Volunteer

Volunteers provide vital outreach, administrative, and operational support for our organization.

By volunteering, you can help us build awareness, raise funds, plan and carry out events, educate guests of all ages, participate in community outreach, and – of course – tend to the gardens themselves.

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Upcoming volunteer opportunities with WBG

We use VolunteerHub (see above to create your VH account) to manage our volunteer lists for our various projects.

Please see below for any other volunteer news.

 

General Volunteer Orientations

New volunteer? Long-time volunteer who needs a refresher on everything that’s going on at the Gardens? Please sign up to attend one of our upcoming general orientation sessions. The content at each is the same, so you’d only need to attend one.

 

ZOOM general wbg volunteer orientationS

 

FIRST THURSDAYS OF THE MONTH

8:30am

5:30pm

FIRST SATURDAYS OF THE MONTH

9am

Once you sign up for the session in VolunteerHub, you will be emailed the ZOOM meeting link that you will use to virtually attend the course.

This join link will go out via email the evening before a morning session or in the afternoon on the day of an evening session.

This orientation is for anyone who has either never volunteered with WBG before, volunteered but never attended an official orientation, or would like a refresher on what has been going on up at the Gardens since the last time that they did do an orientation with us.

Budget a full hour for this meeting, but there is a high likelihood that it will end sooner than that.

**CURRENT GARDEN GUIDES, ANYONE WHO HAS RECENTLY COMPLETED GARDEN GUIDE TRAINING, OR ANYONE WHO IS SIGNED UP FOR THE UPCOMING GARDEN GUIDE TRAINING SHOULD NOT REGISTER FOR ONE OF THESE GENERAL SESSIONS

Register on VolunteerHub

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Volunteer opportunities at the avish estate

The Avish Estate is our satellite garden space in Prospect.

As the estate is a private residence, please do not visit the property outside of the designated times for volunteer work or WBG-hosted classes and workshops.

If you would like to volunteer for opportunities at the Avish Estate, please see above to create or sign in to your VolunteerHub account.

Thank you!

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General Volunteer waiver

 

While all waivers should be signed digitally in your VolunteerHub account when you sign up for a task, if you need a hard copy of our general waiver, please see below:

 

WBG Volunteer Waiver

 

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Wbg garden guide (docent) training classes

 

The WBG Garden Guides serve as an essential part of the daily operations of the botanical gardens during visiting hours.

WBG Garden Guides are dependable, committed individuals who are willing and able to help us educate and inspire our guests and ensure that they have a positive garden experience.

In order to graduate, prospective Garden Guides are required to complete all the coursework in the training, including the final “graduation,” where they will demonstrate their knowledge for WBG staff.

For more detailed information on the program, please refer to the following documents:

 

Garden Guide Program Policies

Garden Guide Application

 

Upcoming Garden Guide Classes:

 

ONLINE GARDEN GUIDE CLASSES VIA ZOOM

EVALUATION IN-PERSON AT THE WBG MAIN SITE

$10

15 slots available

ALL of the unit sessions must be completed in order to participate in the evaluations and graduate into the GG program.

spring dates not yet determined, stay tuned

 

Any other inquiries pertaining to this training may be directed to Allison Whitehouse, awhitehouse@waterfrontgardens.org

 

 

Conceived in January 2016, the Waterfront Botanical Gardens Cultivators is a young professionals group for earth-lovers who are interested in connecting with other like-minded friends on the principles of environmental education, sustainability, and strengthening cultural life in our hometown.

 

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