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Whether you prefer to volunteer remotely or in person, there are several ways you can contribute your time and skills to our mission of creating a more equitable and sustainable future for underserved communities in Los Angeles.

Remote Volunteer Opportunities:

Virtual Workshops and Trainings: Share your expertise and knowledge by conducting virtual workshops and trainings for community members. Topics can range from sustainable gardening and urban farming to renewable energy and environmental justice. These virtual sessions will empower individuals with valuable skills and knowledge that they can apply in their own lives and communities.

Online Fundraising and Awareness Campaigns: Help us spread the word about our initiatives by organizing online fundraising and awareness campaigns. Utilize social media platforms, email newsletters, and online communities to raise funds, share our mission, and engage others in supporting our cause. Your efforts will play a crucial role in expanding our network of supporters and generating the resources needed to make a lasting impact.

Content Creation and Storytelling: Use your creativity and storytelling skills to create compelling content that highlights the work of The Niles Foundation. This can include writing blog posts, creating videos, designing graphics, or capturing photographs that showcase our projects, volunteers, and success stories. By sharing these stories, you will help raise awareness about our mission and inspire others to get involved.

In-Person Volunteer Opportunities:

Urban Farming and Gardening: Join us at our urban farms and community gardens to get your hands dirty and contribute to the cultivation of fresh and healthy produce. Help with planting, watering, weeding, and harvesting, while learning about sustainable farming practices. Your efforts will directly impact the availability of nutritious food for underserved communities.

Community Events and Workshops: Assist us in organizing and facilitating community events and workshops. This can involve setting up event spaces, coordinating logistics, leading educational sessions, or providing hands-on support to participants. By engaging directly with community members, you will help foster a sense of empowerment and create spaces for learning and collaboration.

Food Distribution and Outreach: Support our efforts in distributing food resources to underserved communities. This can include packing and distributing food boxes, assisting with mobile grocery store operations, or organizing food drives and distribution events. By ensuring that individuals have access to fresh and healthy food, you will directly contribute to addressing food insecurity in our community.

Please note that in-person volunteer opportunities may be subject to safety guidelines and protocols to ensure the well-being of our volunteers and community members.

No matter how you choose to volunteer, your contribution will make a significant difference in the lives of underserved communities. We value your time, skills, and dedication to our mission. Together, we can create lasting change and build a more equitable and sustainable future for all.

To get involved as a volunteer, please visit our website or reach out to our volunteer coordinator. We will provide you with more information and guide you through the volunteer onboarding process.

Thank you for your commitment to making a positive impact. We look forward to having you as part of our volunteer team at The Niles Foundation.

2024,

The Niles Foundation

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If you have access to a 3D printer and want to help young students in south King County learn about the animals they will encounter as they explore the beach, this is a perfect project for you!

The Environmental Science Center's Beach Heroes program partners with local schools to help Kindergarten-2nd graders learn about the organisms that live on the beach and how to protect them. The ESC provides free or reduced-cost transportation to local beaches for these students, in addition to a classroom visit from an ESC naturalist. Prior to their field trip, students create their own field guides by doing crayon rubbings of the templates that you will reproduce!

The ESC relies on volunteers to make these templates, and the matching funds donated by your employer will support the creation and delivery of environmental science education programs for residents throughout south King County, including students in the Highline, Renton, Tukwila, Auburn, and Kent school districts. During the COVID crisis, ESC has opted not to charge any school groups for participating in our virtual live-streamed field trips; your matching funds will help the ESC continue to operate without that source of income.

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Do you love the outdoors, mountains and our winter and are concerned about climate change? Are you an experienced communicator, storyteller and know what is what when it comes to climate policy? Are you a passionate member of the outdoor community and know how to communicate complicated policy in an easy to understand and engaging way? Then we have the perfect volunteer opportunity for you. Come and gain valuable help grow our presence in Europe with Protect Our Winters. POW Europe is looking for a Communications volunteer to help us further develop our strategic communications.

POW Europe offers an interesting, engaging and pro-active volunteer opportunity to support our communications and public relations work. You will be in charge of leading and establishing the POW Europe web and social media presence, coordinating communications of the 9 European POW chapters and maintaining an ongoing relationship with our press contacts.

Core Responsibilities
● Content creation for POW Europe newsletter, Twitter, LinkedIn and website
● Regular EU climate policy update to external and internal audiences
● Report on POW Europe and European chapter events, campaigns
● Regular contact with chapters to coordinate communications and gather comms input for European-wide communications and re-sharing
● Lead on interviews/features on major brand partnerships
● Marketing copywriting - e.g. for yearly POW Impact Report, Partnership reports, campaigns, events, etc.
● Develop external communications for campaigns, and general charity comms - from talking points, press releases to campaign materials

Skills and Expectations
Please indicate in your resume and cover letter your knowledge, skills, abilities, and interest in the following:
● Translating science and policy for non-experts and communicate in an inspiring way
● Writing stories, narratives, and other interpretive materials to share information about climate policy, the outdoor community and athlete engagement
● Public engagement and communications campaign development
● Interest in learning more about climate communication in our chapter countries
● Experience with representing organizations in newsletters and on social media, such as Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and Twitter
● Experience in drafting press releases, media advisories and handling media requests
● Experience of creating website content using Wordpress

Expectations include:
● Degree, training and experience in communications / journalism / marketing
● Strong experience or interest in EU climate policy, politics and advocacy
● Excellent writing skills with a fluency in English
● Ability to develop communication materials and demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously
● Ability to work in Wordpress, with design and media editing skills a definite plus
● Strong creativity skills and ability to generate new ideas
● Proven ability to develop effective communication products with minimal editing
● Ability to self-direct work and strong attention to detail

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We invite Apple employees to write messages of hope, gratitude and encouragement to Mercy Corps’ global team members to support their hard work and dedication. With over 5,600 team members and in more than 40 countries, Mercy Corps employees are helping communities forge new paths to prosperity in the face of disaster, poverty, and the impacts of climate change.

"Discovering that someone thousands of miles away is thinking of us, supporting our work and standing beside us – it means so much, and keeps us going. During these challenging times, your support reminds us of how interconnected we really are. Thank you.” -- Karla Peña, Mercy Corps Director of Puerto Rico

This virtual volunteer opportunity is designed to be low-touch, with high-reach. And while the time dedication may be small, the activity makes a huge impact supporting Mercy Corps’ team and mission. It can be accomplished independently on an individuals’ own timeframe by reviewing pre-packaged assets and submitting a message via the dedicated website.

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Position Description

We are currently building a team of tree taggers to verify global reforestation projects and accelerate Greenstand’s machine learning team. The Tree tagger will help us review, verify, tag, and label tree images. Thousands of pictures of young trees are uploaded to our verification platform. We need help figuring out what species the trees are by using theComputer Vision Annotation Tool(CVAT), a web-based image and video annotation tool which we use for tagging tree images for the development of advanced machine learning algorithms. We will train you in CVAT and our technical platform. This is a great opportunity for an interested individual to get their foot in the door of an annotation program.

Responsibilities

In this role, you will be asked to analyze tree images based on their leaf patterns, locations and accurately label/tag them using CVAT.
You will work as part of a team to integrate CVAT with our Admin Panel web application in order to complete the tree verification process.
You will review various imageson the computer and classify them according to their types of species and attach tags.

Requirements

Be passionate about trees, species identification, and machine learning algorithms.
Must be comfortable using computers and learning a new program/tool
Detail-oriented, organized, and quality-focused
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
Expecting at least 3+hours in a week, 5+ preferred.
Strong communication skills.

What you get in return

Exposure to machine learning expertise to better understand how the labels are used to train learning algorithms
Letter confirming your volunteer hours and projects
Professional reference(s)
Valuable experience & leadership opportunities
Engagement with a team of global professionals

About Greenstand

Greenstand is a fully remote social nonprofit organization turning environmental stewardship into a reliable source of income. Our work tackles both extreme poverty and climate change through technology. Our main product is the Treetracker, a mobile app that allows planting organizations and their donors to track the growth of newly planted trees through periodic geotagged photos.

The project is at a really exciting stage and has been recently elevated to a Supporting Partner for the United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration. This could not be done without many amazing people contributing their skills and time from around the world.

Read more about our work on Greenstand.org.

To apply

Please fill out this form and a Greenstand team member will be in touch soon.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdyLUffLPZZlHR-qfMwch5HkWcZ3kxM6h-eMK5PfGKLD4t8iA/viewform

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Greenstand is a fully remote social non-profit organization turning environmental stewardship into a reliable source of income. Our work tackles both extreme poverty and climate change. Our main product is Treetracker, a mobile app that allows planting organizations and their donors to track the growth of newly planted trees through periodic geotagged photos. Find out more about our project at Greenstand.org.

Position Description

We are now looking for self-driven and attentive volunteers who want to aid in the curation of multimedia promotional materials for our existing media and to increase our YouTube presence. You will produce original, engaging content for our social media channels. Videos are the best way for communicating an organization's messages on online platforms, your position will play an important role.

Primary responsibilities

Manage and oversee all technical aspects of video creation and editing for internal and promotional requirements
Work with our creative teammates
Regularly collaborate with the marketing team
Follow the company's brand guidelines

Requirements

knowledge of media production and communication
An understanding of basic environmental concepts surrounding climate change, reforestation, ecosystem services, and nature-based economies
At least 3 hours per week (5+ hours preferable), including a bi-weekly team meeting.
Strong communication skills; we’d rather you over-communicate than under-communicate!
Proven ability to manage and produce video projects that are in line with our brand guidelines & communications strategy. We will ask you for at least one work sample.
Strong time management skills and the ability to self-motivate, as you may be developing some projects independently.

In return for your support, we can offer:

Letter confirming your volunteer hours and projects
Professional reference(s)
Valuable experience gained & leadership opportunities
Engagement with a team of global professionals

To apply
Please fill out this form and a Greenstand team member will be in touch shortly:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeEmwekGZ5tcc5sVhsgMDf-KEDBMtZYoCYAmxyxrOPv5w0WKA/viewform

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Join up with the Greenstand Engineers!

Position Description
We are building a powerful technical platform that employs some of the world's poorest people to grow forests by paying them for the positive impacts they create. Together we develop a suite of open source services for tracking, managing, and funding the regrowth of the world’s forests! Click through to our onboarding form to learn more!

Our Android team is gearing up for a major development push this Spring, where they will implement major upgrades to our open-source application. Our new UX improves usability for users in remote areas of the world with low literacy while increasing their access to features that support their livelihood and efforts in forest restoration. We are scaling the team up to meet the demand created by the first version of this application!

Development of this next version for Android will leverage the Compose framework and builds off a well-factored base of MVVM code. For an experienced developer, this is an opportunity to make a short-term, targeted contribution and create a big impact! And it’s also a great place to make new friends and connections!

In return for your support, we can offer:

Letter confirming your volunteer hours and projects
Professional reference(s)
Valuable experience gained & leadership opportunities
Engagement with a team of global professionals
Being part of an amazingly complex fast evolving global project
To apply

Jump straight in: https://github.com/Greenstand/treetracker-android

Our onboarding form here: https://forms.gle/1yVMo5dpqW4xoTrt6

Or read up about Greenstand on our website: https://greenstand.org/

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Position description

Do you have a passion for social media? Are you an engaging storyteller? Do your friends call you visionary, trendy, or clever? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then this volunteer position might just be the perfect fit for you and a place where you get to show off your resourcefulness, imagination, skills, and experience.

At Greenstand, we are seeking an enthusiastic, passionate content creator and strategist who has some professional experience to join our Marketing and Communications team. On the social media site, you will be working on developing and maintaining Greenstand’s online presence through various social media channels: Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, and the World Economic Forum’s UpLink platform. You will also have the opportunity to write your own posts for Greenstand’s blog. This position will be responsible for actively updating and maintaining our social media channels, creating and brainstorming content, creating a plan to enhance online presence, and identifying opportunities for growth.


Primary responsibilities

Build and manage Greenstand’s social media profiles and presence alongside the Communications team.
Assist with blog post drafting and review.
Write regular blog posts on pre-approved topics that relate to Greenstand’s work.
Create and execute scheduled social media engagement strategies. This includes but is not limited to crafting, posting, and tracking posts across various social media platforms, social listening, follower pushes, engaging with influencers, etc.
Guide and provide strategic direction through the entire brand identity and design process.
Create a "standard" messaging approach and ad for each target audience.
Raise awareness of the importance of better reforestation practices, for the environment and for the development of a sustainable nature-based economy.
Helpful skills

Create social media graphics and collaborate on new concepts and ideas.
Ability to think outside the box for innovative ways for nonprofits to use all social platforms to achieve their goals.
Expertise in brand identity, development, and application through strategy, design, and messaging.
Highly organized and a strategic thinker and planner. More concerned about long-term impact than short-term gain.
Excellent communication skills. Ability to work independently and as a member of a team.
Self-motivated and can complete work independently with considerations to timelines, and enjoys working as part of a collaborative team. Time commitment is 10-15 hours per week, including a bi-weekly meeting that is flexible with its schedule.
Ability to manage and produce video projects that are in line with our brand guidelines & communications strategy.
What you get in return

Letter confirming your volunteer hours and projects
Professional reference(s)
Valuable experience & leadership opportunities
Engagement with a team of global professionals

About Greenstand

Greenstand is a fully remote social non-profit organization turning environmental stewardship into a reliable source of income. Our work tackles both extreme poverty and climate change. Our main product is the Treetracker, a mobile app that allows planting organizations and their donors to track the growth of newly planted trees through periodic geotagged photos.

The project is at a really exciting stage and has just been elevated to a Supporting Partner for the United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration. This could not be done without our amazing Greenstanders contributing their skills and time from around the world.

 

Read more about our work on Greenstand.org.


To apply

Please follow the below link and fill out the form. Greenstand team members will be in touch soon.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeEmwekGZ5tcc5sVhsgMDf-KEDBMtZYoCYAmxyxrOPv5w0WKA/viewform

Opportunity Details

Greenstand is a fully remote social non-profit organization turning environmental stewardship into a reliable source of income. Our work tackles both extreme poverty and climate change. Our main product is Treetracker, a mobile app that allows planting organizations and their donors to track the growth of newly planted trees through periodic geotagged photos. Read more about our work on Greenstand.org.

Position Description

We are currently expanding capacity in our admin panel development team, which leverages React.js and Node.js as our core technologies. If you have these skills or are learning them, we’d love to have you contribute as a member of our diverse global team.

Volunteering as a developer with Greenstand is open to all skill levels.

Requirements

Self-motivation and time management skills are absolutely necessary, as we are a fully remote organization. While some projects will be very collaborative, you may have to develop some projects individually.
Knowledge or willingness to learn React.js
Ability or interest in attending our optional weekly meetings to coordinate engineering efforts; this is a great place to learn about new tech or meet similarly minded contributors that are interested in restoring the environment.

In return for your support, we can offer:

Letter confirming your volunteer hours and projects
Professional reference(s)
Valuable experience gained & leadership opportunities
Engagement with a team of global professionals

To apply
Please fill out this form and a Greenstander will be in touch shortly: https://forms.gle/1yVMo5dpqW4xoTrt6

You can also check out our code here: https://github.com/Greenstand/Development-Overview

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Russian Riverkeeper is pleased to announce the exciting plans we have in store for the 35th annual Russian River Watershed Cleanup on Saturday, September 18th 2021! The September cleanup is our largest of the year and helps remove trash that accumulates over the summer months on the Russian River. This year, there will be teams across the watershed from Ukiah to Monte Rio all contributing with the shared mission of protecting our River and ocean from trash pollution. Our goal in 2021 is to beat our record of 35,000 pounds of trash, 175 tires, and 452 volunteers, and we can only do it with your help. Volunteers receive a special gift and space is limited so sign up today at: www.russianriverkeeper.org/rrwcd .

Available Shifts

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