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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.

Our goal is to involve YOU in our work!

As more caring community members like you join our circle, our impact in the East Bay grows. With your sustaining support, we can provide assistance to those affected by financial hardship. Your generosity will empower the East Bay Food Pantry to care for our most vulnerable neighbors.

Volunteers Needed: Assistant ESL facilitators, youth mentors, soccer tournament volunteers. Volunteers in the Adult ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages) program work as Assistant ESOL Facilitators, and learn to lesson plan and facilitate adult English classes (mornings and evenings). Also need youth mentors, soccer tournament volunteers.

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.

RI Coastal Resources Management Council needs your help to capture photographs of King Tide events and storm flooding sites. RICRMC will evaluate your photographs and include them in its long-term analysis of coastal vulnerability and planning initiatives with municipalities. RICRMC may also use your photographs in presentations, publications, and on its website.

NAP organizes cleanups for Earth Day in Pawtucket. They also participate in the Buy Nothing Day Coat Drive.

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...