This is a small selection of Volunteer Opportunities available at some of the EarthShare of Georgia Member Groups. Please also visit our member organizations websites for more volunteer opportunities.
EarthShare of Georgia – 1447 Peachtree Street, Suite 214, Atlanta, GA.
Earth Day volunteers needed! We need help collecting silent auction items, and preparing for our three big Earth Day events, as well as day-of assistance. Contact person: Elizabeth Patrick 404-873-3173 or elizabeth@earthsharega.org.
Ecolife – is an annual family fun experience that brings community together with educators, government agencies, organizations and companies to provide information on environmental concerns, innovation and technologies, demonstrations, health and wellness, and best practices to reduce our impact on our planet, and living for a sustainable future. Ecolife provides a forum to educate and motivate individuals to live a more sustainable lifestyle; being conscious of the preservation and conservation of natural resources.
This event is the largest eco-lifestyle event in Atlanta, and attracts national and local companies that offer products and services that align with living a more sustainable lifestyle. This year’s event will take place at Atlantic Station on September 25 & 26 from 10am – 6pm. This year’s event is positioned to bring added exposure to a greater and more diverse audience through its alignment with Atlantic Station and their Five Year Anniversary Celebration as the nation’s largest sustainable development of a live, work and play community.
We are looking for enthusiastic and dedicated individuals to volunteer for various areas of the event. These include:
Recycling Stations, Entrance/Exit Greeter, Exhibitor Assistance, Event Logistics The minimum time commitment is a 4 hour shift. For your contribution, you will receive the following:
Event T-shirt, Free Parking, Discount Coupon for Lunch, Rewards card from Do Good Get Rewards – earn rewards for volunteering.
To participate, you must submit an application and a signed waiver. For more details, and a copy of the forms, visit www.ecolife-events.com/volunteer or email Dorian Roffe-Hammond at dorianroffehammond@gmail.com
Your involvement as an Ecolife volunteer will provide an educational and fun opportunity to learn and experience the many ways we all can be more environmentally conscious and understanding of our impact on the earth’s natural resources, while assisting others.
ESGA Cell phone Collection Coordinator Volunteers needed to contact businesses and office buildings in the metro Atlanta area regarding collecting used cell phones to benefit EarthShare of Georgia. Dates and hours flexible. Contact person: Elizabeth Patrick 404-873-3173 or elizabeth@earthsharega.org. No cost to volunteer. Volunteer work can be done from a remote location!
Georgia ForestWatch
Georgia ForestWatch exists to preserve, protect and restore the Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forests. We are the collective voice of hundreds of people just like you, who want to make sure our children’s grandchildren have healthy natural forests to enjoy.
Along with joining Georgia ForestWatch, there are many ways to volunteer with us to ensure that our public lands are restored and protected. Do you enjoy working on projects with like-minded people? Do you love to hike through the national forests and wish that you could share your experience? Do you have some extra time that you would like to give back to your forest community? Read on to learn about the various people who are central to GFW and other ways that you can give—we couldn’t do it without you!
Office Volunteers: About 10 times each year we open our Ellijay office, located in the beautiful North Georgia Mountains, to this wonderful group that helps us to assemble our large-scale mailings—and have fun doing it!
Event Volunteers: Our Spring Wild and Wooly event and Fall Retreat could not happen without a great number of individuals who assist with planning, food coordination and preparation, and event setup and cleanup. This is a group that ensures our unique events are engaging, enjoyable, and memorable.
Hike Leaders: All ForestWatch hikes are led by knowledgeable volunteers who plan diverse and enjoyable ways to get out and experience our National Forests. Do you have trails to share?
District Leaders: These volunteers are the ‘eyes and ears’ of ForestWatch, who assist our Forest Ecologist by observing the activities in their local national forest district. The District Leaders meet every other month, monitor and compose notes from the field, write comments on proposed projects, and represent ForestWatch in a myriad of other ways. This is a great way to learn the more technical side of Forest-Watching.
Miscellaneous Projects: Throughout the year ForestWatch has various needs and short-term projects. At this time we are looking for assistance with a new outdoor sign for our office and new places to distribute our newsletter!
If you would like more information on any of these volunteer opportunities or would like to discuss how you can get more involved with Georgia ForestWatch, please call Jill at 706-635-8733 or e-mail jgottesman@gafw.org.
Georgia Organics
Call Stephanie at 678-702-0400 or reply to info@georgiaorganics.org if you are interested in any of the listed opportunities. Please remember to include your phone number. Only interested persons need reply.
Sat, March 27: Earth Hour Party
6:15 pm - 10:00 pm
Georgia Organics needs 5-6 volunteers to serve local food bites at the City's premier Earth Hour party in downtown Atlanta.
Tues, April 6: Georgia Organics Volunteer Training
6:00 pm- 7:00 pm
This is a training for volunteers that are interested in representing Georgia Oragnics at tabling events (i.e. festivals, field days and the like). Only trained volunteers are eligible to volunteer for these events and there are 2 of these trainings each year. This training will be held at our new office in Midtown Atlanta. The next training will be hosted in the fall. Follow this link to RSVP.
Sat, May 1: Wholesome Wave May Day Brigade!
9:00 am- 12:00 pm
Wholesome Wave is a foundation that doubles the value of food stamps (EBT) and WIC vouchers at local farmers markets. (Rad, huh?) This year there are 3 participating markets (East Atlanta, Peachtree Rd, and Decatur) and we are going to do some guerilla marketing. 30 volunteers are needed to help hang posters within a 2 mile radius of each market. Please respond with your market preference or you will be assigned a market area to canvas. Also let us know if you can bring your own staple gun. Afterwards, there will be an optional gathering of minds and spirits at 5 Seasons Brewing for lunch.
Sat, May 1: Urban Coop Tour
11:00 am- 2:00 pm
Georgia Organics is cohosting a tour of Chicken Coops around different Atlanta neighborhoods with Oakhurst Community Garden and the Chicken Wisperer. Six Volunteers are needed for ticket sales and participant check-in.
Volunteer Appreciation Party
Friday, May 7
6:30pm- 8:30pm
This party is to celebrate the wonderful, kind, helpful, smart, beautiful, fabulous volunteers ( YOU!) that make Georgia Organics successful. On the party agenda:
The Buck Buckley Band, BBQ from Community Q, a raffle, Sweetwater beer and more.
RAFFLE STARTS AT 7:00. Please come beforehand to get a ticket for some cool free Georgia Organics gear.
Dress casually and feel free to bring one guest.
Where? The new Georgia Organics office. 200-A Ottley Dr. Atlanta, GA 30324
Georgia Wildlife Federation – Mill Creek Nature Center, 2205 Mall of Georgia Boulevard, Buford, GA.
Adopt-A-Stream Monitoring, dates and hours are flexible. Adopt-A-Stream is a unique effort to involve the public and local communities in water quality protection. Volunteers, such as the Georgia Wildlife Federation, adopt a section of stream, river or lake for one year. Adopt-A-Stream groups conduct visual surveys and clean-ups, improve stream habitat and/or monitor water quality. To volunteer, please contact Robert Phillips at 770-787-7887 or rphillips@gwf.org OR Christina Marr at cmarr@gwf.org.
Georgia Wildlife Federation – Covington, GA. Gardeners needed (year-round) for seasonal maintenance of the gardens and trails at our headquarters in Covington, GA. This includes:
- Regular walk & inspection of trails for any safety hazards such as down limbs or trees, holes and overgrown vegetation
- Removal of Japanese honeysuckle in several woodland areas
- General weeding around main building and WingSong gardens near Log Cabin
- Keeping bird feeders cleaned and filled in the garden areas
- Garden pond and stream maintenance.
Park Pride – Atlanta, GA
- Group / Corporate Volunteering
Have a group that’s not afraid to get a little dirty? Park Pride has coordinated hundreds of group volunteer projects—corporate groups, college groups, church and other nonprofit groups. Communities in Atlanta are greatly improved every year by volunteers who spend a few hours sprucing up a park. Please contact Ayanna Williams for more information 404-817-7963.
- Individual / LEAD Volunteering
By training volunteers to learn how to go lead other groups, the impact we can collectively have on park improvements is exponential. So, we offer the Lead Volunteer Program as a way of increasing our ability to maintain a healthy and sustainable urban forest within Atlanta’s parks. Lead Volunteers experience many benefits of the two-hour training and have the know-how to improve Atlanta’s parks. This makes for more “park improvement troops” on the ground—which means better parks all around!
Click here or more information on ongoing park cleanups.
Georgia Chapter of the Sierra Club – Atlanta, GA
- Smart Energy Solutions Committee is looking for leaders to get involved in the Coal Campaign. Concerned about global warming? Clean air and energy? Or a sustainable future for Georgia? We're looking for passionate, dedicated leaders to participate on the committee and help facilitation the actions of the Coal Campaign, to help keep coal out of Georgia's future. Contact: Seandra Rawls (email: seandra.rawls@sierraclub.org, phone: 404-607-1262 x 222). Visit www.cleanenergy4ga.org for details.”
- Membership Engagement Committee We are looking for a few good people to help work on outreach events like film screenings, picnics, new member events, newsletter articles, and a data gathering project. This committee also helps mobilize activists and builds Sierra Club membership to protect the environment. Contact: Genie Strickland (email: genie.strickland@sierraclub.org, phone: 404-607-1262 x 221).
- Sierra Club Office Help Interested in helping an environmental organization but at a lower capacity? The Georgia Chapter of the Sierra Club is looking for volunteers to help with office work at the Chapter office such as mailings, data, and general assistance. Contact: Genie Strickland (email: Genie.Strickland@sierraclub.org / phone: 404-607-1262 x 221)
Trees Atlanta – Atlanta, GA
All events are Saturday mornings, 9 AM until noon. Contact person: Susan Pierce 404-522-4097 or susan@treesatlanta.org. Volunteers can also sign up at www.treesatlanta.org. No cost to volunteer. Please bring gloves and a bottle of water. Trees Atlanta provides all tools and instruction.
Please visit the EarthShare of Georgia Calendar for more events and volunteer opportunities.