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
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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.

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Grant Writer

Help us to find and apply for grants, so we can turn a generous world into a resilient one.

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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.

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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

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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.

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Instructional Designer

Use your educational design skills to ensure that our learning experiences are pedagogically sound.

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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

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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.

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Case Study Writer

Bring amazing stories of grassroots response efforts to life so others can learn from them.

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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.

From our blog

From our blog

“No one has made it through life without someone else’s help.

Heather French Henry