Alliance Volunteer Opportunities
We are HUGE fans of volunteers and look forward to working with you during our next project or event. Check out the opportunities below and then fill out the google form to get involved. You can specify a certain event, or tell us what your general interests are and be added to our list.
Examples of volunteer opportunities:
- Events such as Wild and Scenic Film Festival, Sierra Day at the Capitol, and tabling at environmental fairs
- Media collection including photo and video, website help, and more
- Environmental surveying such as pine cone collection
- Joining our Board of Directors
- Teaching a class or leading a webinar in your area of expertise
- And more!
Partner Volunteer Opportunities
As an Alliance of the conservation community, we also serve as a hub for volunteer opportunities of our conservation Member Group partners. Check out those opportunities below, then visit the links listed to contact them directly.
Join the Adventure Scientists Biodiversity Project
California is the most biodiverse state in the United States, yet its biodiversity is increasingly at risk: more than 30 percent of its species are threatened with extinction. Adventure Scientists is teaming up with the California Institute for Biodiversity to help. We’re looking for volunteers to yep, you heard it, dig in the dirt and sweep for bugs! Volunteers will use kits to collect soil and/or insect samples in national forests throughout California to help build a record of species across the state. This record will help inform California’s 30X30 goal to conserve 30 percent of the state’s lands and coastal waters by 2030. Check out the community platform to learn more and apply to join starting September 4th! We’ll also be hosting volunteer events throughout the year – stay tuned for details on those!
Foothill Conservancy is seeking docents for the historic Monteverde Store in Sutter Creek
Foothill Conservancy is helping to make the Monteverde Store Museum more accessible to the Public. Conservancy staff open the store on Thursdays and Fridays and Conservancy volunteers help staff the store on weekends. The Monteverde Store has a fascinating collection of artifacts and we are proud that the conservancy can help the Museum reach its full potential. If you are interested in helping out with the Monteverde Store on behalf of the Conservancy (hours are credited to FC), please contact at 209-223-3508 or fhc@foothillconservancy.org.
Get involved with the Tahoe & Sierra Valley Chapter of the CA Native Plant Society
Current openings include:
Newsletter Editor – no experience necessary, training is provided. The software use to creat the newsletters is user friendly and training will be provided.
Vice President, Board of Directors
Newsletter Committee, Webmaster, Horticulture/Garden/Firewise Communities Committee
If you are interested in getting involved with any of the above or if you have other interests or skills that you would like to use to help promote native plants, let us know! Email us at tahoe@cnps.org
Solitude Monitoring for Friends of the Inyo
You enjoy your moments alone in the Eastern Sierra, right? So do many others. Millions of others, actually. Every year.
Well, the U.S. Forest Service wants to make sure everyone visiting our wilderness areas has opportunities for solitude. It all begins with research, and Friends of the Inyo is assisting. And for that, we need YOU!
Help Friends of the Inyo conduct visitor data collection for the Forest Service in various designated Wildernesses on the Inyo National Forest.
Desolation Wilderness Volunteer Program
The Eldorado National Forest is searching for a few dedicated volunteers who enjoy working and sharing their passion for the preservation of our wild lands. Please come to an informational meeting to learn more about Wilderness volunteer opportunities, what is required to become a volunteer, and how your help is crucial to meeting our 10-year Wilderness stewardship challenge.
The Tahoe Area Sierra Club is seeking volunteers
Are you passionate about protecting the environment and quality of life in Tahoe? Do you have some free time to invest in the causes you believe in? Grassroots activism can make a difference and the Tahoe Area Group wants your help. The Tahoe Area Group has volunteer opportunities in outings, events, conservation, and communications.
Headwaters – Friends of the River’s online magazine is accepting submissions
Friends of the River’s Headwaters Magazine is a beautiful repository of articles about rivers and river recreation, opinion pieces, policy analysis, river news, art, photographs, and more.
We welcome submissions of articles that speak to the six areas in which we work for the protection of California’s rivers. These areas are hydropower reform, saving and storing water, restoring flows, flood management, legal and regulatory protections, and inspiring citizen action.
We also welcome submissions of visual art, creative writing, poetry, and photos that are centered around rivers and nature more broadly.
Not sure what to submit? Let’s work together. More info here. Please email keiko@friendsoftheriver.org to discuss a submission.
Internship Opportunities
No current internship opportunities.