOIS Chicago Rockford INDIANAPOLIS Gary KENTUCKY Louisville LOUISIANA New Orleans MAINE Boston Cambridge Worchester MARYLAND Bladensburg Cheverly Columbia Glen Burnie Landover Oxen Hill Takoma Park MICHIGAN Detroit MINNESOTA Minneapolis

MISSOURI Fulton St. Louis MISSISSIPPI Jackson NORTH CAROLINA Charlotte Greensboro Lexington Tryon Winston Salem NEW JERSEY Camden Clementon East Orange Elizabeth Hackensack Hillside Jersey City Newark Patterson Sicklerville Vineland Williamstown NEW YORK Bronx Brooklyn Buffalo Hopewell Junction Laurelton New York Queens OHIO Athens Cincinnati Toledo PENNSYLVANIA Allentown Hatboro Philadelphia Pittsburgh St. Davids SOUTH CAROLINA Abbeville Charleston Clio Columbia Huger Marion Mt. Pleasant N. Charleston Society Hill TENNESSEE Gallatin Madison Mt. Pleasant TEXAS Austin Georgetown Houston Lubbock VIRGINIA Alexandria Arlington Purcellville Quantico WISCONSIN Germantown Milwaukee

 
...and more since this page was created

Is your city listed?
If not, please become a coordinator
and it will be added.

Please volunteer to distribute literature or tell us what you'd like to do:
 

202-824-0824

Please send an email to tell others about this web site: Email