Tryon Life Community Farm

(3 hrs/wk; 3 month commitment; >50% onsite)

• Keep track of existing materials: location, stock, etc.
• Identify new sources of reused materials.
• Ensure that Craigslist, Freecycle, and other online redistribution mechanisms are regularly reviewed and used
• Receive requests for materials
• Coordinate “schlepping” volunteers to acquire and transport materials efficiently

(>5 hr/wk; 6 mo commitment; >25% onsite)

• Solicit and coordinate development of proposals for research programs on the land
• Establish and maintain partnerships with academic institutions and independent researchers
• Ensure that research protocols are followed
• Liaise with other working groups (education, social ecology) as needed.

• Goats
• Chickens
• Bees

(>5 hrs/mo; >1 yr commitment; >10% on site)

• Attend OSALT meetings
• Establish relationships with appropriate administrators in State Parks, Metro Parks, and City BES
• Ensure that commitments and responsibilities under terms of ground lease and easements are met

(>3 hrs/wk; 6 mo commitment; >75% on site)

• Coordinate with Park, Metro, and other habitat professionals
• Improve and expand native habitat restoration plan
• Train and oversee volunteers in implementing restoration plan.

(3-8 hours per event; 4 events in 12 month period; 100% on site)

• Welcome and orient participants during Thursday or Saturday work party
• Address questions and concerns, ensure that everyone feels as comfortable and engaged as possible
• If possible, conduct land tours (training available)

(>5 hrs/mo; 1 year commitment; >25% on site)

• Research and/or develop innovative ways to assess native habitat functionality, including partial functionality in hybrid plantings with nonnative human-functional plants
• Establish protocols to assess changes in habitat function
• Coordinate with other groups and research coordinator to ensure data is gathered, analyzed, and results integrated into planning

(>1 hr/wk; 1 mo commitment; >0% onsite)

• Review online exchange forums for potentially or actually useful materials, services, etc.
• Coordinate with materials coordinator and/or volunteer coordinator
• Can be entirely online and offsite.

(>5 hrs/wk; >6 mo commitment; >25% onsite)

• Develop plan for water management on land, including:
  • stormwater bioremediation and use;
  • rainwater collection;
  • greywater;
  • dams and swales for infiltration and irrigation;
  • cisterns;
  • nanohydropower and/or pump-batteries;
  • wetland/headwaters restoration;
• Link plan to Park, Watershed Council, neighborhood, City, etc. efforts to monitor and improve watershed health;
• Coordinate with other groups in our social ecology to implement plan.

(0.5 to 3 hrs per occasion; added to list w/ availability)

• Be willing to move stuff from somewhere to TLC Farm
• Access to vehicle preferable, including bike trailer! (Not required.)

(0.25 to 1 hr; 10 occasion commitment; 100% on site)

• Read data gathering protocol
• Receive short training
• Gather various kinds of data, both general and specific, qualitative and quantitative

• planting
• mulching
• harvesting
• weeding
• sorting
• watering

• feeding
• egging
• milking
• vet stuff
• moving fence

finish suana, toilet, barn, rocket bench, maintaining cob

(>0.5 hrs; no commitment)

• Lay down woodchips on existing paths where muddy using wheelbarrows and pitchforks;
• Lay down cardboard for new paths (under guidance of coordinator).

(> 1 hr; variable commitment; >0% on site)

• In coordination with research coordinator, research both on-line and library sources for data, protocols, analyses, practices, etc.
• Report results of research, in a form depending on situation.

(3 hrs/wk; 3 mo commitment; >75% on site)

• Maintain calendar of class visits
• Coordinate with edu teachers and schools/agencies to schedule visits
• Return any appropriate phone/email messages promptly
• Be responsible to edu working group
• (If wished, coordinate with infotech coordinator to make scheduling more automated and online)

(<2 hrs per session; 5 session commitment; 100% on site)

• For more info, click here: Volunteer Educators

(10 – 50 hrs; >15% on site) Experience preferred.

• Coordinate with edu working group to develop curriculum goals and audience
• Research existing curricula, and make as much use of existing material as copyrights allow
• Create curriculum resources, including teaching guides and aids.
• Present curriculum to working group/teachers.

(10 – 25 hrs; commit to complete project; probably 100% on site)

• Acquire materials
• Construct signs with support from building coordinator
• Create online tour (10 – 50 hrs; >15% on site)
• Develop specific parameters for online tour in coordination with edu working group and infotech coordinator

• Combine photos of land with information and links regarding physical and program features of organization
• First phase: implement on line version of physical land tour
• Later phases: add much more in-depth information, links, etc.
• Document all work so that anyone else can pick up where you leave off
• Web skills preferred but not required!

• Publicity Pipeline Coordinator (>3 hrs/wk; 6 months commitment; >25% on site)
• Receive publicity requests from working groups
• Ensure that copy is produced and edited to standards
• Coordinate with graphic designers, if necessary
• Determine appropriate outlets for publicity (ie. community calendars, advertisements, radio, journalists, flyers, etc.)
• Coordinate flyerers
• Consoldate publicity into packages
• Coordinate with working group

(5 hrs/mo; 6 mo commitment; >0% on site)

• Solicit information for monthly updates from working groups, etc.
• Compile both text and HTML versions of update based on models
• Send updates using web interface

(> 10 hrs/mo; 3 mo commitment; >10% on site)

• Develop improved communication/collaboration infrastructure
• Build systems for parallel online / offline information accessibility
• Improve navigation and ease of use.
• Develop and implement new look and feel

(1-3 hrs/wk; 3 mo commitment; >0% on site)

• Adapt to changing web infrastructure to update content of web site
• Currently, basic experience with HTML and Linux is strongly preferred.
• Receive text and pictures from working groups, then create/update HTML pages based on templates

(10+ hrs/mo; 6 mo commitment; >25% on site)

• Coordinate with working groups to develop data management goals
• Communicate with CiviCRM development community and/or infotech coordinator (depending on background) to develop adequate tools
• Develop and communicate data entry, management, and export protocols
• Explore and improve data integrity
• Provide appropriate, secure public access to and website integration with data
• Maximize decentralization of data entry and management

(5 hrs/mo; 6 mo commitment; 100% on site)

• Maintain wired and wireless data networks
• Maintain and improve older Linux computer systems (Debian and SuSE)
• Maintain phone systems (VOIP?)

(5-10 hrs/mo; 1 year minimum; >0% on site)

• Remote Debian vserver
• Medium traffic mission-critical Apache webserver
• Medium-traffic Postfix mailserver (spam issues!)
• Security improvements

(10 hrs/mo; 1 issue/quarter commitment; >25% on site)

• Solicit articles from community members
• Compile and edit text
• Coordinate with graphic designer
• Coordinate with printer
• Distribute newsletter

(5 hrs/mo; 6 mo commitment; >25% on site)

• Identify and register for appropriate tabling opportunities
• Train tablers
• Schedule tablers

(5-20 hrs/mo; 3 mo commitment; >50% on site)

• Ensure that we have adequate, organized stocks/full sets of pamphlets, canvassing supplies, flipbooks, DVD’s, CD’s, etc.
• Coordinate (re)design of new materials

(3 hrs/wk; 6 mo commitment; >75% on site)

• Convene meetings
• Ensure that a spoke reports to spokescouncil
• Keep track of various publicity-related activities and address any breakdowns in process

(.5 – 3 hrs; put on list OR responsibility for area; >0% on site)

• Download and print (or pickup) flyers, post in identified locations in selected area
• Posting to Lists (0.5 – 1 hrs; suggest commit for 2 months; 0% on site)
• Post already created email messages to a set of lists you’ve chosen

(1-10 hrs; on list; >15% on site)

• Meet with publicity pipeline and/or other relevant folk to set design goals
• Design posters, flyers, handbills, web pages, HTML messages, etc.
• Both computer-based and hand-drawn
• Knowledge of GIMP and/or Photoshop preferred.

(1-20 hrs; per story basis; >0% on site)

• Discuss story ideas with editor for particular issue
• Write and submit story on agreed timeline to allow for revisions
• Story lengths range from 250 word vignettes to 1500 word features

(5 hrs/wk up to fulltime; >1 year commitment; >25% onsite)

• arrange a quarterly community workshop schedule that loosely fall into a yearly cycle of themes
• coordinate with workshop presenters to schedule workshops.
• communicate with presenters about location, price, materials, and other workshop logistics.
• work up a publicity statement for each workshop and compile quarterly workshop posters/trifolds.
• ensure publicity for workshops.
• facilitate registration for workshops.
• schedule & train Farm Hosts for each workshop.
• evaluate workshop program and provide feedback to the events working group & TLC Farm.
• There will be a two month training period

===Network Organizer=== (40 hrs/wk; 1 year commitment; >25% on site)

• The liaison will seek out, learn about, and link to a wide variety of organizing spaces (movements, organizations, communities, etc.) broadly aligned with “ecological and social justice” by:
  • attending scheduled meetings and events;
  • doing interviews;
  • volunteering; and
  • sharing information.
• Suggest and/or plan events, programs, and projects at TLC Farm that will encourage practical experiences of effective collaboration, mutual understanding, and interdependance.
• Plan and coordinate an ongoing series of wisdom councils deepening the relationship between social justice and ecology movements
• Coordinate the development of curricula for training liaisons (TLC Farm and other organizations)
• Identify and develop relations with 5 intimate partner organizations and 15 intermittent ones
• Interview 30 organizations/communities regarding ongoing strategic planning process
• Quantify initial accessibility of programs to marginalized and oppressed communities, and double it.
• Openly document hir work, primarily online:
  • maintain journals on spaces: impressions, thoughts, connections
  • discuss tactics, methodologies, skills, or wisdoms considered or used
  • expand and revise “training manuals” for liaisons
• Identify and support people who will act as ongoing liaisons between other spaces and TLC Farm (as well as each other).

(15+ hrs/mo; >3 mo commitment; >50% on site)

• Organize monthly engagement event
• Coordinate tour, work party, evening events, etc.
• Ensure adequate participation by working groups
• Be inspiring

(>2 hr/wk; 6 mo commitment; >50% on site)

• Training in social ecology infrastructure
• Have sitdown meeting (0.5 – 1hr) discussing and recording background, skills, interests, etc. of interested volunteer
• Suggest appropriate working groups, next steps, etc.
• Enter information into database

(5-10 hr/mo; >2 yr commtiment; >15% on site)

• Become familiarized with all elements of legal situation of TLC Farm: lease, easements, taxes, contracts, employment, non-profit, liability, etc.
• Coordinate with working groups to address ongoing issues and identify new ones
• Coordinate pro bono and, as necessary, paid legal representation
• Extensive training provided, but legal background required

(5-20+ hr/wk; >6 mo commitment; >75% on site)

• Revise and improve internship guidelines in coordination with working groups
• Solicit interns in coordination with publicity pipeline
• Develop specific internship agreements with interns outlining goals and expectations
• Coordinate intern orientation and connection with point person
• Meet with interns regularly to assess progress and address problems
• Document internships and assess effectiveness

(>1 hr/mo; added to list; >0% on site)

• Make connections with other organizations and communities by attending meetings and funneling information, relationships to and fro

(1+ hr per session; added to list; not necessarily on site)

• Massage
• Acupuncture
• Reiki
• etc.

(1+ hr per session; added to list, 5 session commitment; not necessarily on site)

• Various modalities
• Training preferred, at least some relevant experience required

(<3 hrs per meeting; added to list, 5 meeting commitment; usually on site)

• Experience required
• Training available

(2+ hrs per session; added to list; not nec. on site)

(1+ hrs per session; 10 session commitment; >25% on site)

• Call or meet with volunteers to evaluate experiences, identify growth areas
• Coordinate with social ecology working group
• Record data

(on list, no necessary commitment)

• Willing to provide at least some verbal advice on area of expertise

(1+ hrs per session; no minimum commitment; >15% on site)

• Wide variety of data entry protocols
• Experience not always necessary