We rarely use volunteers on-site but we do use them for community events, deep cleaning and organizing our Clothing Closet.
We are currently looking for help in out front office. Positions include Office Assistants, Board Members, Prayer Partners, Translators, Fundraising Volunteers, Communications Specialists, and a Volunteer Coordinator.
Enhance your communities’ knowledge about their parks and open spaces! Become a parks biodiversity and/or history researcher and contribute to the Parks Project’s comprehensive database.
Having a ruff day? Becoming a Doggie Ambassador may just be the ‘ultimutt’ cure! Help keep parks and trails free of dog waste by helping to keep our in-park dog waste stations stocked and accessible for all!
Here are some of the things we can always use help with: clearing fire dangers around pens (weeds, brush, downed limbs), maintaining and expanding fences and shelters, prepping for winter and summer, assisting with animal health checks, cleaning food and water dishes, painting and staining.
We provide Bike Valet Parking for several events throughout the year and man outreach tables at several others. If you have interest in being a voice for the Reno Bike Project please contact us and we will send you a schedule of events.
Especially during the summer months, we need help with greeting people who visit the shop and directing them to the appropriate place. Some bike knowledge is a plus but isn’t totally necessary.
Like any home, Austin’s House needs maintenance of our lawn, backyard, and house. If you or your organization would like to donate muscle power for maintenance services, please call and speak with us.
Want to get more involved than the drop in days allow? Volunteers help with the upkeep at the Urban Teaching Farm at Renown on the corner of 2nd and Gould. You will work with Urban Roots staff to maintain hoop houses, landscaping, irrigation, planting, or harvesting. Have a carpentry background? Know a lot of vermicompost?…
Do you have group interested in helping Urban Roots to maintain a school garden? We’ll provide training and be on hand to help get you started. Help a school keep their garden sustainable!