Camp Long Volunteers

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Advisory Council Member

We have a great opportunity for seniors, teens and adults of various cultures and community groups to join our advisory council. The benefit is being able to make a difference in your community and at your environmental learning center by providing input about public programming and facility uses. This is a three year commitment to help Camp Long and Seward Park achieve goals identified by the strategic planning of the Advisory Council. Skills we need: bookkeeping, business management, marketing, capital campaign fundraising, grant writing, program evaluation, educational assessment, liaisons with community groups, corporate giving solicitation, board management and board recruitment, multicultural education, database management, volunteer management, event planning, and any other nonprofit oversight or community relations ability.

Mid-term Volunteer and Internship Opportunities

Student Conservation Association volunteers plant shrubs near Pollywog Pond to provide salamander and dragonfly habitat Students from Salmon Bay Middle School help weed our native plant demonstration garden.

Trail Work Party Leaders

We're looking for someone who would like to help us lead work parties to improve our trails. Someone who has event planning or trail building experience is desirable. Responsibilities would include making a list of materials and tools needed for a work party, creating work station activities, giving tool safety talks, explaining how to do the work to volunteers, contacting organizations to come work on our trails, scheduling work parties, procuring donations of food and beverages and keeping tools clean and organized. This could be a shared responsibility with others. We are also looking for someone who would like to recruit for this group, set up a volunteer database and notify members of work parties.
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Short term Volunteer Opportunities

Green Seattle Partnership

We need your help! The Green Seattle Partnership is dedicated to restoring 2500 acres of forested Parkland in Seattle by 2025. We can't do it alone. Forest restoration volunteers work on removing invasive plants, planting new native trees and understory plants, and long term maintenance and monitoring of restoration sites. Green Seattle Partnership works in collaboration with Camp Long and other parks in Seattle.

Join us the first Saturday of the month to help restore our Camp Long forest. We gather on the first Saturday of every month at 10 am until 1:00 p.m.. Get out. Do Good. For more information about Green Seattle Partnership events at other parks, http://www.greenseattle.org/events.

Most of our trees are near the end of their natural lives. Seattle's trees are inundated with invasive plants, including English ivy, Himalayan blackberry, Scot's broom and knotweed. Invasive plants have choked out the seedlings that would replace today's forest. English ivy also climbs up into the canopy causing trees to topple in high winds. Within 20 years, 70% of our forests (2,500 acres) will be an ecological dead zone were invasive plants predominate, trees are dead or dying and wildlife habitat is gone.

Eagle Scout Rating Projects

Volunteer at Camp Long

We are the lucky and very fortunate recipients of many Eagle Scout projects at Camp Long! We’ve received display cabinets, literature racks, compost bins, fire storage sheds, trail steps and way finding signage, BUT WE NEED MORE! If you are a Boy Scout and need a project for your Eagle Scout rating, this is the place to come!

Design and Display Assistant

Do you have a flair for art? Do you have a knack with visuals? We are looking for a volunteer who could assist our naturalist with keeping our outdoor kiosks and indoor displays informative and up-to-date. This would be an ideal opportunity for a student in the art and graphics world. You set your schedule – We supply all materials.

Database Setup

The Camp Long Advisory Council is a partner of Seattle Parks. They help raise funds, cosponsor programs, and volunteer with Camp Long Environmental Learning Center. As a nonprofit, it would like to keep a database for managing its volunteers, coordinating fundraising and tracking participation in programs. We need someone to set up database for volunteer, mailing, and donation management, create mailing and informational reports according to specification, train volunteers in how to input data and print reports, troubleshoot issues that arise as database is used.
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