Welcome! Our members and their Berners hail from Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont, and beyond!
Volunteer Opportunities
Our club is full of wonderful, fun, talented people ... YOU! From time to time, we need to ask for help with specific things. Here are a few ways that you can join in the fun and help your club. Please contact Mary Durham, BMDCNV President, or any Board member with your questions and interest. Thank you!
Ways & Means
This is an incredible opportunity for people who love to be creative and enjoy retail and fashion. The team develops and sells high-quality products celebrating our love of all things Berner! This is an important and multi-faceted job, so we hope to build out our team to keep our Paws ‘n’ Shop open. We’re looking to bring together a team of people with these skills and interests:
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product development: work with/artists/designers/vendors
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internet sales and fulfillment – we use Big Cartel software to keep this part simple
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maintain and store the physical inventory of our key products
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Fun Day leads – organize and staff Paws ‘n’ shop at two Fun Days per year
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financial oversight and analysis
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social media / promotion / advertising
Webmaster
The club’s website, bmdcnv.org, is built using Wix technology. It also interfaces with Big Cartel for the online store. The webmaster manages the overall website design, creates/edits online forms for events/membership renewal as needed, and makes updates to both the website and online store – this is a technical role. Wix and Big Cartel are user friendly. Other volunteers maintain the individual Event listings, help with maintenance of active user lists, and respond to any queries that come through the “Get in Touch” section. The webmaster sends out Virtual Response emails to our membership, although this responsibility could be handled by another volunteer. The webmaster also interfaces with the membership chair to update the online member renewal/payment process and stays in synch regarding status of member renewals/payments.
Fun Day
We want to hear from you! The BMDCNV hosts two Fun Days each year (one in May and one in September). We try to feature new and different events at each Fun Day (matches, games, demonstrations, discussions, parades). We are always seeking new event ideas. Better still ... come help us. We hope to solicit new folks to help plan and volunteer at our events. If you can help, please contact Allison Harding (director_harding@bmdcnv.org).
Volunteer Coordinator
The Volunteer Coordinator recognizes club members who have helped the club in key ways throughout the year. In addition, the Volunteer Coordinator works with the Membership Chair to identify potential volunteers and strategizes with the Board and with event chairpeople to bring new volunteers into active participation in our club.
Contact Mary Durham, President, for more details or to express interest.