Volunteer
Interested in joining our family by volunteering? We need doctors, nurses, cooks, and direct care volunteers.
Find out exactly how you can help.
Volunteers
Jabberwocky volunteers, like Jabberwocky campers, return year after year. Typically, from one year to the next, about 75% of the volunteers return. This phenomenon started during the early years of the camp and continues to this day. It is not uncommon to find volunteers who have been around for five to thirty years, and occasionally longer.
Since everyone lives, eats, and plays together, community life becomes a team effort. For example, cooking, cleaning, problems solving, and decision making are not tasks reserved for any particular individual. Rather, they are responsibilities entrusted to the entire group.
Jabberwocky is a place where long days, common work, and frequent celebration transform strangers into brothers and sisters. Indeed for many volunteers, Jabberwocky is not just a good place to work: it’s a home.
We provide onsite housing, food, and a travel stipend.
Program Volunteers
During the morning, between breakfast and lunch, campers participate in classes in a range of different areas. A Program Volunteer is someone who facilitates classes during this morning time, in an area of their expertise.
Cooks
Cooks, with the help of other volunteers, are responsible for making breakfast and dinner daily for 50 - 100 people. They also help plan lunch.
Medical Volunteers
We are always looking for volunteers in the medical field. From our nurses to our doctors, each one of them volunteers their time to contribute to the Jabberwocky community. We provide onsite housing, food, and a travel stipend.
Other opportunities
If you are interested in volunteering in other ways, we have lots of ideas. Some opportunities include:
Gardening and planting
Helping with events
Clean-up before camp and between sessions
Closing camp for the Winter
Painting / fix-up projects
Laundry
Offering a specific class for a day or more (in the past this has included: poetry workshops, pottery, classes in felting, flower arranging, dance, yoga, acting, photography, art etc.)
If you are interested in helping out, please contact us at info@campjabberwocky.org
Dates - 2025
If you are interested in Volunteering for Summer Camp and/or Family Camp, please see our dates below.
- Work Weekend: May 23 - May 25
- June Family Camp Orientation #1: June 12
- June Family Camp 1: June 13 - June 15
- June Family Camp Orientation #2: June 19
- June Family Camp 2: June 20 - June 22
- Orientation #1: June 26 - June 28
- Session 1 Week 1: June 29 - July 5
- Session 1 Week 2: July 5 - July 11
- Orientation #2: July 12 - July 13
- Session 2 Week 3: July 14 - July 20
- Session 2 Week 4: July 20 - July 26
- Orientation #3: July 27 - July 28
- Session 3 Week 5: July 29 - August 4
- Session 3 Week 6: August 4 - August 10
- Orientation #4: August 11
- Session 4 Week 7: August 12 - August 17
- Session 4 Week 8: August 17 - August 23
- Labor Day Family Camp Orientation: August 28
- Labor Day Family Camp: August 29 - September 1
- Cleanup Day: September 14
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Become a volunteer
Interested in joining our family by volunteering?
We need doctors, nurses, cooks, program specialists, and direct care volunteers. You can volunteer for a day, a weekend, or a season. Find out exactly how you can help.