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Volunteer Benefits

All valued UM-St. Louis Volunteers are offered the following benefits:

Recreational

* Mark Twain Building: A wide range of recreational activities (including indoor swimming pool) and programs are available in this complex. Volunteers may use the facilities, when they are not scheduled for classes, intramural's or other events. For information about the availability of the facility, call the Information Desk at the University Center.

Athletics: The UM-St. Louis Athletics Department has extended free admission to all home games for current volunteers in good standing.  Community Volunteers (over 18 years of age) must present their I.D. badges to gain free admission, high school students are required to wear their volunteer t-shirts and present their name tags for admission.  The University of Missouri-St. Louis sponsors 11 varsity intercollegiate sports that compete at the NCAA Division II level and is a member of the Great Lakes Valley Conference.  UM-St. Louis sports include: baseball, basketball, golf, soccer and tennis for men’s sports, and basketball, golf, soccer, softball, tennis, and volleyball for women’s sports.

Arts

Blanche M. Touhill Performing Arts Center: A home for the performing arts in St. Louis on the campus, the Center offers a wide variety of performing arts every season. Each season is packed with everything from operas and Broadway performances to comedy showcases and classical music concerts. The Touhill Performing Arts Center would like to recognize the contribution of all volunteers by offering a 10% discount on up to two tickets to all performances. An UM-St. Louis Campus ID is required to obtain the discount.

Libraries

Your University identification card may be used to check out books at any of the University System libraries. The Thomas Jefferson Library, on the main campus, and the Ward E. Barnes Education and the Health Sciences Libraries, at the South Campus Complex, are open during regular session. The collections of the libraries consist of over 900,000 volumes. Volunteers are allowed up to a maximum of four books for a twenty-one day checkout period. 

*Parking

Volunteers will be issued complimentary temporary parking passes for parking in designated staff/faculty parking lots throughout the campus.

UM-St. Louis Uniform Components

The UM-St. Louis volunteer uniform serves as a symbol of a prominent and well-respected institution. The standardized polo shirt for volunteers will be made available free of cost. Volunteer Services identification card lanyards also are available to differentiate volunteers from students/staff.

*Campus Bookstore

Volunteers receive a 10% discount. Not valid on textbooks or TritonTech merchandise.

Millennium Student Center

The student center contains Aroma’s Bakery (a bakery/coffee shop), The Nosh (great food for breakfast and lunch), campus internet access, a quiet reading area in the Fireside Lounge, a TV viewing lounge, and arcade games and pool tables.

Cultural

The Monday Noon Series is a free cultural series presented by the Center for the Humanities. This series is open to the public and registration is not requied. Parking and building are handicapped accessible. Light refreshments are served. The series is held every Monday from 12:15-1:15 p.m. at 229 J.C. Penny Conference Center, unless otherwise noted. The series includes lectures given by artists, authors, curators, professors,and composer-playwrights, and covers such broad topics as St. Louis, the arts, Shakespeare, robotics and artifical intelligence, and urban policing and community relations.

*Vision Care Discount

A reduction in fees at any of the four UM-St. Louis College of Optometry Center for Eye Care locations is available to current volunteers in good standing. A list of the reductions is provided below.

• One annual comprehensive primary care examination can be obtained for a fee of 25% off of the usual and customary charge of the center.
• Additional services and procedures will be given at a 25% reduction.
• A 25% reduction on Eyeglasses* (frame and lenses) with a $15.00 co-pay.
  * Only for eyeglass prescriptions provided by the Center for Eye Care. Valid prescriptions from other sources will be provided at a 20% reduction on the usual and customary fees of the Center for Eye Care.
• A 20% reduction on the fees for contact lens materials.

*Microcomputer Discount

Volunteers receive a 10% discount on Microcomputer Program computer education classes. The Microcomputer Program at the University of Missouri-St. Louis offers day and evening computer courses. Classes are offered in software applications, web development, graphics, image editing, networking, routers, operating systems, programming, security, and other topics. Volunteers must present a valid UM-St. Louis volunteer I.D. badge when registering. Call (314) 516-5833 for more information or visit the Microcomputer Program website.

*Information Technology Workshops

Each week Information Technology Services offers short (60-75 minutes) workshops focusing on a variety of issues related to using technology and the internet.  These include sessions on Outlook, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Access, Microsoft PowerPoint, Adobe Photoshop, Web Page Building and HTML, CD Writers, Virus and Spyware, and much, much more!  These classes are free to all currently registered volunteers over 18 years of age.  In order to register for classes please contact the Volunteer Services office at 314.516.4106 to obtain a user name and password.

*The Nonprofit Management & Leadership (“NPML”) Program

The NPML Program offers a 25% discount on the enrollment cost for our annual Fundraising Institute to all currently registered UMSL volunteers who would like to attend the classes in the Fundraising Institute.  The Fundraising Institute examines topics that are vital to the growth of any nonprofit or charitable organization, and it allows practitioners in the field of fundraising or development, as well as those seeking to enter this field, to further develop and improve the skills and techniques needed for them to be successful.  Volunteers will need to provide a valid UMSL Volunteer ID card to register for classes.

*May not apply to currently enrolled UMSL student volunteers or High School Student volunteers. Please contact the Volunteer Services office for more information.