Volunteer Opportunities

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Creative Volunteer Coordinator

Like working with creative people? Highly organized? Help us recruit and engage the creative community!

Send an email to georgia@heal-ca.org briefly describing your work with volunteers, or similar experience.

Creative Volunteer Coordinator Guidelines

  • Recruit creative volunteers, including writers, graphic artists, videographers.
  • Manage the volunteer database.
  • Orient and/or guide volunteers as necessary.
  • Coordinate volunteer projects.
  • Manage volunteer appreciation, recognition, incentives and retention.
  • Participate in leadership sessions, bringing the volunteer perspective.

Volunteer Writer

Share your commentaries, opinions and ideas about single payer.

Volunteer Writer Guidelines
Send to healteam@heal-ca.org with the word “Commentary” in the subject line.

Commentaries should:

  • Offer a unique progressive perspective on single payer healthcare.
  • Include a focus on California.
  • Be 1,000 words or less
  • Be sent in an email. No faxes.
  • Include url links to your sources for cited data
    • Examples:
      A. “Check out this 3/24/17 Scientific American article by Sharon Begley, Most Cancer Cases Arise From Bad Luck, for more information.”
      B. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/most-cancer-cases-arise-from-bad-luck/
  • Be proofread by the author
  • Be submitted with a suggested headline
  • Include a one- or two-line bio, a recent photo and, if you’d like it publicized, your email address.

Note: we are not able to pay for commentaries, nor are we able to respond to questions on why we did not post a commentary.

News Hound

Love to read about health care reform? Send us links to news articles and media you find interesting.

News Hound Guidelines
Send links to news items to healteam@heal-ca.org with the words “News Tips” in the subject line.

Please send only very current news articles for consideration. While we are grateful for news tips, we are not able to post all of them.

Graphic Artist

Visually creative? Send us your original informative, amusing and/or shareable graphics, memes, etc.

Graphic Artist Guidelines
Send graphics to healteam@heal-ca.org with the word “Graphics” in the subject line.

Please send your own original graphic(s). Your graphic will be considered an in-kind donation to the California OneCare Education Fund, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. By submitting your graphic to us, you authorize the California OneCare Education Fund to freely use the donated material(s) as we deem appropriate, on-line, in print or in other media.

Videographer

Is video your preferred medium? Share your original videos of legislative visits, rallies, interviews, commentaries and more.

Videographer Guidelines
Send links to your original Youtube videos to healteam@heal-ca.org with the word “Videos” in the subject line. Or share your Dropbox files with georgiabrewer@gmail.com.

Please send your own original video(s). Your video will be considered an in-kind donation to the California OneCare Education Fund, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. By submitting your video to us, you authorize the California OneCare Education Fund to freely use the donated material(s) as we deem appropriate, on-line or in other media.