Seeking volunteer nonprofit consultants for community garden

South San Pedro Street near El Segundo Blvd, Los Angeles CA

Description

Are you retired and have nonprofit management skills and experience to teach? Are you a professional or graduate student, looking for a volunteer opportunity to pad your resume? Are you an undergraduate student, looking for a volunteer opportunity to earn recommendation letters to get into graduate or professional schools? Are you a professional with specialized skills in agriculture, nutrition, the environment, landscaping, gardening, fundraising, food science, and IT and want to share your passion with others? I am seeking at least fourteen volunteers to help develop community garden and our garden council. For some, the volunteer consulting positions might lead towards serving as interim garden council members until the next elections. In exchange for your volunteer service, you will receive a letter of recommendation. We are in need of the following: 1. A volunteer fundraising consultant-someone with skills in nonprofit finance, accounting, grant-writing, social media fundraising, crowdfunding, and/or social enterprises. 2. Two volunteer nonprofit legal and/or management consultants-persons with years of experience managing nonprofit meetings, legal filings, and records-keeping. Retired lawyers, business professionals with an MBA, or an accountant would be ideal. 3. Two volunteer Spanish translators-someone, who can translate between Spanish and English. 4. A volunteer editing, communications, or public relations consultant-someone, who can edit or write our nonprofit business communications to be professional and train garden members to communicate ourselves professionally in writing and verbally. This person will help the garden council present a professional image through communications such as internal and external communications as well as newsletters. 5. A volunteer IT consultant-someone, who can manage the Zoom technology during meetings, manage and maintain social media and web presence for the garden council and teach the council members how to manage the technology. 6. A volunteer agricultural or environmental consultant-someone with knowledge of community gardening, the agricultural industry, organic farming, or agricultural management. A volunteer consultant trained in organic permaculture would be ideal. 7. A volunteer nutritional consultant-someone, who can help us develop public programs on nutrition. A volunteer consultant trained in Whole Foods Plant Based Nutrition would be ideal. 8. A volunteer food scientist or food preservation consultant-someone, who can help us develop programs on preserving our harvest. A volunteer, who is an expert in old-fashioned or traditional food preservation and processing techniques would be ideal. 9. A volunteer environmental consultant-someone, who can help us develop environmental sustainability programs. A person, who has knowledge of identifying rare and endangered California plant species and how to care for them, collect seeds, and cultivate them would be ideal. This person would help us create plots for biodiversity and wildlife as well. 10. A volunteer medicinal herbal consultant-someone, who can help us develop programs on nutrition and natural healing methods. A volunteer herbal practitioner, who knows how to identify wild and cultivated medicinal species would be ideal. 11. A volunteer mushroom foraging and cultivating consultant-someone, who can help us develop educational programs about fungi for culinary, medicinal, and environmental purposes. 12. A volunteer civil engineering consultant-someone, who can advise us on a zero-waste operation of our community garden in terms of water, waste, recycling, and fuel. Your duties may include: 1. Silently observing community garden council meetings via Zoom on the third Saturday of the month at 3:00 p.m. 2. Take notes during Zoom meetings. 3. Conduct research. 4. Make sure our council is legal and ethical. If not, make recommendations in reports. 5. Write reports of recommendations to solve programs. 6. Write the bylaws and corporate charter. 7. Create a plan of action for fundraising and public programs. 8. Grant-writing or teaching the current garden members to write grant proposals. 9. Financial planning and record-keeping. 10. Educating current garden council members with the skills they need to manage and grow the garden as a nonprofit organization. 11. Zoom meetings or in-person meetings will usually occur during the weekends and your volunteer service is part-time or as needed. 12. Ultimately, we should meet in person at the garden space at least once. The garden council membership is full, but the council positions are not being worked and titles were not assigned or properly voted in, so for some of you with executive experience on a nonprofit board, a JD, or MBA, your volunteer consulting positions might evolve into interim volunteer garden council positions until the next elections. Please send a resume and cover letter for the volunteer nonprofit consultant position of your preference for our community garden.