Volunteer Opportunities
Interested in sharing your knowledge, skills, experience, or time?
We have an opportunity for you.
Help Build Grow Kits | assemble one and five gallon reusable bags, soil, seeds or a seedlings, and an educational booklet.
- Groups of up to 20 are welcome and events will occur outside or in a greenhouse.
- Kits get distributed to students, families, and individuals through schools, churches, community events, farm stands and more.
Resources & Education | use your knowledge and skills to help us improve our resources.
- Opportunities to host workshops
- Support continual improvement of website & promoted materials
Virtual Volunteer Opportunities | looking to volunteer remotely? We are looking for help with research and grantwriting.
- Research: Chicago Grows Food wants to better collect stories from our participants. We are looking for a storytelling to connect with those who have received a garden from us and create communication tools for sharing those stories.
- Research: We are looking for someone to help organize photos and stories for communication to grants and promotion.
- Grant Writing: The collection of grants we have applied for as created a database of well written applications. We are looking for help in cleaning up this information and collecting it in one easy to access location.
- Research: As Chicago Grows Food expands partnerships, we are hoping to better collaborate with pottery studies to collect any pieces that were made and turned into pots, but that people did not want to keep.