Volunteer
Current opportunities
Help create a resilient world
We are a small and evolving team. We need self-starters who can take responsibility for an area of work, define goals, and deliver results all while working in a highly-collaborative environment.
What to expect
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Our focus
Expect to ground your efforts in our Wildfire Project. That’s what’s driving our organizational growth and learning right now.
Your commitment
We hope that you will want to continue to work with us, but understand if you need to move on when your part of the project is done. To make that uncomplicated, expect to spend time deciding what “done” means up front.
Working together
Most of our collaboration is online. We have a weekly team check-in to hold ourselves accountable, and keep ourselves motivated with regular co-working sessions. We also like to make sure everyone has a designated “project buddy” to bounce ideas off of.
Our most pressing needs
Volunteer
Evaluation Designer
Work with us to develop ways of measuring progress and impact, and collect and understand the data.
Details
START
ASAP
DURATION
3-6 months
DESCRIPTION
We want to change behavior, so we need to know what effects we are having. We need a creative, and rigorous, thinker to help us define outcome metrics and measures, and develop data collection methods for evaluating what people learn from our events as well as the success of our programs.
Volunteer
Grant Writer
Help us to find and apply for grants, so we can turn a generous world into a resilient one.
Details
START
As soon as possible
DURATION
Occasional or ongoing
DESCRIPTION
We need to secure funding for the development and testing of our new wildfire training experience. We are aiming for grants in the $5K-$100K range, focusing on corporate and community-based funders with interests in community resilience and/or wildfire preparedness.
Volunteer
Marketing Strategist
Help us develop and implement our first strategic marketing plan so the world can hear us.
Details
START
Mid-July
DURATION
3-6 months
DESCRIPTION
We need people to know about what we do, and how we can help them. Starting with our Wildfire Project, we need someone to help us to market ourselves to prospective event participants, collaborative partners, funders and donors.
Wildfire project
Volunteer
Game Designer
Use your edu-LARP design skills to make our immersive learning experiences engaging and exciting.
Details
START
Mid-July
DURATION
3-6 months
DESCRIPTION
We have scenarios and learning objectives. We need someone to help us to design fictions that keep people immersed, and events that keep them learning and engaged.
Volunteer
Instructional Designer
Use your educational design skills to ensure that our learning experiences are pedagogically sound.
Details
START
As soon as possible
DURATION
Ongoing
DESCRIPTION
We need someone to bring knowledge of pedagogy to the design of our immersive learning experiences so they deliver our researched and defined learning objectives.
Writers
Volunteer
Content Writer
Write newsletters and blog posts that people want to read so we can share our hard-earned knowledge.
Details
START
As soon as possible
DURATION
Occasional or ongoing
DESCRIPTION
It doesn't do the world any good if no-one knows what we are doing and what we have learned. We need someone to turn our learnings into stories and insights that others can understand, enjoy, and apply.
Volunteer
Case Study Writer
Bring amazing stories of grassroots response efforts to life so others can learn from them.
Details
START
When available
DURATION
Occasional or ongoing
DESCRIPTION
Help us write case studies from amazing stories of people stepping up to help their communities cope in crisis. We need writer-analysts to dig deep into interview data, and come up with compelling fact-based narratives.
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From our blog
20 years ago today, I made a phone call
20 years ago today, on Sep 13 2001, I made a phone call. Today, I'm asking you to donate $20 to help create a more socially resilient world. Here's...
Amy Magnus: Volunteer, Illustrator, PhD
Have you noticed the “Strong Town” illustrations on our new website? These were done by our very talented volunteer, Amy Magnus. …
Birth of a logo: It pays to keep quiet
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“No one has made it through life without someone else’s help.”
Heather French Henry