Wanted — Docents for the Truckee Railroad Museum. It’s simple, it’s fun! No experience necessary. If you have as little as 3 hours a month, please volunteer to be a docent.
Currently, we need volunteers to help us preserve and restore a 1950’s pullman and a rotary snow plow.
Tracking the chemical and physical characteristics of a stream is important. It helps us learn what’s working—and where we can do more. So volunteer as a family, a group or on your own. And get ready to wade in the water, use scientific techniques and have some fun.
Learn to differentiate imposters from their native look-a-likes. Visit up to 10 sites, including on-going eradication projects and sites ready for investigation. Participate in hands-on, group eradication of specific infestations under the leadership of a trained botanist. Learn identification and removal techniques as well as critical disposal methods.
Volunteers must be 18 or older to handle dogs. Volunteer training orientation is required for all of our dog walkers.
We have many different projects going on. Let us know what you like to do and we’ll have a project for you! Some of our on-going projects include cleaning, organizing, landscaping, painting, sorting, marketing, PR, community events, and fundraising. Come on out and get dirty with us! It’s guaranteed to be fun!
We’re looking for folks to help with offsite events. Do you like to meet new people and support your love of dogs at the same time? We have an offsite event for you! Our events dates are listed on our events page and we sure could use some help. Offsite events are FUN and a…
There are many corporate and community outreach volunteer opportunities available or you may have some ideas of your own! Many groups choose to sponsor an event for our children or to provide volunteers for a service project.
Our thrift store is open seven days a week. We rely on volunteers to help create the best shopping experience for our customers. Opportunities are available daily, weekly or monthly.
Perhaps one of the busiest areas on our campus, the mailroom, receives close to 40 large bins of mail every day and with only one part time employee sorting, we could really use additional help.