Top 10 Ways You Can Help at Geek Girl Boot Camp
Can’t come to Boot Camp this year because of distance, other plans, money tight or travel? No worries! We have many ways you can still be involved! Here are the Top 10 ways to help!
10.) Volunteer! There are many ways you can volunteer at Boot Camp and we are always in need of committed people! We have openings for techy volunteers as well as non-techy. For the techy, we have positions like roaming techs to help with tech support, our famous Geek Girl Help Desk where you can assist attendees one-on-one with technical help, man a discussion group table and help attendees sign up for Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn, and other apps, greeters, registration, speaker wranglers, video, photographers, selling apparel, selling raffle tickets for the Educational Scholarship Raffle, helping with lunch and more. We need volunteers for Friday and Saturday. In doing so, we might even let you take a few workshops during the day…what a Win Win! Simply apply here: Volunteer Application.
9.) Scholarships! Can’t come to Boot Camp because you are unemployed, underemployed, a student, hot by the economy or fallen on hard times? Money should be no reason to not come to Boot Camp and get the education you need to succeed and get that dream job! We will help you out as much as we possibly can. We have an agreement with Career Opportunities to help anyone unemployed. If you are in a shelter, women’s center or in an underserved area, we will help you get a scholarship based on need. If you are a student, we are offering scholarships to students of any age to attend, as well as discounted rates. If you need to be here, then YOU NEED TO BE HERE! We can help you. Apply here now by filling out the Scholarship Application.
8.) Donate a Scholarship! If you happen to one of those gracious people who might have a little bit more something to give this year, why not buy a ticket for someone who cannot afford one? Geek Girl internally donates dozens of tickets to women in need, in underserved areas, and women who just need to be here but cannot afford it. If you find yourself in a good place right now, consider donating a ticket to one of these hopeful attendees. We will thank you on a page in the Conference and Resource Handbook, as well as thank you in other ways for your unselfish actions. Please email us for more information at Geek Girl. Karma is a good thing to have on your side…
7.) Donate a Raffle Gift! Every year at Boot Camp, Geek Girl has an Educational Scholarship Raffle in which we collect donated gifts and services for a raffle for attendees, directly benefiting the educational organizations we partner with, such as ABWA Cape Cod, Upper Cape Cod BPW, Jr. Tech and more. In order to help provide more money to these worthy organizations, we collect gift certificates, gift cards, gift baskets and product from businesses to put on display. Attendees can win anything from an O’Reilly book, Popchips, software from Microsoft, massages, wine baskets, Cape Cod Beer, even a TV from Best Buy. Show off your business, products or service to a conference full of women – now that’s targeted marketing! Email us if you have something you’d like to donate.
6.) Be a Speaker! Geek Girl is always in need of great speakers who believe in our mission! If you are a Woman/Girl in Tech, then we want you. We still have some openings for March 19th, so pitch us on your idea for a workshop! We would love to hear it! Pitch us by email.
5.) Evangelists! Do you have fast fingers for Tweets, the ability to do status updates in a single bound on Facebook and an uncontrollable penchant for blogging? Then help us get the word out! Be a Geek Girl Evangelist and help us build some buzz! Perhaps we can even entice you with a little schwag….hmmmm…Contact us!
4.) Sponsorship! It’s not too late! Geek Girl has phenomenal sponsors, ranging from larger international brands such as Constant Contact, Microsoft, Best Buy and more, but we also work with local sponsors alike. Sponsorship is not always about big money, even though money does support the quality of our programming and operations for attendees. It’s also about relationships and the means to put on a phenomenal event and support the women in your life and locale. We have many, many opportunities where you can benefit from our events and how you can help us achieve our goals. Email us about Sponsorships!
3.) Advertise! Want to get your service or product in front of a conference full of women all year round? Our Official Geek Girl Conference and Resource Handbook is handed out to every attendee, sponsor, speaker, and not just at Boot Camp, but we use these for marketing purposes all year round. Previous attendees still carry around this purse-size books in their laptop bags, purses, backpacks briefcases. Ads are full-color, glossy and professionally designed and bound with Geek Girl pink! If this isn’t targeted marketing to women, we don’t know what is! If you would like to advertise, email us here! We need to go to print so, so the sooner the better!
2.) Have a Boot Camp in your Hometown! Geek Girl is interested in bringing Boot Camps all over the US, Canada and overseas. Be a liaison for us in your neck of the woods and help us bring Boot Camp to your area. Help us locate a community college, find local geek girls to speak and find a women’s organization to partner with who have a educational scholarship program for women that we can partner with and provide some financial support through donations. Email us if you are interested!
And the #1 reason how you can help us at Boot Camp…
1.) Support us and Partner with us! The best way we know how you can help us is to support us, at Boot Camp and year round. Are you an organization that supports, empowers, educates and inspires women? Then we need you involved! Geek Girl has many organizations we work with such as ABWA Cape Cod, Upper Cape Cod BPW, Mass Conference for Women, Jr. Tech locally, and many more across the states and abroad. We are currently making a resource list of women’s organizations, also, so feel free to add your organization. Help us get the word out. Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn groups. Write a blog post for us or mention us in one of yours. Let other organizations know we exist so we can all work together. If each of us do our part, think of how easy it will be and how fast we can accomplish all of our collaborative goals and initiatives? Email us if you would like more info on how to help.