Our rescuers rehabilitate endangered sea turtles. In the past decade alone, our rescuers have treated and released hundreds of Kemp’s ridley sea turtles as well as many green and loggerhead sea turtles. These numbers are especially significant considering the Kemp’s ridley is the most endangered sea turtle in the world. Each fall, staff and volunteer…
Marine Mammal Center Educators are ambassadors, representing the New England Aquarium by engaging visitors of all ages and backgrounds in one on one conversation about our fur seals and sea lions. Don’t know a lot about marine mammals or how to talk to visitors? Don’t worry! We provide training and mentorship to prepare volunteers with…
Heat-n-Eats volunteers help repurpose and repackage prepared food from local universities, offices, and hospitals into healthy single-serving meals. These heat-and-eat meals are then distributed to community members and families with limited access to kitchens, or with other barriers to cooking for themselves. Groups are welcome. Work takes place at Food for Free’s dedicated Heat-n-Eats kitchen,…
Volunteers help pack grocery boxes for Food for Free’s Just Eats and Healthy Eats programs. Volunteers will work together to fill each box with healthy fruits, vegetables, and pantry staples like rice and beans. Food for Free’s Just Eats program provides healthy food to community partners for grab-and-go distribution to local individuals and families in…
Volunteering for Children’s Cove may require volunteers to travel throughout the Cape and the Islands to bring awareness to child sexual abuse and Children’s Cove mission. Some of these awareness events could include orchestrating an informational table at a community event, going to local schools or community centers and providing resources, or organizing awareness of…
The Orange Food Pantry is open to the public on Thursdays from 10am-3pm, but there is a lot of prep and organizational work that happens throughout the week. We also deliver groceries on Fridays to those who cannot make it to the pantry.
This February, Franklin County Community Meals Program (FCCMP) is putting on their annual lunch bag collection drive. The Bonus Bag Brigade event’s goal is to engage the community in helping to keep the community fed! This event is a lunch bag drive that provides supplemental meals to the Greenfield Community Meal site patrons who come…
Offer career advice and professional opportunities to students and young alumni.
Volunteers lead tours through the greenhouses and gardens and staff our reception area and exhibition gallery. They develop thematic tours, provide hospitality for events such as the opening of the Spring Bulb Show, and assist with exhibitions. (Please note, however, that volunteers do not engage in any hands-on horticultural work.) Volunteer training sessions are held…
A volunteer’s primary tasks consist of putting out horses and hay in the morning, cleaning the animals living areas- paddocks and stalls. This means shoveling and scooping lots of poop, scrubbing water buckets and refilling them in the stalls and paddocks, cleaning feed buckets, sweeping areas, replacing bedding, and setting up the stalls for the…