Opportunity Details

Sturgeon city is providing a family friendly event to help celebrate Earth Day. There will be several hands-on activities available, all with a focus on science and our environment. It is important to provide engaging learning opportunities for youth and families in our community.

Available Shifts

Shift Name	Signup Max	Start	End
Parking	5	n/a	n/a
Activity Station Assistance	20	n/a	n/a
Setup, Cleanup, Tear Down	10	n/a	n/a

Opportunity Details

Ekal Canada is a registered Canadian charity engaged in the basic education of tribal, indigenous children in rural India and Nepal. Ekal runs 80,000 schools that help educate over 2 million underprivileged children in rural, remote parts of India. It is the largest grassroots movement for rural education in the world.

Volunteer with any of the Ekal Canada regional chapters or Head Office and work on raising awareness, fundraising, social media, local community events, website maintenance, support groups, news and events, youth engagement, donor outreach, corporate outreach etc. A contribution of CAD $700 helps run one Ekal school for an entire year, educates 30 children and has a positive impact on 30 rural families.

The Ekal movement aims to eradicate illiteracy from tribal areas of India and Nepal through rural development based on the criteria of equality, diversity and inclusion across all sections of society. Ekal's mission is the holistic empowerment of villages through basic education, culture, digital literacy, skill development, health awareness, sustainable agricultural practices and rural entrepreneurship.

At the time of independence, India’s literacy rate was a staggering 11%. Since then, it has made tremendous strides in educating its people. Present day, the literacy rate stands at 68% for the indigenous and rural Indian population - well below the world average literacy rate of 84%. The tribal inhabitants live in remote areas, far from major cities. Those areas are highly deprived of basic amenities, modern facilities for youth and even basic infrastructure. In this scenario, the Ekal movement emerged as the most pragmatic solution to this national need.

Ekal Vidyalaya Foundation of Canada, a not-for-profit organization, was registered as an Ontario Corporation in 2006 and attained Canadian charitable status in 2007. Charity Registration Number (Canada): 853421162RR0001. Ekal is now active in over 10 countries including the United States of America, Germany, Italy, Thailand, UAE, New Zealand, Britain and Australia. Ekal is a one teacher school project primarily in the remote tribal villages where often there are not even the basic necessities of life such as roads, hospitals, schools, clean water etc. A school consists of 25 to 40 children and there are no formal school buildings. Classes are held under a tree, in a verandah, or wherever else is available. A blackboard, teacher and students form the class room. Ekal has regional chapters located in Toronto (GTA), Winnipeg, Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Regina, Kingston, Sarnia, London Ontario, Windsor, Ottawa etc.

Should you have any questions as a first time donor or volunteer, or to speak to us regarding volunteer hours or volunteering in general contact the Ekal Canada team at:

Phone: +1 416 569 9379
Email: evfcanada@ekal.ca
Website: www.ekal.ca

Available Shifts

Shift Name	Signup Max	Start	End
Volunteer with Ekal Canada	150	n/a	n/a

Opportunity Details

Outdoor Education Weekend provides Girl Scout volunteers training in camping skills such as tent set-up and safety, survival skills, outdoor cooking, lifeguarding, and small craft safety. These trainings enable Girl Scout volunteers to educate Girls in troops and outdoor programs. These trainings are required before a Girl Scout troop can take a camping trip. Trainings support volunteers in activities to achieve our mission to build Girls of courage, confidence, and character to make the world a better place.

Available Shifts

Shift Name	Signup Max	Start	End
Morning Shift - Saturday	5	n/a	n/a
Afternoon Shift - Saturday	5	n/a	n/a
Morning Shift - Sunday	5	n/a	n/a
Afternoon Shift - Sunday	5	n/a	n/a

Opportunity Details

We're building a new and improved global shark ID/information app that includes media and solutions to protect sharks and our oceans.

We're seeking anyone with skills in app development to work on or advise us on upgrading our existing Shark ID app.

Help us create the best shark app in the world - no contribution is too small!

Opportunity Details

Positive Risk Management/Opportunity Management Literature Reviewer, Wildfire Prevention CrowdDoing


Prevention Derivatives draws upon parametrics to build upstream parametrics. A literature review of parametrics that are relevant to upstream parametrics from the downstream parametric literature could be very helpful.
-Prevention derivatives is driven by the thesis that there is an under-valuation of passive risk (or the cost of inaction) and an under-prioritization of positive risk. Correspondingly for wildfires as an example, there is an under-recognition of the potential shared value upside of preventative action through social innovation and social interventions (such as goats & sheep that prevent wildfires). CrowdDoing.world's aim is to guarantee positive risk through leveraging existing liabilities to allow for the implications of prescriptive analytics to be financed. The under-pricing of passive risk means that liabilities are treated as either costs of doing business or un-predictable risks even for entirely preventable risks. Risk management offices have been too biased towards avoiding taking the wrong risks rather than ensuring that institutions make their own luck by seizing the abundant positive risk opportunities in social innovation. Meanwhile, the bias against positive risk leaves social innovations not to get adopted even if there would be remarkable benefits to all stakeholders if they were adopted

In the framework of Prevention Derivatives, we want to create a predictive machine learning (ML) model that for a given geographical region will estimate likely savings (losses) due-to protection (damages) of stakeholders’ properties, business profits, common health, and regional ecology resulting in applying risk prevention solutions (or doing nothing instead). Goal of these notes is to analyze ML model’s design, offer a potential improvement and to discuss existing approaches for data collection, and training and testing the model. It is important to notice that the model is applied to the entire selected or target region. Therefore, a geographical region R is the smallest unit we apply modeling to.
Data science will be utilized in the following ways:
Explore/Visualize data currently available on Wildfires
Identify trends and patterns in Historical data
Quantify historical losses in dollars based on property destruction, casualties, acres burnt, etc.
Build predictive models to identify areas of high wildfire risk based on factors such as weather, vegetation, topography, etc.
Visualization of Model outcomes
Scenario building (changing input variables and observing impact on outcome)
Tools - R, Python, MATLAB, SQL, PowerPoint
Knowledge or Interest in anyone or more:
Identify papers on Simulation of Wildfires, Catastrophe Modeling
Review and present Technical papers in a way that everyone can understand
Assist in Model development and testing by contributing in finding data and programming
Identify/Collect data relevant to wildfire Impact
Work cross-functionally
Traits:
Mathematically inclined, highly analytical, creative problem solver, can conduct analyses independently or with minimal supervision
Programming for Data Science
Mathematics
Statistics
Predictive Analytics
Prescriptive Analytics
Machine Learning - Supervised/Unsupervised learning
Artificial Intelligence
Data Mining
Computer Science
Monte Carlo Simulations
Expectations:

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

Opportunity Details

Wildfire Prevention knowledge analyst, CrowdDoing Volunteer
Prevention derivatives is driven by the thesis that there is an under-valuation of passive risk (or the cost of inaction) and an under-prioritization of positive risk. Correspondingly for wildfires as an example, there is an under-recognition of the potential shared value upside of preventative action through social innovation and social interventions (such as goats & sheep that prevent wildfires). CrowdDoing.world's aim is to guarantee positive risk through leveraging existing liabilities to allow for the implications of prescriptive analytics to be financed. The under-pricing of passive risk means that liabilities are treated as either costs of doing business or un-predictable risks even for entirely preventable risks. Risk management offices have been too biased towards avoiding taking the wrong risks rather than ensuring that institutions make their own luck by seizing the abundant positive risk opportunities in social innovation. Meanwhile, the bias against positive risk leaves social innovations not to get adopted even if there would be remarkable benefits to all stakeholders if they were adopted

Tools - MS Office, Google Suite
Knowledge, Interest, or Experience in at least 3 areas (required):
Business Modeling
Financial Modeling
Strategic Planning
Presentation Design and Delivery
Process Improvement
Risk Management
Insurance
Consulting
Data Analytics
Expectations:
Evaluate/ refine/ develop different business models
Develop Investment Thesis and Financial Models for prevention derivatives
Work on Go-To-Market Strategy
Conduct ad-hoc research
Traits: Curious, organized, problem solver, creative, can meet deadlines and work in ambiguous environment
1. Identify and collect data relevant to assigned project (e.g., Forest Fire Prevention, Biophelia in Hospitals, Crypto Impact Potential)
2. Establish costs incurred by target stakeholders as a result of select threat(s) (e.g., wildfire)
3. Develop recommended financing solutions based on analysis, cite resources
4. Present findings.
CrowdDoing.world
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jx3iv8LETHC2MaAS7bSY_XScup0aTVXk/view?usp=sharing


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

Opportunity Details

The Boa Foundation is seeking a volunteer grant writer. Ideally, you have experience or are eager to learn about writing grants pertaining to the preservation of indigenous communities and environmental initiatives. If you're passionate about protecting the Amazon rainforest - this is the perfect gig for you!

Bonus: you have experience working with international nonprofits.

The Boa Foundation's Mission:

To work in alliance with indigenous communities to preserve and protect sacred land, culture, and ancient wisdom. We support projects including strategic land buybacks, restoration of native ecosystems, cultural exchange, and sustainable living solutions.
Our planet is magnificent. Life has evolved for millions of years, creating a rich and diverse ecosystem, an intricate web where all life can thrive. The climate crisis is the result of a deep imbalance on the Earth. Our species has been extracting, producing, and polluting without much consideration for other forms of life, even our own. This imbalance is a symptom of our alienation from natural rhythms, cycles, and systems, and our lack of caring relationship to our world. This also manifests in ever-increasing crises in mental health, breakdown of communities, and auto-immune diseases being diagnosed at alarming rates. The Boa Foundation works together with indigenous communities worldwide to address these issues holistically, ​supporting both cultural and natural biodiversity, and the healing of the planet.

Here's a list of our current projects we are working on: https://www.theboafoundation.org/our-projects

Opportunity Details

We're seeking a social media who can do 5 posts per week (working with a journalist on our team who can deliver them content), growing our following, and responding to comments.

The Boa Foundation's Mission:

To work in alliance with indigenous communities to preserve and protect sacred land, culture, and ancient wisdom. We support projects including strategic land buybacks, restoration of native ecosystems, cultural exchange, and sustainable living solutions.
Our planet is magnificent. Life has evolved for millions of years, creating a rich and diverse ecosystem, an intricate web where all life can thrive. The climate crisis is the result of a deep imbalance on the Earth. Our species has been extracting, producing, and polluting without much consideration for other forms of life, even our own. This imbalance is a symptom of our alienation from natural rhythms, cycles, and systems, and our lack of caring relationship to our world. This also manifests in ever-increasing crises in mental health, breakdown of communities, and auto-immune diseases being diagnosed at alarming rates. The Boa Foundation works together with indigenous communities worldwide to address these issues holistically, ​supporting both cultural and natural biodiversity, and the healing of the planet.

Opportunity Details

Wildfire Prevention knowledge analyst, CrowdDoing Volunteer
Prevention derivatives is driven by the thesis that there is an under-valuation of passive risk (or the cost of inaction) and an under-prioritization of positive risk. Correspondingly for wildfires as an example, there is an under-recognition of the potential shared value upside of preventative action through social innovation and social interventions (such as goats & sheep that prevent wildfires). CrowdDoing.world's aim is to guarantee positive risk through leveraging existing liabilities to allow for the implications of prescriptive analytics to be financed. The under-pricing of passive risk means that liabilities are treated as either costs of doing business or un-predictable risks even for entirely preventable risks. Risk management offices have been too biased towards avoiding taking the wrong risks rather than ensuring that institutions make their own luck by seizing the abundant positive risk opportunities in social innovation. Meanwhile, the bias against positive risk leaves social innovations not to get adopted even if there would be remarkable benefits to all stakeholders if they were adopted


Tools - PowerPoint, Word, Excel
Knowledge or Interest in any one or more:
Economics
Insurance
Cost - Benefit Analysis
Technical research
Environmental research
Market research
Business research
Insight generation
Expectations:
Identify/Collect data/papers/literature relevant to wildfire Impact
Quantify costs incurred by different stakeholders as a result of Wildfire
Generate Insights from currently available research papers
Present your work
Work cross-functionally
Traits:
High curiosity, creative, critical thinking, can conduct analyses independently or with minimal supervision
Tools - PowerPoint, Word, Excel, MS Planner
Knowledge, Interest, or Experience in any one or more:
Project Management
Program Management
People/ Team Management
Process Improvement
Expectations:
Analyze current business processes and come up with solutions by conducting root cause analysis
Create plans for implementation by defining tasks (creating work breakdown structure) and assigning to team members
Lead Teams in Marketing, HR, and other functions and drive them to completion of tasks, activities and projects
Lead/Organize Meetings and create minutes of meetings (Notes on discussion)
Work cross-functionally with other Project Managers
Present thoughts
Traits:
Driven, Impact-Oriented, Collaborative, problem-solving, able to navigate ambiguous work environment


Knowledge Analysis
1. Identify and collect data relevant to assigned project (e.g., Forest Fire Prevention, Biophelia in Hospitals, Crypto Impact Potential)
2. Establish costs incurred by target stakeholders as a result of select threat(s) (e.g., wildfire)
3. Develop recommended solutions based on analysis, cite resources
4. Present findings.
https://drive.googlecom/file/d/1jx3iv8LETHC2MaAS7bSY_XScup0aTVXk/view?usp=sharing

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

Opportunity Details

At the event, volunteers comb the beaches to find, remove and record marine debris, more commonly known as litter. By removing the debris, volunteers are making the beaches and waterways safer and more enjoyable for marine life and beach goers alike. By recording the data, volunteers contribute to a legacy of information on marine debris that has been growing for 36 years! This information is utilized by COA, citizens, businesses, and elected officials to drive legislation and make changes in everyday habits that will stop litter at the source, saving our precious beaches and marine life.

Available Shifts

Shift Name	Signup Max	Start	End
Beach Sweeps	no limit	n/a	n/a