Volunteer Opps
Please contact to get involved with any of these groups, or to offer specific assistance.
Web manager – we've just gotten our web manager!
Thank you, James Russell.
Treasurer – we have opened a checking account locally. We use QuickBooks 2008 and chart of accounts, minimal activity to date, hope to increase some.
Grant-writer - CLFN is actively seeking a volunteer to assist us finding grants that will support our mission. This volunteer would seek out funding opportunities from private and public sources, complete and submitting the paperwork, and writing updates to grantor as required. We receive multiple grant offerings each week, but need someone who supports our goals to review and sort through our opportunities. Please call 729-6513 to discuss further.
Food Assessment survey – help interview the 'man or woman on the street' as part of a team throughout Carteret County during March and April 2010. Two-three hour time slots available throughout the day. call (703) 909-3518 to volunteer. also need a coordinator of these volunteer interviewers.
Community gardening – join an active committee committed to making CG's in Carteret County as successful as possible. Help spread the word that CG's are fun, doable, rewarding to a group of neighbors/ scout troop/ church group/ young entrepreneurs. Help CG organizers stay focused and on task, help them solve problems and fulfill their mission - healthy fresh produce! Help committee research grants, construction of gardens. Contact Susan Schmidt ((252) 269-0032, or ).
Marketing/ publicity/ newsletters – help to shape the face of CLFN to the public, design printable materials, keep information current on website, distribution of brochures.
Volunteer coordinator – like bossing people around? Like finding smiles on new faces? Help us coordinate all the potential jobs and populate them with new energy.
School volunteer - Assist in summer time to keep school gardening projects alive and allow kids to get excited when they return to school in August or assist school projects during the school year, teachers always appreciate extra hands and eyes when kids are out of their classroom.