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Meet great people and give back to your community. Each month we rely on the generous support of over 80 volunteers to help us sort rescued food, pack the food into our weekly delivered food boxes for 120+ food insecure households, and run our weekly Rescued Food Market which serves 160+ households.

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The purpose of this activity is to restore Nos Quedamos park. Activities include gardening, planting tree pits, and mosaicing.

*Photo is from a May 2022 Corporate Engagement event with similar activities.

Available Shifts

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

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Milwaukee's annual July 3 Fireworks tradition is returning to Milwaukee. We are seeking volunteers to help the Milwaukee County Parks team clean up the lakefront before and after the July 3rd Fireworks Celebration.

Clean up includes: trash and debris removal, supplies provided.

This is a group opportunity for groups size 5-50.

For more information on fireworks, please visit: https://www.milwaukeefireworks.org/

Available Shifts

Shift Name	Signup Max	Start	End
General	75	n/a	n/a

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Schulz Aquatic Park at Lincoln Park will be open for summer! In order to open the Schulz Aquatic Park for family fun this summer, Milwaukee Parks Foundation is seeking volunteers for a park clean-up.

Schulz Aquatic Park is home to a water tube, body water slides, lazy river, leisure pool and more! In order to provide a safe space for families to cool off this summer, connect with us to provide a helping hand!

Volunteers are needed once monthly from May through September. This is a group opportunity for groups sized 5-50. For more information, please contact info@mkeparksfoundation.org

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Trimborn Farm is Milwaukee County’s only historical park home to nine
historic buildings. Event rentals, educational programs, special events, and historic preservation are the signature opportunities at Trimborn Farm. Milwaukee Parks Foundation is seeking volunteers to help with scraping, cleaning, prepping, and painting the exterior of one of the signature buildings.

This is a group opportunity for groups sized 10-30. For questions please contact Milwaukee Parks Foundation at info@mkeparksfoundation.org

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My non-profit needs a board of directors! I am interviewing colleagues and reaching out here for individuals who are experienced in running a nonproft and serving in an officer postion. If you would like to pass down your expertise and experience to guide this non profit please reach out. Your involvement can be temporary or permanent.

Be Outdoors Arizona's mission is to get more kids outdoors, learning about nature, developing skills such as cooperation, critical thinking, ethics and respect. Be Outdoors Arizona has 180 nonprofit partners who share their events on our calendar, creating a centralized place for all information needed to explore the great outdoors. Along with events we provide maps, a community of support and education. We provide the what, where, how, who,why and when for families in Arizona.

My goal is to create a model here in Arizona that can be built in every state in the county.

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Are you a people person? Good at having fun on social media? Good at simple data entry? We need some help in promoting events that foster a love for the outdoors and nature in kids (adults too)! Be Outdoors Arizona is on a mission to improve the mental and physical health of children! (and their parents!)

We bring all the stand alone activities that other non-profits hold for kids into one place to broaden and expand interest and involvement in the outdoors.

Looking for a team to help showcase nature activities, support and promote outdoor recreation based missions and serve the families in Arizona. Check out our website www.BeOutdoorsArizona.org

This includes:
social media sharing of our events
initiating interations on social media
simple copy and paste of events from partner websites into our calendar
creating memes and editing photos
updating events/photos on website
If you are in Arizona, fun live videos of events and places in Arizona

Training, scripts, assistance and coaching provided! Be on our team!


I hold weekly meetings for purpose, tasks and training and I reward dedication and contribution.

All help will be eligible for PT paid positions in the near future.
Will provide recommendations on your résumé.

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This is a unique chance to be a part of our Waimea Valley Volunteers Team and help to care for our sacred valley. An RSVP is required.


Work goes from 9am to 3pm and can include: Native Planting as well as Invasive species control.

*** Please realize that when you sign up, you are committing to the entire time specified above. We do not have staff to hike down early with volunteers and you cannot hike down by yourself***

Where:

Meet at Waimea Valley Botanical Office and be ready to leave for the hike at 9am

59-864 Kamehameha Hwy.

Haleiwa HI 96712



Location Details:

When you arrive at the Valley entrance road, go mauka (towards the mountains) and park in any of the regular parking lots. Then continue walking mauka from there to the Botanical office. It will be up the road to the left of the Visitor center. If you see a sign that says endangered species 'alae ula crossing keep going up that way. If you are having trouble finding your way, go to the front desk in the visitor center, let them know you are here to volunteer and ask to be directed towards the botanical offices, they can help you.



What:

This is a conservation work day, aimed at restoring and protecting the native forest habitat. We will be hiking up onto Kalāhe`e Ridge, to plant native Hawaiian plants, remove invasive species and participate in other conservation projects. It is a moderate hike up to the site (takes about 45 minutes).

** We will provide all tools, but you are welcome to bring personal gloves**



How Many:

We are looking for a maximum of 15 people for any given date.

RSVP in advance to reserve your spot.



What Age:

Ages 12 and up are invited to attend, but any volunteers under 18 will need to have a parent or guardian go with them to volunteer.


Terrain:

The terrain is moderate for Kalahe`e Ridge.

** There is very little shade on the ridge and it can get quite hot!! Be prepared!**

______________________________________________________________________
***To RSVP: Please email Volunteers@waimeavalley.net or call (808)638-5855 . Please specify which date you plan on volunteering***

**You may also, register for events through the volunteer calendar here: https://tockify.com/volunteerwaimea/agenda **

Find out more about the Waimea Volunteer Program here:

https://www.waimeavalley.net/volunteer

To reduce the risk of Covid, we recommend that everyone who visits here wears a mask in high traffic areas, when you are indoors and if you are not vaccinated, but as we are following state guidelines we do not require masks to be worn. We truly appreciate you being part of the effort to reduce the risks faced by our staff, visitors, volunteers and local community. As long as the Covid situation remains steady, we can continue with this current system, but some flexibility might be needed. I appreciate your willingness to work with the uncertain nature of planning because we truly need the volunteers help here. We thrive with all of your help and aloha.

Available Shifts

Shift Name	Signup Max	Start	End
General	25	n/a	n/a

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Nature Counter by CrowdDoing Volunteer Senior React Native Developer (with background info)https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qfGnXijZjF7q5aFwzNHfAo5OPAG0vu9Y/view?usp=sharing)

CrowdDoing has found small groups of trained professionals who know about specific nature benefits. There are people who have been trained in ""Attention Restoration Theory"", ""forest bathing"", ""eco-therapy"", ""nature deficit disorder reduction"", and other related terms. This has not be turned into a universal type of knowledge for any society to adopt in a modern context of majorities of the population living in cities and suburbs. CrowdDoing’s goal with Nature Counter is to create universal usable knowledge about what the benefits of nature dose are, how to access the benefits of nature dose and how to validate nature dose benefits for yourself. A world with more advanced processes to support nature dose could be more convivial, more resilient,would have faster learners and greater upward mobility among a plethora of benefits. Calculate the benefits to the health care system of their getting nature dose

CrowdDoing.world, https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/74278432/

Our nature counter application gets people an expectation of benefit proportionately. We have a partially finished android and iphone app in gitab aiming at an MVP, and plans for a V2 partially developed. The app is not on the market yet.

People who live in cities and the communities that connect them can achieve goals through increasing their nature dose. There is a user-centered design gap in nature in culture in that it is not discussed in terms of its benefits. Exercise may have an obvious connection to health but the fact that people sitting on a park bench are experiencing a scientifically established public health benefit is not universally understood. Scientists have been explaining this to other researchers but it hasn’t become universal knowledge any country in the world.

1. React native (front end)
- Mobile and Android app/iOS app development

2. Redux
- Mobile and Android app/iOS app development
- saving all the local data in Redux (local storage)
- for state management
- for example, articles fetched from DB can be accessed in other pages by saving the state in Redux
3. Mongo DB and nodeJS and mongoose (for making connections between Mongo DB and nodeJS) - for backend
Geo-fencing ""React Native, Google Maps, or the API geofencing call. "" advisor Ben on geo-fencing
Languages required- React native, redux, nodejs, mongodb
Gitlab, slack

21.2.1.0 is not complete. 2.0 is the main version that needs lots of help for schools to use, companies to use, health insurers to use, game companies to use etc.

22.2.Individuals and organizations can get the level of mental health, physical health and performance benefits they seek. The aim is to quantify the dose of nature benefits required to achieve individual and collective goals.

22.3.Key Features (functions/performance it must perform/provide)

Nature dose validation through GPS of time in park

Nature dose validation from user input of symptoms

Nature dose validation and estimation from literature review and meta analysis of benefits

Nature dose education

Nature dose habit building

Nature dose social use case for families and companies and communities.

22.4.Specification (if known)

22.4.1.Platform (i.e. Windows, Mac, Linux, Unix):

Languages required- React native, redux, nodejs, mongodb
Nature Counter API-

Nature Counter individuals can aggregate data to a family, company, college, or other affiliation group through Nature Counter API.

Currently below modules are working fine:

Goal Setting,
Article
Daily Log Symptoms
Daily Manual / timer time entry
Nature Counter Project installation document.

Nature Counter Installation Process- https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QnDIU3AVPV7qCPQDnw7x7a2urwdhOpwq/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=103143249500573981174&rtpof=true&sd=true

User Profile, Goal history and user benefit section is missing.

Currently we are working on benefits section as data is placeholder data.

Non-placeholder data- https://docs.google.com/document/d/1k-bZtWg2NnlVeVaFkIYqWpqz4v7uAY5PNjnlLy6tOvY/edit?usp=sharing

We started with firebase but may need an alternative for larger usage

Mainly iphone, android, apple watch, desktop use case is more moodle and growth hackng at the beginning

Languages required- React native, redux, nodejs, mongodb, gitlab, slack

 

 



Senior React Native Developer Needed
 
- Experienced React-Native developer to build cross-platform app for both iOS and Android platforms.

- Knowledgeable of modern JavaScript (including ES6 syntax), HTTP, and Rest API development.

- Able to utilize and debug third party dependencies.

- Able to build smooth UI and extend current functionality of existing code base.

- Experience with mobile application architecture.

- Aid in the development of end to end app design and CI/CD processes.

- Strong team player with focus on collaborative effort; a willingness to share knowledge and communicate across teams is vital.

Developor is for Nature Counter:

Nature Counter./Biophelia Counter

""A recent study of 20,000 people published in the journal Scientific Reports finds that people who spend at least 120 minutes per week - that’s about 18 minutes a day - in nature are far more likely to report being in good health and having higher psychological well-being, as compared to those who don’t embrace nature. People who spent some time in nature, but fewer than 120 minutes a week, ""were no more likely to report good health or high well-being than those who reported 0 minutes,"" the study authors found.""

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/this-is-the-exact-number-of-minutes-to-spend-in-nature-each-week-for-better-health-2019-06-21

 


You can see benefits of time in the park put on Nature Counter's linkedin page here- https://www.linkedin.com/posts/nature-counter-by-crowddoing_forestbathing-naturedose-attentionrestorationtheory-activity-6805531019593302016-1hnd, You can see more background on our Nature Counter team here- https://www.linkedin.com/posts/nature-counter-by-crowddoing_forestbathing-naturedose-attentionrestorationtheory-activity-6805531019593302016-1hnd. You can see a post about how just 30 minutes a week in nature reduces the chance of depression by 7%.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/13/health/nature-outdoors-health.html

 

120 Minutes per week in nature is also geo-locateable on phones. Have you gotten your 120 minutes a week at medium edose nature, or 90 minutes a day of high dose nature?

That is determinable by if your smart phone shows you in the park for how many minutes.

 

We aim to build an app that counts how many minutes in nature each week you have spent and reporting that back to the person. This is like step counts, but based on time in nature as walks through non-parks don’t count for the nature counter.


- Participate in weekly discussions across teams and stakeholders on ways to reach project goals.
Time-based nature benefits-
15 Minutes in Nature
Decrease in pulse rate by 3.9%
Decrease in systolic blood pressure by 1.9%
Decrease in diastolic blood pressure by 2.1%
Lower levels of cortisol (stress hormone)
Increased parasympathetic nerve activity and decreased sympathetic nerve activity. The sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems work together to control respiration, digestion, and heart rate. When you are calm, the parasympathetic nervous system is increased, lowering your heart rate and respiration, and increasing digestion. In a stressful situation, the fight or flight (sympathetic) response is triggered, dilating pupils, increasing heart rate and respiration, which allows you to breathe faster.
Feel more relaxed, yet energized
30 minutes in nature
All of the benefits from 15 minutes in nature AND
Increased attention span
Reduction in depression symptoms by 7%
Reduction in high blood pressure by 9%
50 minutes in nature
All of the benefits from 15, 30, and 40 minutes in nature AND
An increased attention span with the ability to block out irrelevant stimuli and concentrate
A decreased level of anxiety
120 minutes (2 hours) in nature
All of the benefits from 15, 30, 40, and 50 minutes in nature AND
An overall sense of well-being and happiness
A better, more restful sleep
150 minutes (2.5 hours) in nature
All of the benefits from 15, 30, 40, 50, and 120 minutes in nature AND
Reduction in feelings of anxiety
Reduced need to ruminate on past events and focus on the future
200 minutes in nature
All of the benefits from 15, 30, 40, 50, and 120 minutes in nature AND
The feeling of well-being and happiness

Nature benefits we're communicating:
Performance on backwards digit-span (a cognitively demanding task that requires directed attention/requires the person to block out irrelevant stimuli and focus) significantly improved while walking in nature Maintain the focus staring at something on paper better during and after a walk in nature. The ability to focus was not only recuperated by nature, but was even better compared to before going out into nature. A faster and more stable pattern of responding on the Attention Network Task Cognitive performance especially for self-perceived affect was found to improve significantly more after nature interactions compared to urban interactions. Overall, BDS ( backwards digit span) performance improved on average by 0.75 (SD = 2.11) points from pre- to post-nature interactions and 0.29 (SD = 2.19) BDS points from pre- to post urban environment interactions. Reduce the population prevalence of depression and high blood pressure by up to 7% and 9% respectively. A lower rates of depression and of high blood pressure. 3.9% decrease in pulse rate. Systolic blood pressure was lower (1.9% decrease). Diastolic blood pressure was lower (2.1% decrease). good reported health and high subjective wellbeing lower concentrations of cortisol, lower pulse rate, lower blood pressure, greater parasympathetic nerve activity, and lower sympathetic nerve activity walking leads to improved psychological state, reduced state-anxiety and perceived stress

The 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 as a volunteer please write to volunteerorientation@crowddoing.world

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Agile Project Manager for Nature Counter by CrowdDoing.world

We are seeking this project manager volunteer to support our Nature Counter team in spreading adoption fo biophelia as a public health benefit. We are building an app and need project managers to help us with this impact goal.


You can see benefits of time in the park put on Nature Counter's linkedin page here- https://www.linkedin.com/posts/nature-counter-by-crowddoing_forestbathing-naturedose-attentionrestorationtheory-activity-6805531019593302016-1hnd, You can see more background on our Nature Counter team here- https://www.linkedin.com/posts/nature-counter-by-crowddoing_forestbathing-naturedose-attentionrestorationtheory-activity-6805531019593302016-1hnd. You can see a post about how just 30 minutes a week in nature reduces the chance of depression by 7%.


120 minutes a week in nature is a basic minimal nature dose every person in a city should
achieve as a matter of public health. 90 minutes a day five days a week every week is an
optimal recommended dose of nature for every person in a city. CrowdDoing studied biophelia
in cities and found that there are more than one hundred diseases that can be prevented
through access to nature. Nature Counter is a CrowdDoing concept, imminently to become a
functional prototype that lets each person see if they are getting that level of time in nature per
week or per month. Time in nature is approximated through the kind of nature that exists in
cities- geo-locations of people based on their cell phones when they are in parks. Nature
Counter tracks each person’s time in park when the application is on. This allows people to
track it the way step counters track it. The aim is to have a universal public health goal of
getting the city’s people to have enough time in parks to realize the biophelia collective health
dividend. The concept is that nature is both an individual activity and a collective goal that
friends should encourage each-other to achieve. Nature Counter is aimed at getting each
person to track their time in nature and adjust their calendar over time to increase their time in
nature. Our estimations are that people’s time in nature would rise if they could track this and
have target goals for their health due to time in nature accordingly.

Biophelia counter builds off of the evidence that people who use step counters walk 27%
more than people who don’t. http://www.nbcnews.com/id/21901412/ns/health-fitness/t/people-
walk-mile-more-if-wearing-pedometer/ Assuming Nature Counter can achieve similar results
for biophelia, whatever percentage of the city who downloaded the nature counter application.
Assuming that San Francisco residents visit parks at an average level, they would visit parks
29 times a year- https://www.nrpa.org/blog/29-number-of-times-americans-visit-their-local-
parks-annually/. Assuming the minimal dose goal, each person would need to increase that by
another 40% to get to an average of a weekly visit to a local park and experience of biophelia.
Each person would need to expand that dose by 1000% to reach the optimal dose. This is
where a biophelia counter can come it and help people reach for more biophelia time in their
lives.

The 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.

 

CrowdDoing’s Nature Counter helps democratizes Attention Restoration Theory/

Biophelia/ Nature Therapy, giving everyone greater access to the benefits of nature.

Outcomes for Nature Counter rely upon increasing time in nature/outdoors as a way to

replicate the benefits from empirical studies in terms of mood, attention, productivity,

and wellbeing.

 

Our meta-analysis and literature review have shown that there can be significant health

impacts from 30-60 minutes of immersion in nature in a public park / leisurely forest

walks:18 It can reduce depression by 7%;; Can reduce high blood pressure by 9%;

improve memory performance and attention spans by 20%; and decrease in the stress

hormone cortisol by 12.4%.

Three days of immersion in nature increases creativity by 50% 19 We have found that

""2.5 to 3% of a person’s mental health is based on how often they visit parks. ... about

 

the same as the effect of additional income on a person’s mental health.""20 Two hours

of afternoon forest walking increases sleep by 13%.21 CrowdDoing’s Nature Counter

built a prototype of a mini-course to help educate on the benefits of nature as part of

our service learning strategy:

 

https://rise.articulate.com/share/e-r4NQVdVlXQznLcT3Z0UZHWOeBjrF-

0#/lessons/0TeOHMM9eFNxz1EKyc9WkCIilufvmbU_

 

We also conducted our own surveys and interviews as part of our research and

development Nature Counter project.

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 as a volunteer please write to volunteerorientation@crowddoing.world