Opportunity Details

CrowdDoing Learning & Development Volunteers Needed/Instructional Design Volunteer Leaders Needed for Nature Counter by CrowdDoing.

 

The framework will synthesize and simplify existing literature on specific health and commerce benefits of specific ""doses"" of nature. The gap between the research and its applications will be filled in by the ""citizen scientists"" involved-a practice that has been used to excellent effect in fields such as astronomy, ornithology, and conservation science. The customizable nature of the App encourages individuals and institutions to experiment with and pilot nature-immersion interventions that are right-sized to their goals. They have the opportunity to test for themselves the degree to which increasing nature ""doses"" for their institution increases productivity and employee wellbeing. Our aim is to co-create nature immersion research by embedding the process of research localization into the piloting process so that each organization ends up with the toolkit of nature immersion capabilities most suited to their needs.

 

 

When organizations get evidence of increased performance, they are likely to make permanent nature-based interventions. For example, a hospital with two divisions could have surgeons in one division get ""flex time"" to be free to spend 50 minutes a day in a local park. (A GPS-enabled application would confirm that they, in fact do spend that amount of time in the park.) After a specified period of time, their medical mistake rate and burn-out rate could be compared with that of the surgeons in the control group. Each organization can choose to utilize research metrics and methods that have the greatest bearings on their needs. Research methods such as Networked Improvement Communities, Context Variation by Design, and Positive Deviance are examples of methodologies that have demonstrated that proof-of-concept experiments can be emulated and customized across a network. Our goal is to help individuals as well as organizations and institutions, by making it easy for them to acquire the health literacy to decide how much time in nature they need to achieve their goals.

 

 

The framework will synthesize and simplify existing literature on specific health and commerce benefits of specific ""doses"" of nature. The gap between the research and its applications will be filled in by the ""citizen scientists"" involved-a practice that has been used to excellent effect in fields such as astronomy, ornithology, and conservation science. The customizable nature of the App encourages individuals and institutions to experiment with and pilot nature-immersion interventions that are right-sized to their goals. They have the opportunity to test for themselves the degree to which increasing nature ""doses"" for their institution increases productivity and employee wellbeing. Our aim is to co-create nature immersion research by embedding the process of research localization into the piloting process so that each organization ends up with the toolkit of nature immersion capabilities most suited to their needs.

 

Our objective is to eliminate this disconnect between the importance of nature and how nature is treated. Our team of researchers and experienced practitioners believe that this disconnect is so ingrained in societies that it can only change organically, from the bottom up. We believe that when more and more individuals and more and more managers in businesses are helped to experience the positive effects of nature, and then enabled to identify ways to efficiently preserve nature without sacrificing personal and professional gain, then nature will become a more important a factor in decision-making. As individuals and managers become adept at factoring in the importance of nature in their personal and strategic decisions, they will be more likely to embrace the preservation of nature as a goal-one which the global climate change crisis makes all the more important. Eco anxiety can reduce mental wellbeing but eco-immersion combined with collaboration on nature-based solutions that benefit the climate can both improve the mental health of individuals and the resilience of the cities in which they live.

 

The framework will synthesize and simplify existing literature on specific health and commerce benefits of specific ""doses"" of nature. The gap between the research and its applications will be filled in by the ""citizen scientists"" involved-a practice that has been used to excellent effect in fields such as astronomy, ornithology, and conservation science. The customizable nature of the App encourages individuals and institutions to experiment with and pilot nature-immersion interventions that are right-sized to their goals. They have the opportunity to test for themselves the degree to which increasing nature ""doses"" for their institution increases productivity and employee wellbeing. Our aim is to co-create nature immersion research by embedding the process of research localization into the piloting process so that each organization ends up with the toolkit of nature immersion capabilities most suited to their needs.

 

 

 

When organizations get evidence of increased performance, they are likely to make permanent nature-based interventions. For example, a hospital with two divisions could have surgeons in one division get ""flex time"" to be free to spend 50 minutes a day in a local park. (A GPS-enabled application would confirm that they, in fact do spend that amount of time in the park.) After a specified period of time, their medical mistake rate and burn-out rate could be compared with that of the surgeons in the control group. Each organization can choose to utilize research metrics and methods that have the greatest bearings on their needs. Research methods such as Networked Improvement Communities, Context Variation by Design, and Positive Deviance are examples of methodologies that have demonstrated that proof-of-concept experiments can be emulated and customized across a network. Our goal is to help individuals as well as organizations and institutions, by making it easy for them to acquire the health literacy to decide how much time in nature they need to achieve their goals.

 

 

 

Responsibilities

Create and execute learning strategies and programs

Evaluate individual and organizational development needs

Implement various learning methods companywide (e.g. coaching, job-shadowing, online training)

Design and deliver e-learning courses, workshops and other trainings

Assess the success of development plans and help employees make the most of learning opportunities

Help managers develop their team members through career pathing

Track budgets and negotiate contracts

Hire and oversee training and L&D Specialists

Preferred Requirements and skills

Current knowledge of effective learning and development methods

Familiarity with e-learning platforms and practices

Experience in project management and budgeting

Proficient in MS Office and Learning Management Systems (LMS)

Excellent communication and negotiation skills; sharp business acumen

Ability to build rapport with employees and vendors

BSc/BA in Business, Psychology or a related field

Professional certification (e.g. CPLP) is a plus

Why join CrowdDoing's Nature Counter? Join us as a CrowdDoing Learning & Development Volunteer Needed/Instructional Design Volunteer Leaders Needed for Nature Counter by CrowdDoing and you can collaborate to help democratize ecotherapy.

Here is why you should consider volunteering with us on this:

 

Our Brains are Wired for Nature-- natural elements-including trees, grass, water, and even buildings-can improve health outcomes and reduce stress and burnout among employees and medical workers.

 

We are optimizing the Nature Counter framework to deliver maximum impact for public health by making it easy for individuals and organizations to incorporate nature-based activities into their work.

 

We are seeking dedicated volunteers to help us realize the ultimate goal of this project.

Who can you help?

 

The Nature Counter aims to improve the health and lives of countless individuals and medical workers across the country and all over the world.

Organizations all over the world use our Eco-Learning approach to integrate natural elements into their environment to create a healthy and productive work environment.

 

Volunteers are an integral part of our success. Volunteers collaborate with CrowdDoing on Nature Counter flexibly. You can either lend your expertise and be hands-on, or you can help us coordinate the efforts of other volunteers to make this project a success.

You and your skills and experience have the potential to transform the ecotherapy movement in an era where everybody, is prioritizing wellness, environmental stewardship, and employee wellbeing via getting enough ecological immersion for each person.

Why contribute to CrowdDoing's Nature Counter?

As a volunteer you will be working on the cutting edge of innovative approaches to nature-based interventions.

You will be contributing directly to CrowdDoing's mission of bringing nature back into people's lives.

You will be working with highly motivated, forward thinking professionals who are passionate about helping others.

You will have the opportunity to shape the future of this project. We are looking for volunteers to help us co-create this framework.


 
Digital volunteers visit webinars about ecotherapy, read books about ecotherapy, and read scholarly articles about case studies of ecotherapy from the people who are already practicing it. We are then aiming to make this field self-navigable for people who are new to ecotherapy.
 
Are you interested in learning more of what exists online from research created by experienced ecologists and help us communicate these scientific findings to a broad audience? Do you want to help us democratize ecotherapy?

Opportunity Details

Role Brief:

Role Name:

 

Scrum Master - CrowdDoing.world's Nature Counter

 

Min Qualifications required: Bachelors / Masters

 

Min Experience Required: (in no. of yrs) 2+

 

Experience or Knowledge in a specific subject or area required: Experience software development, project management

 

Minimum Volunteer hours required: (in hrs per week) 5-20

 

Project Overview:

Project Name:

 

Nature Counter

Project Duration: (in months) 6-12 months (Ongoing)

 

Project outline:

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.

 

Understand and fulfill international data security and protection requirements, and interface with regulators.

 

 

 

Essential Tasks:

At a high level, the following tasks will need to be performed:

 

Serve as the Scrum Master for project; will be both technical and non-functional activities managed in agile manner

Facilitate Agile ceremonies such as sprint planning, backlog grooming, retrospective, etc.

Help guide and establish Agile best practices and help implement the proper tools

Groom and maintain the backlog with the Product Owner

Assists the team in achieving their sprint goals by consistently reinforcing good Scrum principles and practices, and helping the team continuously improve.

Eliminates impediments and removes blockers by working with a wide range of stakeholders until a resolution is reached, so that the team can remain focused on achieving their objectives

 

 

Skills & Competencies:

● At least one year of Scrum Master experience leading a software development or engineering team

 

● CSM or other Agile certifications

 

● Successful experience applying Agile concepts and techniques driving projects to completion

 

● Hands on experience with Agile tools (preferred, not required)

 

 

 

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""

 

""Realizing that nature is a collective benefit for the health of a city, CrowdDoing.world is working with cities worldwide to institute measurable biophelia goals. Biophelia goals include metrics such as how much time people spend in nature, frequency of parks and parks visits, and time spent in parks.

 

A biophelia counter is a concept CrowdDoing.world is developing that will aid people in tracking their biophelia, or the amount of time they spend in nature. CrowdDoing.world is partnering with local groups of volunteers to develop, test, and launch biophelia counters in each city.

 

Biophelia counters will use geo-location technology to track how often people access parks. Each biophelia counter will have a mobile app that tracks how often a person accesses a park, and for how long. The biophelia counter app will also track whether the person visited a park before or after going to work, or after coming home.

 

Biophelia counters will track goals set by cities for biophelia, so people will know that they are getting the proper amount of biophelia, and time in nature. CrowdDoing.world will be collaborating with cities to set goals, so biophelia counters will help people track their progress in achieving their goals.

 

A biophelia counter will allow people to set goals for themselves, and to track their progress in achieving their biophelia goals. There are hundreds of diseases that can be prevented through access to nature. By tracking biophelia, biophelia counters help people achieve the goal of biophelia.

With this project, CrowdDoing.world wants to create a community of volunteers around biophelia. Through this project, people can participate in the creation of the first global network of biophelia counters. By using biophelia counters, people can better understand their health and wellness, and set healthy goals.

 

If you'd like to join our Nature Counter team in CrowdDoing.world working to build the first global network of biophelia counters, please fill out this form, and follow the instructions.

 

Explore an interactive urban nature system as an Explorer. While in the forest, you will learn about biodiversity, the impacts of climate change, how to communicate and engage with others, and how to save our biodiversity via responding to scientific concerns about climate change. You will explore the forest and its significance to global biodiversity.

Through the lens of urban ecology, we explore the relationship between human development and the natural environment. We seek to understand the complex interplay of urbanization, biodiversity and ecosystem services, which underlie the conservation of wildlife, and ecotherapy and forest therapy. We also want to generate innovative ideas for how forests can be incorporated into urban environments in order to maximize their ecological value and human psychological and physiological benefits.

Our program is designed to give you an introduction to the field of Urban Ecology, forest therapy, attention restoration theory, and nature deficit disorder reduction. Nature Counter users will learn from the app and the course a deeper understanding of the importance of the natural world, as well as new perspective on the urban environment and our impact on it and its impacts on people. In addition, participants will have a greater appreciation for forests, trees, and other species of plants and animals, and for the vital role that they play in sustaining life on Earth, and helping to improve human mental health, productivity, and many dimensions of wellbeing.


 

The goal is to democratize nature immersion as a self-care tool for everyone in every field of practice.

Nature counters are a first step towards that goal - but they cannot replace personal engagement with nature. They are not substitutes for the human touch of nature immersion.

We are now ready to take the next steps towards democratizing nature immersion as a self-care tool for every field of practice. We envision future forest therapy programs that teach you how to build your own nature counter. It will be possible to share experience with fellow nature enthusiasts, to find nature based events near you, and to build a network of like minded nature enthusiasts. The idea is to create a system where you can easily engage with nature and nature immersion wherever you are, whenever you want.

 

As part of the process, a set of best practices developed for the private sector can be used to standardize nature immersion in the public sector.

In addition, a new field of research into nature immersion and its impacts on organizations' culture, operations, and bottom line.

How would the world change if we were able to assure every person in every organization in the world has the opportunity to engage in the kind of personal, hands-on, nature immersion experiences that are proven to improve their health, reduce their stress, and increase their productivity?

Imagine a future where every person in all sorts of jobs gets an optimal dose of nature.

This is our vision of a world where everyone has access to nature. Where a day in nature is a normal part of any job.

Opportunity Details

Role Brief:

Role Name:

 

Scrum Master - CrowdDoing.world's Nature Counter

 

Min Qualifications required: Bachelors / Masters

 

Min Experience Required: (in no. of yrs) 2+

 

Experience or Knowledge in a specific subject or area required: Experience software development, project management

 

Minimum Volunteer hours required: (in hrs per week) 5-20

 

Project Overview:

Project Name:

 

Nature Counter

Project Duration: (in months) 6-12 months (Ongoing)

 

Project outline:

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.

 

Understand and fulfill international data security and protection requirements, and interface with regulators.

 

 

 

Essential Tasks:

At a high level, the following tasks will need to be performed:

 

Serve as the Scrum Master for project; will be both technical and non-functional activities managed in agile manner

Facilitate Agile ceremonies such as sprint planning, backlog grooming, retrospective, etc.

Help guide and establish Agile best practices and help implement the proper tools

Groom and maintain the backlog with the Product Owner

Assists the team in achieving their sprint goals by consistently reinforcing good Scrum principles and practices, and helping the team continuously improve.

Eliminates impediments and removes blockers by working with a wide range of stakeholders until a resolution is reached, so that the team can remain focused on achieving their objectives

 

 

Skills & Competencies:

● At least one year of Scrum Master experience leading a software development or engineering team

 

● CSM or other Agile certifications

 

● Successful experience applying Agile concepts and techniques driving projects to completion

 

● Hands on experience with Agile tools (preferred, not required)

 

 

 

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""

 

""Realizing that nature is a collective benefit for the health of a city, CrowdDoing.world is working with cities worldwide to institute measurable biophelia goals. Biophelia goals include metrics such as how much time people spend in nature, frequency of parks and parks visits, and time spent in parks.

 

A biophelia counter is a concept CrowdDoing.world is developing that will aid people in tracking their biophelia, or the amount of time they spend in nature. CrowdDoing.world is partnering with local groups of volunteers to develop, test, and launch biophelia counters in each city.

 

Biophelia counters will use geo-location technology to track how often people access parks. Each biophelia counter will have a mobile app that tracks how often a person accesses a park, and for how long. The biophelia counter app will also track whether the person visited a park before or after going to work, or after coming home.

 

Biophelia counters will track goals set by cities for biophelia, so people will know that they are getting the proper amount of biophelia, and time in nature. CrowdDoing.world will be collaborating with cities to set goals, so biophelia counters will help people track their progress in achieving their goals.

 

A biophelia counter will allow people to set goals for themselves, and to track their progress in achieving their biophelia goals. There are hundreds of diseases that can be prevented through access to nature. By tracking biophelia, biophelia counters help people achieve the goal of biophelia.

With this project, CrowdDoing.world wants to create a community of volunteers around biophelia. Through this project, people can participate in the creation of the first global network of biophelia counters. By using biophelia counters, people can better understand their health and wellness, and set healthy goals.

 

If you'd like to join our Nature Counter team in CrowdDoing.world working to build the first global network of biophelia counters, please fill out this form, and follow the instructions.

 

Explore an interactive urban nature system as an Explorer. While in the forest, you will learn about biodiversity, the impacts of climate change, how to communicate and engage with others, and how to save our biodiversity via responding to scientific concerns about climate change. You will explore the forest and its significance to global biodiversity.

Through the lens of urban ecology, we explore the relationship between human development and the natural environment. We seek to understand the complex interplay of urbanization, biodiversity and ecosystem services, which underlie the conservation of wildlife, and ecotherapy and forest therapy. We also want to generate innovative ideas for how forests can be incorporated into urban environments in order to maximize their ecological value and human psychological and physiological benefits.

Our program is designed to give you an introduction to the field of Urban Ecology, forest therapy, attention restoration theory, and nature deficit disorder reduction. Nature Counter users will learn from the app and the course a deeper understanding of the importance of the natural world, as well as new perspective on the urban environment and our impact on it and its impacts on people. In addition, participants will have a greater appreciation for forests, trees, and other species of plants and animals, and for the vital role that they play in sustaining life on Earth, and helping to improve human mental health, productivity, and many dimensions of wellbeing.

Opportunity Details

Welcome to Brainwave Bikes! We are looking for volunteers to be a part of Melbourne’s largest charity-run second-hand bike store.

Established by Brainwave Australia and Mercedes-Benz Australia, Brainwave Bikes is a social enterprise that refurbishes, donates and sells bikes to families or individuals who may be unable to a new and safe bike. Our proceeds go to Brainwave in their tireless work supporting children with brain injury and illnesses, and helping their families adapt and thrive.

We are looking for groups of 2-5 individuals with a passion for bicycles and tinkering! Volunteers will help with our day-to-day activities of assessing bikes for service; through cleaning and detailing, quality assessment and recycling bicycles too damaged to repair.

This opportunity is a whole day activity to be booked for the team looking for rewarding work in a sustainable and just cause!

Candidates will need to provide:
A National Police Check

On the day they will need to bring:

Clothes they don't mind getting dirty

Water Bottle

Lunch

Hat and Sunglasses for sunny weather

We Provide:

PPE

Suncreen

Kitchen and toilet facilities

All tools required for the task

Opportunity Details

One of two annual fundraising events for money to spend for our Community Gardens, Beautification Projects and Educational Endowments. We have several gardens that we plant and maintain every year, along with helping the City of Greeley, Guadalupe Center (for the homeless), and schools. We also help startup gardens for Childcare Centers and Nursing Homes.

Available Shifts

Shift Name	Signup Max	Start	End
Morning Shift	no limit	n/a	n/a
Afternoon Shift	no limit	n/a	n/a

Opportunity Details

The Facilitator will assist a group of high school students with coding their solution to a social problem they would like to solve.

Opportunity Details

Come volunteer at REAP Climate Center during our Open House and Volunteer hours! REAP’s campus is open to the public Sundays from 10 am to sunset and Wednesdays from 2 pm to sunset. Feel free to drop in at any time, and stay as long as you like. We always have staff ready to guide you through a fun set of volunteer-friendly tasks.

Before arriving, please read through our volunteer page and FAQ, and sign our online waiver. All volunteering participants of all ages are required to sign the waiver before coming to campus.

We do our best to update this volunteer page one week before the event to describe what tasks we have planned. Some possibilities include: watering, planting, compost building, animal maintenance, light construction or fabrication, and heavy construction.
Learn more at https://www.reapcenter.org/

Opportunity Details

Earth Day is a global event to raise awareness and action for the environment. Please join us in enhancing the Trimmier Elementary School for Earth Day. Let's do some yard work, paint, and plant some trees, shrubs, and flowering plants.

Come join us in reporting for duty in your community!

Available Shifts

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

Opportunity Details

We need your help to pull Scotch broom near the Nisqually River. This invasive plant crowds out native ones and makes it difficult for them to grow nearby.

Register through Eventbrite for directions to the worksite. Link here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/yelm-shoreline-work-party-wed-april-26th-tickets-595239345907

Work parties are rain or shine. Individual, pre-packaged, light snacks are provided. Minors are welcome provided they are accompanied by an adult.

Contact Emily at emily@nisquallylandtrust.org with any questions.

Available Shifts

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

Opportunity Details

Celebrate Earth Day by giving back to the land around the Nisqually River.

Scotch broom is an invasive plant that crowds out native ones and damages the health of forests along the river, and we need your help to get rid of it.

Register through Eventbrite for directions to the worksite. Link here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/earth-day-invasive-plant-removal-work-party-sat-april-22nd-tickets-595232234637

Work parties are rain or shine. Individual, pre-packaged, light snacks are provided. Minors are welcome provided they are accompanied by an adult.

Contact Emily at emily@nisquallylandtrust.org with any questions.

Available Shifts

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