Opportunity Details

The annual RVOEP Wildlife Film Series is a community education and fundraising event supporting the Redwood Valley Outdoor Education Project (RVOEP). RVOEP provides hands on learning and outdoor education experiences for over 2,000 Ukiah area youth each year.

Available Shifts

Shift Name	Signup Max	Start	End
Event set up; early evening.	no limit	n/a	n/a

Opportunity Details

The annual RVOEP Wildlife Film Series is a community education and fundraising event supporting the Redwood Valley Outdoor Education Project (RVOEP). RVOEP provides hands on learning and outdoor education experiences for over 2,000 Ukiah area youth each year.

Available Shifts

Shift Name	Signup Max	Start	End
Event set up; early evening.	no limit	n/a	n/a

Opportunity Details

At River Health Days, you restore habitat and build community around the San Lorenzo River, in Santa Cruz, CA.

What is a River Health Day?

River Health Days are monthly volunteer events along the banks of the San Lorenzo River. During each event, volunteers like you take action to enhance river habitat. Volunteers remove invasive plants like cape ivy and ice plant and reintroduce native species such as mugwort, willows, blackberry and wildflowers. By revegetating the river bank, volunteers slow the spread of invasive plants along the two-mile long Santa Cruz Riverwalk and cultivate plants that provide bank stability, food, shade and shelter.

Through hands-on, experiential learning at River Health Days, the Santa Cruz community becomes more connected to their environment and the San Lorenzo River. At the end of each River Health Day, volunteers can look back on the work they’ve accomplished, the people they’ve connected with, and know that they’ve made a difference in their community that day. Together we create a healthy river habitat for bugs, birds, fish and more.

The San Lorenzo River is a critical resource that provides habitat for hundreds of species of fish, birds, and bugs. Once supporting as many as 20,000 wild steelhead, and 30,000 salmon just 50 years ago, the river now only supports less than 1,000 salmonids. By participating in a single River Health Day, you can make a difference in your community by taking actions for a healthy thriving ecosystem.

Opportunity Details

Officially known as the Sweet Water Soiree, our nonprofit organization will be hosting a fundraising event on February 15th to raise awareness and resources related to the work our organization does.

There will be a music, food, and a great group of people who work very hard to protect our local waters, including Lake Michigan. We will have a 50/50 raffle, beer pull (similar to a wine pull - guests purchase a random item and hope to pick the best beer related prizes) locally catered dinner, and other refreshments. The event will take place at Anodyne Coffee Roasting Co. and is a beautiful place to spend your time volunteering. We will need help decorating and we hope you have some suggestions! We will also need help selling raffle and beer pull tickets. This is a great way to not only learn more about what is being done to protect the environment but these things are actually fun. No joke!

Visit our website to learn more about our organization - www.swwtwater.org

Also check out our media campaign! You may have seen our "spokesdog" on TV: www.respectourwaters.org

Available Shifts

Shift Name	Signup Max	Start	End
Decorating and Set-up	no limit	n/a	n/a
General Volunteering	no limit	n/a	n/a

Opportunity Details

Come help clean up Misquamicut Beach in Westerly! Shoreline trash is ugly and dangerous to wildlife, and shoreline cleanups are an easy way for volunteers to make a difference. Save The Bay will provide the trash bags and disposable gloves. All volunteers should dress for the weather and wear clothes they don't mind getting dirty. Closed-toed shoes are required. All volunteers must be able to do some light to moderate bending and lifting. Volunteers under 16 must participate with an adult. Volunteers must have their own transportation to the event. All volunteers are encouraged to bring their own reusable gloves, water bottle and snacks to the cleanup event.

We will meet at the pavilion adjacent to the playground.

Follow this link to our Volunteer Waiver Form: http://www.savebay.org/file/STB-Volunteer-Waiver-Release-2017.pdf Please complete this form and bring it with you THE DAY OF the event. We will have extra copies on hand if you are unable to print.

For our cleanup safety tips click on this link: http://www.savebay.org/file/Save-The-Bay-Cleanup-Safety-Tips.pdf

Available Shifts

Shift Name	Signup Max	Start	End
General	40	n/a	n/a

Opportunity Details

The Gulf Coast Science Festival is a week long celebration of science in our community. The Festival of Flight will bring together organizations in our area that engage in science to provide hands on, engaging activities focused on flight, from drones to birds, to festival visitors. These opportunities will be designed to inspire curiosity, experimentation, and creative problem solving with an aim to encourage visitors to pursue further study in the sciences. We are anticipating over 1000 visitors to this inaugural event. The Festival is being coordinated by the Pensacola MESS Hall along with University of West Florida, the Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, Florida Public Archaeology Network, Pensacola Historic District, the City of Pensacola, Escambia County Extension Service, and West Florida Public Library.

Available Shifts

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

Opportunity Details

The Gulf Coast Science Festival is a week long celebration of science in our community. The Field Trip Day will bring together organizations in our area that engage in science to provide hands on, engaging activities to school children in grades 5-8. These opportunities will be designed to inspire curiosity, experimentation, and creative problem solving with an aim to encourage students to pursue further study in the sciences. We have over 500 students registered to attend this event. The Festival is being coordinated by the Pensacola MESS Hall along with University of West Florida, the Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, Florida Public Archaeology Network, Pensacola Historic District, the City of Pensacola, Escambia County Extension Service, and West Florida Public Library.

Available Shifts

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

Opportunity Details

The Gulf Coast Science Festival is a week long celebration of science in our community. The Expo Day will bring together organizations in our area that engage in science to provide hands on, engaging activities to festival visitors. These opportunities will be designed to inspire curiosity, experimentation, and creative problem solving with an aim to encourage visitors to pursue further study in the sciences. We are anticipating over 3000 visitors to this inaugural Festival Expo Day. The Festival is being coordinated by the Pensacola MESS Hall along with University of West Florida, the Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, Florida Public Archaeology Network, Pensacola Historic District, the City of Pensacola, Escambia County Extension Service, and West Florida Public Library.

Available Shifts

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

Opportunity Details

The Fight For Air Climb is an American Lung Association signature fundraising event. Climbs are held in prominent skyscrapers, giving participants the opportunity to join together with friends, family and co-workers as they climb the stairs of the building to the top! Over the last several years, our Fight For Air Climbs have raised more than $45 million to support the mission of the American Lung Association.

Available Shifts

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

Opportunity Details

Newport Bay Conservancy is taking on an increasing breadth and scale of activities and is looking for Board Members who can help plan, organize, market, etc. those programs that are near and dear to our mission of protecting and preserving the Upper Newport Bay.

Education programs are increasing in number, with more K through 12 participants
than ever. We are being asked to lead habitat restoration projects in the saltmarsh, on
the bluffs, and in Big Canyon. Fortunately our numbers of active, trained volunteers
is also increasing, giving us the “feet on the ground” capacity to take on these
responsibilities. There are also things we want to see moved forward to improve
community resources around the Bay which require us to be advocating and working
proactively with our partner agencies. As an example, we are working with OC
Parks to design and install new interpretive signs along the trails within the Nature
Preserve, and hope to start work with State Fish & Wildlife on similar new signage
along Back Bay Drive. At the same time we have been actively opposing the State’s
plan to begin levying a charge for users of the Big Canyon parking lot and loop trail.
We are also talking with the City to try to find a solution to the problem of trash in
the Bay. We do not support their proposal to install a trash collection device within
the Bay itself and are engaged in discussions to find a solution which can be placed
in the San Diego creek, the main source of trash and dead vegetation.
All of this means we need more people who would like to get directly involved in
helping us fulfill our mission to preserve and protect the Bay both at a Conservancy-wide
level by serving on our Board, and on the different committees which focus on
particular aspects of our work, especially marketing, fundraising and advocacy.