Sherry Seavers began a
multi-faceted volunteer career with World Bird Sanctuary in 2008, after a visit
to World Bird Sanctuary.
During her visit, Sherry,
a graphic designer, noticed that some of our brochures needed updating. With a little trepidation, Sherry
approached us about helping us redesign our brochures on a volunteer
basis. After all, she didn’t want
to seem critical, but it was obvious that we needed help – and she was willing
to help. With a resounding, “Yes! Please!” Sherry embarked on a massive
project to update our logo, brochures, and eventually, our website.
Sherry's company, S3 Media, specializes in graphic design and web development and hosting services for non-profits. What would have been a
simple redesign of a few pieces of printed material turned into a long-term
project to modernize our communication channels, including our website. Sherry pulled her husband Mike into the
work, too. Mike is a hot shot
computer programming guy – Mike makes our website work, Sherry maintains it and makes it look
good. You can see the fruits
of their labor at www.worldbirdsanctuary.org – a website so suited to what we do that other
similar organizations have copied the format!
Sherry with Kona, her
personal assistant, in her office
In addition to
volunteering graphic design and web-building talent, Sherry is a regular
volunteer in our wildlife hospital.
She helps treat sick and injured birds, cleans up after them. Sherry has
also volunteered to bring rescued birds to our wildlife hospital on occasion,
since we do not have the manpower to run a rescue service.
Sherry working on a
bald eagle in the wildlife hospital
It is impossible to
quantify the value of Sherry’s volunteer contribution to World Bird
Sanctuary. In monetary terms, it
is more than we could have afforded to rebuild our website, but the impact is
certainly greater than that. The
website and brochures have increased awareness of World Bird Sanctuary and
increased the number of visitors that have come to the sanctuary to learn about
birds and what we do to save them.
In addition, Sherry’s work on our business cards, logo, brochures and
website combined has established a recognizable brand for World Bird Sanctuary
across all of our communication pieces and channels, strengthening our public
profile and our credibility in the public eye.
According to Independent
Sector, an advocacy group in Washington D.C. – the value of a single volunteer
hour to an organization is $22.14.
With Sherry’s five years of consistent volunteer work at World Bird Sanctuary,
and her many hours behind-the-scenes working on our printed materials and
websites, she is truly an integral member of our wonderful volunteer team!
To find out more about how
YOU can volunteer Click Here.
Submitted by Catherine
Redfern, World Bird Sanctuary Director of Development
1 comment:
Beautiful bird. Thanks for all that you do. I love WBS. I go there for therapy. LOL. I LOVE WHAT WBS STANDS FOR....KUDOS
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