Opportunity Details

A CASTING CALL FOR NEW BOARD MEMBERS

Are you:

+ Passionate about early education and the environment?
+ Interested in serving on a non-profit board in Seattle?

Tiny Trees makes high-quality early learning accessible for working families by operating outdoor preschool classrooms in our public parks. As the largest outdoor preschool provider in the United States, we currently serve more than 300 children at 9 parks in Seattle and King County. These kids gain the academic and social-emotional skills to thrive in school and life, while reaping the benefits of a nature-rich childhood.

Tiny Trees’ commitment to equity, environmental stewardship, and high-quality early learning is what makes it unique. Our classrooms and our stellar teachers enable children from all backgrounds to reap the benefits of outdoor early education. Our innovative model, utilizing public parks in the community, means that Tiny Trees can open classrooms in neighborhoods where families have not always had access to affordable, high-quality preschool. Currently, 22% of Tiny Trees students speak a language other than English at home and about half receive free or reduced tuition through the Seattle Preschool Program and our philanthropic partners.

Want to help Tiny Trees Preschool grow?

We are seeking new board members who can commit to a three-year term, beginning September 2019 or January 2020. If you are passionate about our mission and want to strengthen our organization to better serve our community, let’s talk.

Who are we looking for?

We welcome all inquiries and are especially interested in candidates who have close connections to families and communities of color in our region and/or are skilled in HR, technology, law, marketing and communications, and those with experience in early learning or environmental education.

Collective Responsibilities of Tiny Trees Preschool Board of Directors:

+ Provide leadership and set strategic guidance and policies to ensure Tiny Trees
+ Preschool’s long-term sustainability and efficacy in service of our mission
+ Provide fiduciary and ethical oversight of the organization and its leadership
+ Establish long-term goals and strategic plan, approve annual budgets, and participate in fundraising to ensure adequate funds to support programs
+ Ensure program excellence at all Tiny Trees locations and the safety of children in Tiny Trees’ care
+ Board members are advocates for Tiny Trees Preschool in the greater King County community with key stakeholders, including current and prospective families, donors, service providers and partners and governmental agencies

Commitment of Individual Tiny Trees Preschool Board Members:

+ Each member should be prepared to invest an average of 6-10 hours per month, which typically includes: 3 hours to prepare for and attend Board meetings (11 per year, last Tuesday of each month from 6-8:30pm), 2-4 hours for committee work (per committee), and during certain months, members spend additional hours on special tasks, meetings, and events, such as the annual board retreat and annual fundraising luncheon
+ Serve on at least one board committee (finance, fund development, board development, or operational excellence)
+ Participate in the upcoming strategic planning process
+ Do at least one site visit to a Tiny Trees Preschool outdoor classroom each year
+ Attend at least one Tiny Trees Preschool community event each year
+ Participate in fund development activities, including hosting a table at the annual luncheon
+ Make Tiny Trees Preschool a philanthropic priority and make an annual, personally significant gift that reflects that priority.

If you are passionate about early learning, social justice and environmental stewardship, please consider joining the Tiny Trees Board of Directors. It’s a meaningful way to ensure that all children in King County gain the social, emotional, and academic skills needed for kindergarten and a lifetime of success. You will benefit from being part of an active, hands-on board with leadership and growth opportunities.

If you are interested in learning more, please contact our Board Development Committee at board@tinytrees.org.

Opportunity Details

We need classroom volunteers to focus on reading, math, arts & crafts and supporting children's exploration!

Tiny Trees Preschool gives children a quality education and a joyful, nature rich childhood. Through the use of outdoor classrooms in Seattle city parks, Tiny Trees eliminates the cost of a brick and mortar facility, making preschool affordable and accessible to all families. An official partner of Seattle Parks and Recreation, Tiny Trees has 9 locations across King County.

Our mission is to bring accessible, high quality, and culturally responsive preschool to parks across Seattle and Puget Sound. To make that happen, we need you!

As a Classroom Volunteer you will:

+ Help with small group time by reading children’s books, math, helping with arts & crafts, or supporting future engineers at our blocks and building station.
+ Help with exploration time by asking children lots of questions of what they found, how it works, and why.
+ Support the health, safety, and welfare of all children. This includes helping children stay warm and dry in poor weather and managing risk in an outdoor setting.
+ Support our teachers in one of 13 upcoming outdoor classes based in a beautiful park to create an inviting and emotionally safe classroom. Classes are at:
Beer Sheva (South Seattle)
Big Finn Hill (Kirkland area)
Camp Long (2 classrooms, West Seattle)
Carkeek Park (3 classrooms, North Seattle)
Cougar Mountain Wildland Reserve (Renton area)
Five Mile Lake (Auburn area)
Jefferson Park (Beacon Hill)
Olympic Sculpture Park (Downtown Seattle)
Seahurst Park (Burien)

You Are:

+ Excited to get dirty and laugh a lot while being outside in all types of weather.
+ Love children, equity in education, and the environment.
+ Tolerant of uncertainty and change.
+ Able to commit to at least one month of volunteering at one site on a regular scheduled day and time.

Shift Opportunities:

Most of our classrooms need volunteers Monday through Friday either in the morning from 8:30 a.m. until 12:30 p.m. or in the afternoon from 1:30 p.m. until 4:30 p.m. Please email corbin@tinytrees.org for specific site schedules and inquiries.

We are especially eager to engage volunteers with backgrounds similar to those of the young people we serve. Multi-lingual and people of color encouraged to apply.

Opportunity Details

You will be helping at our Soles4Souls Texas Warehouse in Coppell to help pair and sort shoes that will then go to create opportunities for individuals in developing countries.

We will be pairing Asics and packing them up to go out to countries like Haiti, Honduras, Moldova, etc. to help provide a sustainable living for people in other countries.

Come help us at the warehouse during a time frame that works best for you!

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Do you remember trick or treating when you were a kid!? Having a Halloween party and getting to wear your costume at school!? At Hallsville Elementary School in Manchester we want to give students and teachers a chance to enjoy their Halloween party, get into costume, and participate in a COSTUME PARADE! We can't do it without your help! Hallsville is a Title One school, meaning it has a high population of students who are eligible for free or reduced price breakfast and lunch. It is also a school surrounded by streets that require monitoring for student safety when they leave the school grounds. All classrooms will require assistance with setting up and monitoring classroom celebrations, helping students get into costume, walking with and monitoring students in line as they walk around the streets surrounding the building as a whole school, as well as monitoring traffic/streets/sidewalks to ensure student safety while they are participating in the parade. A garden where parents will want pictures afterwards needs to be cleaned up before hand as well. Assisting in student safety and making sure all students have fun will make this day a success for our children and students!

Available Shifts

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Halloween Help	5	n/a	n/a

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WE NEED YOU!
Judges needed for students ages 4th to 12th grade on Space Settlement Design and Emerging Technology. This opportunity time will consist of a morning hour, afternoon hour, and one hour of deliberation. Total 2 hours committment for Mid-January, 2021

The 6th Annual Cities in Space® Competition offers students access to those who currently work in the space industry and space-oriented academia. This January, students will come together virtually, to present, compete and learn from one another about building a new world beyond Earth and how to create a surviving and thriving community. At Cities in Space®, when they are not presenting and being judged by industry professionals on their team projects, competing students have the opportunity to listen to speakers at the conference, and to interact with scientists, engineers, NASA experts, New Space leaders, makers, and astronauts rhrough our private break out rooms for competiting teams and teachers only.

STEAMSPACE Education Outreach Mission:
To offer diverse and explorative educational experiences to all young minds, surpassing the boundaries of race, economics, gender, ideology, disability and learning differences, encouraging the discovery and pursuit of paths towards future careers in college and beyond, with a particular focus on all areas in the domain of space and STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, Math). We do this to support the creation and development of prosperous human communities and industry both within and beyond the Earth’s atmosphere.

For a glimpse into CiS 2018 Click Here!! https://youtu.be/3PUXAaxXIuQ

Opportunity Details

Knox County CISMA (Cooperative Invasive Species Management Area) is hosting an invasive plant species removal workday at Sugar Loaf Mound, an Indiana state historic site. We will be removing Bush Honeysuckle, White Mulberry, and Wintercreeper from the property. Please wear clothes you are willing to work in and bring your own gloves. There will also be refreshments for participants.

SEPTEMBER 28, 2019
9:30 AM – 12:00 PM
SUGAR LOAF MOUND
2425 WABASH AVE.,
VINCENNES, IN 47591

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Join our organization for our year end fundraiser. We need volunteers to help man our raffle and silent auction tables, animal ambassador presentations, arts and crafts tables and general question and answering to our guests.

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Please take a moment to watch this 3 minute video about our program.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nu2wM-886XI

We're looking for skilled coders and programmers to help us make our arduino based water kits more robust.

Every season we challenge students, educators, and every day citizens to help advance the kit and the understanding of the process. We have a few advanced coding & programming based challenges that we could use help on!

Currently the kits run the electrocoagulation/electrolysis process and we want to add methods for logging data so we can share results on different water samples with the global community.

Any help is appreciated!

Opportunity Details

Join us at this fun alternative Halloween celebration! At this annual event, participants go on a pumpkin-lit night hike and meet costumed night critters like Spider, Owl, and Bat! They also enjoy crafts, games, food, and a raffle in the park shelter. Volunteers can help with set-up before the event (decorating the shelter, putting out pumpkins, etc.) or activities at the event (food service, crafts, games, or raffle ticket sales).

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Event Set Up	no limit	n/a	n/a
Event Activities	no limit	n/a	n/a

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FabMo is an all volunteer organization without paid staff or an ED, so the Board is a working board, acting as ED as well in addition to standard board responsibilities