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Volunteer/Intern
Opportunities
Help protect the greenbelt and create livable communities by joining
the hundreds of interesting, fun and dedicated people who volunteer or
intern with us on a variety of projects every year. Volunteer for a day
or a yearchoose the opportunity that fits your schedule.
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Benefits of volunteering or interning with Greenbelt
Alliance |
- Learn about urban planning and smart growth issues.
- Work with fun Greenbelt Alliance staff.
- Enjoy flexible hours and comprehensive training.
- Get college credit while you gain practical career skills.
- Learn about the key Bay Area groups and leaders working in planning
and conservation
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Volunteer Opportunities
HOW TO APPLY: To volunteer with Greenbelt Alliance please send
a resumé and cover letter to:
Volunteer Application
Greenbelt Alliance
631 Howard Street, Suite 510
San Francisco, CA 94105
or email us
Outreach
Volunteer
Greenbelt
Alliance is seeking energenic and reliable individuals to staff a
Greenbelt Alliance information table at various events throughout
the
Bay Area.
[more
information]
Livable Communities
Team Volunteer
This position is FILLED
Check back for availability
Greenbelt Alliance is seeking qualified and motivated individuals
with backgrounds in planning and/or environmental review for a rewarding
volunteer opportunity as a Livable Communities Team Volunteer. Two types
of LCO volunteers are needed.
Logistics volunteers help determines Livable Communities Outreach
tactics around transit-oriented development in targeted Bay Area cities; individuals
with backgrounds in planning and/or environmental review;
this position requires a monthly commitment of 5-10 hours. [more
information about Logistics volunteers]
Visioning volunteers help determine tactics around transit-oriented
development in targeted Bay Area cities.; preferred visioning volunteers individuals
with backgrounds in planning and/or architecture; this position
requires a monthly commitment of 5-10 hours for a minimum of one year.
[more
information about Visioning volunteers]
East
Bay Executive Assistant Volunteer
This position is FILLED
Check back for availability
Greenbelt
Alliance is seeking a highly motivated individual with an interest
in environmental and land use issues for an executive assistant internship/volunteer
position in our East Bay Office in Walnut Creek. The
Executive Assistant will provide comprehensive administrative support
to Greenbelt Alliance’s East Bay Field Representative and programmatic
support as needed.
[more
information]
East
Bay Volunteer Manager
This position is FILLED
Check back for availability
Greenbelt
Alliance is seeking a highly motivated individual with an interest
in environmental and land use issues for an volunteer manager internship
or volunteer position in our East Bay Office in Walnut Creek. The
Volunteer Manager will serve as the point person for Greenbelt Alliance’s
volunteer program in the East Bay. Tasks include recruiting, screening,
orienting, and acknowledging Greenbelt Alliance volunteers in the East
Bay.
[[more
information]
East
Bay Tabling Volunteer
This position is FILLED
Check back for availability
Greenbelt Alliance is seeking
an energetic and reliable individual to staff an information table
at the Concord Farmers Market and similar venues in the East Bay. The
Tabling Volunteer will staff a Greenbelt Alliance information table
at the Concord Farmers Market on Tuesdays from 10 am to 2 pm. The
volunteer will inform visitors about Greenbelt Alliance and the Concord
Naval
Weapons Station planning process. The volunteer will recruit new
Greenbelt Alliance members, distribute literature, collect sign-up
cards, and
handle general administrative duties involved with table set up.
[more
information]
Events & Outreach
Assistant
This position is FILLED
Greenbelt Alliance is seeking an individual with a strong interest in non-profit
communications, public relations, event planning, and/or environmental and
land use issues for a volunteer position to assist the development staff with
a wide range of events and administrative tasks servicing Greenbelt Alliance's
donors and constituents.
Field
Office Community Volunteer
This position is FILLED
Check back for availability
Do you want to help keep the Bay Area a great place to live? Greenbelt
Alliance is seeking committed individuals to volunteer in our field offices
in Walnut Creek, San Jose, Fairfield, or Santa Rosa. Be a part of a team
that protects open space and promotes livable communities. There are volunteer
opportunities in outreach, grassroots activism, research of land-use policy
issues, communications, and office support. 5-10 hours weekly.
Greenbelt South Bay Outings
Leader
Do you like to share your knowledge of nature in the Bay Area? Greenbelt
Alliance is looking for dynamic trip leaders for our free Greenbelt Outings
Program. Help expose local residents to the Bay Area's diverse greenbelt
by leading hikes, farm tours or other outings in Santa Clara
and San Mateo Counties. Lead 2-4 weekend day trips annually, with occasional
meetings in San Francisco.
Graphic Design Volunteer
Check back for availability
Greenbelt Alliance is seeking a
volunteer to assist in creating promotional and member recruitment
materials. Ideal volunteers will have experience in graphic design,
advertising or communications, and an interest in open space conservation
and smart growth issues. Volunteers should also be able to work
from their own computer in InDesign CS. Short and long term projects
are available. Please submit a portfolio of your work when applying
for this position.
Compact Development
Team Volunteer
This position is
FILLED
Check back for availability
Greenbelt Alliance is
seeking qualified and motivated individuals with backgrounds in planning
and/or environmental review for a rewarding volunteer opportunity as
a Compact Development Team volunteer. The Compact Development
Team volunteer attends monthly endorsement team meetings in the Greenbelt
Alliance San Francisco office and works with other team
members to evaluate projects submitted for endorsement by Bay Area developers.
This position requires a monthly commitment of 2-10 hours for a minimum
of 6
months. [more
information]

Internship
Opportunities
HOW TO APPLY: To intern with Greenbelt Alliance, please send
a resumé and cover letter to:
Volunteer Application
Greenbelt Alliance,
631 Howard Street, Suite 510
San Francisco, CA 94105
or email
us.
Unless otherwise specified, all internships are unpaid. These opportunities
are filled on a rolling basis.
Research
Internship
San Francisco
This position is FILLED
Check back for availability Do
you want to prove that a better world is possible? Do you like to be sure
that what you are saying is supported by the facts? Can you find these
facts and then write up research clearly and persuasively? Greenbelt Alliance
is preparing to release a long-range vision for the Bay Area. The organization
seeks a motivated individual to help us show that the vision can become
a reality and find ways that barriers to its accomplishment can be overcome.
The position requires 2-4 days/week commitment for two months or more.
Working hours are flexible, but most work must be completed between 9 AM
and 6 PM weekdays.
[more
information]
Compact
Development Endorsement Team Internship
San Francisco
This position is FILLED
Check back for availability
Learn about smart growth development and livable communities
by working with our Compact Development Endorsement program. Communicate
with local developers, assist with project reviews, maintain our database
of endorsed compact development projects, correspond with the volunteer
team, write project summaries for the website, and assist with program
administration.[more
information]
East
Bay Executive Assistant Internship
Walnut Creek
This position is FILLED
Check back for availability
Greenbelt
Alliance is seeking a highly motivated individual with an interest
in environmental and land use issues for an executive assistant internship/volunteer
position in our East Bay Office in Walnut Creek. The
Executive Assistant will provide comprehensive administrative support
to Greenbelt Alliance’s East Bay Field Representative and programmatic
support as needed.
[more
information]
East
Bay Volunteer Manager Internship
Walnut Creek
This position
is FILLED
Check back for availability
Greenbelt
Alliance is seeking a highly motivated individual with an interest
in environmental and land use issues for an volunteer manager internship
or volunteer position in our East Bay Office in Walnut Creek. The
Volunteer Manager will serve as the point person for Greenbelt Alliance’s
volunteer program in the East Bay. Tasks include recruiting,
screening, orienting, and acknowledging Greenbelt Alliance
volunteers in the East Bay.
[more
information]
Sonoma-Marin
Outreach Coordination Internship
Santa Rosa
Check back for availability
Greenbelt
Alliance is seeking highly motivated individuals with backgrounds
in public policy, environmental planning,
transportation policy, outreach strategies, public relations, grassroots
organizing or management for a rewarding internship in community
organizing and policy advocacy through our Santa Rosa Field Office. [more
information]
East
Bay Outreach, Policy Analyst, and Media Internship
Walnut Creek
This position is
FILLED
Check back for availability
Greenbelt
Alliance is seeking a highly motivated individual with
a strong interest in media or public relations, communications,
and/or environmental and land use issues for an internship
in our East Bay Office in Walnut Creek. The Walnut Creek office
is a convenient short walk from BART.
[more
information]
Urban
Design Internship
San Francisco
This position is FILLED.
Greenbelt Alliance is seeking an individual with a background in urban design
or architecture to help us illustrate our vision for upcoming publications.
Green
Vision Internship
San Francisco
This position is FILLED
The San Francisco Bay Area is a great place to live, with spectacular landscapes
surrounding attractive cities and towns. In the next few years, major decisions
will be made about which of these landscapes get protected, and which do
not. The Green Vision Intern will help create a vision for open space around
the region in the Bay Area -- everything from wildlife preserves to working
farmlands, and eventually to urban parks. Activities will include compiling
and keeping a record of Bay Area open space maps, organizing county-by-county
meetings with groups working to protect natural resources, and analyzing
the information and maps that have been gathered. Currently we are creating
a map showing what lands are protected by city and county policies so we
can focus our efforts on those that are most threatened. The Green Vision
Intern will work with the Policy Research Director and the Green Vision Task
Force to create a vision for open space in the Bay Area. The Green Vision
Intern will gather open space maps by contacting regional agencies, keep
a record of open space maps and information available, make revisions to
a draft open space map compiled from sub maps around the Bay Area, organize
county-by-county meetings, and provide general assistance to Green Vision
Task Force mapping efforts.(If you wish to also apply for the Infill Task Force Internship
you need apply only once.)
Infill
Task Force Internship
San Francisco
This position is FILLED.
The Bay Area will add a million new residents by 2020. Where will these
people live and work? Where will these homes and workplaces be built?
What will this growth mean for the Bay Area’s quality of life?
Greenbelt Alliance is working to channel this growth toward existing
cities and towns, in a way that revitalizes existing downtowns and
makes existing neighborhoods better places to live. The Infill Task
Force intern
will support this effort by helping the Research and Field Departments
field test a model showing where infill may occur. He or she will
help coordinate case studies of a few cities to see whether the reality
matches our model's predictions. We will then use the model to determine
where
policy changes are most needed to ensure that growth happens in cities,
rather than by paving over farmlands and natural areas.
(If
you wish to also apply for the Green
Vision Internship, you need apply only once.)
GIS
Mapping Internship
San Francisco
This position is FILLED
Greenbelt Alliance is seeking an individual with a background in urban planning
or development and basic GIS skills to help create a vision for open space around
the
Bay
Area.
Grants
Assistant Internship
San Francisco
This internship is FILLED
Greenbelt Alliance is seeking a highly motivated individual with a strong interest
in non-profit development, management, communications, public relations and/or
environmental and land use issues for an internship through our Development
Department. The Grants Assistant Intern will research and index small foundation/corporate
grant opportunities. The intern will compile materials and complete appropriate
paperwork and assist the Development Department by participating in membership
acquisition and event planning. Intern tasks include researching and developing
a membership acquisition campaign, assisting in direct mail and major donor
events, researching and soliciting sponsorships, and assisting with Greenbelt
Outings and other events. [more
information]

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