The WomenSing Auxiliary is a group of dedicated volunteers who can choose a job and fill it – greet our audiences, handle our box office, pass out programs, help with our setups, host our receptions and wine bars, or help us pack it all up after the event. In short, they make these concerts extraordinary with their gracious hospitality and make it possible for us to do our best as performers, knowing all these details are taken care of!

If you would like to join this lively volunteer group, we’ll give you a free ticket to the concert and our never-ending gratitude. Furthermore, there are invitations to WomenSing social events which in the past have included a post-concert lunch and a year-end party. We guarantee a fun-loving group!

Volunteer Spotlight on Rachel Eidbo

“Authentic, interesting, creative… and challenging!” That’s how Rachel Eidbo describes her role as project manager for Youth Inspiring Youth (YIY), WomenSing’s mentor program for young choral composers. For four years now, Rachel has worked with director Martín Benvenuto and other WomenSing leaders to develop and fine-tune this program in which young composers collaborate with young poets from River of Words, a Berkeley-based nonprofit that educates youth about nature through art and poetry. Rachel especially appreciates the collaborative aspect of YIY and skillfully brings together leading composers, local high school choirs, community children’s choirs, and WomenSing supporters. “It has been rewarding to see the program evolve and to hear all of the new choral music that has come out of the program,” she says.

The complex YIY project is a good fit for Rachel, who brings a wealth of experience to the job, both as a singer and as a volunteer. Although she usually sings in mixed choruses, she has sung twice with WomenSing, once in the ’90s and once in its first collaboration with the San Francisco Gay Men’s chorus in 2004. Rachel also worked as a collaboration facilitator in the SFGMC /WomenSing pairing. This experience provided the material for the thesis which led to her Master’s Degree in Organizational Psychology.

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If you can help, email us at volunteer@womensing.org.

Rachel finds her volunteer work for WomenSing, as well as for other music organizations, highly gratifying. “It is my favorite kind of work since I am a lifelong singer and I see and experience the benefits of effective volunteering first hand. Not to mention that music organizations always need volunteers and supporters for their survival!” She has led numerous projects, fundraising or organizing and also serving on various committees.

Why does Rachel choose to lend her talents to WomenSing? She is impressed by the achievements of the group both musically and organizationally. “I like WomenSing! Martín is a gifted artistic leader and sets a standard which participants and associates of WomenSing can be proud of and can count on. WomenSing’s board and other leaders make it a very volunteer-friendly organization, with welcoming, clearly-defined and appreciated volunteer opportunities, of varying complexity depending on the interests of the volunteer,” she says.

Besides volunteering, Rachel spends time gardening, traveling, and visiting her adult son in Southern California. This spring she is spending a week volunteering in schools in Cambodia, her second trip there. “It’s just rewarding to learn new things and get to know interesting, nice people.”

Generous, unflappable, and remarkably capable, Rachel Eidbo is a huge asset to WomenSing.