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The World is Fun (TWIF) invites YOU to find out that volunteering is fun, especially if you are the average 20/30 year old. TWIF strives to make every volunteer experience a positive one, and a TWIF Lead attends each volunteer opportunity to ensure that fun happens (don’t worry, they’re trained in the art of fun). TWIF encourages groups of friends to volunteer together but many volunteer opportunities end in new friendships too!
The World is Fun is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization focused on getting those in their 20′s and 30′s involved in their community — and having fun doing so! TWIF is 100% volunteer run. We support Seattle by connecting volunteers, local businesses, and Seattle nonprofits to create a mutually beneficial community for everyone involved. There are about a million ways to help TWIF – from volunteering to donating to simply tweeting. Volunteer for a FUN event today.
Since the first Earth Day, April 22, 1970, Earth Day has been an annual event for people around the world to celebrate the earth and renew the commitment to building a safer, healthier and cleaner world for all of us.
There are many ways to take action. Calculate your Ecolological Footprint. Change a habit. Help launch a community garden. Communicate your priorities to your elected representatives. The possibilities are endless! Do something nice for the earth, have fun, meet new people, and make a difference.
Earth Day Network provides resources and materials that help organizations around the world build cleaner, safer and healthier communities. Visit the online Resources section for all sorts of organizing tips.
Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF) offers a unique opportunity for SIFF Festival volunteers. Vouchers earned during Festival can be used to see new foreign and independent films as well as archival presentations of classic cinema at SIFF Cinema by exchanging vouchers for tickets at the SIFF Cinema box office.
- If you are hoping to volunteer during the Festival, attend the annual Volunteer Meeting on Saturday, April 14, 20102 at 10:00am, which will be held at SIFF Cinema at the Uptown, 511 Queen Anne Avenue N, 98109 (Google map). The Volunteer Meeting is your opportunity to meet the SIFF staff, mingle with other volunteers, and find out what to expect during the Festival.
Treeswing is one of the leading voices on the issue of childhood obesity. Currently a quarter of the youth in Washington State are overweight, putting them at high risk of diabetes, heart disease, cancer, and asthma. Treeswing’s goal is to increase the number of opportunities for youth to be physically active and to increase access to healthy foods in schools. Long term, the aim is to change current “norms” so that health is so embedded into the school culture that the healthy choice is the natural choice.
Volunteer with Treeswing
Treeswing values its dedicated volunteers and is committed to finding ways for individuals to be involvedand contribute your time and talent. Find out about volunteer opportunities with TreeSwing.
How TreeSwing Fights Obesity
Treeswing is bringing Playworks Recess 360 to low income elementary schools in the Puget Sound area in the fall of 2011. Playworks Recess 360 is a year-long school-based program designed to energize the recess yard in a structured and inclusive way that will engage all students. Playworks is a national nonprofit organization that supports learning by providing safe, healthy and inclusive play and physical activity to low-income schools at recess and throughout the entire school day.
In a Community Kitchen (CK) everyone gets involved to prepare a large amount of food to share. The more formal movement actually started in Peru in the 1960’s to address severe food shortages at that time. From there it spread to many other countries including Canada and the UK, and to King County in 2007. The first Seattle kitchen was at the Rainier Community Center, which is still going strong with a waiting list each month for people who want to participate.
Visit the Resource page at the Community Kitchen website for more information about area CK, joining or starting a CK, and other food resources.
Hunger Intervention Program (HIP) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation that seeks to end hunger in Seattle by collaborating with community partners. Hunger is one of the many unfortunate side effects of and contributors to homelessness in Seattle. HIP programs empower low-income and other disadvantaged individuals by providing nutritional meals and basic cooking skills in a dignity-preserving fashion that respect and celebrate the diverse cultures of HIP clients.
Services provided by HIP include sack lunches, community kitchens, and emergency services.
During Earth Month (April), there are volunteer opportunities all across Seattle to get involved in forest restoration. There will be volunteer work parties at restoration sites across the City, which means plenty of ways you can get involved in your neighborhood. Click here for a list ALL volunteer work parties through the Green Seattle Partnership.
Read this post for more information about Green Seattle and their ongoing work to restore 2500 acres of forested Parkland in Seattle through 2025.
Crisis Clinic offers support services that are available to everyone in King County. Crisis Clinic can help people navigate the complex and confusing world of the social service system, and provide advocacy and follow-up for callers who have difficulty accessing services on their own.
Crisis telephone services provide immediate, confidential assistance for people in emotional distress and in need of help.
Suicide Prevention & Education
Emotional Crisis & Trauma Info
Caregiver Services
Disability Services
Homelessness & Housing
Teen Link & Youth Resources
Crisis Clinic can communicate with callers in 155 languages through the assistance of the Teleinterpreter service as well as with persons with hearing impairments through TDD. All phone workers have immediate access to our computerized database of more than 5,200 health and human service providers in the region.
Seattle will soon be home to one of the most unique gardens and cultural centers in the county. The 4.6-acre Seattle Chinese Garden will be one of the largest Chinese gardens outside of China, showcasing not only plants, but also stone, architecture and water elements that are customary to Chinese gardens. Dense and complex, it will change dramatically with each season.
Located at South Seattle Community College, the Garden will reveal commanding views of downtown Seattle, Elliott Bay and the Cascade Mountains. The Garden will also feature 12 buildings, including an education center and a banquet hall with special event seating for up to 200 people. The 85-foot Floating Clouds Pavilion will soar over the Garden, placed on an axis with the Space Needle. As a major destination and cultural institution, the Seattle Chinese Garden will inspire new perspectives on world affairs and illuminate China and her cultural and economic influence on the Pacific Northwest.
Why not bring your experience and enthusiasm by volunteering with the Garden? Seattle Chinese Garden volunteers work with plants, help in our office and assist with programs and events. Sign up to volunteer in areas such as garden work, event planning, committee service, fundraising, and mailing parties. Check out the volunteer matching page to see if your company or employer will match your donation of time with cash grants to the Garden.
The Washington Native Plant Society (WNPS) has more than 30 years of activity and involvement in protecting native plants. The small group of individuals who assembled at the Pacific Science Center in 1976 has now grown to nearly 1800 members with eleven active chapters throughout Washington.
To join the WPNS, use the membership form. The form may printed and mailed with your dues check, or submitted online (see the form for payment options, including online credit card payments).
Membership benefits include Field trips to admire, study and photograph wildflowers and plant communities. There are also volunteer opportunities to help restore habitats, conduct native plant inventories, and monitor rare plant populations, and much more.
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