Volunteers participate in the management of a Community Orchard, learning about holistic orchard management while pruning, weeding, and managing pests. Work days are scheduled every 3-4 weeks from March to October.

Volunteers assist with the Growing Together educational workshops for the public, helping on the day of events. This is a great opportunity to engage with the community and support educational initiatives.

Volunteers can donate their graphic design skills to create promotional materials for events or join the Street Team to distribute posters in Falmouth. This role helps raise awareness of community events.

Volunteers help tend to the Service Garden, which is a learning classroom focused on organic no-till, regenerative agriculture practices. All food grown is donated to local service organizations.

From July to October, volunteers help harvest excess crops from local farm fields for donation to the Falmouth Service Center. Gleaning takes place once a week and requires a commitment of about 2 hours.

Volunteers staff information tables at park events, answer questions about the park, and sell merchandise. Events are held throughout the year to raise funds and promote park awareness.

Volunteers visit the park to empty waste containers, sweep concrete and bench areas, and ensure the park is clean. This role requires about 15-20 minutes per visit, and volunteers can decide how many visits they make per month.

Volunteers create and distribute posters to promote dog park events and general information. They are responsible for distributing posters to 3-5 locations in Falmouth and surrounding towns.

Volunteers provide transportation to stores, medical or other personal appointments, and social events. This role is crucial in helping members stay connected with the community and live safely and comfortably in their own homes.

Help members set up or understand electronics such as computers, cell phones, tablets, wearable devices, remote controls, or thermostats. This role is vital in ensuring members remain connected and independent.

Volunteers assist with various tasks in members' homes, including gardening, reading, walking together, and helping with light home maintenance like changing smoke detector batteries or organizing closets.

Serve on committees such as Fundraising, Education, Promotion, Events, or Membership. Assist with event permitting, paperwork, and promotional material design.

Assist in planning and staffing major events such as the Woods Hole Trad Stroll, Arts Alive, and Jazztober. Volunteers can also help with fundraising, publicity, and event coordination.

Videotape and photograph events, assist with ArtsFalmouth Presents productions on FCTV, and contribute content for the website.

Join our Grief Services volunteer team to help provide connection and hope to suicide loss survivors in our community. Volunteers can either be loss survivors who have done their own grief work or caring individuals with experience in support roles, and will receive training and supervision to support them in their role.

Assist in protecting beach-nesting birds such as American oystercatchers and piping plovers from April through August. Responsibilities include posting nesting habitat, monitoring nesting pairs, and public outreach. Must be able to walk at least 1/2 mile on the beach and carry a minimum of 5 lbs of gear.

Help maintain the BiodiversityWorks headquarters by participating in occasional work days to remove invasive species and perform grounds upkeep. Opportunities are scheduled in spring through fall and typically last 2-4 hours.

Join the monitoring of the northern long-eared bat population during spring and summer. Volunteers assist in setting up nets and recording data at night, with flexible time commitments. Note that handling bats requires a rabies vaccination, which volunteers cannot have.

Join community-driven biodiversity surveys using the iNaturalist app during 24-hour Bioblitz events. Participate in various activities from photographing insects to hiking and documenting species. Events typically run from 6pm to 6pm, often on weekends.

Help manage non-native invasive plants on properties to benefit native plants and wildlife. Volunteer events typically involve physical work outdoors, such as cutting and digging invasive plants with hand tools. Events are variable in spring, summer, and fall, lasting about two hours.