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Please refer to the STORM Trail Projects page for Trail Work Volunteer opportunities. Volunteer opportunities range from trail maintenance and trail building to trash/debris cleanup along the trails.

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We are always seeking volunteer help with our new habitat building and upkeep. We frequently respond to emergency placement requests and are often building new habitats to keep up with new rescues.

Available Shifts

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

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Slow Ways is an initiative to create network of walking routes that connect all of Great Britain's towns and cities.

During the first 2020 lockdown a team of 700 volunteers drafted 7,000 walking routes that collectively stretch for over 7,000km.

We now need as many volunteers as possible to walk, review and verify the routes to make sure they work on the ground. We'd love to hear from people who can help to share the story of the Slow Ways and make them part of our culture.

To volunteer you must be able to read a map or be in a group with someone who can. You should also feel confident walking the distance you choose to cover. In England the average route is 12km while in Scotland they are closer to 18km. Hundreds of the routes are 5km or less

With routes connecting all of Great Britain's towns and cities there is likely to be a Slow Way near you.

You could volunteer to walk a single Slow Way route or, if you are feeling ambitious, could set yourself a challenge to combine multiple routes to go on a long distance journey.

Up for helping us create a national walking network for millions of people to enjoy and benefit from? Please do sign up on our website at www.slowways.uk.

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We currently have volunteer opportunities for people who would like to join our team and have a community-oriented passion for nature and/or art, including:
Landscaping
Trail Maintenance
Sculpture Maintenance
Monitoring
Tour Guide or Docent
Sculpture Installations
Grant Writing
Photography
Blog Post Writing
Social Media
Fundraising
Media Contacts

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Agile Project Manager for Nature Counter by CrowdDoing.world

We are seeking this project manager volunteer to support our Nature Counter team in spreading adoption for biophelia as a public health benefit. We are building an app and need project managers to help us with this impact goal.

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.

What does a Project Manager do?
As our project manager, your job will be to coordinate people and processes to ensure that our projects are delivered on time and produce the desired results. You will be the go-to person for everything involving a project’s organization and timeline.

Project Manager Job DutiesnProject management responsibilities include delivering every project on time within budget and scope. Project managers should have a background in business skills, management, budgeting and analysis.nnProject managers are skilled at getting the best out of the people and projects that they oversee. They thrive when planning projects and working with project teams.

Project Manager Duties
Project Manager Job Duties: Project management responsibilities include delivering every project on time within budget and scope. Project managers should have a background in business skills, management, budgeting and analysis. Project managers are skilled at getting the best out of the people and projects that they oversee. They thrive when planning projects and working with project teams. Specific project manager responsibilities include developing detailed project plans, ensuring resource availability and allocation and delivering every project on time.

Responsibilities
Coordinate internal resources and third parties/vendors for the flawless execution of projects
Ensure that all projects are delivered on-time, within scope and within budget
Ensure resource availability and allocation
Develop a detailed project plan to track progress
Use appropriate verification techniques to manage changes in project scope, schedule and costs
Measure project performance using appropriate systems, tools and techniques
Report and escalate to management as needed
Manage the relationship with the client and all stakeholders
Perform risk management to minimize project risks
Establish and maintain relationships with third parties/vendors
Create and maintain comprehensive project documentation
Requirements
Great educational background, preferably in the fields of computer science or engineering for technical project managers
Proven working experience as a project administrator in the information technology sector
Solid technical background, with understanding or hands-on experience in software development and web technologies
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Solid organizational skills including attention to detail and multi-tasking skills
Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office
PMP / PRINCE II certification is a plus

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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Help our charity reach more people around the world.
Help us get more donations and more bookings on our adventure trips.
Support our mission to promote soft skills online and in offline.

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Help a charity navigate the legal challenges of operating a wooden ship on international voyages. Give us a hand also if some other legal doubt or need comes up.

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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

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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