Volunteering Opportunities

Educate 17- and 18-year-olds about the importance of voting, assist 18-year-olds with voter registration, aid students to find valuable information through www.myvote.wi.gov and www.vote411.org

This candidate forum will feature candidates running in the April 7 election for Menomonie School Board. LWV-GCV volunteers will assist with setting up the room, greeting attendees, collecting and screening questions from the audience, timekeeping for the candidates, staffing a membership and voter information table, and taking down the event.

Hope Village is a community of 10 tiny homes that provides housing for homeless people for a specific period of time while assisting them to secure permanent housing, and other services they need. The program includes shelter, mentoring, and education. We'll visit with Hope Village residents and offer to help them registr to vote.

Our voter registration drive will be held in the Commons Hall of this community. Volunteers will receive further information from the LWV-GCV coordinator approximately one week before the event.

The No Kings Rally, organized by local citizens under the banner of the national organization Indivisible, will be an outdoor event on 6th Avenue E between Broadway Street and 2nd Street E in downtown Menomonie. LWV-GCV volunteers will assist participants to register to vote, and answer questions about voting and upcoming elections. Volunteers are asked to arrive at 12:30 p.m. for set-up. The rally begins at 1 p.m. We will take down by 4:00 p.m.

Public parking is available on city streets and in pay lots in downtown Menomonie. This event is expected to draw hundreds of people, so arriving early will be helpful to find a parking place, or park remotely and walk to the site.

Volunteers of any experience level are welcome to sign up, but if you haven't taken the LWV-GCV voter registration training, you're encouraged to do that. If you have any questions, please contact David Heemsbergen at dheemsbergen67@msn.com.

Bring with you:

A folding chair for yourself if you will need to sit during the shift.

If you have an LWV-GCV yellow vest, bring it.

Water and snacks if you will need them during the shift.

Dress for the weather--we'll be outside!

When you arrive at the event site, look for the League of Women Voters table, and other volunteers wearing yellow vests.

The 2026 elections are coming up! Volunteers will wear yellow vests and offer assistance to customers at the DMV Service Center on Melby Street to help them register to vote.

Volunteers will wear yellow vests and offer assistance to customers at the DMV Service Center on Clairemont Ave to help them register to vote.

Volunteer will greet DMV customers as they enter and offer to help with updating voter registration online at a dedicated computer kiosk.

Volunteers will staff a table promoting voting, voter registration, and active citizenship through interactive games/challenges, buttons, wallet cards, etc. High school students from several area school districts will be bussed to this Career Expo. Menomonie Chamber of Commerce is sponsoring the event. We are one of many area businesses and nonprofits sharing information with students.

Volunteers are expected to be familiar with and to comply with the LWV-GCV Volunteer Code of Conduct on the website at the "About Us" tab/Documents/General Documents/Voting Tools.

Please direct any questions to Barbara Flom at flomb@centurytel.net, or (715) 619-0484.

We'll educate 17- and 18-year-olds about the importance of voting, assist 18-year-olds with voter registration, aid students to find valuable information through www.myvote.wi.gov and www.vote411.org

The League of Women Voters of the Greater Chippewa Valley hosted a discussion on immigration in May, 2025 that focused on the experiences of immigrants in the Chippewa Valley and employers who need and rely on immigrant labor to conduct their farm operations. The forum on April 28 will build on what we have learned and will focus on due process and community and local law enforcement responses to immigration.

Panelists will include Jordan Hamzawi, Assistant Professor of Political Science and Criminal Justice at UW-Eau Claire, on due process for and detention of immigrants; Dawanna Witt, first woman Sheriff of Hennepin County, MN, who has led the county's public safety operations during a time of intense federal enforcement known as "Operation Metro Surge;" and Dave Riewestahl, Sheriff of Eau Claire County, who will bring the perspective of a Chippewa Valley law enforcement leader.

Volunteers will be needed for set-up (from 4:00-5:00 pm), greeting attendees, distributing and collecting question cards from the audience, and packing up after the event (from 7:00-7:30 pm). The entire event volunteer time is from 4:00pm to 7:30pm.