Volunteers lend helping hands during special events. You can help with the planning, help us set up or take down, lead an activity, greet guest or more! Besides being great fun, these events are critical for the community contact and fundraising capabilities of Urban Roots.
Stop by the Urban Teaching Farm at Renown (1700 East 2nd Street) Saturday mornings from 9-11 and help us with special projects or regular farm maintenance.
Do you have group interested in helping Urban Roots to maintain a school garden? We’ll provide training and be on hand to help get you started. Help a school keep their garden sustainable!
Want to get more involved than the drop in days allow? Volunteers help with the upkeep at the Urban Teaching Farm at Renown on the corner of 2nd and Gould. You will work with Urban Roots staff to maintain hoop houses, landscaping, irrigation, planting, or harvesting. Have a carpentry background? Know a lot of vermicompost?…
Volunteers will help with logistics and operations. Potential responsibilities include: course marshaling, distributing water to runners, assisting runners at the start line and on the course. These volunteer opportunities are open to all ages and perfect for families.
Volunteers will help with 5k registration, assisting pre-registered runners and event day runners. Another opportunity includes helping to distribute medals at the finish line or assist at the information and merchandise tents.
The Head Coach is a volunteer position that works with a team of coaches to facilitate the Girls on the Run curriculum to program participants. This position entails approximately four hours per week for a 10-week commitment.
The Assistant Coach supports the Head Coach at a Girls on the Run program site while serving as a role model and mentor for program participants. The position entails approximately 1.5-3 hours per week for a 10-week commitment.
Volunteers will help with GOTR activities including along face painting, race bib bling, happy hair and photo booth. These volunteer opportunities are great for parents, teens, and groups.
Volunteers help parents and students engage in basic science exploration. During Family Science Nights, we offer 8 to 10 stations of simple science experiments testing different concepts and processes. Volunteers don’t need science knowledge to run the stations.