IndyFurCon: Ways to help out!
Help Wanted! We need YOU!
A con takes a lot of love and time from willing volunteers to devote hours of their con weekend to make sure the con as a whole runs smooth.
Volunteering Vs Staffing:
Volunteering is giving a few hours of your con weekend to help out with the con experience! You choose when to help, earn cool rewards, and fill a much-needed part of convention operations. Enjoy your con and help out when you like!
Staffing is a commitment to help further than volunteering. Staff devote many hours before and during the con weekend to ensure the con experience is great for everyone from start to finish.
Why Volunteer?
Volunteering is a great way to introduce yourself to how conventions work. You may be asked to perform a task like carrying items to the storage truck, checking badges at a door, fill water cups for fursuiters, or prep lanyards for registration, or other tasks!
How to sign-up!
If you’ve ever found yourself with an extra hour or two that doesn’t feel filled by any current programming offerings, try filling out a Volunteering form from your iFC registration and choose “volunteering” from the left side menu options. Filling out a form before con allows us to add you to the awesome Volunteering Telegram chat, where dispatch can occur and preferred areas may get priority for your assignments.
Your Schedule
Volunteering is on your time schedule first. A volunteer helps when they choose, even if you’ve prearranged it with us, ultimately your weekend is your weekend first. Staff members commit their time to working, you get to choose when to help.
Volunteer Rewards
A volunteer can earn some sweet swag as well, including limited supply items that are exclusive to only volunteering–so if you’re a collector, this may be a cool opportunity for you.
2024 Reward Tiers
Earn your way to awesome!
- 2 Hours – iFC Volunteer pin
- 4 Hours – Sponsor Print
- 8 Hours – Con Shirt
- 16 Hours – Themed (Limited Edition!) Pin AND Free Attendee 2025 Reg
- 24 Hours – Free Sponsor 2025 Reg
Why does iFC need Staff?
Having a devoted team of people committed to ensuring a convention runs smoothly helps everyone, staff and attendees have an amazing con weekend!
Complimentary badge
Staff gets complimentary registration to IndyFurCon! This includes access to the Sponsor Room, discounts for upgrading to Super-Sponsor, and skipping the line for picking up your badge at-con!
Early Access
Staff members help plan the whole convention, so staff knowing information ahead of time helps make that planning easier! This includes the Programming Schedule, artwork, Dealers, and future planning things like Theme and Guests of Honor ahead of the general public.
Exclusive Staff T-Shirt
If you've ever noticed that some people have iFC shirts in another color, that's a staff shirt. Every staff member gets the con shirt in this special color/design.
Exclusive Hotel Block
Among staff perks, staff have the opportunity to sign-up for discounted hotel rooms separately from the general con block. This is not a guarantee of a hotel room, only an opportunity. The 2024 Staff Hotel Block is currently full.
Networking & Experience
Staffing a convention is definitely something you can add to your resume or CV! Working with a group of different people from across the country lends a great variety of skills to learn and talent to tap. Join staff to showcase your effort into references to other areas of the fandom or work opportunities!
ADA Liaison
Con Book Team
Dealer's Den Lead
Finance Assistant
Operations Runner
Submit a Panel!
Our convention schedule is mostly built by you! When you submit panelling for IndyFurCon, you help us determine what attendees want to see at the con each year!
Co-Host a panel!
Support your friends as they take the brave leap to lead a panel at IndyFurCon, and meet others along the way! We are delighted to invite co-hosting to happen, just email programming@indyfurcon.com if you are interested and mention which panel you are interested in assisting.
Volunteer!
Some panels need a bit of help with set-up or coordination, visit the Volunteering desk during con to see if you can help!
Send in Feedback!
Tell IndyFurCon what you liked best! Tell us what you'd like to see more of, what you attended, how you think we did! Your feedback helps us choose next year's selections!
How to Volunteer?
Fill out a Volunteering form from your iFC registration and choose “volunteering” from the left side menu options. Alternatively, this can be applied for at the convention!
We are now accepting Staff Applications for our 2025 Convention Team!
Our 2024 Staff have all been selected and onboarded! Thank you for your interest, we will get in touch in a few months after IndyFurCon to speak about staffing opportunities for 2025!