Become a Fiesta Volunteer!
Click the photo to learn about the Order of the Cascarón, a group of Fiesta "super volunteers."
Fiesta San Antonio is the biggest festival in the Alamo City and the best celebration in Texas because of our great volunteers. Some 75,000 men, women and children donate their time and talents throughout the year to the 100 local nonprofit organizations that stage official Fiesta events each April.
The Fiesta San Antonio Commission has lots of opportunities for volunteers. The Fiesta Commission is the independent nonprofit group that coordinates all Fiesta activities. The commission’s small staff depends on about 200 volunteers throughout the year.
If you’d like to help put on the best festival in Texas as a Fiesta Commission volunteer, read on. You can donate your time and talents to The Fiesta Store®, corporate sales, centralized ticket sales, helping prepare mailouts or helping in the Fiesta Commission office. Here are some details:
Office Help/Telephone/Mail outs
1. Tasks may include clipping newspaper/magazine articles, running the copy machine, filing, reviewing files for archives, shredding or working on research projects. Basic computer knowledge is an asset.
2. Answering the telephone and directing calls to the appropriate staff person or appropriate referral number. Greet and assist lobby clients.
3. Assist with first class and bulk mailings at various times during the year. Tasks may include folding letters, stuffing and sealing envelopes, attaching address labels, sorting and keeping a ZIP code tally, and using a postage meter machine.
Crafts
Assist in the production of handcrafted merchandise such as Fiesta jewelry, hair items, specialty corsages, various children’s items and a variety of door and table decorations for sale in The Fiesta Store.
Merchandise
Assist with various tasks such as folding tee shirts, polo shirts and tote bags; packaging medals and other merchandise; counting and pricing merchandise. All items will be for sale in The Fiesta Store.
The Fiesta Store
Greet and assist customers towards the selection of Fiesta merchandise for purchase. Restock shelves and help to maintain the overall appearance of the store. The Fiesta Store hours are 10 a.m. until front office closing of 5 p.m. through Dec. 31 and 6 p.m. beginning Jan. 1. Quality customer service is a plus.
Centralized Ticket Sales
Volunteers sell event tickets to customers, beginning Friday March 30 through Wednesday April 25, including Saturdays and some Sundays. Sale hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. weekdays and 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on weekends. Writing out hand receipts and money handling is involved with extreme accuracy needed in the use of a portable credit card machine. Receipts, money and inventory must be accurate. Quality customer service is a plus.
Corporate Sales
Pre-arranged sales of limited quantities and variety of Fiesta merchandise take place at various local businesses, the local Stock Show & Rodeo and the local Home & Garden Show. Days and hours vary. Tasks include the preparation and transport of merchandise to sales locations, setting up an attractive display area, assisting customers with purchases, writing out hand receipts, money handling (i.e., cash, checks, portable credit card machine) and follow-up inventory. Receipts, money and inventory must be accurate. Quality customer service is a plus.
Outreach
1. Assist PMOs (Participating Member Organizations) with projects as needed. Tasks may include mail-outs, event registration, event ushering, event ticket and/or merchandise sales.
2. Assist various local community programs (i.e., Elf Louise, San Antonio Youth Council, NCLR) as a representative of the Fiesta San Antonio Commission, Inc. Tasks vary.
Download the 2011 Fiesta volunteer form.
Once you’ve printed and filled out the form, you can:
- Mail it to the Fiesta Commission, 2611 Broadway, San Antonio TX 78215.
- Drop it off at the Fiesta Commission office.
- Fax it to us at (210) 227-1139.
- E-mail it to volu...@fiesta-sa.org.
Mary Schug receives the sash of the Order of the Cascaron in 2006.
The Order of the Cascaron
The Fiesta San Antonio Commission pays special honor to a group of “super volunteers,” members of the Order of the Cascaron. Two or three people are inducted into this special group each April.
Other Fiesta San Antonio volunteer opportunities:
Are you interested in donating time to one of the Fiesta Commission’s nonprofit member organizations? You can find many of their websites in the descriptions in the Events pages.
Viva Fiesta volunteers!
