Volunteer Opportunities in the City of Fort Collins
Boards and Commissions
Contact: Christine Macrina (City Clerk)
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)
Street Clean-up/Adopt a Street
Contact: Alexis Walker (Streets)
Water Conservation
Master Gardeners from the C.S.U. Extension Office