Volunteer

Mickaboo is experiencing a steady increase in the number of birds brought to us for placement. As a 100% volunteer organization we rely on our volunteers to transport, house, and care for the birds until permanent homes can be found. We have volunteers all over Northern California. At this time we cannot expand our operations out of the state of CA, but please read on for more ways you can help if you are out of state. Please email volunteer@mickaboo.org if you'd like to pitch in! If you are under the age of 18, one of your parents will need to complete part of the section in the volunteer agreement to approve your particpation.

In addition to fostering, adopting, and donating to Mickaboo, we'd love to have your help with the following types of tasks.

Administrative Staff
  • Help with office and administrative duties, like processing applications and data entry
  • Help with our screening process, doing phone screens and home visits
  • Join one of our species teams to help birds find safe homes. We need volunteers to assist with intakes, foster placements, and following up on adoptions
  • Update our website's bird biographies to help potential adopters get to know our birds in foster care
  • Assist us with responding to callbacks and voicemails
General Equipment/Space/Labor
  • For people with trucks or vans, help us transport cages
  • For people with cars and time, help transport birds or supplies
  • Provide places to store cages and other equipment
  • Help us clean out our rented storage facilities in several Bay Area locations
Fundraising & Development
  • Join our fundraising team to work on fundraising initiatives, plans and grants
  • Help staff our presence at rescue/animal events by tabling and sharing information about our rescue work
  • Help with organizing our bi-annual fundraiser online auctions and soliciting items & donations
  • Join a toy-making party to create fun, enriching toys for the birds in our care and for sale at events
Technical Team Needs
  • Development assistance for our production databases and website
    Required: Drupal, Python, Mysql, Apache & Linux/UNIX knowledge)
    (Bonus: JSP/Java knowledge)
  • General technical assistants to help create accounts, manage membership, etc
    (Required: Some technical experience or fast learner)
    (Bonus: Experience w/ UNIX command line)
Education/Consultation
  • For those with bird experience, share your knowledge with groups or provide advice to new or current bird owners  
  • Become an instructor for our Basic Bird Care Class 
  • For those with writing skills, help add information to our website, or write and edit stories and articles for our Newsletter
PR/Outreach
  • Take Mickaboo flyers to pet stores, vet offices, and animal shelters on a regular basis
  • Help create public service announcements for television and radio stations
  • Create, update, and print flyers for fundraising efforts, special events, classes, educational purposes, and so on
  • Help organize fundraising efforts and/or collect donations of supplies or equipment to help Mickaboo Companion Bird Rescue
  • Help design and refine social media posts that share our mission and activities
Veterinary Care
  • If you are an Avian veterinarian in the San Francisco Bay Area, to donate services to Mickaboo Companion Bird Rescue at a reduced charge
Volunteer