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NPAWS is growing and needs your help. We have outreach programs for veterinarians, businesses, and the general public. We are also developing efforts toward grassroots political action. You will have a strong hand in deciding the direction and accomplishments of your NPAWS' Volunteer Recruitment and Management activities. Come join the Animal Rights Movement for America's Pets!

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The 64th Street Community Garden is spearheading a beautification effort by replacing broken raised beds with new lumber, soil, and edible crops. Through this project, the group is maintaining an urban green space and providing free food to the community.

Volunteers will construct 8'x4' raised beds by connecting 2x12x8 and 2x12x4 pieces of lumber to create beds for community gardeners to grow food.

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About 40% of the food produced in US is wasted annually and at the same time 40 million Americans don't have access to good food. This free webinar is to learn ways to reduce food waste at home.
In the volunteering opportunity for this event, the tasks are simple do it from home activities like spreading food waste awareness in social media, creating awareness about the event, participating in the event, sharing any one learning from the event in your social media. Also you could help with doing pre-test for the event, sharing any your positive experiences of food waste reduction during the event if time permits.

Available Shifts

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

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Forest Fire Prevention Derivatives, CrowdDoing, Volunteer Financial Consultant to provide accurate and data based information on company’s profitability, solvency, stability and liquidity. You will research and analyze financial information to help company make well informed decisions, write reports and monitor financial movements.Forest Fire Prevention Derivatives, CrowdDoing, Volunteer Financial Analyst

See more detailed background on CrowdDoing's forest fire prevention derivatives
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dBp_HUr-tCCNaeGoSDfPrirRPbaoV3X4/view?usp=sharing
Forest Fire Risk Prevention Derivatives in Northern California
Bobby Fishkin, lead author

In 2018, Sacramento was named the ""the Most Polluted City on Earth"" due to ""smoke from Camp Fire,"" This proposal aims to prevent that from happening again through adopting a systemic approach and collaborating with stakeholders to actively prevent future such events. The insurance industry, along with institutional chief risk officers, have begun to recognize the importance of moving from ""loss compensation to loss prevention.""

CrowdDoing and Project Heather propose launching a prevention derivative with two new stakeholders: (a) contingent payers who pay in proportion to the reduction in risk, and (b) impact investors who finance social innovations in which their return is similarly proportional to the reduction in risk. It will build on existing precedents for contingent contracts involving social- innovation-based risk prevention.


A spectrum of forest fire risk prevention approaches are available: from creative new social innovations to well-established interventions.The forest fire risk prevention derivative would first survey existing forest fire prevention interventions in Greater Sacramento with an eye towards which ones might be suitable to support and expand. It would then review global social innovations that might be relevant to Northern California to determine which to replicate. Entities involved in risk management and risk securitisation, from insurers to reinsurers to retrocessionaires, ought to welcome the chance to share liability proportionally through a commons of prevention innovations. The prevention derivative can expand as more institutions and individuals join as contingent payers and impact investors in order prevent a larger portion of collective risk. Payments by private and public institutions to support prevention derivatives can be in-kind, through services, and/or financial.
- COPY - Forest Fire Prevention Derivatives, CrowdDoing, Volunteer Financial Consultant

We are looking for a Financial Consultant to provide guidance on investment decisions, cash management and day-to-day company expenses.

Financial Consultant responsibilities include forecasting costs and revenues, conducting risk analyses for financial plans and evaluating capital expansion options (e.g. funding or loans.) To be successful in this role, you should have a Finance or Accounting degree and relevant work experience as a Financial Adviser to large clients.

Ultimately, you will help us maintain our company’s financial health.

Forest Fire Prevention Derivatives, CrowdDoing, Volunteer Financial Consultant Responsibilities
Assess company’s financial status
Analyze investment plans
Source and evaluate capital expansion options, including loans and funding
Advise on selling and buying stocks and bonds
Forecast revenues and costs and report any discrepancies
Analyze market trends and identify risks and opportunities
Manage current and future tax payments
Monitor financial procedures and ensure compliance with the law
Provide solutions and set goals to increase profitability
Review day-to-day transactions to identify areas of improvement
Forest Fire Prevention Derivatives, CrowdDoing, Volunteer Financial Consultant Requirements
Proven work experience as a Financial Consultant, or similar role
Hands-on experience with accounting software and statistical packages
Good knowledge of fiscal policies
Excellent analytical skills, along with the ability to create detailed reports and spreadsheets
Attention to detail
Confidentiality
BS degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics or related field
Additional certification (e.g. CFP or CFA) is a plus


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The only way CrowdDoing.world can realize its impact potential is through virtual volunteers,service learners(http://blog.reframeit.com/service-learning-and-skilled-volunteering/), and micro-leaders (https://real-leaders.com/leveraging-micro-leadership-to-make-aspirational-goals-achievable/) coming together.

 

See this brief video aboutMicro-leadership at CrowdDoing (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhdB2YJ8Ocs&app=desktop). Micro-leadership means that each person adopts a dimension of responsibility for a collective problem in our society through collaborating on that area creatively individually and together through social innovation.

 

You are also welcome to see more background on CrowdDoing at our Youtube Channel (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVoL7fai7oa95fBo44FC0gA?sub_confirmation=1).

 

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LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/18910309/).

You can see a CrowdDoing Volunteering FAQ here.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zCkbEQX8PHh8k85BS0iIhsJJxADqdH3Kpn1PDbI1Uno/edit?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

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The Friends of High Cliff State Park will be sponsoring our park Clean-Up event again this year. It will be held on Saturday, April 23rd, 2022. Their first park clean-up day was held over twenty years ago. It is our time to help prepare the park for the spring, summer and fall seasons. Volunteers spread out to pick up any trash, litter and debris that has accumulated. Tree planting may also be available.

Stop at the park office on your way in and mention that you are there for the clean-up.
You'll be given a FREE Day Pass, no need for a state park sticker.

Bring gloves and dress for the weather, it's always colder by the lake. All volunteers are meeting at the Gathering Space (pavilion) which is located in the upper part of the park, near the tower overlooking Lake Winnebago. We'll be given a bag(s) for collecting, instructions on where to leave it when we are done, and a map that identifies suggested clean-up locations within the park. You will be able to work alone, with others in your own group, and at your own pace.
Volunteers are invited to join the Friends of High Cliff after the clean up for a free lunch at the Gathering Space.

Volunteers are of all ages and abilities from retirees to young children.

Youth Go staff and teens will be volunteering on Saturday, April 23rd, 2022 @ 9am-12pm.

We hope you can join us in volunteering at High Cliff!

Available Shifts

Shift Name	Signup Max	Start	End
Clean Up	no limit	n/a	n/a

Opportunity Details

In honor of Earth Day, Nearby Nature is once again partnering with SOLVE for an annual cleanup of Alton Baker Park. Join neighbors, community organizations, and local businesses in picking up litter and helping to ensure the park is clean and safe for everyone – all while enjoying a stroll in the park. Maybe you’ll see a great blue heron, a duck, or a beaver!

Volunteers should register in advance at SOLVE in addition to on this website (https://bit.ly/3wQJ1XS), bring a water bottle, and dress for the weather in closed-toe shoes and clothes they don’t mind getting dirty. Due to potential safety concerns related to kids and picking up trash, we ask that all participants are 10 years of age or older.

Available Shifts

Shift Name	Signup Max	Start	End
General	10	n/a	n/a

Opportunity Details

The Charcoal Project (TCP) is seeking new board members to replace two board members who are leaving the board. TCP is especially interested in candidates with social impact investment, strategic communications, monitoring and evaluation, or social entrepreneurial skills. Board members must also contribute to the organization's annual fundraising goals, either through direct support or by creating and/or leading fundraising opportunities. Please note that this is a volunteer position without monetary compensation.

Joining TCP’s Board is a unique opportunity to help improve the lives of tens of millions of people living in energy poverty while also mitigating the impacts of greenhouse gas emissions and the Climate Crisis.

Expressions of interest in the Board position can be submitted to info@charcoalproject.org Please submit your CVs or relevant qualifications along with a cover letter.

Organization Description
The Charcoal Project is a 10-year old US-based non-profit organization (501(c)(3)) that facilitates the adoption of clean burning technologies, sustainable fuel alternatives, and policies for communities that depend on wood and charcoal as their primary source of fuel in the global south.

Our work is presently focused on sub-Saharan Africa where we work directly with communities, entrepreneurs, research and policy-making institutions.

Overwhelmingly, the production of traditional charcoal in the developing world requires cutting down trees and converting it to charcoal using inefficient methods that result in greenhouse gas emissions. More than 80 percent of the population in sub-Saharan Africa depends on wood or wood charcoal, and a significant amount of charcoal is exported to industrialized nations where it is mostly used for recreational cooking purposes. It is estimated that fuelwood and charcoal production may account for 2 - 7 percent of global emissions, with sub-Saharan Africa accounting for one third of those emissions. Experts agree that charcoal consumption is scheduled to increase in Africa in the coming decades, a trend that could exacerbate droughts, floods, and other localized impacts from climate change. Yet despite the role that wood and charcoal play in supplying the majority of sub-Saharan Africa’s energy, the issue is not being addressed at a national, regional, or international level in ways that are making any significant difference.

The most recent IPCC report urges a “transitioning to renewable energy (in sub-Saharan Africa as a way to) reduce reliance on wood fuel and charcoal, especially in urban areas, with co-benefits including reduced deforestation, desertification, fire risk and improved indoor air quality, local development and agricultural yield (Shukla et al., 2019)."

In order to accelerate this transition to renewable energy, The Charcoal Project (TCP) is in the process of identifying and recruiting Board members who can help significantly propel the organization’s impact in this decade.

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Food Link is a community organization that rescues fresh, quality, surplus food from
grocery stores and wholesale suppliers and distributes the food to over 90 community
organizations serving food-insecure people throughout 50 Eastern Massachusetts
towns and cities.

We welcome volunteers for a 2 hour shift at the Food Link Hub in Arlington, MA to
help with tasks including sorting produce and non-perishable food items, organizing food by category, packing boxes for deliveries, composting, repackaging bulk food, loading/unloading boxes of food from our vehicles, and cleaning.

We have two required waivers to volunteer with us.
General Waiver:
https://waiver.smartwaiver.com/w/61081901d5538/web/
Covid Waiver:
https://forms.gle/X4Bgvs6hPwfodnrt5
*Everyone must be fully vaccinated against Covid-19, including the booster shot

Available Shifts

Shift Name	Signup Max	Start	End
Volunteer at the Food Link Hub	7	n/a	n/a

Opportunity Details

Come help solve Wehr's erosion crisis! Due to increased water flow from year's of development on Wehr's western borders, runoff from rainwater is eroding the stream banks and endangering the stability of Wehr's boardwalk bridges. The sediment is then being deposited in Wehr's wetlands and lake creating more damage The Friends of Wehr are currently working to create a long term plan to adddress these issues. In the meantime, we will be taking some remedial action this spring to stabilize two bridge abutments that appear to be the most endangered, buying time to have a comprehensive plan created and to raise the funds to implement the plan. Volunteers are needed NOW to help create gabions and move rocks into place to stabilize the stream banks. Qualifications: On the job training; outside; must be able to bend and lift heavy rocks.

Available Shifts

Shift Name	Signup Max	Start	End
General	3	n/a	n/a

Opportunity Details

Come help solve Wehr's erosion crisis! Due to increased water flow from year's of development on Wehr's western borders, runoff from rainwater is eroding the stream banks and endangering the stability of Wehr's boardwalk bridges. The sediment is then being deposited in Wehr's wetlands and lake creating more damage The Friends of Wehr are currently working to create a long term plan to adddress these issues. In the meantime, we will be taking some remedial action this spring to stabilize two bridge abutments that appear to be the most endangered, buying time to have a comprehensive plan created and to raise the funds to implement the plan. Volunteers are needed NOW to help create gabions and move rocks into place to stabilize the stream banks. Qualifications: On the job training; outside; must be able to bend and lift heavy rocks.

Available Shifts

Shift Name	Signup Max	Start	End
General	3	n/a	n/a