Opportunity Details

Organizing a food drive is a wonderful opportunity to bring people together to support Renewal Food Bank. Mobilize your workplace, school, church, family, or other network to host a food drive and inspire your friends and neighbors to participate!

Food Drive Details:
Contact us about our most pressing current needs, or stick to the basics such as canned meat (fish or chicken), instant noodles, toilet paper, hygiene products, rice, or pasta.
Alternatively, you can contribute by donating through our Amazon wishlist or by making a financial contribution via our website or by mail.
We extend our sincere gratitude to our neighbors for your exceptional support!

Donation Drop Off Times:
Mondays 9am-3pm
Tuesdays 9am-6pm
Wednesdays 9am-1pm
If you are considering an alternative time, kindly contact us to coordinate the arrangement.

Sign Up:
If you're interested in hosting a food drive, please reach out to us at development@renewalfoodbank.org. We'll gladly partner with you to ensure a seamless event.

Opportunity Details

Join I Love A Clean San Diego and the County of San Diego for a litter cleanup! We will divert litter from our watersheds and keep it from traveling to the Pacific Ocean.

Our staff will have check-in ready for you on site. Be sure to wear comfortable clothes, closed-toed shoes, some form of sun protection (sunscreen or a hat) and bring a water bottle or two! Staff will be providing everything else you will need! After a short orientation and safety talk you will be sent off to remove litter around the area! Staff will sort and dispose of the collected litter and after the cleanup you can request community service verification in your Community Hub dashboard.

Check out our calendar for upcoming dates and to sign up here!
https://www.cleansd.org/events/

WAIVERS: This event requires a signed release-of-liability waiver for all volunteers, and anyone under 18 needs a waiver signed by a guardian. Please download and print the waiver below, sign, and bring with you to this cleanup. No printer? No problem! We will have waivers at check-in for volunteers. If you are under 18 please have your guardian check-in with us at the cleanup to sign-off on your participation.

Weather Cancellation Policy: Our events are rain or shine! If it is raining on your cleanup day, we recommend rain boots, a raincoat and a towel to dry off afterwards.

Opportunity Details

Join I Love A Clean San Diego and Green Oceanside for a litter cleanup! We will divert litter from our watersheds and keep it from traveling to the Pacific Ocean.

Our staff will have check-in ready for you on site. Be sure to wear comfortable clothes, closed-toed shoes, some form of sun protection (sunscreen or a hat) and bring a water bottle or two! Staff will be providing everything else you will need! After a short orientation and safety talk you will be sent off to remove litter around the area! Staff will sort and dispose of the collected litter and after the cleanup you can request community service verification in your Community Hub dashboard.

Register for this event here!
https://www.cleansd.org/events/


WAIVERS: This event requires a signed release-of-liability waiver for all volunteers, and anyone under 18 needs a waiver signed by a guardian. Please download and print the waiver below, sign, and bring with you to this cleanup. No printer? No problem! We will have waivers at check-in for volunteers. If you are under 18 please have your guardian check-in with us at the cleanup to sign-off on your participation.

WEATHER CANCELLATION POLICY: Our events are rain or shine! If it is raining on your cleanup day, we recommend rain boots, a raincoat and a towel to dry off afterwards.

Opportunity Details

Join Us in Making a Difference!

At MakeWater, we believe in the power of collective action to address real-world water challenges. We're on a mission to inspire and empower change-makers like you! Whether you're a student, professional, or someone passionate about water and education, we invite you to join our diverse community of volunteers.

Why Volunteer with Us?

Impact: Your efforts will directly contribute to tackling critical water issues.
Skill Development: Learn and grow in a supportive environment.
Networking: Connect with like-minded individuals and experts in the field.
Education: Gain insights into STEM/STEAM fields and hands-on learning.
Community: Be part of a passionate community with a shared purpose.
Ways to Get Involved:

Educator: Help us bring hands-on STEM education to classrooms.
Mentor: Guide students in their journey to become water innovators.
Event Support: Assist in organizing and hosting engaging events.
Content Creation: Share your knowledge through articles, videos, and more.
Advocacy: Raise awareness about water-related challenges and solutions.
Special Projects: Contribute your unique skills to specific initiatives.

Ready to Make Waves?

Join us in making a positive impact on our world through water education. Together, we can inspire the next generation of change-makers and foster a sustainable future. Your enthusiasm and dedication are the key ingredients for success. Get started today and help us create a ripple effect of change!

Opportunity Details

The Floating Classroom is an innovative tool of the AMIkids Marine Education program designed to inspire our youth to get involved in the outdoors and become better stewards of the environment around them.

The Floating Classroom is a half-day boat excursion on board "Orlando's Rose," a vessel designed to conduct marine education and research activities and donated by Bill and Carol Barrows.

Mote Marine Laboratory and Aquarium educators power the educational component by providing lectures and environmental interpretation onboard. Different topics include biodiversity, the watershed, local ecosystems, marine food chains, the ecological services provided by mangroves and estuaries, conservation, biofact learning, water quality, and basic seamanship concepts.

The floating classroom curriculum is heavily experiential and relies on field activities such as identifying different organisms and collecting specimen samples in the waterways around the greater Tampa area. Other activities of the floating classroom include field sampling, plankton collection and identification, scientific tool use, wildlife observation, marine debris collection, citizen science projects, and group discussions.

The Floating Classroom is also an opportunity for AMIkids to share its calling to empower young people facing uncertain futures to become
confident, successful adults by cultivating business and community partnerships through team building, stewardship, and volunteerism.

Volunteers will need to bring / wear:
Water activities-friendly clothing (be prepared to wade in the water to about waist level)
Sun protection (Hats, Sunscreen, and sunglasses)
Consider bringing a change of clothes and a towel
Signed AMIkids release of liability

The volunteer role at the event:

The job of a Floating Classroom volunteer is to help with logistics and help motivate participants through positive and uplifting interactions.

We expect volunteers to arrive before the participants. The lead will direct you to preparation tasks such as preparing life jackets and water shoes, drinks, and helping set up the lunch area.

Once the participants are on-site, they will receive a briefing. At this point, your role as a volunteer involves handing out water shoes, ensuring everyone is signed in, ensuring youth wear sunscreen, have water shoes, wear shorts, store their non-essential items in lockers, write their names on water bottles, etc. Your lead will direct you to the tasks that will have the most impact.

While onboard Orlando's Rose, your role is to engage with the participants in positive mentoring ways, to keep a constant safety watch, and to help direct youth towards the educators when a lecture is ongoing.

At some point, we will get off the boat for field sampling. During this activity, your role is to partner and spend time with youth while dip-netting and ensure everyone is in approved areas (not on the mangroves, stay within sight of lifeguards)

When the boat docks and everyone is getting off, we will need you to ensure the water shoes go in the rinse bucket, help rinse and store water shoes, clean up the water activities locker, and pack the floating classroom supplies for storage.

We will provide lunch for everyone. Please let us know if there are any allergies or restrictions, and ensure you plan to share time and eat with the participants.

Opportunity Details

Restore Native Plants is an innovative nonprofit focused on restoring the region’s native plant and animal species – many of which have become threatened and endangered. Since 2013, Restore Native Plants has been at the forefront of this work in the NJ Highlands.

We invite those who share a passion for native plants and the wildlife value they provide to restoration sites within Ramapo Mountain State Fores in Oakland, NJ. We can customize a volunteer experience to suit your areas of interest and the needs of your group. Sample activities include native seed collection and sorting, identification and removal of invasive plants, pruning, stepping up plants in our nursery, interpretive walks, and general native plant care.

Those interested in a more immersive experience have the opportunity to earn professional development certificates in Wildlife Habitat Restoration, Invasive Species Management, Native Plant Garden Care, and Native Plant Nursery Operations.

Join us, and let's work together to make a lasting impact on our ecosystem and support the vitality of native plants and wildlife.

Opportunity Details

Il 6 dicembre 2023 alle ore 20.30
Refugees Welcome Italia, insieme ai suoi attivisti e attiviste, organizza una sessione formativa sulle attività di volontariato che si svolgeranno in diverse città d'Italia durante il periodo delle festività natalizie.
Un serie di iniziative al quale partecipare in veste di volontari al fianco di RWI per garantire accoglienza, protezione e inclusione alle persone rifugiate e migranti.

Available Shifts

Shift Name	Signup Max	Start	End
Formazione e volontariato di Natale	100	n/a	n/a

Opportunity Details

Can you organise a declutter drive in your office?
We run pre-loved rails at the local nursery, our centre, one of the secondary schools and the local library.
Between these initiatives we place pre-loved still in good condition clothing and shoes for both adults, babies and children. We also take houseware, kitchenware, small electrical items, children toys and children books. And some stationery.
Can you run a declutter drive in your workplace and have it sent to us?
Please note we cannot pay for it to be picked up.
We would ask you to arrange this.

Opportunity Details

The Garage Youth Centre is for young people to drop in, meet friends, access support, learn new skills and take part in activities if they want. Games, activities and access to drinks and snacks are all available during these sessions as well as any advice or support from our experienced youth workers. Every Tuesday we run Ground Breakers a young person project focused on outdoor learning and gardening. This is an opportunity to support this project in completing gardening tasks including clearing land to make new accessible learning space.

Opportunity Details

Our Outdoor Learning Centre always has a need for work towards its upkeep and improvement. This can range from weeding, planting, cutting, redeveloping areas, clearing stream channels and building things such as planting beds. We're looking for groups of volunteers who are keen to volunteer with us and do some fundraising. We do operate other sites and can be flexible as to where you go depending on convenience and need.

There are always plenty of jobs to do and on the day we'll put forward ideas and let people organise themselves into groups based on what they want to do and then show them how to use any tools involved. Then you can crack on with helping in your team with someone at hand if you need any help.

Our ideal volunteer just needs to be enthusiastic and happy to spend the day outdoors with their colleagues. Anyone with a keen interest in gardening, DIY or woodworking will be able to put their skills to good use.

By volunteering here you are able to help limit the amount of funds that need to be spent on the upkeep and development of this site, allowing for more of our funds to go towards delivery of our Outdoor Learning work. Time outdoors has proven benefits for the negative symptoms of Autism and ADHD as well as increasing engagement with learning and recontextualising learning, hence our focus on getting more young people engaged with nature. Overall you will support our work utilising this site to help young people across Hampshire engage in learning and achieve better futures.

Volunteers should bring comfortable shoes, a water bottle, sun cream and lunch. We provide gardening gloves and any tools that might be needed but if anyone wants to bring their own then they're welcome to do so.

The Outdoor Learning Centre is roughly a 15 minute walk from Eastleigh train station. There is parking available directly opposite this site at 'The Hub', which is free for two hours and after that is paid for.

We have toilets on site and a volunteer hut with water and tea/coffee making facilities.