Online Ranger Training and the New LLC

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We're a little over 6 weeks out from Mosaic Experiment 2026: The Ridiculous Revolution and we've got some updates for all you Experimenters out there!

We'll be hosting two separate online Ranger Training sessions for all you budding Razorgrass Rangers that have been signing up for shifts. The first will be held on Sunday, September 6th, at 6:00pm EST and can be joined by following this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81218526682?pwd=nG1BX7MbvabGUQcXsEAQCb9LziXiSo.1

The second will be held on Tuesday, September 22nd, at 7:00pm EST and can be joined by following this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88452090009?pwd=6umDEiUhJJ3mlTZcMFzNQFPZeW2sk0.1

Effigy, Temple, and Art Grant Applications have all closed as of today, so everyone that submitted for a grant should pay close attention to their email in the coming days.

Need-Based Ticket Requests have also closed, but we will still be accepting donations for the fund until September 22nd. So if you are able to help your fellow Burners come home this year, please donate what you can by visiting: https://mosaic.volunteeripate.com/donate.

Last but not least, as part of our Ridiculous Revolution this year, we're introducing our new LLC team that have taken over leading the event Organization. Please welcome ooMami, Corvus, Pocket Pickle, Traumagotchi, Wonder, and Bookbeard as the new collective LLC of Mosaic Experiment!

More to come soon in our next Minute in the Mud regarding some changes we've been working on all year to help provide better accountability and restorative justice for our community.

Volunteer Coordinator Needed!

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As an ever evolving organization, Mosaic Experiment often finds itself in need of new leads, and right now, we're looking to recruit a new Volunteer Coordinator to our team.

Volunteer coordinators (VC) are the ring leaders of the volunteering process. They provide assistance to team leads and volunteers that help make Mosaic successful. The VC should also aim to make gratitude for volunteering as important as acquiring volunteers.

Helpful skills for a VC include intimate knowledge with Google apps, good organization, works well with others, patience, dedication of anywhere from 1-5 hours a week of work (depending on the time of year), and the ability to effectively delegate tasks to teams and volunteers.

SPECIAL ATTENTION: The most critical task of a VC is make sure that volunteer records are as complete and accurate as possible.

Pre-Event:

  • Communicate with MORG about upcoming volunteer deadlines through emails; rarely will the situation require phone calls unless it is requested by a MORG member.

  • Assist MORG and work closely with Promo Lead for community call outs to get dept head, task lead, and volunteers; communicate with volunteers to place them with teams

  • Collaborate and confirm with dept heads about their own volunteer sign up schedules and make sure those schedules make it to the event.

  • Maintain Volunteeripate sign-ups with each department schedule

  • Communicate any budgetary needs to MORG LLC.

  • Secure volunteers to help run hub and to pass out swag/snacks to working volunteers. Effectively communicate with this team what is expected of them and their tools to get the jobs done.

  • Acquire volunteer swag, snacks, and lanyards

Event:

  • Oversee volunteers running the volunteer hub.

  • Be available to assist dept leads with any volunteer scheduling needs.

  • Help to provide education about volunteering during the event and provide an atmosphere conducive to acquiring volunteers on-site.

  • Pass out volunteer swag and snacks to volunteers

Post-Event:

  • Write up afterburn report

  • Encourage and remind leads to send thank yous to volunteers!

  • Send out volunteer surveys

If this role sounds like a good fit for you and you're ready to help plan this year's event with us, visit www.mosaicexperiment.com/lead-positions and fill out the application to join. Not quite up your alley? Check out some of the other open positions there on the same page, we'd love to work with you!

Online Ranger and Sanctuary Training This Saturday!

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Hey friends!

Do you want to be a helper? A mediator? A de-escalator? All while getting the opportunity to meet and get to know some great new people? Come be a Ranger!

Online Ranger Training will be taking place on Saturday, April 18th, at 6:00PM EST.

Want to learn the skills needed for holding space for those in emotional need in our Sanctuary?

Online Sanctuary Training will be taking place directly following Ranger Training on Saturday, April 18th, at 7:00PM EST.

Save this link and join us over Zoom this Saturday.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81630932801?pwd=5bVb2x6Vpd39t7Nik2wWpmmt6FMSmR.1

Once trained, you can volunteer with either group, we'd all love to work with you!

Need-Based Tickets Program Now Accepting Donations

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You know that feeling when you're at a Burn and somehow everything just comes together and clicks? That striking epiphany you have where you realize that this was the Burn you needed, for all the right (and wrong) reasons?

Not everyone gets to have those breakthrough moments. Not because they don't belong there, but because life has thrown them a curve-ball and fitting a ticket to the Burn into the budget just isn't accessible for them.

That's where you come in.

The Mosaic Experiment Need-Based Ticket Program is community-funded, which means it goes as far as we collectively choose to carry it. Some folks need just a small discount to make a ticket accessible. Others need full funding or they simply can't come at all. Every level of need is valid. Every dollar you give gets matched directly to the next person in the queue waiting for help.

To help ensure fulfilling every request we get this year, we've opened up donations to the program early this year. Visit mosaic.volunteeripate.com/donate or donate directly via PayPal: NBT@mosaicexperiment.com to put in a bit of Communal Effort to help make Mosaic Experiment accessible to someone who needs a breakthrough this year.