Volunteer

As a volunteer, you can play a hands-on role in a wide range of projects – visiting properties as part of a team, building community support, educating others about conserving our lands, and many other types of activities.

EALT survives because of volunteers. Volunteers can donate a few hours on a specific fundraising or land stewardship event, or take on a specific project (e.g., maintaining our website). We can create a volunteer experience to fit almost any interest. Please contact us to find out how you can help, or fill in our Volunteer Application Form to determine how we can best use your skills, experience, and interests.

We have volunteer opportunities for everyone!

If you are a whiz on the computer, enjoy event or other types of planning, or want to get out in the field, we can help you get involved. Please consider volunteering for any of the following. Thank you!

Current Volunteer Opportunities

Website Assistance: This position would require computer skills and an interest in learning and using our content management system (CMS). We have excellent volunteers who are sometimes unavailable. This would involve the occasional request to update materials and input other information on an as-need basis. The style and type of material posted would be according to a protocol established by the EALT board and approved by staff.
Time commitment: approximately <4 hours per month

Baseline study volunteers: These volunteers would require some knowledge of plants, animals, geology, geography, or land surveying. A small team of people would be required to go out and look at properties of interest to the land trust and do a preliminary report of the site based on the criteria set up by EALT.
Time commitment: be on a call list to go out for a day or two to acquire the necessary information.

Volunteer Stewards: People interested in monitoring and looking after lands entrusted to the EALT. They would follow the policies set out by the Land Trust for stewarding land. This could include annual monitoring, assistance with a maintenance schedule, helping with work parties, looking after signage or brochures as needed.
Time commitment: depending on the property or people’s interest, this could be a few days a month.

Writer: This person would have both writing skills and some interest in the types of material that EALT would cover, including the ability to conduct interviews with a variety of people. EALT publishes information leaflets on select topics (which the volunteer could request). We also publish on our website and elsewhere. Writers could assist with one or several stories, information pamphlets or press releases, depending on their interest.
Time commitment: 1–3 days per month, depending on depth of involvement. This could be done from home.

Newsletter Editor: This person would require some computer skills with desk top publishing and would assist with the production of a newsletter (quarterly or whatever time we might decide). Any writing and story development skills would also be welcome.
Time commitment: 4–6 hours prior to each edition of the newsletter. This could be done from home.

Data base manager: This person would require computer skills to develop and manage data bases of various types for EALT. They would predominantly involve volunteers, or other categories of individuals and their information.
Time commitment: 1–3 hours when needed for particular tasks, otherwise <3 hours per month to maintain the data base.

Work party Volunteers: Persons interested in helping periodically with work parties at sites that the Land Trust is dealing with. This could range from weed eradication to fence replacement or posting signage.
Time commitment: a day’s work on an as need basis.

Staffing an Information Booth/Table: Persons interested in helping very occasionally to provide an EALT ‘face’ at an information table, and chat to interested publics, explaining EALT’s role in conservation and education, and potentially discussing issues. It would be useful to obtain names and contact details, recruit volunteers, or to take note of those wishing other information. Such booths could be at invite events at City Hall or other public places, at joint events with other partners, etc. Often on weekends but potentially week day evenings.
Time commitment: a half day on an as need basis

Future Volunteer Opportunities

The land trust expects to require the following type of assistance relatively soon, and would be happy to accept names for positions of interest

Assist at special events: This volunteer opportunity could involve assisting with taking contact information during events, serving snacks, staffing information booths, or any number of activities.

Records Manager: This person should have a good grasp of filing for records management and access, and related administrative interest.
Time commitment: a day or so per month