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Volunteer Opportunities in the City of Fort Collins

Bicycling

Contact: Tessa Greegor (FC Moves)

Community Clean-up: CSUnity

Contact: Emily Allen (Neighborhood Services)

Fort Collins Museum

  • Education: lead elementary school tours and facilitate Discovery Touch Carts
  • Exhibits: painting, carpentry, and other aspects of exhibit preparation and installation
  • Front Desk: greet visitors and help orient visitors to the Museum.
  • Museum Store: ring sales on the cash register and answer questions about merchandise.
  • Collections: research artifacts, label and catalogue items, create storage boxes for objects, and enter data.
  • Special Events: setup and teardown, planning and promotion, and serving of refreshments.
  • Local History Archive: indexing historic newspapers, oral histories, maps, and other archival records, scan photographs and entering information in electronic databases, research questions from patrons
  • Docents: educational ambassadors for the Fort Collins Museum who provide fun, interpretive, and hands-on learning experiences for visitors of all ages

Lincoln Center

Ticket takers, guides, coat checks, handing out programs, and seating our patrons.
Contact: Ruth Smith

Natural Areas

Contact: Sue Kenney or Susan Schafer

  • Master Naturalist - teach others about nature
  • Volunteer Trail Host - promote outdoor safety and awareness
  • Adopt-A-Natural-Area - monthly litter clean-ups
  • Trail maintenance
  • Building bat and flicker boxes
  • Seed Packaging
  • Bird survey
  • Weed pulling
  • Beaver tree painting
  • Native Plant Gardeners

Police Services

  • Assist the Investigations Detectives
  • Data Entry
  • Follow up on citizens inquires
  • Clerical tasks

Volunteer Victim Advocates - provide crisis intervention and emotional support to victims and family members of crime, serious accidents, death cases, etc.

Recreation

  • Program Assistance
  • Coaching
  • Maintenance Assistance
  • Adaptive Recreation
  • Senior Center - greeters, library and shop monitors, special events, preparing mailings, and more

Safe Routes to School

Creating a safe environment for kids to travel to and from school.
Contact: Nancy Nichols (FC Moves)

Water Conservation

Master Gardeners from the C.S.U. Extension Office