Scare for a Cure

Please contact SCARE for a CURE if you have any questions about volunteering for our Austin haunted house that are not answered by the information here.
Thank you for your interest in volunteering with SCARE for a CURE! We are still in need of many volunteers to help us with all areas of our haunt. Below, please find the information needed for you to volunteer. Please email us if you have any questions not answered below! We look forward to meeting you and seeing you at our Build Site.

Example Simple Tasks:
Here is a short selection of some tasks that we've had in the past. No experience or skills are necessary - if you can hold a ladder, we can use your help!

• Putting up wall flats
• Making wall flats
• Painting
• Various smaller projects
• Basic landscaping
• Weed eating
• Repairing trails
• Minor brush clearing

Volunteers are also needed to help feed our crews - both to provide food; and set it out and clean up after.
Training may be available in using power and hand tools, painting techniques, basic build projects, and more.

SCARE for a CURE, utilizing a 100% volunteer staff, designs, scripts, constructs, and presents an interactive multimedia haunted adventure in order to mentor youth and foster volunteerism and community service throughout the Central Texas area. Net profits from the haunted house are donated to local cancer related charities and/or organizations.

Born out of the ashes of legendary haunts Britannia Manor and Haunted Trails and raised from the infamous backyard haunt of local celebrity Jarrett Crippen, a.k.a. The Defuser, SCARE for a CURE's talented, creative and fiendish crew of special effects artists, set builders, audio and lighting techs, costume designers, make up artists and actors work year-round alongside volunteers from community organizations throughout Central Texas to build the haunt bigger and better each year.

SCARE's inaugural Haunt in 2007 raised $5,000 to support breast cancer recovery. The 2008 Haunt raised $10,000 that went toward scholarship funds awarded to four students affected by cancer. In 2009 we broke all previous records, donating $15,000 in proceeds to the Breast Cancer Resource Centers of Texas. The 2009 haunt logged over 12,000 volunteer hours from nearly 300 volunteers. And in 2010, topping ourselves again, SCARE donated $20,000, again to BCRC. Our crew has included teams from Sony Online Entertainment, Office Max, Americorp, Austin Art Institute, and students from Austin Sunshine Camps and Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired/Criss Cole Rehabilitation Center.

Our all-volunteer crew is passionate about Scaring and Caring. We do this to give back to the community.

SCARE for a CURE is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization.