Like most Americans, you've probably seen the Miss America competition televised live annually. What you probably haven't seen is what's going on behind the scenes all due to hundreds of thousands of volunteers throughout the country, people who are just like you. Our local Miss Oregon team welcomes anyone who can lend a hand.
The nationally televised Miss America competition is just one very small part of a nationwide, community service network that operates 12 months a year in every state and more than a thousand cities and towns across the country. On an annual basis, Miss America state and local titleholders, along with the Organization's network of volunteers, participate in more than 12,000 community service projects, providing in excess of 500,000 service hours to worthy causes.
The Miss America Organization is one of the nation's leading achievement programs and the world's largest provider of scholarship assistance for young women. Each year, the Miss America Organization makes available more than $41 million in cash and tuition scholarship assistance. The program exists to give young women a vehicle to further their personal and professional goals, while providing a forum in which they can express their talents, intelligence and opinions on culture, politics and the community. Our local Miss Oregon Scholarship Program can provide you with new oppertunities and a whole lot of fun and personal growth.
Local and state Miss America programs - more than a thousand of them, in fact - are all part of the vast Miss America network. The volunteers who run these programs do much more than put on an annual competition. They provide scholarships that help finance the education of thousands of young women every year. They create opportunities for young women's voices to be heard across the nation on important social issues. And they help young women gain the personal and professional skills they need to succeed in life.
Who Are Our Volunteers?
The volunteers who become involved are people just like you. They come from all walks of life, every generation and represent all professions and academic disciplines.
Most volunteers tend to stay involved because they're making a difference and having a great time along the way. The Miss Oregon Scholarship Program offers volunteers a unique opportunity to integrate their diverse backgrounds and interests to make valuable contributions to their communities, empower young women, form lifelong friendships, further their own business objectives and dabble in the glitz and glamour of show business.
Volunteer Opportunities Include:
Awards Committee Members Merchandise Representatives
Back Stage Assistants Publicity Committee
Board Members Publicity Committee
Contestant Hostesses Production Specialists
Committee Chairpersons Program Book Committee Members
Scholarship Committee Members Contestant Recruitment Specialists
Special Events Committee Members Scholarship Committee Members
Gift Liaisons Ticket Takers & Ushers
Judges Wardrobe Consultants
Judges Committee Marketing Specialists
If you have time, talent, a service or a venue to contribute, we have a place - and a need - for you. Whether you raise scholarship dollars, work as a backstage assistant, wash cars at a fundraiser or reach out to other community service organizations you will be making a positive difference in your community and in young women's lives.
"You volunteer because of the incredible impact these young women have on your life! They are the future of our country, and it is more than rewarding to see them develop not only as contestants, but as women, students and leaders. It is more exciting than you can imagine to watch the metamorphosis that occurs over the course of their participation, and to know that you played some small part in that process."
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