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Opportunity for one RBC staff to participate in a virtual Future City Builders UnConference facilitated by Evergreen. Engage with ~50 youth participants, network with other local champions in the city-building space and contribute to relevant local issues to bring about awareness and action. The current Future City Builders cohort is focused in Kitchener, Waterloo, Cambridge and Guelph. Through the "UnConference" gathering model, attendees shape the agenda in real time by prioritizing themes and self-organizing. The gathering ends with space for reflection, focusing on the process and connections made, rather than a particular outcome or output. We would love to have an RBC volunteer who is local to the area participate.

Available Shifts

Shift Name	Signup Max	Start	End
Participant	1	n/a	n/a

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Branding is a way for youth-led organizations to establish themselves. A positive and strong digital identity is necessary for youth-led initiatives as it's often their first foot forward in communications and community building. Funding and capacity for quality/ professional branding are thin in many youth-led grassroots movements, so The Branding Buddy program is looking to engage with partners and allies in the sector to design branding resources and pathways to uplift and amplify youth work.

We are offering in-kind branding services to youth-led organizations that are looking to develop their brand identity or revitalize their current brand. Mentees that are approved for our Branding Buddy Program will be provided with one-on-one branding consultations with FES’ Creative Director and/ or our consortium of marketing experts, to develop a branding package and strategy for youth-led climate projects.

Branding Buddy participants will receive:

- Logo design
- Logo usage guidelines
- Colour palette
- Typography guidelines
- Language recommendations

The Branding Buddy Program is looking to expand to meet the branding needs of more youth-led projects. We are looking for 10-15 marketing and design professionals who are willing to join the Branding Buddy team and donate their time and skills to the youth-led climate movement.

The provision of services will take approximately one month per matched mentee depending on the frequency of the partner's availability for consultations.

Here is the general timeline:

Week 1 - One-hour initial consultation to discuss the vibe and feel of the selected organization/individual, and their vision for communications. The Branding Buddy will develop some initial design ideas for a brand.

Week 2 - The Branding Buddy will share design and identity ideas for youth to review and provide feedback on in another one-hour consultation. The Branding Buddy will incorporate feedback and make adjustments based on recommendations and vision.

Week 3 - The Branding Buddy will book another consultation with you to show final versions of the logo and colour palette + typography recommendations. The Branding Buddy will incorporate final recommendations and feedback.

Week 4 - The Branding Buddy will present the final brandbook and assets

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Conservation of properties. Helping with the removal of invasive species in the Milwaukee County area.

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Interested in civic tech? Curious about how you can partner with governments and community organizations to cocreate tech solutions to challenging problems? Check out The Opportunity Project for Cities!

This program brings together governments, community leaders, and tech volunteers to form a sprint team to address local challenges through the power of open data and community engagement. During the program, sprint teams create a series of customized digital tools that speak to residents’ most pressing needs. The Opportunity Project for Cities builds a culture of government transparency, accessibility, and responsiveness that strengthens trust with residents and lays the foundation for lasting cocreated innovation.

The Opportunity Project for Cities was inspired by the U.S. Census Bureau’s The Opportunity Project and adapted for local contexts by the Centre for Public Impact and the Beeck Center for Social Impact + Innovation at Georgetown University. The Opportunity Project for Cities is supported by the Knight Foundation and Google.org.

This year, The Opportunity Project for Cities will work with a cohort of 4 communities, each tackling challenges facing their residents. This year’s cohort will be Detroit, MI, Long Beach, CA, Macon Bibb County, GA, and Miami-Dade County, FL. Please see below to learn more about the participating departments and their selected topics:

Detroit, MI: Promoting equitable digital access: use open data to support Detroit’s goal of running fiber-optic cables to the entire city by 2032. Projects may focus on broadband uptake, resident engagement, or funding transparency.

Long Beach, CA: Expanding urban forest cover: use open data to improve public health, build climate resilience and address inequities in urban forest access. Projects may focus on prioritizing vacant land for urban forests, understanding previous urban forest failures, or engaging residents.

Macon Bibb County, GA: Supporting local economic development: use open data to improve public safety and support small businesses. Projects may focus on reducing neighborhood blight, repurposing vacant properties, or supporting local businesses.

Miami-Dade County, FL: Supporting local economic development: use open data to support local entrepreneurs and simplify the permitting process. Projects may focus on improving the current permitting process, entrepreneur engagement, or helping local business assistance offices.

Available Shifts

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

Opportunity Details

HR Business Partner Volunteer, Forest Fire Prevention Derivatives, CrowdDoing

HR Business Partner Volunteer, Forest Fire Prevention Derivatives, CrowdDoing/ to provide accurate and data based information on company’s profitability, solvency, stability and liquidity. You will research and analyze financial information to help company make well informed decisions, write reports and monitor financial movements.Forest Fire Prevention Derivatives, CrowdDoing, Volunteer Financial Analyst

See more detailed background on CrowdDoing's forest fire prevention derivatives
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dBp_HUr-tCCNaeGoSDfPrirRPbaoV3X4/view?usp=sharing
Forest Fire Risk Prevention Derivatives in Northern California
Bobby Fishkin, lead author

In 2018, Sacramento was named the ""the Most Polluted City on Earth"" due to ""smoke from Camp Fire,"" This proposal aims to prevent that from happening again through adopting a systemic approach and collaborating with stakeholders to actively prevent future such events. The insurance industry, along with institutional chief risk officers, have begun to recognize the importance of moving from ""loss compensation to loss prevention.""

CrowdDoing and Project Heather propose launching a prevention derivative with two new stakeholders: (a) contingent payers who pay in proportion to the reduction in risk, and (b) impact investors who finance social innovations in which their return is similarly proportional to the reduction in risk. It will build on existing precedents for contingent contracts involving social- innovation-based risk prevention.

HR Business Partner Volunteer, Forest Fire Prevention Derivatives, CrowdDoing
A spectrum of forest fire risk prevention approaches are available: from creative new social innovations to well-established interventions.The forest fire risk prevention derivative would first survey existing forest fire prevention interventions in Greater Sacramento with an eye towards which ones might be suitable to support and expand. It would then review global social innovations that might be relevant to Northern California to determine which to replicate. Entities involved in risk management and risk securitisation, from insurers to reinsurers to retrocessionaires, ought to welcome the chance to share liability proportionally through a commons of prevention innovations. The prevention derivative can expand as more institutions and individuals join as contingent payers and impact investors in order prevent a larger portion of collective risk. Payments by private and public institutions to support prevention derivatives can be in-kind, through services, and/or financial.
HR Business Partner Volunteer, Forest Fire Prevention Derivatives, CrowdDoing

HR Business Partner Volunteer, Forest Fire Prevention Derivatives, CrowdDoing require strategic thinking and are responsible for financial planning, analysis and projection for companies and corporations. The Financial Analyst prepares, reviews and distributes monthly financial reports to stores and cost/profit centers. The ability to effectively communicate complex financial information in a clear, concise way is a key attribute of the Financial Analyst. By conducting analyses of information affecting investment programs, the Financial Analyst will forecast future revenues and expenditures and determine possible profit or loss. Working with the CEO, CFO and other executive-level team members to identify cost structures and determine capital budgeting for projects, the Financial Analyst will set network-wide investment direction and policies.

We are looking for a competent Program Coordinator to undertake a variety of administrative and program management tasks. You will help in planning and organizing programs and activities as well as carry out important operational duties.

To be an excellent program coordinator, you must be organized and detail-oriented, comfortable working with diverse teams. If you have further skills in program development and human resources support, we’d like to meet you.

The goal will be to facilitate the effective management of programs according to the organization’s standards.



We are looking for a thorough Insurance Underwriter to determine potential clients’ risk factors and to establish the terms of coverage. The successful candidate must be able to set up rules which will result in securing an average proportion of good risks in order to keep average claims cost low and to enable the company to offer insurance at a lower net cost.

Volunteer Insurance Underwriter, Forest Fire Prevention Derivatives, CrowdDoing Responsibilities
Review insurance applications for compliance and adherence
Liaise with specialists to gather information and opinions
Weight loss exposures and determine underwriting alternatives
Draw up a quotes for competitive insurance premiums
Negotiate and define the specific terms of insurance policies with brokers or policyholders
Keep detailed records of policies underwritten and decisions made
Balance between mass and homogeneity of risks to achieve predictability of future results
Develop and maintain a profitable book of business for the insurer
Follow applicable insurance laws
Support risk prevention
Volunteer Insurance Underwriter, Forest Fire Prevention Derivatives, CrowdDoing Requirements
Proven insurance underwriting experience
Hands-on experience with ""smart systems"", analytical tools and statistical packages (spreadsheets,SPSS, databases etc)
Sensible judgement and attention to detail
Confident decision making skills
Excellent knowledge of insurance policies and ability to relate policy provisions to the loss exposures
Proven numeracy and statistical skills
Insurance diploma or certification
BS in Business Administration, Finance or related field

""To help support you joining the right part of CrowdDoing for you, please use this form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSftd6E0tyV2uq7mMty1rZ80BB2MSGhbnof9gRBvaQXbrttIkg/viewform?usp=sf_link""

he only way CrowdDoing.world can realize its impact potential is through virtual volunteers,service learners(http://blog.reframeit.com/service-learning-and-skilled-volunteering/), and micro-leaders (https://real-leaders.com/leveraging-micro-leadership-to-make-aspirational-goals-achievable/) coming together.

 

See this brief video aboutMicro-leadership at CrowdDoing (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhdB2YJ8Ocs&app=desktop). Micro-leadership means that each person adopts a dimension of responsibility for a collective problem in our society through collaborating on that area creatively individually and together through social innovation.

 

You are also welcome to see more background on CrowdDoing at our Youtube Channel (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVoL7fai7oa95fBo44FC0gA?sub_confirmation=1).

 

Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/crowddoing.world/),

 

Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/CrowdDoing-515295062320613) ,

 

LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/18910309/).

You can see a CrowdDoing Volunteering FAQ here.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zCkbEQX8PHh8k85BS0iIhsJJxADqdH3Kpn1PDbI1Uno/edit?usp=sharing


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

Available Shifts

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

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This year the society is enhancing open water safety by increasing diver awareness, access and training in the Cold Lake area. Volunteering opportunity includes the installation (year end removal) of buoys, awareness signage, and public training.

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MSI's goal is to cultivate a responsibility for the natural environment through hands-on marine science education programs in the San Francisco Bay and Pacific Coast. We host school field trips and public events bringing youth and families to the water's edge to learn about our coastal habitats and how we can protect them. We work collaboratively with Bay Area schools and are assembling an ocean cleanup event for hundreds of school children next month made possible by a grant from the California Coastal Commission. We need help from volunteers to make the day a success. Here is some more information:

Event Description?
We are currently recruiting groups to volunteer for the Kids' Ocean Day Adopt-A-Beach cleanup event on May 16. We are expecting 300-500 second through fifth-grade students to participate in the beach cleanup at Ocean Beach in San Francisco. The day will conclude with an aerial art display. The goal of the event is to empower kids to save the Earth by connecting them to the beaches and ocean.

How many volunteers you will need?
10-20 volunteers to motivate and keep students safe and on task during the cleanup
5-10 volunteers to help set up the aerial art display
1-2 volunteers to photograph and help document the day

When do you need help?
Date: Tuesday, May 16, 2023
From: 6:30am (start time for aerial art volunteers) and 8:30am (start time for cleanup volunteers)
To: 1:00pm (we can organize into shorter shifts is this timeframe is too long)

Meeting Place?
Ocean Beach, Ocean Beach, San Francisco, CA, USA
Gate 15

Are there any special instructions - parking, clothing, ...?
Primarily street parking. Dress for the weather (i.e. sunscreen, hats, layers, etc.)

Sign up directly: https://www.sfbaymsi.org/event-details/Volunteer-Kids-Ocean-Day-2023

Available Shifts

Shift Name	Signup Max	Start	End
Aerial Art Shift	10	n/a	n/a
Cleanup Shift	20	n/a	n/a

Opportunity Details

Our London & Main Community Garden is a wonderful space that builds community connections and provides opportunities for land-based education. Dedicated gardeners work together throughout the season to plant, maintain and harvest fresh food. Excess produce is donated to community organizations and programs. This year, the garden is needing a group of volunteers to come out and help get the space in tip top shape for the growing season! Volunteers will help fix up planters, do minor weeding, plant some seeds and, most importantly, lay down wood chips in the pathways to keep the weeds down!

Budget request: We are in need of funds for seeds, seedlings, wood/hardware to fix planters and hand tools totalling approximately $250.

Available Shifts

Shift Name	Signup Max	Start	End
General	10	n/a	n/a

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The Outdoor Education Volunteer will be dedicated to engaging youth within the San Diego River watershed, with the purpose of teaching kids the importance and value of our local ecosystem through hands-on, citizen science projects. This person will help to set up for events and stay at the meet-up location to watch the tables, tent, and others' belongings. They will also help break down the event at the end. If you would like to be more hands-on, you can also help the children participate in learning activities. These include plant, animal and insect identification, field studies and guided hikes! You are not expected to know how to do these things beforehand. Must be 18 years or older.

Time Commitment: Field trips meet on the following weekday mornings: Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday, 8:30am - 12pm. Field trips are usually held in Ocean Beach, Mission Valley Preserve, or Mission Trails Regional Park.

If you would love to teach the next generation about nature, such as the San Diego River's ecosystem, and get them excited about citizen science, you would love this opportunity!

Email us at volunteer@sandiegoriver.org for more information.

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About Greenbelt Alliance
Our mission is to educate, advocate, and collaborate to ensure the Bay Area’s lands and communities are resilient to a changing climate

About the Workshop
Climate change has presented an opportunity to reimagine our relationship to the natural world and to each other. While the climate crisis is a complex, global problem that requires bold action from government leaders—community members possess the power to greatly impact environmental decisions being made at the local level. This includes building resilience to natural disasters, reducing greenhouse gasses, environmental justice, and more. During this workshop, you will work with an environmental policy and advocacy expert to understand how cities engage in long-term planning and how you can plug in as an advocate and affect change.

Learning Outcomes
1. Understand what a General Plan is and how its elements impact local decision making
2. Learn about Climate Action Plans and if your city or county has one
3. Understand the environmental case for housing and how housing can be part of the climate solution
4. Understand how the housing element update process impacts your local community and how you can advocate for SMART (Sustainable, Mixed, Affordable, Resilient, Transit-Oriented) development
5. How to advocate around climate change at the local level in your community

Register Here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcuf-utqzMtG9RT2NNn8zmNZvqQPSosFF1j

Available Shifts

Shift Name	Signup Max	Start	End
Not applicable	no limit	n/a	n/a