We hold volunteer nights twice a week and a volunteer afternoon once a week!

Thursday 7pm - 11pm
Saturday 11am - 3pm
Sunday 7pm - 11pm

These are the nights when we actually process the requests folks send us. Come by and check out the library, help us write letters, and mail packages!

We work out of a space in the Rhizome Collective, located at 300 Allen St.
Mid-Level Volunteers

Being a Mid-Level Volunteer requires a commitment level above a regular volunteer, but affords you the freedom to define projects and apply your strongest skills to IBP. We are looking to fill essential organizational and administrative positions As a Mid-Level Volunteer, we rely on you to complete the tasks you take on in a timely and efficient manner. In return you have infinite opportunities for learning and growth at your fingertips.

Opportunities include:
• Library maintenance (book sorting, shelving etc)
• Host a new regularly scheduled volunteer night (e.g.: Saturday Afternoons)
• Take a regularly scheduled mailing
• Call in regularly scheduled lists
• Picking up mail
• General IT
• Event Planning
• Development
• Graphic design
• Tabling
• Canvassing (for pay)
• Errands (must have car)

We welcome groups of volunteers. Bring your office for an afternoon of goodwill, bring your high school English class, or encourage your politically minded friends to join you. Please contact us to schedule a group visit.
We exist solely because of our volunteers: from the once a year book donor to the band who plays a benefit show for us; from the one-time out of town volunteer to the 6 year workaholic (who volunteers for IBP as though it was his full time job.)
There is a deep level of commitment to this project that has kept it going and growing since 1998. It takes a lot of people and
energy to ensure our goals are met. We welcome and encourage you to consider a more serious level of commitment to the IBP Collective. Please contact us with questions or more information on getting involved!
Community Service
Some folks come to us to fulfill court-appointed community service hours. Other folks include high school students required by their school to do a certain number of community service per year.
Internships
High School or College students can work closely with a successful non-profit activist organization and its collective members, to enrich their education through experiential learning. We can provide you with detailed job descriptions for each position or you can propose one of your own. We will also work with interns to help them develop their goals & objectives and conduct periodic evaluations to ensure this working relationship is beneficial. Professors or students looking for internship opportunities to satisfy course requirements should contact us.

Internship Opportunities include:
• Tabling Coordinator
• Canvass Organizer
• Communications & Outreach Specialist
• Fundraiser & Benefit Show Coordinator

Out-of-Townies

If you are thinking you would really like to get involved, but don't
live in Austin, here are a few opportunities for you and we are always
open to YOUR new ideas!

• Print out an IBP pamphlet, make a bunch of photocopies, distribute it, collect donations and send 'em to IBP.
• Find publishers to donate books
• Host a fundraising party and invite us to your town
• Table at events where you can give folks pamphlets, sell books & t-shirts, get folks to sign up on our very low volume mailing list, etc.
• Work closely with us to learn how to start your own Prison Book Program