Transport Volunteers transport puppies between NEADS and other Service Dog organizations as well as transport breeding stock as needed.
Full-time Puppy Raisers are dedicated volunteers who take our Service Dogs in Training into their homes and look after them for 12 to 16 months, working on critical socialization and basic obedience.
Encourage our young guests and their families to build, dig, climb, create art and make music (Seasonal, 16 years +).
Help maintain gardens. Adopt a Trail and help maintain our walking trains free of trash and debris (Seasonal, all 16 years +).
Our scientific collection has specimens from all periods in the museum’s history and includes botanical specimens, fossils, mammals, rocks and minerals, seashells, birds, and insects. Our library contains rare and antique volumes related to these fields of study. The library volunteer will document the author, title, and publication data of books in our historic collection…
Work as a Keeper Aide volunteer to assist Animal Keepers to help provide for the health, safety, care and enrichment of our animal collection. Keeper Aide volunteers must be 18+. Keeper Aide volunteers must complete at least one, four hour shift per week. Previous animal care experience is preferred.
Volunteer at one of our events, assist with activities & crafts (15+ years).
Inventory historic natural history collection. Photograph, measure and take notes on birds, eggs, seashells or pressed flowers. Make rare specimens available online. Enter data to publish photographs for birds, eggs, seashells or pressed flowers. Interact with visitors within the Museum’s Curator’s Workshop, a unique. interpretive space which places visitors in the turn of the century…
Summer Discovery Camp, gain valuable teaching experience in the field of nature and science (seasonal 15 years+).
Want to get volunteer at the largest agricultural event on the eastern seaboard and the sixth-largest fair in the nation? Mass Farmers Markets is looking for volunteers to assist us with running our booth this year.