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 Manager: This position would require some computer skills and an interest in learning the content management system (CMS) of our website (training would be provided). The content management of the website would require updating materials and inputting other information into the site 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 1–2 hours per week
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.
Office volunteers: A person with computer skills to input data for sites, conduct some basic research for the trust, file information, answer basic correspondence or send out information about the land trust.
Time commitment: approximately 1–2 hours per week
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.
Archivist: A person or persons interested in gathering and keeping information that pertains to the EALT. This might include newspaper articles or new releases about the EALT and background information about the organization. This would need to be organized so that it could be taken to the city archives.
Time commitment: 1–2 hours a month to organize materials. This could be done from home.
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. They could assist with one or several stories, 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.
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
Data base manager:
This person would require computer skills to keep a data base of volunteers and members. They would need to be able to print labels and mail merge.
Time commitment: 1–3 hours when needed for particular tasks, otherwise 1–2 hours per week 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
Assist with memberships at events:
This volunteer opportunity involves assisting our membership secretary with taking contact or membership information during meetings, or taking over if he/she is not available to do so.
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
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