The Nature Connection runs on volunteer power!
NC strives to provide accessible and meaningful volunteer opportunities for a diversity of people to support all aspects of our work. We aim to support volunteers with informative, easy-to-use resources and regularly recognize their service and impact. Through their service, NC volunteers further our mission for individual and community wellbeing, and our vision to expand and professionalize the use of nature as a therapeutic tool.
Join the team! Volunteers fulfill a variety of roles helping to plan and deliver our nature-based educational and therapeutic programs.
Program Volunteers (Must be 18+years old) – Help deliver our programs on-site to youth, elders and individuals with disabilities. Join us on the front lines bringing the natural world indoors to those who need it most. You’ll not only see—and feel—how the programs engage the participants and build their confidence, you will be the reason it happens.
Program Volunteers join us for just 2 hours a month throughout the year, meeting us at our program sites throughout Greater Boston and Middlesex County (visit our Volunteer Sign-Ups page to find program sites near you).
Please note that programs occur during the week on Tuesdays – Fridays during the day, usually sometime between 10:00 AM and 6:00 PM. This is a great opportunity for those with a strong appreciation for nature and animals, and would like to share it with others. The Nature Connection requires and provides a volunteer training (and a program observation), as well as a CORI/SORI check before assisting in program delivery.
If you’re interested in becoming a program volunteer, please submit our online volunteer application
Summer Teen Program Volunteers – During the summer, we have a program for teens aged 16+ to become program volunteers. Find more information here.
Program Animal Families – Have an animal with educational or therapeutic potential? Let us know! Find more information here.
Email volunteer@nature-connection.org with any questions you might have.
The Nature Connection is pleased to announce that it has been certified by Points of Light, the world’s largest organization dedicated to volunteer service, as a Service Enterprise! Achieving Service Enterprise certification is a prestigious accomplishment for an organization. In fact, organizations that certify join the top 11 percent of nonprofits nationwide in volunteer management and organizational performance. Certification signifies that organizations have the capability and management expertise to strategically use volunteers to improve the performance of their organization.
The Nature Connection completed an extensive assessment, over 20 hours of training and coaching, and an extensive internal planning and change process to better integrate volunteers into our human capital strategy. By achieving this level of excellence and certification, The Nature Connection is now better equipped to leverage the time and talent of volunteers and better meet our mission.
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