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Volunteers
Volunteers play an important, often crucial role in parks, helping to build community stewardship, support, and involvement. This section has information on recruiting, managing and rewarding volunteers - as well as materials for those who want to be volunteers.- Increasing Volunteerism in Parks
Tips and advice from volunteer coordinators around the country on recruitment, recognition, coordination, liability, and more. Includes four case studies on volunteer programs. From the Urban Parks Institute.
- Establishing a Friends-of-the-Park Group
Based on interviews with leaders of successful park groups, these tip sheets from Partnerships for Parks cover the ins and outs of starting a "friends" group: goals, structure, publicity, money and more.
- Recruiting, Training and Retaining Volunteers
A chapter from the EPA's Volunteer Estuary Monitoring offers useful, general lessons for all kinds of volunteer managers. From the EPA's Office of Wetlands, Oceans & Waterfronts.
- Lend a Hand, or Find One
This website hooks up volunteers with nonprofits and other organizations that need them.
- Kids Volunteer
Opportunities and ideas from the good old 4H club.
- National Opportunity
A database of internships and other opportunities from the National Park Service.
- Innovations in Parks and Open-Space Stewardship: Albert and Pickleweed Parks, San Rafael, CA
A case study on how motivated residents spearheaded park renovations in San Rafael, CA. From our partner, the Trust for Public Land.
- Youth Corps and Conservation Case Study
A description of a project using teen volunteers to do water quality monitoring and conservation/restoration efforts in Portland.
