Opportunity Details

The purpose of Virtual Mentorship in Green Careers is to enable professionals in established careers, that can have a positive impact on the environment, to provide insight, advice and support for young people interested in pursuing environmental careers.

The mentorship will be conducted online via video conference or email. Mentors are expected to connect with their mentee at least 5 time over the course of 3 months.

Relay Education offers support for both mentors and mentees.

Opportunity Details

Camp Counselor and overnight counselor

Volunteer counselors must be female and willing to complete a background check. Our camp counselors are volunteers in helping us prepare and maintain our retreats. Counselors can serve a few hrs or sign up to serve overnight. Your time as a volunteer will be a transformational experience for yourself and the girls you serve. Your time with us will go toward a great cost to allow girls in the underserved community access to valuable experiences.

Available Shifts

Shift Name	Signup Max	Start	End
General	no limit	n/a	n/a

Opportunity Details

The forest of northern Western Ghats has faced many years of degradation, mainly due to cultivation of crops on the mountain slopes by clearing forest patches and logging for sale of firewood. Although this practice has been halted in the recent years, there is an urgent need to restore the biodiversity and regenerate the lost forests. Additionally, many communities are still dependant on the forests for cattle grazing and firewood for Chulha, despite having LPG connections which puts additional stress on the forests. There are lack of alternative to slash and burn agriculture, requirement of wood for cooking and absence of incentives for sustainable resource-use amongst forest dependant community. This sort of destructive use of resources has resulted in loss of biodiversity which makes it imperative to initiate work focusing on restoration of degraded lands for water security, biodiversity conservation and alternative livelihoods in these hamlets.
The volunteers can work on the ground towards this cause by participating in ecological, social and economic surveys in the forests and hamlets. They can also help in plantation of native plant species in the degraded forest lands. They can help distribute solar lamps and bio-stoves to the local community members.

Opportunity Details

Today forests have undergone decline and were destroyed by modernization,12,000 years ago humans started to farm. Since then, nearly half the world's forests have disappeared, and today we are facing, simultaneously, a global pandemic. and a devastating climate crisis. One of the quickest, most efficient, most cost-effective ways to tackle climate change is by planting trees.

Have you planted a tree?
You may be, but many people even not plant a single tree in their lifetime. Let's give back to nature and generate Oxigen.
Challenge: - Ask your 5 friends to accept the challenge plant a tree in 10 days, send a picture to you, and post it on social media. if they fail to plant a tree in 10 days then they have to donate $5 to our organization, we will plant 5 trees by your donor friend's name and Photos will send to you and post pictures on social media.

This campaign will help our "Mission 10 million plantation program".
We are looking for web developer and software, app developer volunteers, strategy planer, Data management, Business Development, and other volunteers who help us with this project.

Join us: "Climate Action Army"

Project Long-Term Impact:
In a time of crisis, let's remember that the planet is closed for repairs. But it's not too late to turn it around and we can rise above all this. If we get those trees into the ground, do you have any idea what will happen? We'll increase the fertility of our soils, provide habitat for wildlife, store all that carbon, help stabilize the climate, and ensure that we have clean air to breathe and pure water to drink. Plant trees for water. Water for life. Are you in?

https://mygoodness.benevity.org/community/cause/356-5684148775040_34a6/project/43NDZ93B19

Opportunity Details

We are in search of volunteers to do some trail maintenance near the nursing home. We use the trails to take residents out for picnics in the woods, nature watch and explore the surrounding area. We are looking for teams ( social distancing is no problem out here!) to trim back scrub brush, level areas on the pathway and move any fallen branches. If this interests you please get in touch with us!

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Barefoot College works with children of the age bracket 6-14 years and adolescents teenagers. Our work is in the remotest of excluded communities in off-grid, offline, disconnected, inaccessible areas, where with Digital Night Schools we create the first generation of learners. In these tribal belts, literacy is severely poor but the need to speak on issues of gender, sustainability and rights is extremely crucial.

Barefoot College has gathered its own grassroots knowledge on how these subtle topics of holistic education can be contextualized for these regions. This process is assisted best with attractive storybooks which depend less on text and more on visuals, to convey the layers of these issues.

As such, we invite voluntary contributions to visual materials that can make its way into children's storybooks in gender, sustainability and rights. The more text independent we make such communications, the more we are able to create a world solution for dealing with these issues at the farthest corners of our planet.

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Creating more local sources of renewable energy helps infrastructure weather high demand periods. Government incentives offer homeowners significant tax credits as an incentive to encourage more involvement. With little awareness about these two benefits, ReJews conducts significant outreach campaigns to best inform eligible communities. Homeowners across NY, NJ, CT, PA, FL, TX, and CA are usually eligible about 40% of the time based on their roof shape, direction facing the sun, and shading from trees or other houses. Volunteers receive $350 for every referral that installs!

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CrowdDoing is recruiting volunteers who could help us advance our biophelia simulation collaboration. Expertise from multiple disciplines are welcome.

Biophilia Simulator Thesis:

Globally more deaths per year are linked to urban air pollution than to automobile accidents. But increasing plants in cities can be a major countervailing force.

Biophelia was defined by E.O. Wilson as """"the rich, natural pleasure that comes from being surrounded by living organisms."" Over the years, evidence has mounted of the mental and physical health benefits plants can provide to humans.

If the density of plants per acre in a neighborhood or city reaches botanical garden density (that is, comparable to the level of plants per acre of the Forest City in southern China, the neighborhood of the Bosco Verticale in Milan, or the neighborhood around largest vertical garden in the world in Bogota, Columbia), the number of deaths in cities from air pollution can be nearly eliminated and cities can become more livable places.

How can we bring this reality closer in cities around the world?

CrowdDoing has simulated health and economic gains from increased plant density through vertical gardens in hospitals and libraries. These can be extended and deepened through further outcome simulation, contextual modeling and visual illustration carried out by a diverse range of volunteers, potentially including city planners, biologists, and hospital/medical system experts.


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If you have any questions about processes for joining CrowdDoing.world as a volunteer to support our efforts in systemic change please write to volunteerorientation@crowddoing.world

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To assist aboard various vessels (and shore duty) to confirm strandings of marine wildlife along the Puget Sound region. We are looking for volunteers that are willing to travel (personal vehicle) by car to confirm visually whether reports of stranded or distressed marine wildlife are accurate.

For foot travelers, please do not approach closer than 300 yards, but try to obtain photographic evidence that SeaWolf can share with federal officials and certified responders.

For those interested in boat and vessel-board help, please reach out to share a 24-hour contact method - we occasionally need volunteers who can join us on marine vessels (adequate preparations required) to assist with marine patrols or field projects. Please reach out to SeaWolf via email at info@projectseawolf.org for specific requirements.

Opportunity Details

The Science Museum of Western Virginia sees over 90,000 students, patrons, and visitors a year. We believe in empowering our community through experiential learning and simply put, cannot achieve our mission without the support of our incredible volunteers! Volunteers are an essential part of our work-force and allow us to continue our mission: provide a public platform for local research and innovation to spark a curiosity in visitors and encourage the continued pursuit of knowledge.

From performing docent work, such as greeting guests, answering questions and maintaining the organization of the museum floors, to working with our horseshoe crabs or assisting with summer camps, we have volunteer opportunities for all types of interests and skills. You are always able to find a role that suits you here at the Science Museum of Western Virginia!

HOW TO VOLUNTEER
1) Fill out a SMWV Volunteer Application (found at smwv.org/support/volunteer)!
2) Complete Virtual Orientation (provided to you after you've completed an application)
3) Sign a Liability Waiver and give us permission to do a background check
4) Use Hands on Blue Ridge to sign up for shifts!

Have more questions? Feel free to email us at volunteers@smwv.org or call at 540.342.5710.

We can't wait to bring you on board!