VOLUNTEER
Thank you for your interest in volunteering with us! We're looking for passionate volunteers to help advance our mission. You can make a difference in the lives of the fragile infants that we serve by becoming a volunteer. No matter where you live, we have an opportunity for you!
Current Opportunities:​
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Event Ambassador ​
Location: all 95 counties of Tennessee
Our greatest need for volunteers is event support. Mothers' Milk Bank of Tennessee participates in community events across the state. Many county health departments now offer Community Baby Showers and we need more ambassadors across the state to help us at these events. As an Event Ambassador, you will help us talk to prospective milk donors about the impact of donor milk on the fragile infants that we serve.​
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Office Support
Location: Murfreesboro, TN
Assist with mailings, folding letters, and other administrative tasks. ​
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Ready to volunteer?
Let's get to know each other a little more. Please complete the volunteer form to share your interests and availability. Once we review your submission, we will contact you to schedule a brief phone call to discuss upcoming opportunities and your availability.
Regional Directors
Applications are now open for the volunteer positions of Regional Directors and Regional Subcommittee Members.
Historically, Tennessee has been divided into five Perinatal Regions with each Region having an associated Perinatal Center to assist with providing care for high-risk pregnancies and infants in the region. They are as follows:​​​
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From its inception, Mothers’ Milk Bank of Tennessee has sought to “Mirror” these regions by assigning Volunteer Regional Directors to implement the Milk Bank’s work across Tennessee.
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Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
Under ideal circumstances, each Regional Director will be responsible to recruit other volunteers in their region to create three subcommittees that report to the Regional Director:
1. Fundraising Subcommittee
a. Develop personal relationships with stakeholders
b. Identify possible Individual and Corporations
c. Identify Corporations that match individual contributions of their employees
d. Help plan an annual event in their region as a “Thank you” for Donor Mothers, to raise awareness and possible funding sources.
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2. Community Outreach Subcommittee
a. Identifying Community events around Pregnancy and Breastfeeding in their Region and inform Marketing Director so events can be added to the MMBTN Calendar
b. Identify and promote the Milk Bank with Mom’s Groups in the Region
c. Attend Regional Baby Fairs- have a Table at such events
d. Identify volunteers to help “man” Milk Bank Vendor Table
e. Suggest Social Media ideas to Marketing Director
f. Refer Media requests to E.D. and Marketing Director
g. Represent the Milk Bank at relevant expos, grand openings, events, and conferences designed to build brand awareness and generate milk donors, financial supporters, or clinical contracts.
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3. Depot Subcommittee
a. Consider possible new Depot Sites: consider- Hospitals? Pediatric Offices?
Health Department locations?
b. Represent Milk Bank while finding contacts for possible Depot Development in
the Region.
In the absence of such Subcommittees, the Regional Director will be responsible for those functions within the Region.
