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The Ecochallenge.org team needs creative UX/UI designers and front-end engineers to help improve our sustainability gamification platform! We'd love to ideate, scope, develop, and iterate a number of features that will make Ecochallenges more fun and user-friendly. Your work will make a difference for tens of thousands of global users who use Ecochallenges to take climate action and live more sustainably.

Product designers experienced in: Wireframes, rapid prototyping, user/UX testing, design systems

Front-end engineers experienced in: Vanilla JavaScript, React, Ruby on Rails, collaboration with back-end engineers

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The Garden Club of Cape Coral will host our 14th annual “March in the Park” fundraiser on Saturday, March 12th, 2022 from 9 am - 3 pm at Jaycee Park in Cape Coral. This “rain or shine” event is a marketplace and information fair designed for the community to learn, shop and share talents.
Our goal is to raise funds to support our community outreach projects with a fun event showcasing plants, products and services that SWFL gardeners and environment friendly shoppers will love. (Community outreach please see below event description)
Event Description:
Participants include over 100 garden club members who volunteer to make this event a success. Area merchants, craftspeople, landscapers, and commercial vendors surround the park paths with products to purchase. Food vendors provide refreshments, music and sponsor/informational announcements are broadcast on a sound system for all to hear as they enjoy the venue. We will host approximately 2000 attendees.
Free gardening demonstrations from master gardeners, high school teachers and their students, and professionals who have knowledge on particular plants, such as those that attract butterflies, provide 30 minute programs throughout the day.
A children's activity booth is a favorite for families with young children. Crafts related to nature such as butterflies or birds have been popular, along with face painting.
The highlight for many is the Garden Club's plant booth. 6 months prior to the event, Garden Club members cultivate plants at their homes, by seed or division and pot over 1000 plants to sell at the event. They are inspected on the event morning by US inspectors to be cleared free of disease or pests. The variety of local SWFL pollinator plants, orchids, bromeliads, herbs and flowers at a nominal cost for a good cause is a highlight for the attendees who return year after year for "March in the Park".
Word of mouth is our best form of advertising as well as news articles in the local paper and social media.
“March in the Park”, our only fundraiser, supports members’ work throughout the year to achieve community goals such as:
• Provide Marty Ward Merit Awards to students pursuing higher education in programs in Horticulture, Agriculture and Environmental Studies
• Maintain the Cape Coral Library Butterfly Garden
• Maintain the Cape Coral Historical Society Museum Rose Garden
• Donate funds and work time to Habitat for Humanity Home landscapes
• Support Camp Wekiva, a nature-oriented summer camp
• Support local school garden programs with monetary grants
• “Cups of Cheer” Assisted Living Outreach

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Project Canis is a new nonprofit organization started by students at the University of Florida to ensure that every shelter animal has a toy. ​Project Canis helps cats and dogs in Florida shelters by making and donating pet toys made from recycled materials. Many animal shelters struggle to get donations and are not financially able to provide toys, which are essential to animals' emotional and physical well-being.

Anyone can participate in Project Canis remotely by sending in toys they made individually or as a service project with their organization. We have three toy designs: the braid, the plushie, and the crunch that can be made easily with recycled materials such as old t-shirts and plastic water bottles. Making the toys is super easy and fun, and participating in Project Canis is a great way for organizations to give back to the community.

To volunteer with Project Canis, all you have to do is use our easy toy-making instructions found here: https://www.projectcanis.org/volunteer.html

Once you have made your toys, you can mail them to us, and we will mail you back a free sticker! If you want a record of your service hours or if you instead donate your toys to a local shelter, please email us at theprojectcanis@gmail.com with the number of toys you made and where you donated them.

Follow us @theprojectcanis on Facebook and Instagram, and send in your own toy-making photos to be featured!

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Inter-Faith Food Shuttle envisions a hunger free community. We FEED our neighbors, TEACH self-sufficiency, GROW healthy foods, and CULTIVATE innovative approaches to end hunger. We do this by engaging communities facing hunger to understand their unique needs and barriers. For our GROW initiatives, the Food Shuttle grows fresh produce at our 14-acre Farm in Raleigh and our Learning Gardens in Raleigh and Durham to distribute to our neighbors in need. Our learning gardens are also a place where community gardeners can grow their own produce and be a part of a community where mentorship and learning are cornerstones. Recently launched, our Gardens for Everyone project builds garden boxes at the homes of our neighbors or in partnership with nonprofits serving those at risk of hunger. Last fiscal year, the Food Shuttle and its volunteers built 110 garden boxes through this new project.

Learn more and register at the following links:
Camden Street Garden, Raleigh - https://foodshuttle.galaxydigital.com/agency/detail/?agency_id=93791
Geer Street Garden, Durham - https://foodshuttle.galaxydigital.com/agency/detail/?agency_id=93790
Food Shuttle Farm, Raleigh - https://foodshuttle.galaxydigital.com/agency/detail/?agency_id=94324
Gardens for Everyone - https://foodshuttle.galaxydigital.com/agency/detail/?agency_id=116465

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Inter-Faith Food Shuttle envisions a hunger free community. We FEED our neighbors, TEACH self-sufficiency, GROW healthy foods, and CULTIVATE innovative approaches to end hunger. Within our TEACH initiatives, we are dedicated to teaching skills for self-sufficiency and empowering our neighbors to meet their own food needs. This includes agriculture education bringing gardening, cooking, and nutrition education to children and adults. Within our Community Health Education, the Food Shuttle implements a national program called Cooking Matters to bring education opportunities for our neighbors. This includes topics like how to read food labels, how to get the most nutrition out of a limited budget, and even how to cook and prepare healthy, affordable meals.

Learn more and register at the following links:
Agriculture Education - https://foodshuttle.galaxydigital.com/agency/detail/?agency_id=103465
Cooking Matters - https://foodshuttle.galaxydigital.com/agency/detail/?agency_id=96556

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Every Wednesday professional gardeners and volunteers gather on the Scenic Pathway to restore this world-famous pathway to be beautiful, safe, and inviting.

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Celebrate the 27th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s Day of Service with SOLVE on Monday, January 17. This is the only federally recognized national day of service and is often referred to as a "day on, not a day off." SOLVE invites you to celebrate Dr. King by joining us at our monthly Downtown Portland Cleanup, to further cultivate Dr. King's mission of creating a "beloved city."

Engage in service work this Martin Luther King Jr. Day by cleaning up Portland. Register for a check-in location, receive cleanup supplies, and feel good knowing you are giving back to the city we all call home! Instruction and disposal will also be provided. This event is supported by The Standard and Portland Lodging Alliance.

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Come meet Zeljka and the animals in Daruvar, Croatia.

Help with the usual daily routine of feeding the animals and maintaining their shelters AND bring your skills and ideas to the table to help reuse some of the materials to:
- build additional shelters
- build a greenhouse to grow plants all year long
- promote the cause on social media
- improve any other day-to-day activity by rebuilding cupboards, shelters, trash disposing and recycling
- bring your ideas for new projects to leave your mark

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VOICE Trust is a nonprofit based out of Tiruchirappalli in Tamil Nadu, India. Over the past 37 years, we have been working at the grassroots level in the domain of environmental protection, ecological restoration, sustainable agriculture, disability, and child rights. We are looking for volunteers passionate about digitizing the nonprofit space assisting us in outreach and advocacy.

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Our web platform relies on microservices implemented in different languages, that are connected to a Kafka to consume, process information and produce events. We are looking for software engineers, business analysts and testers that can give some support in the design, implementation and testing of those microservices.
Thank you in advance.