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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 year—choose the opportunity that fits your schedule.

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

Livable Communities Team Volunteer
This position is FILLED
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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 Tabling Volunteer
This position is FILLED
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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
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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.

Graphic Design Volunteer
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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
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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.

East Bay Campaigns Internship
Walnut Creek
Currently Available
Greenbelt Alliance is seeking highly motivated individuals for a rewarding internship in community organizing and policy advocacy through our Walnut Creek Field Office. [more information]

Sonoma Outreach Coordination Internship
Santa Rosa
This Position is FILLED
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]

Compact Development Team/Livable Communities Outreach Team Internship
San Francisco
This position is FILLED
Greenbelt Alliance is seeking a highly motivated individual with a background in urban planning, smart growth and/or transit-oriented development for an internship with our Compact Development Team and the Livable Communities Outreach Team in San Francisco.[more information]

Workplace Giving Internship
San Francisco
This position is FILLED
Greenbelt Alliance is seeking a qualified and motivated individual with a background in environmental causes, fundraising, and development for a rewarding internship opportunity as our Workplace Giving intern.
[more information]

Policy Internship
San Francisco
This position is FILLED
How and where we grow and develop has significant climate change impacts. Development in existing cities and towns that mixes homes, shops and jobs near transit options leads to reduced driving, which lowers greenhouse gas emissions. Far-flung, sprawling auto-dependent development leads to more driving and paves over the natural lands that take up carbon from our atmosphere. Greenbelt Alliance uses an analytical tool to quantify the climate change impacts of land use plans and development proposals. The organization seeks a motivated individual to apply this tool to our priority campaigns for open space protection and better city planning throughout the 9-County Bay Area.
[more information]

Research Internship
San Francisco
This position is FILLED
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]

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]