Cleaners, gardeners, finish carpenters/woodworkers, painters, electricians, plumbers , general laborers
Historically inclined people to provide tours to museum visitors
Voices from the Museum/Lives and Legends, Ocean Discovery Day, Veterans Day, Car Show, Chamber Business After Hours, Thom Hindle Gallery at the Keefe House, Memorial Day, and more.
Gift shop and Thom Hindle Gallery tenders
Members organize and facilitate multi-stakeholder networks to identify community needs, develop collaborative projects, and identify opportunities for resource sharing and funding.
Members organize volunteers to help build and manage community farms and gardens so more people can grow and access healthy food. Members train and educate beginning gardeners and farmers to use organic growing practices, plan growing systems, improve soils, and remove invasive species.
Members partner with public schools to lead students on interpretive and inquiry-based field trips to investigate local flora and fauna and evaluate environmental conditions.
Members develop and lead culturally inclusive programming, events, and volunteer opportunities that provide broad social and environmental benefits to traditionally underrepresented beneficiaries.
Members and volunteers implement land stewardship projects such as invasive species removal, native plant restoration, erosion control, habitat improvement, and build and improve trails for public accessibility.
In 2010, MSA received a Volunteer Generation Fund grant from the Corporation for National and Community Service to support the capacity of volunteer connector organizations to recruit and retain volunteers, and develop strategies to effectively use volunteers to solve local problems across the Commonwealth. As the state commission on service and volunteerism, MSA is excited…
