Do you have time to be apart of our events? We need volunteers to bake, spend time at events doing set ups, break downs, serving and more. Do you have an idea for an event? Visit us and we will be happy to hear your ideas.
Help animals get adopted. Assist potential adopter in finding a new best friend. Bring your skills to Homeward Bound. We are looking for a volunteer to be the volunteer coordinator. There are many ways to help Homeward Bound. Please visit us and find out how you can be apart of the volunteer team.
During our adoption hours, we always need help at the front desk to answer phones, adoption paperwork, data entry and more. If you are interested in being involved with these tasks, please visit our shelter to fill out the volunteer application.
Like many non-profits, Leila doesn’t have the funding to hire out some of the special tasks that we need done around here. It’s always great to have volunteers who have skills that they are willing to contribute such as carpentry, electrical, mechanical and artistic skills.
Leila Arboretum Society has a great many opportunities for people to volunteer their time gardening outdoors. Come and help the Society and your community by coming out and joining friends and neighbors in helping to make this area a place of lush and lustrous beauty! Here are our main opportunities. You do not have to…
Filing, calling, assembling bulk mail – Most of the mailings that go out through LAS for the Volunteer and Education Departments are made possible by volunteer efforts. The tasks required are inserting, folding, labeling, sealing and organizing these mailings so we can get them out on a timely basis. This task is usually done in…
The LAS Greenhouse offers many opportunities for learning also. Greenhouse gardening is different than gardening outdoors. Greenhouse gardeners learn the fine points of growing plants from seed in a controlled environment, grafting, transplanting, pruning at important intervals, and insect control. The LAS Greenhouse Gardeners go into a high production phase starting in mid-January to begin…
One of the newest volunteer assignments at LAS. Since the Kaleidoscope Garden opening in June of 2003, we have depended on trained volunteers to take people on tours around the Kaleidoscope Garden and do hands-on-activities with children. In this children’s learning garden, we show kids how plants effect their everyday lives. There are so many…
Communities seem more vibrant when their business districts come alive with plantings of annuals, bulbs and trees. Note: the container plantings that you see in the downtown area are planted and maintained by Leila Arboretum.
Simple things like coming in and reading a book, playing a game or putting together a puzzle is a huge help. If you enjoy gardening you can help us in our vegetable garden. Take your hobby and turn it into an activity that the residents would enjoy.