Volunteer with Crown

• Registration (Camps and Spring Training Move-Ins): for Crown camps and spring training, we are in need of volunteers to help register members. The duties involved with registration include checking in members from a list provided and collecting required money/paperwork. Registration volunteers are needed one Friday evening a month between November - April (5PM-8PM) and on the 3rd Saturday in May (10AM-1PM).

• Food Service (Camps & Spring Training): the duties of a food service volunteer include preparing food, cooking, serving, and set-up/clean-up for 1-4 meals per day. Food Service volunteers needs are different in our off-season compared to our summer season. During our off-season assistance is needed one weekend per month for camps from November - April. Additionally during Spring Training food service volunteers are also needed for all weekends mid May - June. Food truck volunteers are vital to the success of our drum corps, your support is greatly appreciated.

• Airport Shuttle Driver (Camps & Spring Training): the duties of an airport shuttle driver include pick-up/drop-off at local airport/train/bus station in 15 passenger van provided. Shuttle driver volunteers are needed one weekend per month for camps from November - April and every weekend mid May - June.

• Uniform Maintenance (Camps & Spring Training): the duties of a Uniform Maintenance volunteer include measure, pin, sew, rip seams, wash, press, repair uniforms/flags/accessories. Sewing skills are needed. These volunteers will be needed one weekend per month for camps from November - April and can be utilized through all of Spring Training, Mid May to Mid June.

• CDL Truck Driver (Camps): the duties of a CDL Truck Driver include pick-up/drop-off tractor and move 2-53' trailers from storage in Pineville NC to Fort Mill area camp venue. The service of these volunteers will be needed one Friday evening and/or Sunday afternoon per month from November - April. This service could also include a volunteer who has access or ability to borrow a tractor to move the equipment.

• Handyman/Mechanic (Camps & Spring Training): the duties of this position include doing miscellaneous repairs/maintenance to equipment/vehicles as needed. Volunteers for this position are needed one weekend per month from November - April and every weekend mid May - June. The time could also be at the discretion of the volunteer if maintenance can be performed at the storage facility or available repair facility.
  

• Food Service (CrownTOUR): the duties of a touring food service volunteer include preparing food, cooking, serving, and set-up/clean-up for 1-4 meals per day. Food Service volunteers are needed for the full length of our tour from June to mid August. Volunteers who want to tour with us are divided into 1-10 "teams", and will travel for 5-14 days for their shift. Food truck volunteers are vital to the success of our drum corps, your support is greatly appreciated in this area. Additionally Food service volunteers on tour may be asked to help with uniform laundering when deemed necessary.

• Uniform Maintenance (CrownTOUR): the duties of a Uniform Maintenance volunteer include measure, pin, sew, rip seams, wash press, repair uniforms/flags/accessories. Sewing skills are needed. Uniform Maintenance volunteers are needed for the full length of our tour from June to mid August. Volunteers who want to tour are divided into 1-10 "teams" and will travel for 5-14 days for their shift. Uniform maintenance volunteers on tour are asked to assist on the food truck when deemed necessary.

• CDL Truck Driver (CrownTOUR): the duties of a touring CDL Truck Driver include driving a 53' tractor trailer in convoy between tour stops 4-5 nights a week. Volunteers for this position are needed on tour for a 8 week period from mid June through mid August. Volunteers who want to tour with us are divided into 1-10 "teams" and will travel for 5-14 days for their shift. Volunteers must have a valid CDL and medical card and available for drug testing for this position. It is preferred that these volunteer drivers commit to longer periods of time to ensure stability and understanding of the routine procedures.

• CDL Bus Driver (CrownTOUR): the duties of a touring CDL Bus Driver include driving a late model fully equipped 56 passenger bus in convoy between tour stops 4-5 nights/week doing an average of 400 miles per trip. Volunteers for this position are needed on tour for a 8 week period from mid June through mid August. Volunteers who want to tour are divided into 1-10 "teams" and will travel for 5-14 days for their shift. Volunteers must have a valid CDL and medical card and be available for company orientation training and drug testing for this position. It is preferred that these volunteer drivers commit to longer periods of time to insure stability and understanding of the routine procedures.

• Van Driver (CrownTOUR): the duties of a tour van driver include driving 15 passenger van with utility trailer in convoy between tour stops 4-5 nights/week doing an average of 400 miles per trip. Volunteers for this position are needed on tour for a 8 week period from mid June through mid August.

• Handyman/Mechanic (CrownTOUR): the duties of this position include doing miscellaneous repairs/maintenance to equipment/vehicles as needed. We are always looking for individuals that meet this wide skillset. Skills in carpentry, welding, diesel/auto mechanics, power tools, or simply people who don't mind getting their hands dirty are vital to ensuring we get our drum corps and all our moving parts on and off the field and down the road safely. Volunteers for this position are needed on tour for a 8 week period from mid June through mid August. The ideal candidate for this position is someone who can commit to around 14 days with the corps.

• Shuttle Driver (CrownTOUR): the duties of the tour volunteer shuttle driver include driving a 15-passenger van with volunteers and supplies from our Fort Mill office to a designated tour stop, and then return to Fort Mill. Volunteers for this position are needed 5-7 times from mid June through mid August.

• Website Content Writer: Website content writers are needed to draft website articles based on input from various sources. Some knowledge of Squarespace or something similar is preferred but not necessary. This is a flexible position and is needed sporadically throughout the year as events come up for the organization.

• Website Maintenance: Duties of the website maintenance volunteer include update/maintain the Carolina Crown website based on direction from the office. A good knowledge of the Squarespace content management system is preferred or something similar in design. This is a flexible position and is needed sporadically throughout the year.

• Office IT Support: Duties of the IT support volunteer include providing "help desk" type support for software/hardware issues encountered. This is a flexible position an is needed sporadically throughout the year on an as need basis.

• General Office Work: Duties of an office work volunteer include data entry, copying, filing, order fulfillment, telephone coverage/order taking, etc. This position is needed on most weekdays and is flexible based on availability.

• PR / Publicity: The job of a public relations volunteer includes drafting and implementing publicity and press releases based on input from Marketing/Event Chairs. This is a flexible position and is needed sporadically throughout the year as events and situations occur for the organization.

• Sponsorship: A sponsorship volunteer is in charge of soliciting and nurturing potential sponsors as part of a committee and on their own. This is a flexible position, but will require some scheduled meetings with committees and organization management.

• Event Committee Management Trainee: This position includes performing committee oversight under mentor-ship of existing chairperson for each event. This position is flexible with some scheduled meetings. Volunteers for this position are needed 4-6 months prior to the scheduled event.

• Event Committee Member: Event Committee members perform duties related to volunteer coordinator, marketing, facilities/ops, concessions, program ads, ...etc. This position is flexible with some scheduled meetings. Volunteers for this position are needed 4-6 months prior to the scheduled event.

• Event "Day of" Support: Our Organization has numerous fundraising events throughout the year. They consist of Drum Corps shows (CrownBEAT & NightBEAT), Band competitions (BandBEAT), and our annual Golf Tournament. These events require many volunteers to run smoothly, accurately and offer participants and fans a quality experience. For our events, we need volunteers for:

  • Ticket Sales

  • Ushering

  • Parking Attendant

  • Concession Sales

  • Program Sales

  • Operations of the Event

All event volunteers are needed on the day of the event plus in a meeting 1-2 days prior to the event. Volunteers should plan to work at the event for 4-8 hours. Groups are also welcome to volunteer. If you are a sponsor/advisor of a community group, we at Carolina Crown welcome you to bring your group members for a great volunteer experience!

Volunteers sleep in one of our entertainer coach buses equipped with bunk beds, or on an air mattress in a designated “volunteer room” within the facility that the corps is housed.

Please feel free to contact Allison at (volunteer@carolinacrown.org) to answer any of your tour-related volunteer questions.

We welcome your spouse to sign up with you for one of our tour teams, however, due to space limitations we require anyone coming on tour to “pull their weight” as a working volunteer. Due to liability reasons, only children between the ages of 16-18 years of age may be signed up with you for one of our tour teams, space available. Again, the child will need to “pull their weight” as a working volunteer.

Emergencies do happen and Carolina Crown will make every effort to get you to a nearby transportation center, however, you will be responsible for all costs associated with your return travel.

Other than “spending money” you will not normally incur any costs while on tour. You will eat almost all your meals from our mobile kitchen, be provided with sleeping accommodations, and receive a “volunteer pass” for entry into the corps’ performances (space-available seating as designated by the show promoter).

We do our best to ensure our volunteers balance work and rest. There should always be small blocks of time during the day when you will have time to read a book, catch a nap, or do anything you need to make sure you are taken care of. However, it is important that our volunteers are “on duty” when they are scheduled to be.

If you are interested in volunteering for a CrownEVENT please email Cody Crawford at cody@carolinacrown.org

Each CrownEVENT takes a large number of volunteers to make that event successful. See the Positions Available section under CrownVOLUNTEERS on our website for examples of the typical positions needed.

Carolina Crown understands that emergencies do occur but since the success of our events depend on our volunteers we ask that you notify us ASAP and at least 72 hours prior to the event if you need to cancel, or find a replacement to cover your position.

Many of our events have “shifts” for volunteers whereby your time commitment may be as little as a few hours. Of course, we encourage you to sign up to work the entire event or as many “shifts” as possible.

Depending on the volunteer position you sign up for the amount of physical activity can vary tremendously. For our touring volunteers as well as some other more active positions, we recommend that you be able to be on your feet 5-7 hours/day, lift 20+lbs, be exposed to high temperatures and other outside environmental settings, and not have any medical conditions that may hinder full participation in some work duties.