Volunteer Opportunities at the Boston Unit

There are several roles that our volunteers play in making education accessible to students with disabilities. These roles include:

Recording Volunteers
Outreach Volunteers
Adminstrative Volunteers

Recording Volunteers

The Boston Studio always welcomes new readers. If you enjoy reading aloud, we hope that you will consider joining our dedicated corps of studio volunteers, a diverse group of professionals, retirees and students who represent a diverse group of ages, occupations and educational backgrounds.

What they do have in common is their appreciation of this unique opportunity to share their knowledge and creativity, to learn new skills, to enjoy the camaraderie of other dedicated people, and to give something valuable to those who cannot use standard print.

We have a need for general readers, who record non-technical material. We have a critical need for specialist readers, who have backgrounds in science, math, technology, medicine, law, and other similar fields. All are welcome!

We train all of our volunteers in our modern eight-booth digital audio recording studio in Cambridge. Our volunteers record textbooks in every imaginable subject area and in doing so, serve more than 109,000 students with print disabilities around the world. Because our consumers' need for these texts is acute and growing, your skills, energy and enthusiasm are needed and welcome.

Outreach Volunteers

The Boston Unit also seeks volunteers to help in its efforts to provide educational support to local schools and students through its educational outreach program. We need volunteer customer service representatives to contact and provide assistance to schools and individual RFB&D members. We also occasionally need assistance with data input and general office work.

Administrative Volunteers

The Boston Unit also needs the services of administrative volunteers, who assist the staff in preparation of mailings for fund raising and volunteer programs, data entry and general office work.