Opportunity Details

At Fostering Love Rescues animal sanctuary, we cultivate and foster connections with humankind and animals. While inspiring and uplifting others through compassionate acts in the Douglas County area for the last four years, we’ve successfully promoted an animal-friendly approach to life and work that has inspired a more compassionate lifestyle through exposure. The relationships that have been established with our blended family of displaced horses, goats, mini donkey, dogs, and cats through the pandemic, and the financial hardship of the community since have been astonishing, rewarding, and most of all, life-changing for the animals, and people that love them.


On April 6, 2024, we will be joining other animal shelters throughout the country for the Shelter Slumber Pawty. During this event, animal lovers from across the country will spend 24 hours at shelters with the animals while raising funds and awareness for our organizations.


As the first sanctuary to be involved, we hope this event will give insight into how our animals live, how much time and care goes on behind the scenes, the need and value for
volunteers, and why donations are such a crucial part of the continued care for our animals.

We aim to raise $1,000 per animal resident. Making an overall goal of $16,000 to cover just one-third of a year of overhead costs for equine medication for our elders, food, and supplies so that we can focus on enrichment and therapy in 2025.

Below are the positions we are seeking to fill for this event! Thank you!

Event Lead-
Organizes event planning meetings
Organizes participant recruitment
Serves as point-of-contact with Project Bella/SSP Team
Recommended onsite for 24 hours

Food Lead-
Arrange meals for event
Recruit donations or volunteers to purchase/bring food and supplies
Considers dietary restrictions of participants

Shelter Prep Lead-
Schedules/organizes:
Shelter deep clean in areas where participants are staying/sleeping
Freshen/Set-up up areas for dining, etc

Event Promotions Lead-
Creates/send press release, sets up media spots/spokesperson
Facilitates Organization’s pre-event social media posts
Creates onsite Sponsorship signage (if applicable)

Event Broadcast Producer-
Creates 24 Hour Run-of-Show (Template)
Recruits team of volunteer photographers/videographers for social media posts/lives
Posts on organization’s social media pages during the 24 hour event
Recommended onsite for 24 hours

Team “Cheerleaders”
Keeps participants updated on status of team fundraising goal
Encourages team to reach next fundraising milestone
Gives shoutouts to participants when goals are reached!

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Help Gulf Coast Bird Observatory raise funds for our conservation work at Brew on the Bayou. We need help pouring beer and wine samples, as well as other tasks. It's a fun event for guests and volunteers alike!

Available Shifts

Shift Name	Signup Max	Start	End
General	15	n/a	n/a

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We are looking for people help us create and implement more and better ways to promote our idea and work on-line. This could include automated data entry to innovative technologies to strengthen our presence and reach.

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The Kids Co-op is expanding and needs lots of help to role out our many different services that contributes to a blueprint template for any rural school or community to replicate. We are the recipient of the 2023 USDA Farm to School grant that involves putting greenhouses, salad bars, indoor grow towers and gardens into 12 Sanders County schools. We're also going to be delivering local food to the schools for the next two years by setting up an online ordering and bi-monthly distribution. We have a school fundraising program where the students will get prizes and funds for community uplifting projects from the proceeds of the CSA and other local food subscriptions they sell and help distribute. We need help to develop a website other than just using our Facebook page. This will need an online store to market everything from local food to local art, body products, home products, and mostly product from the NW region and Montana. Also need to tie into community outreach via social media and other methods. We also are need of coordinating fundraising events and grant writing to purchase the building we're renting.

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Are you looking for a way to spend time outside in nature while contributing to a worthy cause? Then this micro-volunteering opportunity is perfect for you!

EcoSpark is an environmental charity connecting people to their local natural environment through education, monitoring and stewardship. We believe that citizen science is a powerful tool for spreading awareness and mobilizing local data collection. By collecting biodiversity observations through iNaturalist, you can learn more about the local species living around you, and help scientists working to study and protect them.

Safely explore nature from wherever you are by finding wild species close to home. Whether this means taking a walk through your local park, or watching birds from your window, you can make observations from wherever you experience nature.

1. Download iNaturalist and make an account (users must be 13 years or older to make an account).
2. Join EcoSpark’s iNaturalist project.
3. Go outside and safely observe a wild plant or animal.
4. Take a clear picture or record a sound of what you find. Be sure to note the location.
5. Upload your observation to iNaturalist. If you know the species, great! If not, put your best guess (if you know it’s a ‘plant’ for example, but aren't sure what kind, just put ‘plant’).
6. Congratulations! You have just contributed valuable data to science. Feel free to continue to make observations, as each observation helps provide a more complete picture for ecologists.

Be aware of human and wildlife safety at all times and explore natural areas responsibly with ethical wildlife photography. To support biodiversity research focus on: wild insects, birds, weeds, and other wild plants, animals and fungi (rather than cultivated species like garden flowers).

Opportunity Details

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED TO REMOVE INVASIVE PLANTS AND RESTORE LOWRY SPRING BASIN AT LOWRY PARK
Join Ecosphere Restoration Institute, ZooTampa at Lowry Park, City of Tampa Parks & Recreation, and Keep Tampa Bay Beautiful (KTTB) on Saturday, February 17 from 8:30AM-11AM, for a morning volunteer event to finish removing the invasive plants that have taken over the Lowry Spring Basin at Lowry Park. This work will continue where we left off at our last event, allowing us to finish removing invasive plants around the Spring and along Hamilton Creek, which flows into the Hillsborough River. Families, individuals 14 years and up, clubs, and organizations are invited to help restore the well-loved site.

We expect the work to be completed quicker than before because we are almost finished! We will also be cleaning up any trash that has accumulated along the shoreline of the Hillsborough River. Volunteers should wear attire suitable for outdoor work such as hats, long pants, and sturdy closed-toed shoes. Gloves and safety glasses will be available, but volunteers are welcome to bring their own. Sunscreen and insect repellent are recommended. Water will be available but please make sure to bring your own water bottle. Tools will be provided. We will have pros onsite to operate chain saws for safety purposes. *Due to the presence of power tools, the minimum age is 14.
Parking is available at Lowry Park. From Sligh Ave, turn north on North Blvd and turn right at the next lot past (north of) boat ramp parking. Then walk north to the Spring (turn left at the River). OR Turn onto the second lot north of the boat ramp and walk south to the Spring (turn right at the River). You should see Ecosphere's set up and may hear the sound of chainsaws.

We would love to have you join us! *To sign up for the event visit:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/volunteer-work-day-rescheduled-date-from-february-17-tickets-848832870967?aff=oddtdtcreator

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Join Ecoculture and Natural Restorations for a Lower Salt River Restoration Project and help us plant thousands of native trees along the banks of the Lower Salt River. The Lower Salt River Restoration Project was established in 2018, following a wildfire which burned over 80,000 acres of riparian and Sonoran desert habitat. Get your hands dirty and help protect this place that is so important to all of us.

This event is also possible due to support from the U.S. Forest Service Tonto National Forest, the National Forest Foundation, Audubon Southwest, & the Department of Forestry & Fire Management.

Everyone is welcome, including youth volunteers when they are accompanied & supervised by a parent, guardian, or adult group leader. We would be happy to sign off on service hours or provide a Confirmation of Volunteer Service letter for youth volunteers.

Use this link to register & receive event updates: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/791588050167?aff=oddtdtcreator

Sign-in: 8:30-9:00 a.m. | Safety Briefing: 9 a.m. | Planting starts: after safety briefing| End time: 1:00 p.m. or sooner

Please arrive before 9am so you can park and turn in your paperwork before the safety briefing starts at 9am.

Available Shifts

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

Opportunity Details

Join Ecoculture and Natural Restorations for a Lower Salt River Restoration Project and help us plant thousands of native trees along the banks of the Lower Salt River. The Lower Salt River Restoration Project was established in 2018, following a wildfire which burned over 80,000 acres of riparian and Sonoran desert habitat. Get your hands dirty and help protect this place that is so important to all of us.

This event is also possible due to support from the U.S. Forest Service Tonto National Forest, the National Forest Foundation, Audubon Southwest, & the Department of Forestry & Fire Management.

Everyone is welcome, including youth volunteers when they are accompanied & supervised by a parent, guardian, or adult group leader. We would be happy to sign off on service hours or provide a Confirmation of Volunteer Service letter for youth volunteers.

Use this link to register & receive event updates: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/791588050167?aff=oddtdtcreator

Sign-in: 8:30-9:00 a.m. | Safety Briefing: 9 a.m. | Planting starts: after safety briefing| End time: 1:00 p.m. or sooner

Please arrive before 9am so you can park and turn in your paperwork before the safety briefing starts at 9am.

Available Shifts

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

Opportunity Details

Join Natural Restorations & Footprints Matter to Us for the 15th annual Environmental Stewardship Event at Hewitt Station. This is a trash cleanup on the Tonto National Forest.

Everyone is welcome! Youth volunteers are welcome when they are accompanied and supervised by an adult.

Please go to this link to register & receive all of the event details: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/779521037407?aff=oddtdtcreator

Available Shifts

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

Opportunity Details

Join Natural Restorations & Footprints Matter to Us for the 15th annual Environmental Stewardship Event at Hewitt Station. This is a trash cleanup on the Tonto National Forest.

Everyone is welcome! Youth volunteers are welcome when they are accompanied and supervised by an adult.

Please go to this link to register & receive all of the event details: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/779521037407?aff=oddtdtcreator

Available Shifts

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