Reviews residential and commercial subdivisions, secondary home applications, special permit requests, and a number of other submissions. The Planning Board also reviews and provides recommendations on zoning changes submitted for Town Meeting approval.
Reviews applications as required by the Massachusetts Wetlands Protection Act and the Nantucket Wetlands Bylaw. All development and proposed activities within 100 feet of a wetland must be reviewed and approved by the Commission.
Front Desk volunteers are vital to IRC operations, greeting each and every person who visits the office, and assisting them with whatever they may need (e.g. directing clients to staff members for meetings, accepting payments, answering basic questions about services). Volunteers are also in charge of answering the main phone line and transferring calls/messages to…
The IRC houses a “Resettlement Store” where refugees can shop for donated items such as clothing, household goods, toys, kitchenware, and linens. We always need people to help process in-kind donations and keep the shop organized. Due to COVID-19 precautions, our “store” is currently closed but we are delivering donations to clients. We currently need…
Our once-a-month distributions of grocery and other items are intended to bridge a gap for the more than 100 families who take advantage of our service. The food bank makes deliveries to shut-ins only. A shut-in is as someone whom can not physically can’t get out of their home. We are seeking volunteers who can…
The pantry is open to clients Wednesdays and Thursdays, but we also have a variety of tasks outside of our Distribution Hours for which we need volunteers: food Pick-up at local donations sites, sorting and storing food/other donations at the Pantry, driving the delivery truck into Boston, unloading Greater Boston Food Bank Deliveries, assisting clients…
Our volunteer opportunities: start a food drive (schools, churches, athletic teams and/or community), help out during the yearly (third Saturday of November) pickup of food at the Greater Boston Food Bank, and collect donations from other companies and businesses. We also need volunteers to help on distribution days (1st and 3rd Saturdays and 2nd and…
Volunteer as a mentor and work with parents, work with our youth, become an on-call voice, or transport youth to and from meetings or other organizations.
Our coaches work to, connect the fellow with civic and career networks, ask non-judgemental questions to help projects grow, support fellows when things seem hard, and cheer on fellows when they find successes.
Purpose: To get great photographs of our animals up for adoption. This team of professional photographers and animal handlers do a variety of jobs that promote our pets. They take photos and videos of our animals in the building and even sometimes at our offsite locations and at events. Their wonderful work can be seen…