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.

Opportunity Details

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

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

What's mean and green and calls Wehr Nature Center home? A whole host of alien invaders - otherwise know as invasive plant species. Over time, they have spelled big trouble for Wehr's native plants and animals. We are looking for individuals to join our Eco Warriors, a volunteer group dedicated to battling these pushy plants. In April we will focus on Lesser Celandine, a low growing, agressive plant which creates solid carpets on the forest floor outcompeting many of our spring wildflowers. Wehr's native plants and animals will thank you! Qualifications: We will provide on the job training, but plase bring your own leather work gloves. Must be able to work outside, bend, kneel, sit to pull weeds.

Available Shifts

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

Opportunity Details

What's mean and green and calls Wehr Nature Center home? A whole host of alien invaders - otherwise know as invasive plant species. Over time, they have spelled big trouble for Wehr's native plants and animals. We are looking for individuals to join our Eco Warriors, a volunteer group dedicated to battling these pushy plants. In April we will focus on Lesser Celandine, a low growing, agressive plant which creates solid carpets on the forest floor outcompeting many of our spring wildflowers. Wehr's native plants and animals will thank you! Qualifications: We will provide on the job training, but plase bring your own leather work gloves. Must be able to work outside, bend, kneel, sit to pull weeds.

Available Shifts

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

Opportunity Details

What's mean and green and calls Wehr Nature Center home? A whole host of alien invaders - otherwise know as invasive plant species. Over time, they have spelled big trouble for Wehr's native plants and animals. We are looking for individuals to join our Eco Warriors, a volunteer group dedicated to battling these pushy plants. In April we will focus on Lesser Celandine, a low growing, agressive plant which creates solid carpets on the forest floor outcompeting many of our spring wildflowers. Wehr's native plants and animals will thank you! Qualifications: We will provide on the job training, but plase bring your own leather work gloves. Must be able to work outside, bend, kneel, sit to pull weeds.

Available Shifts

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

Opportunity Details

Bridgers Association is soliciting volunteers that can Champion, Liaise, fundraise and above all mobilize financial and material resources that advances the work of our nonprofit. Lobby and negotiate for fruitful partnerships with relevant stakeholders and partners such as other nonprofits, charities, companies, Universities and research institutions, banks etc.

The concept of volunteerism in itself is a base for self-development and empowerment in various spheres oriented per one’s needs. Above all, Volunteering is an opportunity to support a cause which one cares for and advocates for as being useful to the society. It is a treasurable gift or donation to lend others one’s time.

If you fit into this role then this is an opportunity for you to collaborate with us and create impact in underserved communities through our organization (https://www.bridgersngo.org).
We accept and receive refurbished material items that will foster our work in the field, beneficiaries are always looking up to receive even the least material item that contributes in making their lives better.

Are you able to negotiate for used computers/laptops, sewing machines, cars, photographic equipment, furniture, books, toys for children, bicycles to assist children go to school, menstrual kits for girls, dresses etc? This is the right organization to volunteer for.