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Volunteer Opportunities

People who are interested in plant diversity and herbarium work and would like to be involved with volunteer projects at the herbarium are invited to inquire.

Become a Volunteer

Clean Bays depends on its loyal and ambitious team of volunteers to help with debris removal. If you would like to join our team, please sign up here, and you will be contacted with a list of dates when help is needed. We need help in the field, but we can always use help in the office too! Let us know if you are interested in coordinating fundraisers, or helping with other events or activities.

Click here to volunteer online.

Find cleanup notices in this group's Meetup page.

Each spring, The RI Food Bank's community farms begin accepting volunteers to help prepare the land, plant and harvest. No experience is necessary and all ages are welcome. It’s a great activity for families, schools, businesses and civic groups!

To volunteer, contact the coordinator.

Each spring, the RI Community Food Bank farms begin accepting volunteers to help prepare the land, plant and harvest. No experience is necessary and all ages are welcome. It’s a great activity for families, schools, businesses and civic groups! To volunteer, contact the coordinator. - 2017

"Located behind St. Philip School, God’s Little Acre is one of many efforts sponsored by the parish to provide fresh, nutritious food for those in need throughout the local community.  Distributed through the parish’s St. Vincent de Paul Society, excess harvest from this important ministry is provided to the R.I. Community Food Bank.  For more information on how you can help tend to God’s Little Acre, please contact the parish office at 401-949-1500." - From the website, April 8, 2021.

Our 18-hour tutor training workshop teaches the skills needed to effectively work one-to-one with an adult student. Once the workshop is underway, volunteers are matched with a student and they meet in a public location on their own schedule for 2 hours a week. Prospective tutors must be 18 years old and have a high school diploma or GED. Lessons are typically conducted in libraries, churches, or community centers.

The Nature Conservancy has several opportunities for volunteers.

Volunteers needed: The organization is heavily dependent on Plant Conservation Volunteers (PVCs) for monitoring local populations of rare and endangered plants. Expertise is not required, just a will to help and learn new things.

ADULT EDUCATION: "Without the help of our volunteers, we would not be able to help the hundreds of people in our community learn to communicate more effectively. Project Learn serves adults locally and can certainly use the help in our computer lab, our one on one learning tutors and many other administrative areas if you like. Learn more about how you can help adult readers in your community. Learn more about how you can make a difference in the local community through sharing your knowledge. Connect through the form on the Adult Education Volunteer Page.

Also see the Donate page for giving newer computers and books (but call first).

This is a volunteer opportunity for people who have taken the RI Tree Steward course or comparable training, as well as the PVD Tree Keeper training.

Become a Salt Pond Steward

Work on trail blazing and maintenance of Smithfield Land Trust preserves.

Volunteer environmental monitoring can be a great family activity, a good excuse to get out on the water, or simply a good way to learn about pollution of water, and how to protect your favorite waterbody. Our volunteers come from diverse educational backgrounds and experiences, with some holding advanced degrees in science, and others still in high school. No previous education or training is required order to participate, simply a way to get to your monitoring site, and a desire to help out, and get a little wet. URI Watershed Watch provides all the training (classroom and field), equipment and laboratory analyses. Read more...