Opportunity Details

Waimea Valley is hosting our 3rd annual Make-A-Difference Day volunteer event and we want to invite you to celebrate this national day of service with us!

We will have fun volunteering opportunities for participants of all ages and abilities, followed by a raffle with some awesome prizes. It is sure to be a great day of giving back, and we would love to have you and your 'Ohana join us in helping to make sure that this Valley thrives for generations to come.

The Schedule will look like this:

• 8:30am, we will start the morning with time to sign in, fill waivers and get ready for the day

• 8:45am, we will meet with our cultural department for a quick overview of the significance of this valley and the opening ceremony protocol

• 9:00am we will begin the volunteering work. We have projects for all ages and abilities. The work will last until noon.

• 12:00pm we will break for lunch and i will provide some small snacks (think like chips and granola bars) volunteers will be welcome to purchase lunch at our snack shop

• 12:30pm we will be handing out raffle tickets, remember that to get a raffle ticket, you must have signed in and filled a waiver that morning and you must be present during the raffle to win.

• 12:45pm We will begin the raffle and give away some great prizes for the volunteers including a 1-year pass to the valley.

• 1:30pm We should be done with the raffle at this time and volunteers will be encouraged to visit with community organizations and will have free admission to the valley for the remainder of that day.

We ask that everyone who is interested please RSVP so that we can plan an awesome day for you and your families.

Mahalo.

Available Shifts

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

Opportunity Details

Help us prepare for fall! We’ll be getting the gardens ready for the fall and winter months, spreading mulch, and planting some pollinator friendly plants. Come lend a hand and check out the beautiful Greystone Preserve.

Available Shifts

Shift Name	Signup Max	Start	End
General	50	n/a	n/a

Opportunity Details

Assist Elementary and possibly Primary students to clean up and prepare grounds for spring bulb planting in November.

Available Shifts

Shift Name	Signup Max	Start	End
General	5	n/a	n/a

Opportunity Details

First goal is to assist the Primary & Elementary Classroom students in caring for their environment by learning about various plants and flowers and how to best get them to grow.

Second goal is for landscaping and beautification of Villa Montessori School by planting bulbs that will bloom for spring.

Available Shifts

Shift Name	Signup Max	Start	End
General	5	n/a	n/a

Opportunity Details

This free celebration, attracting at least 250 visitors, features different aspects of wildlife each year. Previous themes include crepuscular and nocturnal forest creatures, and currently threatened species or those which have overcome endangered status. Families are first are greeted by volunteer musicians in our Outdoor Classroom, where local libraries facilitate seasonal crafts and activities. The large group is then divided into smaller ones for visiting the “animals,” who are stationed along our many trails. Volunteers lead groups to each station, where an “animal” provides an interactive dialogue about forest life. (“Animals” are costumed volunteers wearing detailed, hand-crafted disguises, complete with faux fur, feathers, and props for an accurate representation of each critter.) After twelve minutes, an air-horn blasts signals for the group to rotate. After every group has cycled through each station, everyone returns to the Outdoor Classroom for donuts and cider. In contrast to other autumn activities, “Animals of Halloween” is not spooky; the family-friendly program is designed to educate and entertain visitors of all ages.

Available Shifts

Shift Name	Signup Max	Start	End
General (Parking Lot Attendants, Greeters, Pumpkin/Torch Lighters, Station Masters, Refreshments, Clean-Up)	15	n/a	n/a

Opportunity Details

We have received funding from The W. Garfield Weston Foundation and RBC to hold a Student Action Competition during spring 2020. This Student Action Competition will encourage Canadian students to conserve water, to encourage others to conserve water, to learn about where their drinking water comes from (only a little more than 50% of Canadians know where their drinking water comes from), teach other Canadians about the source of their drinking water, learn what could pollute their drinking water and teach others about this as well, and much more. The competition is open to all kindergarten to grade 12 schools across Canada. There will be one national grand prize valued at $3,000 for the top school in Canada in the kindergarten to grade eight category and one national grand prize valued at $3,000 for the top school in Canada in the grade nine to grade 12 category. Each national grand prize will include a water bottle filling station, a commemorative plaque, and possibly some reusable water bottles and/or water testing kits! There will also be a prize package for the top school in Saskatchewan. It is valued at $2,200 and includes a water bottle filling station and a commemorative plaque. (Note: If the top school(s) in Canada is/are located in Saskatchewan then the second or the third place school in Saskatchewan will win the prize package valued at $2,200.)

We are looking for judges for the Spring 2020 Student Action on Canadian Water Attitudes Competition. The judging can be done from your own home, or anywhere you have Internet access. We would prefer that judges reside in Canada but would consider judges from other areas as well. This would require approximately two hours of your time and would take place in the first half of May.

Available Shifts

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

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目标：流溪生态保护中心正联合国内多个环保组织和环境科研单位，联合开发基于小型溪流的河流健康调查志愿者数据网络。我们计划通过运用底栖动物监测方法和志愿者团队建立，掌握流溪河流域全境乃至全国各条河流的生态评估数据，为包括各类河川生态建设提供基线调查和结果评估数据，研发流域健康指数，推动市民中的环境敏感人群关注水环境健康，倡导公众了解和保护水环境。

未来三年规划：第一年建立流域底栖生物评估框架体系，志愿者支持系统，局部小流域（流溪河）试点；第二年体系优化，志愿者系统自治，推广至珠江流域/华南地区；第三年通过借助网上平台（绿网、高德地图）让公众开始接受生态评估的观念，争取成为全国性生物评估数据平台。

工作方法：通过发动大批志愿者学习并实践底栖生物监测评估方法，获取大量基础数据，构建流溪河流域生态评估大数据，并通过分析比对和研究提出流域治理的观点，通过媒体传播进行公众倡导，进而推动政策及实施。

工作步骤：
一、底栖生物评估方法的宣传和倡导：通过公开宣讲、工作坊、研讨会、发表文章和自媒体传播方法和理念，以及对广州母亲河流溪河保护的意义。
二、志愿者骨干培训：开展志愿者底栖生物监测培训，推动100个以上志愿者参加培训并在流域内开展监测实践不少于500人次。
三、建设流溪河生态数据网络平台，让流溪河流域生态监测数据可视化并让公众易于获得。借助已有平台：绿网，作为一个功能性图层。
四、开展大数据分析并提出观点，调动大众媒体关注，开展公众倡导，进而影响政策的出台和实施。
五、输出工作手册和模式，通过珠江水联合行动网络，启动珠江流域生态评估大数据的构建。

工作产出：
1、流溪河生态评估志愿者体系：100名以上经过培训的注册志愿者，三级治理结构。
2、流溪河生态评估网络平台：项目期末日均IP达到1000以上。
3、《珠江流域底栖动物监测与水质评价工作手册》电子版。
4、大众媒体文章20篇，自媒体文章20篇。
5、骨干培训5场以上，受训志愿者100人次以上。

志愿者将会得到：
1、专业的底栖动物调查课程培训；
2、底栖动物调查手册；
3、组成调查小分队，并在其中担任重要角色；
4、贡献数据，构成家乡河川健康指数的重要依据。

Available Shifts

Shift Name	Signup Max	Start	End
General	20	n/a	n/a

Opportunity Details

Volunteers are needed to help carve over 400 pumpkins to light the trails for Wehr's 30th Annual Halloween Haunts event. This family friendly, not-so-scary event education and entertains families about creatures of the night. The lit jack-o-lanterns are the highlight of the event

Available Shifts

Shift Name	Signup Max	Start	End
General	30	n/a	n/a

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It is time to change the perception among Amazonian residents and governments that the rainforest is endless. It is not. And it is under daily assault from loggers, large scale agriculture, and ranching. At our forest reserves in the Peruvian Amazon, we are working to grow and plant high-value seedlings of 40+ species of native Amazon trees. We are restoring degraded areas in our reserves with these species, and are also working with local land-owners to reforest their own lands. Properly managed and cared for, tree crops in the Amazon represent a sustainable high-value source of income. At the same time, such crops protect soil fertility, provide animal habitat, protect streams, rivers, and water supply, and sustain the biodiversity for which the Amazon is justly famous.

Our shade houses currently produce several thousand chemical-free seedlings for planting each year, and we plan to branch out to school-operated nurseries in neighboring communities. We use no pesticides, herbicides or fungicides in our production process, and the only fertilizer used is composted animal manure. By planting tree crops along with food crops when a land-owner clears a patch of land, we can jump-start forest regeneration, using the highest value species. When food production ceases in 3-4 years (the time a typical slash-and-burn patch is farmed), valuable tree seedlings will already be well established and able to outcompete the weedy shrubs and vines that normally take over once weeding stops. As trees mature and are harvested, the land-owner has a valuable source of income, and pressure on more distant natural forests is greatly reduced. People live in the Amazon and will continue to do so. What we seek to do is help them better manage the natural resources that they currently have, so that those resources are still available in the future.

Volunteers can make valuable contributions by maintaining and expanding the nurseries, actively planting and weeding around valuable tree seedlings, and by working with private landowners, schools, and other interested parties to encourage area residents to take an active role in forest care and management. It can be dirty sweaty work at times, but seeing emerging forests of young trees that have been heavily over-harvested or extirpated from many areas is hugely rewarding. Your efforts will be paying off for decades and beyond!

Opportunity Details

Come help us in providing a day of adventure for boys and girls who are part of the Cub Scout program. All of the new and returning Cub Scouts have an opportunity to participate in a fun day full of exciting Cub Scout activities including archery, BB guns, games, Scout Skills, crafts, and more! We are looking for volunteers who want to help the Cub Scouts kick start their scouting careers. Volunteers would help run registration, game stations, and keep the scouts entertained! The Cub Scout Launch will bring in over 300 scouts and their parents in the Morton area. Cub Scouts are ages kindergarten- fifth grade. No experience in scouting is required and everyone is welcome to volunteer!

Available Shifts

Shift Name	Signup Max	Start	End
Program Assistant	no limit	n/a	n/a
Program Assistant	no limit	n/a	n/a