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Join us on the maintenance works in Bilbao to become part of Atyla's history. Get the ship ready for the next season, live on board with a group of international volunteers, and earn sailing credit to join our sailing trips.

Find all the information here: https://atyla.org/volunteering

Available Shifts

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

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VIRTUAL MENTORS NEEDED

The Changemaker Project is a global challenge for youth ages 13-18. Students all over the world join an online course in which they learn about social and environmental justice issues, work together in teams to design solutions to problems they care about, and pitch their projects for funding at our annual Global Pitch event. We need volunteers to act as virtual mentors for our teams!

The goal of the mentoring program is to connect our teams with folks of different backgrounds and skill sets who can offer guidance on their projects. Our mentors include program alumni, college students, working professionals, and retirees.

We provide training for mentors to ensure you are successful in supporting your students. The commitment as a mentor this year is to attend four Zoom calls, on the first Saturday of the month from Feb.-May, 10-11am PST. During these Zoom calls, you'll join a breakout room with your team or "mentee" and coach them on their project. You will learn about their initiative and provide feedback, support, insights, and ideas as they develop it. We hope you will join us in supporting our students as they launch their projects!

GET INVOLVED:

1. Sign up here: https://www.thechangemakerproject.org/mentors
2. Complete an online training (1 hour)
3. Meet with your team! (3 one-hour Zoom calls)

Questions? Contact annalise@thechangemakerproject.org.

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Role Brief:
Role Name:

Scrum Master - CrowdDoing.world's Nature Counter

Min Qualifications required: Bachelors / Masters

Min Experience Required: (in no. of yrs) 2+

Experience or Knowledge in a specific subject or area required: Experience software development, project management

Minimum Volunteer hours required: (in hrs per week) 5-20

Project Overview:
Project Name:

Nature Counter
Project Duration: (in months) 6-12 months (Ongoing)

Project outline:
120 minutes a week in nature is a basic minimal nature dose every person in a city should achieve as a matter of public health. 90 minutes a day five days a week every week is an optimal recommended dose of nature for every person in a city. CrowdDoing studied biophelia in cities and found that there are more than one hundred diseases that can be prevented through access to nature. Nature Counter is a CrowdDoing concept, imminently to become a functional prototype that lets each person see if they are getting that level of time in nature per week or per month. Time in nature is approximated through the kind of nature that exists in cities- geo-locations of people based on their cell phones when they are in parks. Nature Counter tracks each person’s time in park when the application is on. This allows people to track it the way step counters track it. The aim is to have a universal public health goal of getting the city’s people to have enough time in parks to realize the biophelia collective health dividend. The concept is that nature is both an individual activity and a collective goal that friends should encourage each-other to achieve. Nature Counter is aimed at getting each person to track their time in nature and adjust their calendar over time to increase their time in nature. Our estimations are that people’s time in nature would rise if they could track this and have target goals for their health due to time in nature accordingly.

Biophelia counter builds off of the evidence that people who use step counters walk 27% more than people who don’t. http://www.nbcnews.com/id/21901412/ns/health-fitness/t/people-walk-mile-more-if-wearing-pedometer/ Assuming Nature Counter can achieve similar results for biophelia, whatever percentage of the city who downloaded the nature counter application. Assuming that San Francisco residents visit parks at an average level, they would visit parks 29 times a year- https://www.nrpa.org/blog/29-number-of-times-americans-visit-their-local- parks-annually/. Assuming the minimal dose goal, each person would need to increase that by another 40% to get to an average of a weekly visit to a local park and experience of biophelia. Each person would need to expand that dose by 1000% to reach the optimal dose. This is where a biophelia counter can come it and help people reach for more biophelia time in their lives.

Understand and fulfill international data security and protection requirements, and interface with regulators.

 

Essential Tasks:
At a high level, the following tasks will need to be performed:

Serve as the Scrum Master for project; will be both technical and non-functional activities managed in agile manner
Facilitate Agile ceremonies such as sprint planning, backlog grooming, retrospective, etc.
Help guide and establish Agile best practices and help implement the proper tools
Groom and maintain the backlog with the Product Owner
Assists the team in achieving their sprint goals by consistently reinforcing good Scrum principles and practices, and helping the team continuously improve.
Eliminates impediments and removes blockers by working with a wide range of stakeholders until a resolution is reached, so that the team can remain focused on achieving their objectives
 

Skills & Competencies:
● At least one year of Scrum Master experience leading a software development or engineering team

● CSM or other Agile certifications

● Successful experience applying Agile concepts and techniques driving projects to completion

● Hands on experience with Agile tools (preferred, not required)

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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YCore, a social impact fellowship for young professionals, gives young professionals the opportunity use their talent and resources to support meaningful work in their community.

Over the course of four months, YCore fellows dedicate a few hours outside of work each week to complete a strategic project with a local nonprofit partner. They also attend workshops with their cohort to learn and apply skills like systems thinking and fundraising, all while building their network of like-minded changemakers.

Applications are due at 11:59 PM PT on January 24. Visit https://ycore.org/bay-area to apply!

Available Shifts

Shift Name	Signup Max	Start	End
YCore Volunteer Fellowship	no limit	n/a	n/a

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Inspired by Charles Darwin and brought to life by his great-great-grandson, Chris Darwin. The Darwin Challenge app is encouraging a little evolution for the benefit of us all. We are reducing humanity’s consumption of meat to improve global health, stop the destruction of
our forests, slow climate change and save a billion animals per year from the horrors of factory farming. Small acts, BIG impacts.

Our app has taken off like a rocket, growing by 800% over the last 2 years. Half a million meat-free days have been clocked, 7 awards have been won and Sir Paul McCartney has endorsed us.

We are now working on a new, improved version of the app, which will be available on iOS and Android. We are looking for volunteers to give their time as consultants or mentors in the fields of data analytics and competition analysis. Interested? We'd love to hear from you.

**The duration and exact beginning and end of the volunteering opportunity to be confirmed together with the candidates.

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Volunteers engaged in hands-on treeplanting at events in Oakville, Ontario. Volunteers assist in planting native trees and shrubs in parks and greenspace, to increase biodiversity and restore ecosystem health.

Timing: September - October 2021

Public events occur on weekends.

Opportunities available for groups or individuals.

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We like to keep our yard nice. There are many opportunities through the year to help us maintain an aesthetically pleasing entrance to our place. Mowing, raking leaves, trimming trees, weeding the garden, planting flowers, shoveling snow off the deck/wheelchair ramp, and sanding the entry points are our main concerns.

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Nature Counter Marketing and Growth Hacking Volunteers-for CrowdDoing.world

CrowdDoing.world is building an application to help people get enough time in nature to get a dose of nature. This achieves a public health purpose. We are seeking additional graphic designers to help in the marketing and go-to-market of this application and CrowdDoing.world recruitment goals aligned to that.

CrowdDoing supports a social innovation venture lab and a portfolio of social enterprises. Both the lab and the social enterprises aim to achieve systemic change through collaboration with virtual volunteers.

Role Summary:
Seeking an innovative and dedicated graphic designer to join our growing virtual volunteer team. The individual in this role would be responsible for taking conceptual design ideas and creating visual representations of them, both electronically and in print.



Essential Tasks:


Sit in on conceptual design meetings and offer educated opinions.
Determine voice and messaging for graphic design pieces.
Advise on best practices and optimizations throughout design projects.
Select colors, font, images, and layout.
Create visualizations (either by hand or via a software program) which convey accurate messaging and undertones as dictated by the project.
Develop product illustrations, logos, website graphics, etc. as needed.
Present designs to stakeholders and applicable teams.
Implement feedback and changes when appropriate.
QA designs for errors.
Pass final design to development or publishing teams for release.

Qualifications required:

A bachelor’s degree in graphic design, design, or art preferred (extensive experience in the field may also be acceptable).
Experience with Quark Xpress, InDesign, and Photo Shop a plus.

Skills & Competencies:

Exceptional creativity and innovation.
Experience with both print and electronic media.
Proficient in design and photo-editing software.
Accuracy and attention to detail.
Time management and organizational skills; able to meet deadlines.
The ability and desire to stay up-to-date with commercial design/graphics trends and implement these in daily work.
Ability to work with a variety of products, applications, and software platforms, while simultaneously collaborating with a number of teams .

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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SOLVE, Portland Business Alliance, and Portland Lodging Alliance are joining forces to host a Downtown Portland Volunteer Litter Cleanup Day on Friday, December 18.

Volunteer to clean up the Rose City during the season of gratitude. 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 year, we've learned the importance of having a strong sense of community. Join your neighbors, coworkers, family, and friends during this safe outdoor volunteer event. This holiday season, give back to the place we all call home by beautifying Portland's city streets, reinvigorating the downtown, and preventing unwanted litter and plastic from entering our waterways.

All volunteers must adhere to our COVID-19 Safety Guidelines, including wearing a mask at all times and remaining six feet of distance from anyone outside your household.

Please visit solveoregon.org to sign up for a specific check-in location. Check-in locations include Providence Park, The South Park Blocks, The Benson Hotel, and Waterfront Park. All supplies and disposal are included.

Available Shifts

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

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For socially distanced, high impact volunteering in Strategic Communications.

The Society must tell its story to new markets and build its story to an international market that speaks to the thoughts on the major happenings affecting individuals, their business and their predictions for the future.

Engage a new generation commonly known as "Gen Z" who are here and ready to change the world of business! With the expectation that care and doing good is necessary in a variety of ways, forever.

External corporate communications, media relations and content development to talk to a United Kingdom and USA market.

Available Shifts

Shift Name	Signup Max	Start	End
General	5	n/a	n/a