Volunteer Opportunities
If
you enjoy nature, want to work in a peaceful, beautiful natural setting,
and would like to volunteer to help us in our mission of land preservation
and environmental education, we'd like to meet you. We have a wide
range of volunteer opportunities; there's sure to be something that
interests you.
Our most familiar volunteers are our teacher-naturalists (TNs), who make our education programs possible, but there are many other opportunities. Following is a list of the various jobs volunteers can fill. If you are interested, please call Woodland Dunes at (920) 793-4007 or email KellyE@WoodlandDunes.org.
General
- Gardening/Weeding (Butterfly Garden and surrounding garden beds)
- Teacher Naturalist - school field trips (teaching school programs)
- Teacher Naturalist - out of school trips e.g., Boy and Girl Scout groups
- Maintenance (building projects, mowing, trail maintenance)
- Saturday morning (9 a.m. to noon: greet visitors/watch shop/answer phone)
- Night Gang (help with saw-whet owl program at night)
- Office help (stamping, folding, stuffing, photocopying, etc.)
- Sewing/Craft Projects (create costumes, props for events and school programs)
- Invasive species control
- Program set-up and take-down for school field trips
Events
General event help (set-up, admission, parking, clean-up) needed
for most events- Baking
- Poster and flyer distribution (Manitowoc and Two Rivers)
- Face painting (painting children and adult faces/arms at events)
- Folk Concerts (selling snacks)
- Fish Fries (waiting tables, cooking under supervision of a certified cook)
- Harvest Dinner (waiting tables)
- Silent Auction (gathering materials)
- Help with kids’ activities at events
- Tipi overnight (would involve sleeping at Woodland Dunes and assisting group with educational programming)
We offer extensive training, and a great group of people to work with.