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Get Involved!
The Friends welcomes your unique skill set—your time and talents can help make our shared goals a reality! Join our volunteers, including people of all ages and walks of life, as they provide the passion and the ‘elbow grease’ necessary to bring our projects to fruition. Volunteers are the heart and soul of our organization; their importance cannot be overstated, nor can they be thanked enough!

Volunteer Workdays
Be a part of transforming and preserving our Park! Since October, 2010, over 1,500 volunteers have labored to suppress invasive exotic species and helped to ensure the establishment of native plantings in Fort Williams Park.

Jump in with your garden tools, gloves, and grubby clothes to clear invasive plants, weed, plant or mulch at the Ecology Project sites. A trained horticultural ‘captain’ will help oversee your work. S/he will be able to focus efforts and answer questions. Just show up at the appointed time and you can participate in this most hands-on of efforts!

Please note: to ensure that your volunteer activities in the Park are effective, fun, and safe, we must limit the size of any group to 25 people. For more information, contact Andrea Southworth at asouthworth@fortwilliams.org

Adopt-A-Plot
Prefer to set your own schedule and care for your own piece of paradise? Meet in the Park with Adopt-A-Plot Volunteer Coordinator Tom Atwell at tomatwell@me.com, to adopt a small section of an Ecology Project landscape. Then come and go at your convenience to keep weeds and invasive species in check so new plantings can be established.

Weeding and mulching can be fun when done in such a beautiful location!

Corporate Workdays
We have had the good fortune to partner with various businesses which have sought a meaningful outdoor venue for their employee community service and team-building activities. The Park offers the most gorgeous of venues in which to engage mind and body, foster team building, while giving back to the community through a corporate workday experience.

Please note: to ensure that your volunteer activities in the Park are effective, fun, and safe, we must limit the size of any group to 25 people. We welcome your organization to learn, work and play here! For more information, contact Andrea Southworth, asouthworth@fortwilliams.org.

Office Help
The office staff would welcome your assistance with preparing mailings, data mining, taking photographs, posting to social media, designing & distributing fliers, ads and temporary informative signage, and other tasks. Contact Jennifer Scarpitti-Nelson at jscarpitti@fortwilliams.org

As you can see, our needs are many and diverse. They are more intense when we are preparing for a major event. For more information on general volunteer needs, contact Jennifer Scarpitti-Nelson at jscarpitti@fortwilliams.org.

Committees
We welcome you to contribute your expertise by serving on our committees:

Ecology Project Committee: The Friends’ primary horticultural and ecological initiative is the Ecology Project, which provides the structure within which we work to restore biodiversity and improve wildlife habitat by creating sustainable native landscapes. This committee is responsible for the implementation and refinement of the Ecology Project Master Plan. For more information, contact Ecology Project Director, Andrea Southworth at asouthworth@fortwilliams.org.

Education Committee: Our Park is a treasure trove of learning opportunities! The Foundation is in the process of developing educational initiatives around the Arboretum sites. Our goal is to foster lifelong learning about stewardship of our environment and how we can all have a positive impact on it. Our Education Committee is actively seeking new members—no teaching experience required. If interested in learning more, please contact Andrea Southworth at asouthworth@fortwilliams.org.

Marketing: Would you like to help the Friends promote its work? Do you have skills in marketing, graphic design, merchandising or public relations? We would love to put your talents to work on the Marketing Committee. Contact Marketing Chair, Rod Harmon at rodharmonpr@gmail.com , to get involved.

Events: Each year, the Friends puts on the Cape Elizabeth Garden Tour. This fabulous celebration of all things garden takes months to plan and requires over 100 volunteers on the day of the Tour. Planning begins in the fall previous to this early summer event. Get involved by contacting Lynn Shaffer at lynxshaf@gmail.com.

Opportunity Details

August 20th and 27th.
Please help outreach to families during the Jade District Night Market. We will be partnering with APANO to talk about the safety needs of our streets and the health needs of our kids and families. Come help share Safe Routes to School with other families and help reach 100 new petition signers.


Getting dedicated funding for Safe Routes to School For Every Kid is an uphill battle but not one we can't win with your help. You are the key to making safe routes to school for every kid by helping ask folks to sign the petition this summer.

Portland Community College (Southeast Campus)

2305 SE 82nd Ave,
Portland, OR 97216

To sign up to volunteer, click on or copy and paste this link into your browser:

http://btaoregon.force.com/volunteers/GW_Volunteers__VolunteersJobListingFS?Calendar=1&volunteerShiftId=a15i000000I1hhxAAB&jobId=a13i000000D4pwVAAR&dtMonthFilter=2016-8-20%2010:0:0

For more info about Jade Night Market, go here:

https://jadedistrictnightmarket.com/2016/03/21/jade-international-night-market-august-20-and-27/

Available Shifts

Shift Name	Signup Max	Start	End
SRTS Petition	no limit	n/a	n/a

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Join the Bicycle Transportation Alliance as a volunteer for our annual Alice Awards and Auction! This is an exciting event to celebrate those who have had significant impact in making Oregon a better place to live, work, bike, walk and ride transit. This is our largest event of the year, and we couldn't pull it off without an amazing team of about 75 volunteers every year.

We are incredibly appreciative of your support and time. As a thank you, we invite volunteers to attend the event when not working your shift, and all volunteers are provided food and beverage before or after your shift.

Do you have a team of people that want to volunteer together as a group? Email brittani@btaoregon.org and we'll find a great spot for you.

Event Information:

2016 Alice Awards and Auction
Saturday, September 24 2016
The North Warehouse - 723 N Tillamook St.
Portland, OR 97227

Contact brittani@btaoregon.org with any questions!

There are many volunteering positions spread throughout the day. Please make sure to see which position(s) you'd be interested in.

Go here for a full listing and to sign up:

http://btaoregon.force.com/volunteers/GW_Volunteers__VolunteersJobListingFS?Calendar=1&volunteerShiftId=a15i000000I0JwsAAF&jobId=a13i000000D4CfhAAF&dtMonthFilter=2016-9-24%203:0:0

Available Shifts

Shift Name	Signup Max	Start	End
Alice Awards & Auction	no limit	n/a	n/a

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Join us for our 3rd Sunday of the month Kōkua Day to Mālama ʻĀina with Ke Kahua O Kūaliʻi. Our Family Kōkua Days focus on land restoration efforts. Join us to plant native plants and to clean-up Kawainui, one of the largest wetlands in Hawaiʻi.

8:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Potluck to follow.

All ages are welcome. Ages 8 & under must be accompanied by an adult.

More information is available on our website at: www.kekahua.org/volunteer info

Contact kekahua@gmail.com
Follow us on Facebook and Instagram @kekahua
Bring: Gloves, Water Bottle, Work Tools, Covered Shoes, Hat, Sunscreen

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Maintaining a boat is a never-ending series of projects and activities, so if you love to be outside and aren’t afraid of applying a little “elbow (and/or brain) grease” to your tasks.

Needs include:

Cleaning
Provide lunch/snacks for the crew
Provide (non-alcoholic) beverages
Sanding & chipping of old paint
Painting
Metal work/fabrication
Carpentry
Technical work
Diesel engine
Electronic equipment
Electrical systems
Computer

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Our organization is in need of an experienced bookkeeper to manage our books monthly. This role requires approx. 15 hours per month.
We work with Quickbooks online.
Thanks for your interest in helping.

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Join Northern New Jersey's Premier clean water advocate at one of our watershed community cleanups. Last year, over 1200 volunteers removed 39,000 lbs of trash from the Hackensack River and the surrounding waterways.
Multiple dates and locations
4/2021 Bi-State watershed Cleanup Woodcliff Lake Reservoir
4/2021 Slam Dunk the Junk , Hackensack
5/2021 Hackensack River Greenway, Teaneck
5/2021 KBG Park, River Edge
6/2021 Solstice Clean up Secaucus
8/2021 Rutkowski Park, Bayonne
9/2021 International Coastal Cleanup TBD
10/2021 Mid-River Sweep
10/2021 Slam dunk the Junk II Hackensack
11/2021 Van Saun Brook, Paramus
You have the opportunity to sponsor your own company cleanup-pick a location and call us to coordinate the event- 201-968-0808 Outreach Coordinator

Opportunity Details

Over grazing and over populating pastures has a high negative impact on any stream. The two work areas for this project are State Wildlife Areas in South Park Colorado. Knight - Imler and 63 Ranch Wildlife areas. Cattle are use to keep unwanted weeds from negatively impacting the Wildlife area and the fences are intended to keep the cattle out of the stream. These work days will be to repair fences damaged in these two areas.

Available Shifts

Shift Name	Signup Max	Start	End
Fence Repair @ Knight Immler WA	25	n/a	n/a
Fence Repair @ Ranch 63 Wildlife Area	25	n/a	n/a

Opportunity Details

Bear Creek contains the last remaining wild population of Colorado Greenback Cutthroat Trout. This social trail parallels the stream and subjects the stream and the trout to large volumes of sediment. This trail has been closed by the US Forest Service but this closure is consistently violated. This project is to permanently close this trail and re-vegetate the ground to stabilize the sediment.

Available Shifts

Shift Name	Signup Max	Start	End
July 9th	25	n/a	n/a
July 16th	25	n/a	n/a

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CSNC is looking for volunteers to work in the Camp Creek area (near North South Road and Mormon Emigrant Trail) to block an unauthorized vehicle route that is directly impacting sensitive resources in the Eldorado National Forest. At this location, there is a hill climb and an intrusion into a riparian corridor. We will be scattering duff and small woody debris to protect bare soil and large woody debris to break runoff, reduce sedimentation, and prevent vehicles from entering the sensitive habitat.

We are meeting at the Georgetown Library at 8:30 a.m. and the Placerville Raley's parking lot by the gas station at 9:00 a.m. Please RSVP to let us know if you are attending so we won't leave without you!  We will return by 5 pm. Please dress accordingly for the weather.  Bring plenty of sun protection, such as a hat and a long sleeve shirt, water, a lunch, sturdy shoes or boots, gloves, and anything you might want for a day in the forest. Since we are lucky enough to be near a creek, don't forget a towel!

For more information or to coordinate travel plans, please email Kayla Youngblood at kayla@sierranevadaconservation.org or call our office at 530-206-7061. Also, Save the Date for Saturday, August 13th for another ecological restoration day!

Available Shifts

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