You or your group can make a difference in the community and for the future of farming in the Hudson Valley by donating your time and talents to Glynwood.

As a Glynwood Volunteer, you will directly support us in our mission to help communities save farming, but you’ll also have fun and undoubtedly learn something new as you work side by side with our staff.

We can use your help:

• With research for Glynwood Institute’s innovative projects.
• On Glynwood Farm and CSA gardens where we demonstrate the economic viability of sustainable farming techniques.
• At Glynwood events where we invite the community to learn about and enjoy the farm and our programs.
• In Glynwood’s flower gardens, grounds, and facilities where we practice stewardship of our land and resources.
• In Glynwood’s office where our programs reach out to the region and the nation.

Current Opportunities

Gardeners
Start Date: flexible
End Date: flexible
Time Requirement: flexible
Location: Glynwood
Contact: Dave Llewellyn, dllewellyn@glynwood.org
Please ask Dave to added you to the garden volunteer email list. You will occasionally be sent invites for specific garden work opportunities, like big planting and harvesting days. If you are interested in committing to regular volunteering in the gardens, the harvest season begins in June. Please contact Dave for details.

Research Volunteers for The Glynwood Institute
Start Date: asap
End Date: flexible
Time Requirement: 5 hours/week minimum
Location: Home-based
Skills: Excellent research skills, ability to synthesize data and create reports
Contact: Please send resume and cover letter to Diane Hatz, The Glynwood Institute, PO Box 157, Cold Spring NY 10516 or email Innovators@glynwood.org.

• Research Volunteer – Development. Assist with background research and formulation of a business plan and funding proposal for The Glynwood Institute for Sustainable Food and Farming. Ideal candidate will have an MBA or many years experience in a business environment in marketing, finance or related area.

• Research Volunteer – Business Models. Research nonprofit/for profit business models, identifying ways a nonprofit can create a for-profit venture. Identify legal restrictions, possible opportunities, current business trends, etc.

Volunteers will be welcome to visit Glynwood and will have the opportunity to attend most events at no cost while working as a volunteer. Volunteer can be located anywhere and needs his/her own computer and internet access.

Web Statistics Reporting
Start Date: asap
End Date: project completion
Time Requirement: 1-2 weeks of fulltime work.
Location: Home-based and meetings at Glynwood.
Skills: familiarity with the concept of web statistics and/or comfort with quantitative reporting.
Contact: Isabel Lopatin ilopatin@glynwood.org

Help us find the best source of web statistics for www.glynwood.org (hosted by Bluehost). Become familiar with reporting tools and work with senior staff to determine which reports would be most useful. Once reports are selected, develop a plan for running them on a regular basis and help admin staff implement the plan.

Database updating
Start Date: ongoing
End Date: ongoing
Time Requirement: at least 2 hours on a Monday or Friday between 10am and 5pm
Skills: typing, computer literacy, web searching
Contact: Isabel Lopatin ilopatin@glynwood.org

Help us maintain our database so we can keep our friends informed of our activities. Enjoy strolling the farm before or after you work.

Transcribing
Start Date: ongoing
End Date: ongoing
Time Requirement: as needed
Skills: typing, transcribing experience helpful
Contact: Isabel Lopatin ilopatin@glynwood.org

We occasionally have audio or video files that need to be transcribed to text. If you are a good typist with MS Word or compatible word processing software and a device that will play digital audio or video files, please consider helping us with occasional transcribing. Files could be in mp3, aif, and mov formats.

Download our Volunteer Brochure. (pdf 5m)

For questions or to get started as a volunteer, volunteer@glynwood.org