Help Collective Roots grow and thrive!
Volunteer & Intern
Volunteer Opportunities
Join our growing community of volunteers that play a vital role in sustaining and developing our programs that make a difference in the lives of youth and their families. Collective Roots could not exist without this essential support.
Volunteers are provided with many different ways to serve: propagating plants, assisting garden teachers, supporting garden based projects, teaching cooking classes, developing curriculum kits and materials, supporting weekly garden club, getting your hands dirty at our monthly garden workdays, working in the office, and much more.
Some of our volunteer opportunities are on our Volunteer Match website, but if you don't see what you are looking for there, don't hesitate to contact us. Opportunities abound to get involved, and we will work with you to find the best match of your skills, energy, and time to our need! When you're ready, please fill out our quick and easy volunteer application.
If you are representing a school, ecumenical group, business or corporation that is interested in participating in a group event, please contact Eron Sandler, Program Director by clicking here.
Internships
We currently have the following unpaid Internship opportunities available:
- Food System Change Intern: Interested in supporting adults and community members in their efforts to make healthier choices for themselves and their families? Work with our Food System Change Programs, teaching nutrition, gardening, and healthy eating to adults and helping overcome barriers to healthy lifestyle choices for residents of East Palo Alto.
- Free at Last Intern: Interested in breaking the cycle of intergenerational poverty and creating meaningful employment opportunities in East Palo Alto? Work with Free at Last, a residential drug and alcohol rehab and prison re-entry program in East Palo Alto, to establish market scale gardens, develop job skills, and generate revenue through selling home-grown produce at the East Palo Alto Community Farmers Market.
- Urban Farming Intern: Interested in making healthy, environmentally sustainable food more accessible in East Palo Alto? Work with the Center for Urban Agriculture to develop and maintain our urban farm, a source of produce for our educational programs and the East Palo Alto Community Farmers Market.
- Farmers Market Intern: Interested in supporting sustainable farmers and ensuring high quality produce is affordable for low income consumers in East Palo Alto? Work with the East Palo Alto Community Farmers Market to ensure the long-term success and viability of the only farmers market in EPA in over 18 years.
- Garden Programs Intern: Want to encourage healthy eating and environmental stewardship with youth at an early age? Work with our youth programs and help teach nutrition, healthy eating, environmental conservation to youth all over East Palo Alto.
Americorps
We are excited to offer a quarter time Americorps position beginning in early March, average 20 hours per week. The Americorps member will be a part of the Silicon Valley HealthCorps, and will work with our Garden Based Education programs as a Garden Educator. Click here to learn more.
